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Frye David: Walls, A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick. (in lingua inglese)
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DAVID FRYE

WALLS, A HISTORY of CIVILIZATION in BLOOD and BRICK

[Titolo dell'edizione in lingua italiana: Muri. Una storia della civiltà in mattoni e sangue, PIEMME, 2019.]

FABER & FABER
First published in the UK in 2018

Contents
Selected Timeline xi
Introduction: A Wall against the Wasteland 1
PART ONE: Builders and Barbarians
Midwife to Civilization: Wall Builders at the Dawn of History 15
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, 2500 - 500 BC: To Wall or Not to Wall? GREECE, 600 - 338 BC 33
Cries of Pain and Sadness”: china, 214 BC 47
...find the monument a bit of a cipher. They study a map whose design has changed little in four thousand years: civilization on one side of the structure, barren waste on the other. It’s as if some ancient king had ordered the construction of a wall against the wasteland. But who builds a wall against wasteland?
Well north of Syria, a far more famous wasteland sprawls across two continents, where interconnected meadows and deserts form the dominant physical feature of the Eurasian landmass.
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