Kategoria BISAC: History >> Civilization

Indeed, his belief in the folly of the posture that humans could tease, flatter, enrage, seduce, chastise, and bargain with their gods to manipulate outcomes almost earned him a...

Especially since the end of the Cold War, the concept of civilization has been frequently deployed by those who seek to describe and explain the world in which we live. The events of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent war on terror, have further elevated the concept's use in the discourse of politics and international relations. There has, for instance, been feverish speculation and increasingly heated rhetoric about struggles for civilization or a possible clash of civilizations, particularly between the West and the Islamic world. The term is used both to describe and to cast...

Flour for Man's Bread was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

From prehistoric times to the present, the ways in which man has made flour for his bread have forged the patterns of technological progress and have greatly influenced his social development. This book describes in detail how people of the western world have ground their grain - by hand, by animal-driven wheels, by crude water-powered...

This volume provides us with the first detailed view of the functioning of the Middle Elamite Empire outside Susiana. The excavation encompassed a segment of a larger building that must have served as a focus for the servants of the Elamite state in Anshan. Even though the function of the excavated area changed over time--from monumental building (level IV), to ceramic production area (level IIIB), to domestic structure (level IIIA)--the strong cultural ties to the lowlands continued until level IIIA was abandoned.

Malyan Excavation Reports, II

The Winds of Time is a historical tour de force of Western Civilization by Rich DiSilvio.

With masterful style, DiSilvio paints a fascinating historical canvas with the flare of a consummate artist. Key figures and the primary cultures that literally shaped the Western world are candidly analyzed, revealing both the dark and luminous sides of mankind, while also debunking the fallacies and myths.

As the author says, "The Winds of Time can sometimes be like turpentine, it may be harsh, but it seeks to reveal the truth by washing away...

Papers presented on Current Research in Sasanian Archaeology, Art and History from a Conference held at Durham University, November 3rd and 4th, 2001. Contents: The Functional Layout of the Fire Sanctuary at Takht-i Sulaiman (Dietrich Huff); The Discovery of a Sasanian Period Fire Temple at Bandiyan, Dargaz (Mehdi Rahbar); A Sasanian Site at Barbar, Bahrain (Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sen F....

Anthony Giddens has been described as 'the most important English social philosopher of our time'. Over twenty-five years, and even more books, he has established himself as the most widely-read and widely-cited social theorist of his generation. His ideas have profoundly influenced the writing and teaching of sociology and social theory throughout the English-speaking world. In recent years, his writing has become much more explicitly political, and in 1996 he took up his high-profile appointment as Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is in this new...

In Jared Diamond s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a...

Der vorliegende Band zum Gedenken an die Hamburger Turkologin Petra Kappert konzentriert sich auf das Thema gesellschaftlicher Umbruche. Das breite Spektrum der Beitrage spannt einen zeitlichen Bogen von den Anfangen des osmanischen Reiches bis in die Gegenwart, reicht raumlich von Persien an den Kaukasus bis ins heutige Berlin und bietet auch thematisch eine beeindruckende Vielfalt, die von geschichtlichen uber sprachgeschichtliche, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beitrage bis hin zu rechtsphilosophischen, soziologischen und politischen Untersuchungen reicht.