Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam by William McCants

Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam

William McCants

179 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are tran...

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