Originally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was published at a formative time within the social sciences. 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 or in the following groupings: Prehistory and Historical Ethnography, set of 12 - 0-415-15611-4, u800.00; Greek Civilization, set of 7 - 0-415-15612-2, u450.00; Roman Civilization, set of 6 - 0-415-15613-0, u400.00; Eastern Civilizations, set of 10 -...

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal...