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Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
Title
Founding gods, inventing nations [electronic resource] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / William F. McCants.
ISBN
9780691151489 (hardcover)
9781400840069 (e-book)
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
ix, 179 p.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology
The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an
Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs
Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins
"The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.
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