1999 National Geographic Mag Global Culture Fashions

1999 National Geographic Mag Global Culture Fashions

You are buying an Original AUGUST 1999 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, which features articles related to: MILLENNIUM SERIES PT 5: GLOBAL CULTURE; A WORLD TOGETHER; TALE OF THREE CITIES: ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT; CORDOBA, SPAIN; and, NEW YORK, NEW YORK; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; ITALY’S ENDANGERED ART; and, THE POWER OF WRITING.

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Please NOTE: The Map Supplement is MISSING from this Magazine.
• Millennium Series 5: Global Culture (As old patterns make way for new, our thinking and our ways of life become more urban, more cosmopolitan, less diverse. An introduction to this special issue. Millennium Supplement: Culture.)
• A World Together (With Internet use soaring and airfares falling, global exchange of information, products, and ideas has exploded. Will our cultural differences survive?)
• Tale of Three Cities: Alexandria, Cordoba, and New York (Alexandria, Egypt, at the start of the first millennium; Cordoba, Spain, at the beginning of the second; and New York, New York, at the dawn of the third: What do they tell us about cities past, present, and future?)
• Vanishing Cultures (Indigenous peoples have become the human equivalent of endangered species. Now many battle to save the things that define them: their lifeway, their language, and their land.)
• Italy’s Endangered Art (In a place where Roman coins lie underfoot and Renaissance frescoes adorn countless ceilings, preserving art treasure from natural disasters and the ravages of time requires the effort of an entire nation.)
• The Power of Writing (An invention whose impact seems impossible to measure first appeared in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago. Using systems of writing from Maya glyphs to Chinese calligraphy, humans have chronicled history, lobbied for freedom, and expressed the emotions of the ages.)

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