Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. The history of walls becomes more than a tale of bricks and stone it becomes the story of who we are and how we came to be. Read reviews and buy Walls - by David Frye (Paperback) at Target. As Frye guides us through a maze of exotic locales, investigating the coldest of cold cases, he gradually exposes a broader story with implications for the present as well as the past. Drawing on evidence from around the world, as well as his own experiences on archaeological digs, Frye takes us on a provocative and occasionally humorous journey across windswept deserts and grassy, Northumbrian hills. In Walls, David Frye makes a powerful case for rewriting history. Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick We rated this book: 28. And yet they rarely appear in our history books. The Oscar nominee on her intense year, her love for Jamie Lee Curtis, and how her next movie, Joy Ride, defies stereotypes. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. The author of Walls, he has participated in several international archeological digs and has contributed to Military History, MHQ, Archeological Odyssey, and McSweeney’s. Great walls have appeared on every continent, the handiwork of Persians, Romans, Chinese, Inca, Ukrainians, and dozens of other peoples. David Frye received his PhD from Duke University and currently teaches ancient and medieval history at Eastern Connecticut State University. In a brisk and compulsively readable narrative of invasions, empires, kings, and khans, David Frye presents a bold new theory: walls haven't just influenced the course of history they have profoundly shaped the human psyche.įor thousands of years, people have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them.

Walls have protected us and divided us, but have they also affected the way we think, work, and create?

For over ten thousand years, much of humankind has lived inside walls behind walls behind still more walls. Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye(Goodreads Author) 3.81 Rating details 471 ratings 92 reviews For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them.

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