Avenues for Further Learning

General

Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Wood, Michael. Legacy: The Search for Ancient Cultures. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1992. (companion book to this series)

Iraq

Dalley, Stephanie, ed. and trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Hourani, Albert, and Malise Ruthven. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History. 3rd rev. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Nissan, Hans J., and Elizabeth Lutzeier with Kenneth J. Northcott, trans. The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 BC. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. 3rd ed. New York: Penguin, 1992.

India

Allchin, Bridget, and Raymond Allchin. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Clothey, Fred. Religion in India: A Historical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Embree, Ainslie T., and Robin J. Lewis, eds. Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1: From the Beginning to 1800. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Embree, Ainslie T., Stephen N. Hay, and William T. de Bary, eds. Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2: Modern India and Pakistan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Flood, Gavin D. An Introduction to Hinduism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Thapar, Romila. A History of India, Volume One. New York: Penguin, 1966.

China

Dawson, Raymond S., ed. The Legacy of China. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.

De Bary, William T., ed. Sources of Chinese Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.

Ebrey, Patricia B. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Ebrey, Patricia B. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. 2nd ed. New York: Free Press, 1993.

Leys, Simon. The Burning Forest: Essays in Chinese Culture and Politics. New York: New Republic Books, 1985.

Egypt

Bowman, Alan K. Egypt After the Pharaohs, 332 BC–AD 642, from Alexander to the Arab Conquest. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1986.

Emery, Walter. Archaic Egypt: Culture and Civilization in Egypt Five Thousand Years Ago. New York: Penguin, 1974.

Hoffman, Michael A. Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization. New York: Knopf, 1979.

James, T.G.H. The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Kemp, Barry. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Shaw, Ian, ed. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Central America

Clendennen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Conrad, Geoffrey W., and Arthur A. Demarest. Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Farriss, Nancy M. Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Hammond, Norman. Ancient Maya Civilization. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1982.

Pearce, Kenneth. The View from the Top of the Temple: Ancient Maya Civilization and Modern Maya Culture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Tedlock, Barbara. Time and the Highland Maya. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.