City Walls
Subtitle: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780521652216
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Warfare & Defence; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Military Science; History; Technology & Industrial Arts; History: World; Europe; Medieval; City walls--History--Congresses; History / Medieval; Congresses; Cities and towns; City walls
First sentence: THE myth of precolonial Africa as a continent of ephemeral villages persists, not only with many members of the public in Western countries but even occasionally with some non-Africanist scholars.