Barbarians and savages
Author | : Frederick Brigham De Berard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frederick Brigham De Berard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pocock, John Greville Agard Pocock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, and has been very widely and favourably reviewed. In this, the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work itself
Author | : Frederick Brigham De Berard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lyon Sprague De Camp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas S. Burns |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2003-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801873065 |
The author marshals an abundance of archaeological and literary evidence, as well as three decades of study and experience, to present a wide-ranging account of the relations between Romans and non-Romans along the frontiers of western Europe from the last years of the Republic into late antiquity.
Author | : J. G. A. Pocock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2005-10-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139448730 |
'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the fourth volume in the sequence, first published in 2005, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself. As a concept it was deeply problematic to Enlightened historians seeking to understand their own civilised societies in the light of exposure to newly discovered civilisations which were, until then, beyond the reach of history itself.
Author | : Tzvetan Todorov |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226805786 |
The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world—have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical. In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todorov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis of the problem, rooted in Enlightenment values yet open to the claims of cultural difference. Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect. True freedom, Todorov explains, requires us to strike a delicate balance between protecting and imposing cultural values, acknowledging the primacy of the law, and yet strenuously protecting minority views that do not interfere with its aims. Adding force to Todorov's arguments is his own experience as a native of communist Bulgaria: his admiration of French civic identity—and Western freedom—is vigorous but non-nativist, an inclusive vision whose very flexibility is its core strength. The record of a penetrating mind grappling with a complicated, multifaceted problem, The Fear of Barbarians is a powerful, important book—a call, not to arms, but to thought.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
Presents a humorous look at how one can apply the principles of living like a barbarian to life in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Lawrence M. Miller |
Publisher | : Fawcett |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1990-01-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0449905268 |
"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as his target is ripped asunder, sending Aristocrats, Bureaucrats and their unfortunate shipmates to their corporate death....So goes Mr. Miller's tale, from which we can all profit." The Wall Street Journal Barbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive. Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth. Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their own companies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.
Author | : Jack Weatherford |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-05-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307755460 |
A “provocative [and] vivid” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) look at the primitive cultures that have given many gifts to the modern world, and how their very existence is now threatened “This book should serve as a ‘wake-up’ call to people everywhere.”—Library Journal In Indian Givers and Native Roots, renowned anthropologist Jack Weatherford explored the clash between Native American and European cultures. Now, in Savages and Civilization, Weatherford broadens his focus to examine how civilization threatens to obliterate unique tribal and ethnic cultures around the world—and in the process imperils its own existence. As Weatherford explains, the relationship between “civilized” and “savage” peoples through history has encompassed not only violence, but also a surprising degree of cooperation, mutual influence, trade, and intermarriage. But this relationship has now entered a critical stage everywhere in the world, as indigenous peoples fiercely resist the onslaught of a global civilization that will obliterate their identities. Savages and Civilization powerfully demonstrates that our survival as a species is based not on a choice between savages and civilization, but rather on a commitment to their vital coexistence.