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Author : Charles Woodward Hutson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015059481559
Author : Charles Woodward Hutson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Civilization
ISBN : LCCN:26007743
Author : Robert M. Rosenswig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521111027
Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies.
Author : Phillip Campbell
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781505105681
Author : François Guizot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UVA:X004993064
Author : Henry Thomas Buckle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : France
ISBN : YALE:39002003212272
Author : Sir Leonard Woolley
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OCLC:1051882
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262536165
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Author : Crane Brinton,John B. Christopher,Robert Lee Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015031050167
Author : Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1010514716
Author : David Frye
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501172717
“A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” (Library Journal)—walls—and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as “informative, relevant, and thought-provoking,” we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed—to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves—rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia's steppes; learn of bizarre Spartan rituals; watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes; witness the epic siege of Constantinople; chill at the fate of French explorers; marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line; tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin; gape at Hollywood’s gated royalty; and contemplate the wall mania of our own era. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “provocative, well-written, and—with walls rising everywhere on the planet—timely,” Walls gradually reveals the startling ways that barriers have affected our psyches. The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling.
Author : Piotr Michalowski
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066509
The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third millennium B.C. The letters cover topics of royal authority and proper governance, defense of frontier regions, and the ultimate disintegration of the empire and represent the largest corpus of Sumerian prose literature we possess. This long-awaited edition, based on extensive collation of almost all extant manuscripts, numbering more than a hundred, includes detailed historical and literary analyses, and copious philological commentary. It entirely supersedes the Michalowski’s oft-cited unpublished Yale dissertation of 1976. The edition is accompanied by an extensive analysis of the place of the letters in early second-millennium schooling, treating the letters as literature, followed by chapters that contextualize the epistolary material within historical and historiographic contexts, utilizing many Sumerian archival, literary, and historical sources. The main objective here is to try to navigate the complex issues of authenticity, authority, and fiction that arise from the study of these literary artifacts. In addition, Michalowski offers new hypotheses about many aspects of late third-millennium history, including essays on military history and strategy, on frontiers, on the nature and putative character of nomadism at the time, as well as a long chapter on the role of a people designated as Amorites. The included DVD includes various photographs at high resolution of most of the tablets included in the study.
Author : C. K. Ogden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0415490405
Originally published between 1924-38, The History of Civilizationwas a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The ancient tombs of Egypt, for example, had then only recently been excavated. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set, in the following groupings or as individual volumes: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5
Author : Jane McIntosh,Clint Twist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0563488891
Civilizations takes the reader forward from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Author : William Halse Rivers Rivers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:$B616964
Appendix 2; Australia; Marriage divisions, fourfold and eight-class (Dieri and Aranda); Kinship, local grouping; Quotes A.R. Brown.