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Article: Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of World History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Edited by MICHAEL ADAS, American Historical Association. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 363 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
This book covers a series of issues dealing with agriculture, nomadology, gender, and trade in a global context. These are the topics that are dealt with in the first of the two parts that divide the book. The first essay gives an overview of historians and theoretical apparatus in regard to world history. In his article, J. H. Bentley provides a great service to historians interested in world history. He reviews the way in which historians such as Oswald Spengler viewed the world by classifying civilization in an ...