Urban world history: an economic and geographical perspective
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 From the Beginnings of Agriculture and Urbanization to the First Urbexplosions -- Abstract -- The Origins and Beginning of Humankind -- The Beginnings of Agriculture -- Agriculture and Topodynamic Corridors -- Agriculture, Mobility, and Urbanization -- Emergence of Urbanization in the Great Corridor -- Appearance of Pre-urban Cities -- Appearance of Urban Cities in the Sumer Region -- Appearance of Urbanization in Egypt -- The Strategic Role of the Phoenician Cities -- The Strategic Role of the Persian Gulf -- The Babylonian Urbexplosion -- The Assyrians and the Tigris Axis -- The Expansion of the Babylonian Urbexplosion -- The Greek Challenge -- Urbanization in the Asian Corridor -- The Indus Valley -- The Appearance of Urbanization on the Loess Plateau of China -- The Mongolo-American Corridor and the Three Pivots of Eurasian History -- The Semitic Bible and the Indo-European Vedas -- The Emergence of Urbanization in America -- Agriculture and Pre-Columbian Pottery -- Urbanization in the Northern Pre-Columbian Corridor -- Urbanization in the Southern Pre-Columbian Corridor -- References -- 3 Understanding the First Urban Revolution -- Abstract -- The First Urban Revolution and Networks' Critical Points -- The First Urban Revolution and Breaking Points -- The "Interface" Case -- The "Transshipment" Case -- The First Urban Revolution and Central Places -- The First Urban Revolution and Network Systems -- The First Urban Revolution and Agglomeration Economies -- References -- 4 The Two First Economy-Worlds: The Roman and Chinese Empires -- Abstract -- The Emergence of the Roman Economy-World -- The Rise of Rome -- The Forming of the Roman Empire -- The Consolidation of the Roman Empire.