World Civilizations And History Of Human Development

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848266634

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World Civilizations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Holton,William Richard Nasson
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848262133

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World Civilizations And History Of Human Development by Robert Holton,William Richard Nasson Pdf

World Civilizations and History of Human Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. The Theme on World Civilizations and History of Human Development discusses the essential aspects such as Civilizational Analysis: A Paradigm in the Making; The European Civilizational Constellation: A Historical Sociology, African Civilizations: From the Pre-colonial to the Modern Day; Industrial Civilization; Global Civilization - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Islamic Civilizations; War, Peace And Civilizations; History: The Meaning and Role of History in Human Development; Role of Human Societies in the History of The Biosphere; Environmentalism; Role of Gender and Family Identities in Human History; Modern Approaches to the Teaching of History; Developing Dialogues: The Value of Oral History; Historical Knowledge. Nature and Man: Orientations to Historical Time; Big History This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Author : Brian R. Ward,Simon Adams,Philip Brooks,John Farndon
Publisher : Armadillo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1843229439

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The History Encyclopedia by Brian R. Ward,Simon Adams,Philip Brooks,John Farndon Pdf

Journey through time, from pre-history to the modern world, in this engrossing highly illustrated children's encyclopedia for 8- to 12-year-olds.

Author : Julia Penn Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 164176077X

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Western Civilization and Human Development by Julia Penn Shaw Pdf

Author : Peter N. Stearns,Michael Adas,Stuart B. Schwartz,Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0205659594

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World Civilizations by Peter N. Stearns,Michael Adas,Stuart B. Schwartz,Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

Designed for introductory-level survey courses in World History. The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-from the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while at the same time assessing the development of major societies. Encompassing social and cultural as well as political and economic history, the book examines key civilizations in world history. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400844760

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The Measure of Civilization by Ian Morris Pdf

A groundbreaking look at Western and Eastern social development from the end of the ice age to today In the past thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century. Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits—energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity—and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the world's most advanced region has been at the western end of Eurasia, but contrary to what many historians once believed, there were roughly 1,200 years—from about 550 to 1750 CE—when an East Asian region was more advanced. Only in the late eighteenth century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead. Resolving some of the biggest debates in global history, The Measure of Civilization puts forth innovative tools for determining past, present, and future economic and social trends.

Author : David Graeber,David Wengrow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374721107

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber,David Wengrow Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : Simon Adams,Philip Brooks,John Farndon,Will Fowler,Brian R. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OCLC:1391572799

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The History Encyclopedia by Simon Adams,Philip Brooks,John Farndon,Will Fowler,Brian R. Ward Pdf

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691160863

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The Measure of Civilization by Ian Morris Pdf

Uses four factors--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology and war-making capacity--to attempt to show which world regions were the most powerful throughout all of human history.

Author : M. Dale Davis,Renate Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0195408284

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Civilizations in History by M. Dale Davis,Renate Davis Pdf

This companion volume to Civilizations in History examines the story of human development with a focus on the Eastern world. It expands the spectrum of study to include the major historical developments of the world's largest continents: Africa and Asia.

Author : M. Dale Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1012038133

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Civilizations in History by M. Dale Davis Pdf

Author : Peter N. Stearns,Michael B. Adas,Stuart B. Schwartz,Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0205666450

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World Civilizations by Peter N. Stearns,Michael B. Adas,Stuart B. Schwartz,Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

Designed for introductory-level survey courses in World History. The primary goal of "World Civilizations" is to present a truly global history-from the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while at the same time assessing the development of major societies. Encompassing social and cultural as well as political and economic history, the book examines key civilizations in world history. "World Civilizations "balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.

Author : Peter N. Stearns,Michael Adas
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0321182804

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World Civilizations by Peter N. Stearns,Michael Adas Pdf

Examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts. Maintaining a focus on social history explores gender, class, economic, and intellectual issues, while examining patterns of inequality and human agency throughout world history. Instructors of World Civilization surveys that prefer a global account of history.

Author : Carroll Quigley
Publisher : Indianapolis : Liberty Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076006141423

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The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley Pdf

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.

Author : Stearns,Peter N. Stearns,Michael B. Adas,Stuart B. Schwartz,Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0321467256

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World Civilizations by Stearns,Peter N. Stearns,Michael B. Adas,Stuart B. Schwartz,Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

For today's busy student, we've created a new line of highly portable books at affordable prices. Each title in the Books a la Carte Plus program features the exact same content from our traditional textbook in a convenient notebook-ready, loose-leaf version - allowing students to take only what they need to class. As an added bonus, each Books a la Carte Plus edition is accompanied by an access code to all of the resources found in one of our best-selling multimedia products. Best of all? Our Books a la Carte Plus titles cost less than a used textbook! The primary goal of "World Civilizations" is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies. Presenting social and cultural as well as political and economic aspects, the book examines key civilizations in world history. "World Civilizations "balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.