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008			220721s2022 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a2022032893
020			_a1324035455 (hardcover)
020			_a9781324035459 (hardcover)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dNjBwBT _dMiTN
050		4	_aGN387 _b.S288 2022
100	1		_aSattin, Anthony,
245	1	0	_aNomads : _bthe wanderers who shaped our world / _cAnthony Sattin ; with illustrations by Sylvie Franquet.
250			_aFirst American edition.
263			_a2210.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Company, Inc., _c[2022]
300			_apages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aMap 1: The Balancing Act: Eurasia to 453 CE -- Map 2: The Imperial Act: From the Rise of the Arabs to the Fall of the Mongols -- In the Zagros Mountains, Iran -- Part 1. The Balancing Act -- Part 2. The Imperial Act -- Part 3. The Act of Recovery.
520			_a"The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic revolution to the twenty-first century via the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the great nomadic empires of the Arabs and Mongols, the Mughals and the development of the Silk Road, nomads have been a perpetual counterbalance to the empires created by the power of human cities. Exploring the evolutionary biology and psychology of restlessness that makes us human, Anthony Sattin's sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before the Bible to its decline in the present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we like to returnagain. This is the history of civilization as told through its outsiders"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCivilization _xHistory.
650		0	_aNomads.
700	1		_aFranquet, Sylvie,
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