History - Civilization

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in ancient times. He does so by tracing the history of cultivated plants, drugs, products, minerals,...

The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective,...

The Makers of Civilization in Race and History by L. Austine Waddell is a comprehensive study of the history of human civilization, tracing the development of different races and cultures throughout history. The book explores the origins of civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, India,...

Embark on an enlightening journey and explore the resilient spirit and profound legacy of the Sikhs.Through engaging storytelling and detailed analysis, this work offers a comprehensive look into the remarkable history of Sikhism, from its origins in the fertile lands of India to its...

Embark on a Captivating Journey through the Epochs of Human HistoryTwo manuscripts in one book: Western Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations, Christianity, Medieval Europe, and Modern Times Eastern Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Civilizations,...

A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time."What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

""Civilization And The Transformation Of Power" is an absorbing, provocative, scintillating account of the interiors of western history. Jim Garrison is one of the great visionaries of our time, and his account not only traces the rise of western culture, it points beyond it...

""The Progress of Man and His Conquest of the Physical Plane"" is a philosophical work by Rudolf Steiner that delves into the evolution of humanity and its relationship with the physical world. Steiner explores the ways in which humans have developed their understanding of...

In The Camp of God's Tears The saga covers six generations of Native Americans in Ohio, known as the Mound Builders, whose civilization ended about 300 ce. It solves the archeological mystery of how and the why this civilization ended. It also includes a...

Drawing on material from Europe, America and the Middle East, leading scholars of twentieth century history address the issue of how wars, and the loss of life in wars, have been remembered collectively in the aftermath of conflicts such as the First and Second...

A delightful addition to the Collector's Editions, introducing tales from ancient and medieval Arabic literature. 'The Merchant and the Genie', 'The Fisherman and the Genie', 'The Porter and the Three Ladies', 'The Three Apples'... The folk and fairy tales of Western Asia find their...

Evil Is Coming - Worse than You Imagine We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don't expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage--the heritage upon which America was built--for...

An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global. In How the World Made...

The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the functioning of the Roman Empire. The papers assembled in this volume follow from the thirteenth workshop of the international network Impact of...

In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. This book shows that each reign in...

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter: Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written...

As war loomed in March 1861, President Jefferson Davis sent Ambrose Dudley Mann on an important diplomatic mission abroad to seek recognition of the Confederate States of America from the chief European powers. When the war ended four years later, Mann took up residence...

Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West--in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and...

Legends of King Arthur swirl about Glastonbury like a tantalizing fog from the nearby Somerset marshes. The nearby hill fort at South Cadbury has long been suggested as the location for Camelot. Indeed, excavations of South Cadbury suggest that it was in use during...

The solution was relatively simple to find and to detect.As often, a lengthy speech would have been less helpful than a reasoned explanation to define a para-scientific "mystery".These little riddles, by examining their uncertainty as much as their actual equivalents, produce an effect of...

"Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt" is a comprehensive and captivating exploration of one of history's most iconic and enigmatic figures. From her early years as a young ruler facing political upheaval to her fateful alliance with Julius Caesar and her legendary romance with Mark Antony,...

Proof of a long-forgotten ancient worldwide civilization - Explains the three distinct architectural styles found at the majority of sacred sites, representing three ancient world ages - Examines evidence of the two oldest architectural ages at sites in the Sacred Valley of Peru in...

Gwendolyn Leick's approachable survey introduces the Babylonians, the people, the culture and the reality behind the popular myth of Babylon. Spanning some 1800 years in the history of the Babylonians, from the time of Hammurabi, famous for his Law-Code, to the time when Alexander's...

The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionize our lives, and why are they such powerful tools for creativity?...

In our modern world, our lives are driven by the latest media: public and private. Their continuous influence on every aspect of our lives leaves us with little to no chance of deciding what really matters. That is, the personal individual and or group...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "These people of Greek descent were called Etruscans, and it has been discovered that they had advanced so far in civilization, that they afterwards gave many of their customs to the city of Rome when it came...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Around 4000 years ago, on the shores of the Aegean Sea, a civilization was burgeoning. In just about a millennia, it flourished as far as Spain in the west and India in the east. This is the story of a people known for their...

This publication released to a wider audience the work on Assyrian inscriptions of Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-95), who had begun his career in the East India Company in Persia and Afghanistan, where his exceptional linguistic skills were recognised. He had been studying the monumental,...

Well versed in oriental languages and antiquities, Claudius James Rich (1786/7-1821), the East India Company's resident at Baghdad, visited and described many historic locations in present-day Iraq and Iran. Following his early death from cholera in Shiraz, Rich's widow prepared his writings for publication....

With the ruins of the Artemis temple almost non-existent today, it is perhaps not surprising that little interest is generally accorded this 6th Wonder of the World. Yet we can still gain an idea of it and of the legendary statue of Artemis, from...

A Short History of the World, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book...

The cosmic map of the 21st century exhibits imbalance and disorder. On one end of the Eurasian continent, Europe faces a deep civilizational, philosophical, and spiritual crisis, its Logos rapidly dissipating in the whirl of Chaos alongside the breakdown of the modern Western world...

The History of Armenia attributed to Movses Khorenatsi is an early account of Armenia, covering the legendary origins of the Armenian people as well as Armenia's interaction with Sassanid, Byzantine and Arsacid empires down to the 5th century.Author: Moses of ChoreneISBN-10: 196006925XISBN-13: 9781960069252Publisher: Dalcassian...

Sumptuously illustrating the vivid parade of a thousand years of history, this comprehensive historical atlas concentrates on the Mediterranean world but also shows what happened across the globe between A.D. 400 and 1500 -from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery. Every...

Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007's "best science books" by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec. 30, 2007]. He calls it a "wonderful resource book.... Tom Koppel seems to have visited or read about every place with unusual tides...

Ancient Egypt was one of the great civilizations of antiquity, but it was not the only great one. Afrocentrists claim that the Greeks stole their philosophy, science, and culture, but very few Afrocentrists ever say which specific aspects of these items were allegedly purloined....

Ancient history is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as post-classical history. This is a history book written for a general audience. It inherits it's title from the peculiar introduction to the...

Russia is a country of eternal change and is completely not conservative, and a country beyond conservative customs, where historical times live, and do not part with rituals and ideas. The Russians are not a young people, but the old ones - like the...

In the three centuries following Columbus's landfall in the Americas, slavery became a critical institution across swathes of both North and South America. It saw twelve million Africans forced onto slave ships, and had seismic consequences for Africa while leading to the transformation of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION IS ESTIMATED TO BE 5000 YEARS OLD AND IS A CLASS BY ITSELF AMONG THE OTHER ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS. IT HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF OCCUPYING A VERY LARGE AREA COMPRISING OF MODERN-DAY PAKISTAN AND INDIA. VARIOUS FACTORS MAKE THE INDUS VALLEY...

Colorful, engaging, and illustrated throughout with more than 180 photographs, Ancient Egypt is a vivid pictorial introduction to 4,000 years of Ancient Egyptian civilization. Arranged chronologically, Ancient Egypt offers a compact photographic guide, from the 4000 BC Naqada culture to the end of the...

A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.Author: Serge GruzinskiISBN-10: 0415928796ISBN-13: 9780415928793Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2002Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.88h x 6.18w x...

Ancient Society: Or Researches In The Lines Of Human Progress From Savagery, Through Barbarism To Civilization This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to...