Sixth printing. [First published in 1966]. — Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1973. — 191 p. — ISBN: 0-202-33016-8; ISBN: 0-202-33028-1. The Evolution of Urban Society is concerned with the presentation and analysis of regularities in the two best-documented examples of early, independent urban society: Mesopotamia and central Mexico. It provides a systematic comparison of...
4 edition. — Wadsworth Publishing, 2005. — 816 p. — ISBN: 0534599338. Bringing more than 50 years of combined teaching experience and expertise into WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, Philip J. Adler and Randall L. Pouwels present an accessible, comprehensive, and balanced global overview of the world's major civilizations from the ancient world to modern times. Well more than half of the...
6th edition. — Wadsworth Publishing, 2011. — 816 p. — ISBN10: 0495913006 ISBN13: 9780495913009. Product Description: Short chapters, great stories, and tons of study tools! Adler and Pouwels's World Civilizations is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and...
Wydanie I Kraków 2001. Zakład Wydawniczy NOMOS. Studia z Dziejów Cywilizacji Zachodu. Spis treści. Przedmowa. Anatomia i społeczne uwikłania. Interesy, charyzma i dynamika kultury. Czas społeczny: między zmianą i nieśmiertelnością. Innowacyjność cywilizacji Zachodu. Prawosławie i tradycjonalizm Wschodu. Cechy konstytutywne kultury europejskiej. Rozwój indywidualizmu w...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 640 p. These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — xix + 360 p. — ISBN: 0-631-20565-9. First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. - Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years -...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — xix + 360 p. — ISBN: 0-631-20565-9. First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. - Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years -...
Paris: Flammarion. 1999. — 223 p. — ISBN10: 2080811568; ISBN13: 978-2080811561. Ouvrage de référence, La Méditerranée offre une introduction limpide à la méthode historique de l'École des annales, en deux volumes : L'Espace et l'Histoire et Les Hommes et l'Héritage. C'est en plus un très beau texte, car Braudel possède une grande puissance dans l'évocation des paysages, ce qui...
William Collins Sons & Co Ltd London and Harper & Row, 1985. — 624 p. By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial...
Book Club Associates by arrangement with William Collins Sons, 1992. — 671 p. — ISBN10: 0520081153. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass...
A Mentor Book Published by The New American Library, 1951. — 192 p. What is progress? Has man made progress through the ages? Has he utilized himself and his surroundings to the best possible degree? What actually comprises progress? Here, published for the first time in America, are a noted scholar's brilliant and fascinating answers to these vital questions. V. Gordon Childe...
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 245 p. The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as...
2nd ed. — Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 390 p. — (Studies in Environment and History). — ISBN-10 0521546184; ISBN-13 978-0521546188. People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many...
2nd ed. — Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 390 p. — (Studies in Environment and History). — ISBN-10 0521546184; ISBN-13 978-0521546188. People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 664 p. The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. "The Rise of Western Power" charts the West's achievements — representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law - as well as its misdeeds - two frighteningly...
Viking, 2012. — 512 p. Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle...
Penguin, 2005. — 608 p. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide? In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. — 480 p. "Fascinating... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. — 457 p. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (also titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 512 p. A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared...
2nd Ed. — Lighthouse Books for Translation and Publishing, 2019. — 19403 p. — ISBN 13 9783597177997, ASIN B07NGSQRLR. — read this on Android, Ereader, Desktop, IOS, Windows. Will Durant (1885-1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). He spent more than fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of...
NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002. — 120 p. The book reflects Durant's personal views on the world's history. A Shameless Worship of Heroes. The Ten "Greatest" Thinkers. The Ten "Greatest" Poets. The One Hundred "Best" Books for an Education. The Ten "Peaks" of Human Progress. Twelve Vital Dates in World History.
Yale University Press, 2007. — 608 p. This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built...
London: Granta Books, 2005. — 283 p. Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed...
Allen Lane, 2011. — 432 p. — ISBN 978-1-84-614282-6. In Civilization: The West and the Rest , acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that, beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts that the Rest lacked: competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic. These were the ‘killer applications’ that...
Penguin, 2017. — 1186 p. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. Most history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states, armies and corporations. It's about orders from on high. Even...
Penguin Press, 2006. — 906 p. — ISBN: 1-59420-100-5. Niall Fergusson's most important book to date - a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to...
HarperCollins, 2009. — ISBN: 978-0-06-195909-7. 1492: The Year the World Began is a look at one of the most fascinating years in world history, the year when many believe the modern world was born. Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of Millennium, covers such iconic figures as Christopher Columbus and Alexander Borgia and explores cultures as diverse as that of Spain,...
Charles Scribner's Sons (Simon & Schuster), 1995. — 816 p. — ISBN 0-684-80361-5 An engaging work by a prize-winning historian traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically. Prologue: Prunier's Revisited The Springs Of Initiative Discrete Worlds:...
New York: New American Library, 1965. — 325 p. In this book Dr Michael Grant surveys the whole panorama of European culture from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present day. His description and assessment of the principal artists, architects and writers and of their work, is set against the political and social backgrounds of each successive age. Under chronologically...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 560 p. Green Imperialism is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocratic, and medical thinking in the history of environmentalist ideas. The book shows how the new critique...
