{"product_id":"a-history-of-civilizations-9780140124897","title":"A History of Civilizations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the event-based technique of most other texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eBy Way of Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: History and the Present Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. A History of Civilizations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Changing Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e2. The Study of Civilization Involves All the Social Sciences: Civilizations as geographical areas; civilizations as societies; civilizations as economies; civilizations as ways of thought.\u003cbr\u003e3. The Continuity of Civilizations: Periods within civilizations; underlying structures; history and civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Civilizations Outside Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Islam and the Muslim World\u003cbr\u003e4. History: Islam as a successor civilization: the Near East in new form; the history of the Near East; Muhammad, the Koran and Islam; Arabia: the problem of a barely urbanized culture.\u003cbr\u003e5. Geography: Islam's lands and seas; a continent as intermediary: trade-routes and towns.\u003cbr\u003e6. The Greatness and Decline of Islam: No Muslim civilization before the eighth or ninth century; the golden age of Islam: eighth to twelfth centuries; science and philosophy; stagnation or decadence: twelfth to eighteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e7. The Revival of Islam Today: The end of colonialism and the birth of new nationalist movements; Muslim States in the modern world; Muslim civilization in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Africa\u003cbr\u003e8. The Past: Geography; the dark past.\u003cbr\u003e9. Black Africa: Today and Tomorrow: The awakening of Africa; economic and social issues at stake; art and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: The Far East\u003cbr\u003e10. An Introduction to the Far East: What geography shows; barbarism against civilization: the evidence of history; distant origins: the reasons for cultural immobility.\u003cbr\u003e11. The China of the Past: Religion; politics; social and economic affairs.\u003cbr\u003e12. China Yesterday and Today: The time of imposed treaties: China as humiliated victim (1839-1949); China renewed; Chinese civilization in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e13. India Yesterday and Today: Ancient India (before the British Raj); British India (1757-1947): an ancient economy at grips with the modern West; Will India be spared a Chinese-style revolution?\u003cbr\u003e14. The Maritime Far East: Indo-China; Indonesia; The Philippines; Korea.\u003cbr\u003e15. Japan: Japan before Chinese influence; Japan learns from Chinese civilization; modern Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. European Civilizations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Europe\u003cbr\u003e16. Geography and Freedom: Europe takes shape: fifth to thirteenth centuries; liberty and rights: eleventh to eighteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e17. Christianity, Humanism, and Scientific Thought: Christianity; humanism and humanists; scientific thought before the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e18. The Industrialization of Europe: The origins of the first Industrial Revolution; the spread of industrialism in Europe (and beyond); socialism and industrialism.\u003cbr\u003e19. Unity in Europe: Outstanding art and culture; economic interdependence; political delay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: America\u003cbr\u003e20. Latin America, the Other New World: Geography; nature and society: literature bears witness; racial problems: quasi-fraternity; the economy: civilizations on trial.\u003cbr\u003e21. America \u003ci\u003epar excellence\u003c\/i\u003e: The United States: A reassuring past: opportunities and setbacks; colonization and independence; conquering the West; industrialization and the growth of towns.\u003cbr\u003e22. Failures and Difficulties: From Yesterday to the Present: An old nightmare: Black America, an ineradicable colony; capitalism: from the trusts to State intervention and oligopoly; the United States in the world.\u003cbr\u003e23. An English-speaking Universe: In Canada: France and Britain; Southern Africa: Dutch, British, and Blacks; Australia and New Zealand, or Britain at last unchallenged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: The Other Europe: Muscovy, Russia, the USSR and the CIS\u003cbr\u003e24. From the Beginning to the October Revolution of 1917: Kiev; the Russian Orthodox Church; Greater Russia.\u003cbr\u003e25. The USSR After 1917: From Marx to Lenin; Marxism and Soviety civilization; the Congress of October 1961.\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732344746327,"sku":"9780140124897","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140124897.jpg?v=1719996497","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-civilizations-9780140124897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}