Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam, William F. McCants, (electronic resource)

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Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam, William F. McCants, (electronic resource)

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conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam

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electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

William F. McCants

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• Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam

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• Princeton, Princeton University Press, ©2012

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Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index

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multicolored

Contents

Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences

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1 online resource ([ix], 179 pages)

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online

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9781283280679

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eBooks on EBSCOhost

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9786613280671

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.b36568880

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(OCoLC)757398573