(P/B) A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS

Παρουσίαση

In this illuminating account, one of the century's greatest historians surveys "the main contemporary civilizations." Separate sections examine the Muslim world, Black Africa, the Far East, Western Europe (from the fall of the Roman Empire to political union), "the other Europe" to the East, the European civilizations of the New World, and "the English-speaking universe." Even an educational text, Braudel once suggested, can be "a tale of adventure" -provided it is written with a "simplicity that is clarity, the light of intelligence." This clarity is present throughout A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS. (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Lists of Maps
Translator's Introduction
By Way of Preface
Introduction: History and the Present Day
I. HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS
1. Changing Vocabulary
2. The study of civilization involves all the social sciences
3. The continuity of civilizations
II. CIVILIZATIONS OUTSIDE EUROPE
4. History
5. Geography
6. The greatness and decline of Islam
7. The revival of Islam today
8. The past
9. Black Africa: today and tomorrow
10. An introduction to the Far East
11. The China of the Past
12. China yesterday and today
13. India yesterday and today
14. The maritime Far East
15. Japan
III. EUROPEAN CIVILIZATIONS
16. Geography and freedom
17. Christianity, Humanism and Scientific Thoughout
18. The Industrialization of Europe
20. Latin America, the other new world
21. America par excellence: the United States
22. Failures and difficulties: from yesterday to the Present
23. An English-speaking Universe
24. From the beginning to the October revolution of 1917
25. The USSR after
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