In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari civilizations as case studies, Jennings examines how the growth of the world's first great cities radically transformed their respective areas. The cities required unprecedented exchange networks, creating long-distance flows of ideas, people, and goods. These flows created cascades of interregional interaction that eroded local behavioral norms and social structures. New, hybrid cultures emerged within these globalized regions. Although these networks did not span the whole globe, people in these areas developed globalized cultures as they interacted with one another. Jennings explores how understanding globalization as a recurring event can help in the understanding of both the past and the present.

Globalizations and the Ancient World

Politics & Social Sciences

Jennings, Justin

Archaeology

Cambridge University Press

The Maya civilization reached its zenith well over a thousand years ago in the jungles of Central America. This book highlights some of the most renowned and important Maya artifacts ever discovered and the most up-to-date archaeological research into Maya history and culture. It focuses primarily on the Classic Period of Maya history, roughly 250-900 CE. It also examines the collapse of the Maya civilization, while noting that the descendants of the ancient Maya are alive and well and are found in their millions throughout the region.

Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World (Exhibition Catalogue)

History

Garcia, Martha Cuevas

Bravo, Roberto Lopez

Americas

Canadian Museum of History

In this ambitious work, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years. He argues that humans have an innate expectation for fairness, a disposition that evolved during the Pleistocene era as a means of adapting to an unpredictable and often cruel climate. This deep-seated desire to do what felt right then impacted how our species transitioned into smaller territories, settled into villages, formed cities, expanded empires, and navigated capitalism. Paradoxically, the predilection to find fair solutions often led to entrenched inequities over time as cooperative groups grew in size, duration, and complexity. Using case studies ranging from Japanese hunter-gatherers to North African herders to protestors on Wall Street, this book offers a broad comparative reflection on the endurance of a universal human trait amidst radical social change. Jennings makes the case that if we acknowledge fairness as a guiding principle of society, we can better understand that the solutions to yesterday?s problems remain relevant to the global challenges that we face today. Finding Fairness is a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history with thought-provoking implications for the contemporary world.

Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists

Self-Help

Happiness

University Press of Florida

The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a "civilization bias" shapes academic explanations of urbanization, colonization, state formation, and cultural horizons. Earlier theorists have criticized the concept, but according to Jennings the critics remain beholden to it as a way of making sense of a dizzying landscape of cultural variation. Relying on the idea of civilization, he suggests, holds back understanding of the development of complex societies.
Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences, using excavation and survey data from Çatalhöyük, Cahokia, Harappa, Jenne-jeno, Tiahuanaco, and Monte Albán to create a more accurate picture of the turbulent social, political, and economic conditions in and around the earliest cities. The book will influence not just anthropology but all of the social sciences.

Killing Civilization: A Reassessment of Early Urbanism and Its Consequences

University of New Mexico Press

The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a "civilization bias" shapes academic explanations of urbanization, colonization, state formation, and cultural horizons. Earlier theorists have criticized the concept, but according to Jennings the critics remain beholden to it as a way of making sense of a dizzying landscape of cultural variation. Relying on the idea of civilization, he suggests, holds back understanding of the development of complex societies. Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences, using excavation and survey data from Çatalhöyük, Cahokia, Harappa, Jenne-jeno, Tiahuanaco, and Monte Albán to create a more accurate picture of the turbulent social, political, and economic conditions in and around the earliest cities. The book will influence not just anthropology but all of the social sciences.

The  Maya civilization reached its zenith well over a thousand years ago in the jungles of Central America. This book highlights some of the most renowned and important  Maya artifacts ever discovered and the most up-to-date archaeological research into  Maya history and culture. It focuses primarily on the Classic Period of  Maya history, roughly 250-900 CE. It also examines the collapse of the  Maya civilization, while noting that the descendants of the ancient  Maya are alive and well and are found in their millions throughout the region.

Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World

Cuevas García, Martha

López Bravo, Roberto

Book by Jennings, Justin, Cuevas García, Martha, López Bravo, Roberto

Maya: Les SECRETS de la CIVILISATION

Rethinking Global Governance: Learning from Long Ignored Societies

Routledge

This book explores the origins of Georgian gardens. It looks at how they were designed and highlights the gradual move from formal 17th-century designs towards a 'natural' landscape style. Large or small, the gardens of the Georgian period were designed as places for relaxation and, equally importantly, they were used to demonstrate the owner's status and his understanding of taste and style. Practical 'how-to' sections in the book provide tips on creating Georgian-style features in your own garden, and the lists of plants and trees available to 18th-century gardeners will help to evoke a Georgian feel. The availability of plants in UK nurseries is also given. This book is one of a series providing an introduction to gardens and gardening through the ages. Each book includes practical suggestions to help you create a period feel in your own garden.

Georgian Gardens (Historic Gardens)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

English Heritage

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Globalizations and the Ancient World

Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World (Exhibition Catalogue)

Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists

Killing Civilization: A Reassessment of Early Urbanism and Its Consequences

Killing Civilization: A Reassessment of Early Urbanism and Its Consequences

Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World

Maya: Les SECRETS de la CIVILISATION

Rethinking Global Governance: Learning from Long Ignored Societies

Globalizations and the Ancient World

Georgian Gardens (Historic Gardens)