Cities: The First 6,000 Years by Monica L. Smith

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Monica L. Smith

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance.Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population li...

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