The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being A Plain History of Life and Mankind," is a book by H. G. Wells published in 1919. Wells was very dissatisfied with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War I, and so, between 1918 and 1919, produced a 1,324-page work which was published in serial softcover form in 1919, with the first...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 392 p. — ISBN: 978-0-511-21677-0; 978-0-521-83835-1; 978-0-521-54724-6. John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the "Rise of the West" that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander. Describing the rise of what he calls the "Oriental West", Hobson...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 386 p. Inavast and all-embracing study ofAfrica, fromthe origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent.Africanshave been pioneers struggling against diseaseandnature, and their social, economic, and political institutions have been designed...
Monograph, Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Unabridged edition edition (March 1, 2015), 320 p. Western civilisation is on a path to destruction. In coming decades, economies will shrink, democracy will retreat and nations crumble. The long-term result will be grinding poverty, superstition and disease. This isn't scaremongering it is science. In Biohistory: The Decline and Fall...
2nd ed. — Yale University Press, 2013. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-19817-1 From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book....
Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2008. — 366 p. Du monde antique à la Chrétienté médiévale L'installation des barbares (Ve - VIIe siècle) La tentative d'organisation germanique (VIIIe - Xe siècle) La formation de la Chrétienté (XIe - XIIe siècle) La crise de la Chrétienté (XIVe - XVe siècle) La civilisation médiévale Genèse Structures spatiales et temporelles (Xe - XIIIe siècle) La...
Dempsey Parr, 2000. — 320 p. — (A Dempsey Parr Micropedia). — ISBN: 1-84084-444-2. From the familiar tales of Greece and Rome and the opulence of the major Chinese dynasties, to the great empires of Egypt and Mesopotamia, Great Civilizations encompasses the rise and fall, victories and defeats, leaders and subjects, of many diverse and magnificent cultures. This comprehensive...
Eyrolles, 2012. — 364 p. Ce guide dresse un panorama historique et culturel de toutes les grandes civilisations qui ont fait l’humanité. Il s’ouvre avec l’apparition de l’homme sur terre et court jusqu’au début du XXe siècle. Toutes les ères géographiques sont couvertes, depuis la Mésopotamie et la Méditerranée jusqu’à l’Océanie, en passant par l’Asie, l’Afrique et les...
Publisher: Eyrolles. Date: 15/05/2008. Pages: 360. Language: French. Ce livre unique dresse un panorama historique et culturel de toute les grandes civilisations qui ont fait l'humanité. Il s'ouvre avec l'apparition de l'homme sur terre et court jusqu'au début du 20e siècle. Toutes les ères géographiques sont couvertes, depuis la Mésopotamie et la Méditerranée jusqu'à...
London, New York: Routledge, 2001. — 504 p. — ISBN10: 0415109760; ISBN13: 978-0415109765. In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case the ecological and economic background to growth, geographical factors, cross-cultural intersection and...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 400 p. Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 400 p. Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 768 p. — eISBN 978 1 84765 294 2. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011. Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of...
Sentia Publishing, 2016. — 382 p. — ISBN: 9780999005613 This book provides a brief history of the world, focusing on major civilizations while employing a few strong interpretive themes. It could be used as a world history text for students and the ordinary public who are sometimes intimidated or overwhelmed by the detailed content of available history textbooks, or as a...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 352 p. This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 670 p. Biohistory is a revolutionary new theory that explores the biological and behavioural underpinnings of social change, including the rise and fall of civilisations. Informed by significant research into the physiological basis of behaviour conducted by author Dr Jim Penman and a team of scientists at RMIT University and the Florey...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 328 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities...
Springer, 2017. — 436 p. — (Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context). — ISBN: 978-3-319-49162-2; ISSN: 2191-656X. Historical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences of natural disasters in different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the...
Cengage Learning, 2006 - 363 p. 7th edition. The later middle ages: crisis and disintegration in the fourteenth century. Recovery and rebirth: the age of the renaissance. Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century. Europe and the world: new encounters, 1500–1800. State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century. Toward a new heaven and a new...
10th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2017. — 576 p. — ISBN13: 9781305952799. Join the more than one million students who have used Spielvogel's texts to be successful in their Western civilization course. There's a reason why Western Civilization is a best seller: it makes history come alive. The book is also loaded with extras, such as primary source features that highlight real...
10th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2017. — 672 p. — ISBN13: 9781305952805. Join the more than one million students who have used Spielvogel's texts to be successful in their Western civilization course. There's a reason why Western Civilization is a best seller: it makes history come alive. The book is also loaded with extras, such as primary source features that highlight real...
Ninth Edition. — Stamford: Cengage Learning, 2015. — 1018 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-285-43640-1, ISBN10: 1-285-43640-7 Best-selling «Western Civilization» has helped more than one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military...
8th Edition. — Wadsworth Publishing, 2011. — 368 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-111-34215-9; ISBN10: 1-111-34215-6. Best-selling book Western Civilization has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of...
7th edition — Wadsworth Publishing, 2008. — 634 p. Best-selling book "Western Civilization" has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as...
17th edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011. — 491 p. — ISBN: 0393934829. A pedagogically innovative new edition of the most-balanced and best-selling western civilizations text of all time. New to the Western Civilizations team, master teachers and scholars Joshua Cole (University of Michigan) and Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) have integrated...
17th edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011. — 596 p. — ISBN: 0393934837. A pedagogically innovative new edition of the most-balanced and best-selling western civilizations text of all time. New to the Western Civilizations team, master teachers and scholars Joshua Cole (University of Michigan) and Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) have integrated...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 262 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34092-6 Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies , though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the...
Translated from Dutch by Diane Webb. — (Studies in Modern History Series). — Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2004. — 304 p. The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end of the century the situation was completely different and Europe's colonial possessions had come to...
St. Martin's Press, 2012. — 272 p. From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence...
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