A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization.

A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Overviewss for the general reader JANE R. MCINTOSH. A peaceful realm: the rise and fall of the Induscivilization Indus civilization(c. 2500–c. 1700 BC) Earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent and the most extensive of the world's three earliest civilizations. . 224 pages, 63 figures, 25 colour plates, I table. 2002.Boulder (CO): Westview; 0-8133-3532-9 hardback $45 & CAN$67.50. N. JAMES. Aztecs & Maya: the ancient peoples of Middle America Middle America?1A region of southern North America comprising Mexico, Central America, and sometimes the West Indies.Middle American adj. & n. .162 pages, 74 figures, 27 colour photographs. 2001. Stroud stroud?n.A coarse woolen cloth or blanket.[After Stroud, an urban district of southwest-central England.] &Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-752461424-0 paperback 17.99 [poundssterling], $29.99. Here are two books unusual in different ways. Accessible treatmentsof the Indus civilization have always been rare; but A peaceful realm iscomprehensive, highly informative and both easy to read and mostelegantly designed. Where, in effect, most accounts of Mesoamericafinish with the Conquistadores, Aztecs & Maya attempts to take itsstory up to today.