Bøker av Petr Charvat

Drawing especially on new data from archaeology, history, art history and cultural or social anthropology, this book offers a new vision of the origins of the Bohemian state. It is based both on interpretation of evidence not sufficiently taken into consideration up to now, and on research results of a wide range of international scholarship.

Provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. This title approaches author's subjects from a variety of perspectives and offers information on the economy, society, political climate, and religion within each of the empires.

Mesopotamia was one of the first areas to construct states. This survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these developments were possible. It explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to the time of the early states, c 100,000 BC to 2334 BC.