Becoming Civilized

Author : Graham Wrightson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516554310

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Becoming Civilized by Graham Wrightson Pdf

Becoming Civilized? A History of the Western World to 1600 traces the history of the western world through primary sources that reveal to readers what each society or culture thought of as civilized behavior or a civilized way of life. Readers will see how views of civilized behavior changed over time and across cultures, yet retained certain common elements and themes. Becoming Civilized teaches students much more than key terms, events, dates, places, and people. Through thoughtful evaluation and interpretation of visual and written sources, the material also teaches students that history is more than a collection of facts. By asking them to consider the very definition of civilization and how it is manifested, it teaches them that the study of history involves interpreting and weighing historical evidence. Developed for basic history survey courses, Becoming Civilized provides readers with the basic building blocks of history, while also helping them develop their abilities to engage in detailed analysis and critical thinking. Becoming Civilized is an excellent instructional tool for courses in western civilization or surveys of European history before 1600. Born in the United Kingdom, Graham Wrightson earned his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University and his Ph.D. in Greek and Near East history at the University of Calgary. Dr. Wrightson is now an assistant professor of history at South Dakota State University, where he regularly teaches courses on western civilization, ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, and women in antiquity. His research interests include the military and Hellenism in Greek history, Roman Republican history, military manuals, and conquest societies. Dr. Wrightson is a member of the Association of Ancient Historians and the Society for Classical Studies.

Author : Graham Wrightson
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516514718

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Becoming Civilized: A History of Western Civilization to 1600 (First Edition) by Graham Wrightson Pdf

Becoming Civilized? A History of the Western World to 1600 traces the history of the western world through primary sources that reveal to readers what each society or culture thought of as civilized behavior or a civilized way of life. Readers will see how views of civilized behavior changed over time and across cultures, yet retained certain common elements and themes. Becoming Civilized teaches students much more than key terms, events, dates, places, and people. Through thoughtful evaluation and interpretation of visual and written sources, the material also teaches students that history is more than a collection of facts. By asking them to consider the very definition of civilization and how it is manifested, it teaches them that the study of history involves interpreting and weighing historical evidence. Developed for basic history survey courses, Becoming Civilized provides readers with the basic building blocks of history, while also helping them develop their abilities to engage in detailed analysis and critical thinking. Becoming Civilized is an excellent instructional tool for courses in western civilization or surveys of European history before 1600.

Author : Christopher Ryan
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451659115

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Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan Pdf

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death “will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light” (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that “the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us” (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.

Author : Trevor Cairns
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 082250801X

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People Become Civilized by Trevor Cairns Pdf

Traces the development of civilization from the first appearance of man-like creatures to the death of Alexander the Great.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780486282534

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Pdf

(Dover thrift editions).

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439126264

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Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Pdf

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Author : Miles Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820308188

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The Burden of Being Civilized by Miles Richardson Pdf

Author : Mehdi Mozaffari
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9780415286152

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Globalization and Civilizations by Mehdi Mozaffari Pdf

Uniquely, critically interrogates the concept of 'civilization' by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century. Includes case studies on the Arab world, Islam, China and Japan.

Author : Mary Moran
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501724701

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Civilized Women by Mary Moran Pdf

Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia. Like other Liberians, the Glebo people make a social distinction between western-educated wage-earners, or "civilized people," and traditional subsistence agriculturists, or "natives." The civilized-native dichotomy splits the Glebo community and Liberian society in general, in contrast to other West African nations, where ethnicity or regionalism provides important markers of personal identity.Through a close analysis of the local history of male labor migration, contact with African-American settlers, and the influence of Protestant Episcopal missionaries, Mary H. Moran shows how the Glebo have incorporated the civilized/native dichotomy into other systems of prestige allocation based on gender and age, capturing the poignant nature of "civilized" and traditional roles for women.

Author : Robert W. Cox,Michael G. Schechter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415252904

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The Political Economy of a Plural World by Robert W. Cox,Michael G. Schechter Pdf

This book addresses such core issues as global civil society, power and knowledge, the covert world, multilateralism, and civilizations and world order. It is essential reading for all students and academics in the field.

Author : William Cooke Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590966809

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The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state by William Cooke Taylor Pdf

Author : Robert Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023646361

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Manifesto ... addressed to all governments and people who desire to become civilized, and to improve permanently the condition of all classes in all countries, etc by Robert Owen Pdf

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691102805

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When Victims Become Killers by Mahmood Mamdani Pdf

"Rejecting easy explanations of the genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, one of Africa's best-known intellectuals situates the tragedy in its proper context. He coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. He finds answers in the nature of political identities generated during colonialism, in the failures of the nationalist revolution to transcend these identities, and in regional demographic and political currents that reach well beyond Rwanda. In so doing, Mahmood Mamdani broadens understanding of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa." "Mamdani's analysis provides a foundation for future studies of the massacre. His answers point a way out of crisis : a direction for reforming political identity in central Africa and preventing future tragedies."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Tracy Lee Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 1547705426

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On Being Civilized by Tracy Lee Simmons Pdf

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101548028

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Civilization by Niall Ferguson Pdf

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.