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Author : John L. Stipp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780471826200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Development of Western Civilization written by John L. Stipp and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ricardo Duchesne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004192484
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Uniqueness of Western Civilization written by Ricardo Duchesne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After challenging the multicultural effort to “provincialize” the history of Western civilization, this book argues that the roots of the West’s exceptional creativity should be traced back to the uniquely aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers.
Author : Jacob Dorsey Forrest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Development of Western Civilization written by Jacob Dorsey Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John L. Stipp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608083650
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Development of Western Civilization written by John L. Stipp and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537956
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Collapse of Western Civilization written by Naomi Oreskes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment—the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies—failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization. In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called "carbon combustion complex" that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.
Author : Samuel Gregg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621579069
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization written by Samuel Gregg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship between faith and reason." —Free Beacon The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith. But today that synthesis is under attack—from the East by radical Islam (faith without reason) and from within the West itself by aggressive secularism (reason without faith). The stakes are incalculably high. The naïve and increasingly common assumption that reason and faith are incompatible is simply at odds with the facts of history. The revelation in the Hebrew Scriptures of a reasonable Creator imbued Judaism and Christianity with a conviction that the world is intelligible, leading to the flowering of reason and the invention of science in the West. It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths. We can all see that faith without reason is benighted at best, fanatical and violent at worst. But too many forget that reason, stripped of faith, is subject to its own pathologies. A supposedly autonomous reason easily sinks into fanaticism, stifling dissent as bigoted and irrational and devouring the humane civilization fostered by the integration of reason and faith. The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century attests to the totalitarian forces unleashed by corrupted reason. But Samuel Gregg does more than lament the intellectual and spiritual ruin caused by the divorce of reason and faith. He shows that each of these foundational principles corrects the other’s excesses and enhances our comprehension of the truth in a continuous renewal of civilization. By recovering this balance, we can avoid a suicidal winner-take-all conflict between reason and faith and a future that will respect neither.
Author : Silvia Federici
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Enduring Western Civilization written by Silvia Federici and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism, deconstruction, and other current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, Western Civilization, this book seeks to trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and to examine the reasons for its endurance. It also suggests ways in which proponents of Western Civilization can co-opt ideas from opponents. Written from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, the essays in this volume trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and seek to explode many standing beliefs—primarily those which concern the very existence of a Western tradition. Bound to be controversial, the book will be of interest to scholars and activists in the fields of cultural history, anthropology, and the history of ideas, as well as general readers interested in the enduring discussion of the notion of Western Civilization.
Author : Thomas C. Patterson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 158367408X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Inventing Western Civilization written by Thomas C. Patterson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society." --Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe. He lays out clearly and simply how civilization, with its designs of "civilizing" and "being civilized," has been closely tied to the rise of capitalism in Western Europe and the development of social classes.
Author : John Lloyd Stipp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Development of Western Civilization, the Emergence of Man to the Present written by John Lloyd Stipp and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565028
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by Thomas Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners and there religions, and cultures, and politics reveals as much about the Greeks as it does the world they inhabited. Despite occasional interest in particular aspects of foreign customs, the Greeks were largely hostile and dismissive viewing foreigners as at best inferior, but more often as candidates for conquest and enslavement.
Author : Paul R. Waibel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119160715
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Western Civilization written by Paul R. Waibel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive yet concise introduction to Western Civilization, designed to interest and engage contemporary students Western Civilization: A Brief History is a concise one-volume survey that covers the subject’s ancient origins through to the early 21st century. Stressing social and intellectual history, rather than merely listing names and dates, this stimulating resource offers a more consistent and reader-friendly narrative than traditional textbooks. The author, with 40 years’ experience teaching college-level Western Civilization and World History courses, emphasizes topics that stimulate student interest and encourage classroom participation. A mixture of Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Germanic traditions, Western Civilization first appeared in Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. The text explores key events, figures, themes, and characteristics in the history of Western Civilization. Grouped into six parts, chapters include brief chronologies of events, maps, and illustrations. Topics include Europe in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, the rise of medieval Christianity, Darwin and the Theory of Evolution, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, the World Wars of the 20th century, the Cold War, and many others. Written with the needs of today’s students in mind, this textbook: Offers accessible and straightforward coverage of the history of Western Civilization Provides a consistent style of writing and organizational theme Includes chronological overviews of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East Western Civilization: A Brief History is an ideal introductory textbook for both traditional and non-traditional programs and Western Civilization courses at universities and colleges, as well as for those in dual enrollment and home school settings.
Author : Roland N. Stromberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Civilization written by Roland N. Stromberg and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226561623
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book History of Western Civilization written by William H. McNeill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edition includes new material for the twentieth-century period and completely revised bibliographies. An invaluable tool for the study of Western civilization, the Handbook is an essential complement to readings in primary and secondary sources such as those in the nine-volume University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization.
Author : Charles Warren Hollister
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780155081178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (811 download)
Download or read book The West Transformed written by Charles Warren Hollister and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WEST TRANSFORMED is a comprehensive introductory Western civilization or European history textbook. It covers a variety of fields of history including social history, but stresses traditional topics via its strong narrative. The development of civilization in the West is presented as a series of cultural, technological, social, and political transformations. This strong unifying theme focuses on the tensions between continuity and change in human affairs.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548029
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Civilization written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Author : Marc Anthony Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Documentary History of Western Civilization written by Marc Anthony Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is primarily concerned with enhancing the reader's study by focusing on particular themes developed within the traditional chronological framework of western civilization. Historical themes, such as Myth and Reality in the Ancient World, Church and State in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Politics, Society, and Revolution in 18th-century Europe, and New Imperialism, allow instructor and student alike to engage in an in-depth analysis of some of the most important aspects of the development of civilization. The readings contained in this volume extend from the beginning of civilization in the Ancient Near East and Egypt through the Modern Age and provide balanced coverage of periods and aspects of the history of western civilization.
Author : Carroll Quigley
Publisher : Indianapolis : Liberty Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Civilizations written by Carroll Quigley and published by Indianapolis : Liberty Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students. Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his historical hypotheses. He poses a division of culture into six levels from the abstract to the more concrete. He then tests those hypotheses by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations: the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and the Western. Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion." A civilization's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution--that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.
