Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe: The First and Last Europe

ISBN-13: 9781563240331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 550 str.

Traian Stoianovich

Opis

Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. This is not a conventional history of the Balkans. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology and linguistics as well as history, the author has attempted a "total history" that integrates as many as possible of the avenues and categories of the Balkan experience.

Spis treści

Introduction PART ONE 1. Earth Culture 2. Biotechnics and Social Biology 3. Technology 4. Society 5. Economy 6. Personality and Culture PART TWO 7. The Liberties and Constraints of Culture 8. The Interacting Population Systems

O autorze

Traian Stoianovich was born in a small village in Yugoslav Macedonia. Educated in the United States and in France, he was for four decades a teacher of European and world history at Rutgers University. He has also taught at New York University, the University of California (Berkeley), Stanford University, and Sir George Williams University (Montreal).