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Richard W. Bulliet is professor emeritus of history at Columbia University.

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Obres de Richard W. Bulliet

The Camel and the Wheel (1975) 70 exemplars
Islam: The View from the Edge (1994) 69 exemplars
The Sufi Fiddle (1991) 8 exemplars
Kicked to death by a camel (1973) 6 exemplars
The Gulf Scenario (1984) 4 exemplars
The tomb of the twelfth imam (1979) 3 exemplars
Chakra: A Novel (2014) 1 exemplars

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Conversion to Islam (1978) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1940-10-30
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Rockford, Illinois, USA
Llocs de residència
Illinois, USA
Educació
Harvard University
Professions
professor
Relacions
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph (grandfather)
Organitzacions
Columbia University

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From late Antiquity to the age of motorized transportation, pack camels largely replaced wheeled vehicles in North Africa, the Middle East, and Iran. Bulliet's book is devoted to exploring the causes, circumstances, and consequences of this fact.

Spanning millennia from the domestication of the camel (perhaps in the third millenium BC) to the 20C, the Old World from Morocco to Mongolia, with an excursus to Australia were camels were introduced in the 19C, and disciplines from veterinary medicine to philology, the book gives the impression of being the work of a gentleman scholar, unconcerned with academic boundaries and happily citing the memoranda of colonial officers next to scientific papers and the Bible. One may at times find his conclusions shakily supported, and wonder about the representativeness of anecdotes, but the camel ride is certainly wild, scenic, and thought-provoking.… (més)
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AndreasJ | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jun 6, 2014 |
Historian Richard W. Bulliet teaches at Columbia University and – according to the blurb – well known for his work in Islamic history. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers explores what Bulliet describes as four stages in the history of the human-animal relationship: separation, predomesticity, domesticity, and postdomesticity. As I write, I’ve only had the opportunity to peruse its contents but already one glaring error leaped off the page at me. He incorrectly associates Tom Regan with the University of North Carolina when it should have been North Carolina State University. It can be argued that this is an innocent error overlooked when the book was fact-checked but it does beg the question, How many more are there? I will put this prejudice aside and devote time to a serious read. Clearly, it deserves it and will discuss it in the future.… (més)
 
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grumpyvegan | Dec 18, 2008 |

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Membres
728
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
120
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