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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Western Societies, a Documentary History written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
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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.
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780075542551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Western Societies written by and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes present a collection of primary source materials from the earliest times to the present intended for use in college courses in Western Civilization. An outstanding feature of the book is the wide variety of source materials included-- readings from literary classics, letters, biographies, chronicles, diaries, philosophic and scientific writings, government records. Women's history is emphasized throughout.
Author : William H. Worger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199706549
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Africa and the West: A Documentary History written by William H. Worger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of primary sources to engage readers in the history of Africa's long and troubled relationship with the West. Many of the sources have not previously appeared in print, or in books readily available to students. Volume 1 covers two major topics: the Atlantic slave trade and the European conquest. It details the beginnings of the slave trade, slavery as a business, the experiences of slaves, and the effect of abolitionism on the trade, using such documents as a letter from a sixteenth-century African king to the king of Portugal calling for a more regulated slave trade, and the nineteenth-century testimony of a South African slave accused of treason. The volume also covers the early nineteenth-century considerations of the costs and benefits of colonization, the development of conquest as the century progressed, with special attention to technology, legislation, empire, religion, racism, and violence, through such unusual documents as Cecil Rhodes's will and a chart of the costs of African animals exported to Western zoos.
Author : John P. McKay
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312687737
Total Pages : 1155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Society, Combined Volume written by John P. McKay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 1155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now from Bedford/St. Martin's, A History of Western Society is one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past and ties social history to the broad sweep of politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen the text's readability, heighten its attention to daily life, and incorporate the insights of new scholarship, including an enhanced treatment of European exploration and a thoroughly revised post-1945 section. With a dynamic new design, new special features, and a completely revised and robust companion reader, this major revision makes the past memorable and accessible for a new generation of students and instructors.
Author : John P. McKay
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312640633
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Society, Volume C written by John P. McKay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now from Bedford/St. Martin's, A History of Western Society is one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past and ties social history to the broad sweep of politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen the text's readability, heighten its attention to daily life, and incorporate the insights of new scholarship, including an enhanced treatment of European exploration and a thoroughly revised post-1945 section. With a dynamic new design, new special features, and a completely revised and robust companion reader, this major revision makes the past memorable and accessible for a new generation of students and instructors.
Author : Hans J. Hillerbrand
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349003662
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Protestant Reformation written by Hans J. Hillerbrand and published by Springer. This book was released on 1968-06-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roxann Prazniak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973594
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Dialogues Across Civilizations written by Roxann Prazniak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another. Each chapter stands as an essay that imaginatively places historical individuals and events in proximity to one another and explores a specific topic,gender relations, rural politics, artistic renderings of nature, to name a few,through the stories of persons who reflected on similar questions but in different social and cultural settings. Through this juxtaposition, Chinese and European civilizations illuminate each other's achievements, problems, and limitations in a range of areas from urban history to religious faith.Privileging neither Europe nor China, this work offers an innovative move away from relativism and multiculturalism towards an analysis that focuses on relationships between social choices and consequences. As a result, both common and divergent perspectives on the human condition emerge for discussion. Drawing upon a rich literature of cross-societal studies, Dialogues Across Civilizations generates reflection on themes central to the study of world history as well as European and Asian history.
Author : Hunt, Robert A
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608333906
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Gospel Among the Nations: A Documentary History of Inculturation written by Hunt, Robert A and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel Among the Nations brings together in a single volume the most important primary documents illustrating how Christians have dealt with the most fundamental issue of the churchs mission: how to translate the gospel in new cultural settings. The texts range from Pope Gregorys famous instructions to Augustine of Canterbury on his mission to England, to W. E. Hockings fateful ""Attitudes toward People of Other Faiths.""
Beginning with a masterful introduction to the theme, Robert Hunt assembles scores of texts that reveal the way that missionaries, church leaders, and local Christians have contributed to the extension of Christianity over two millennia, and thus made it truly a world religion. The Gospel Among the Nations is an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners in world Christian history and mission studies.
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217920
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Black '47 and Beyond written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Author : John P. McKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780618522682
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (226 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Society written by John P. McKay and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in its field, A History of Western Society examines the lives of both historical figures and ordinary people, using an engaging, lively writing style to capture and maintain student interest. The authors pay careful attention to political and cultural phenomena, providing a balanced account of Western history as a whole. In addition to its emphasis on social history, the Eighth Edition retains the text's hallmark pedagogical features and visual appeal. In order to promote critical thinking, "Listening to the Past" features present primary source documents and "Questions for Analysis" that reinforce themes in social history. "Individuals in Society" biography features focus on the impact of historical events on an individual or group and explain the actions taken by those people. "Images in Society" photo essays promote visual analysis. New coverage includes the Iceman in Chapter 1, Reformation art in Chapter 14, and eighteenth-century London in Chapter 19. More emphasis has been placed on a broader view of Europe, particularly Islamic regions, and Europe's place in the world. Chapter 9 includes a new section on Moorish Spain, while Chapter 27 focuses on the effects of World War I on Arab nations. The Eighth Edition devotes greater attention to women and gender issues. Expanded coverage includes Spartan and Athenian women, witch hunts, and British women's role in imperialism. - Publisher.
Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349002534
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The History of Feudalism written by David Herlihy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1971-06-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. W. Southern
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140137552
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages written by R. W. Southern and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society. Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century. After sketching the main features of each medieval age, he deals in greater detail with the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops, and the various religious orders, providing in all a superb history of the period.
Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004109247
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Foundations of the Conciliar Theory written by Brian Tierney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of those canonistic theories of Church government which contributed to the growth of the conciliar theory, and which were formulated between Gratian's "Decretum" (c. 1140) and the Great Schism (1378). "Foundations of the Conciliar Theory" is considered by many to be one of those rare books that significantly influenced twentieth century medieval historical studies. Now again available in a new enlarged edition, it will continue to be an indispensable work for all those interested in Church history and the Middle Ages.
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book List of References on the History of the West written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1913 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567082695
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (826 download)
Download or read book The Re-Enchantment of the West written by Christopher Partridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, it focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates. After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities. Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, especially his enigmatic analysis of the emergence mystical religion, which presciently provides helpful insights into understanding the contemporary alternative religious milieu. Against sociologists such as Bryan Wilson and Steve Bruce, this and the subsequent chapter argues that, rather than being insignificant, new forms of spirituality are actually proving to be a significant part of Western re-enchantment. Chapter 3 constructs a general theory of the re-enchantment of the West. 'Chris Partridge argues that Western Society is permeated by a broad "occulture" by which he means a reservoir of ideas, beliefs, theories and practices to which new religions, unorthodox spiritualities, film and popular music all draw attention. This re-enchantment of the West should not be seen as a superficial secondary development in the shadow of Christianity. In many ways it is a religious phenomenom in its own right. Partridge's arguments in this regard are well put and I warmly welcome this timely book.' Mikhael Rothstein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
