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Author | : Carroll Quigley |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Liberty Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students. Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his historical hypotheses. He poses a division of culture into six levels from the abstract to the more concrete. He then tests those hypotheses by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations: the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and the Western. Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion." A civilization's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution--that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.
Author | : Carroll Quigley |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Liberty Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students. Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his historical hypotheses. He poses a division of culture into six levels from the abstract to the more concrete. He then tests those hypotheses by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations: the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and the Western. Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion." A civilization's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution--that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.
Author | : Leslie A White |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315418568 |
Download The Evolution of Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline’s most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now Evolution of Culture is again available in paperback, allowing today’s generation of anthropologists new access to Leslie White’s crucial contribution to the theory of cultural evolution. A new, substantial introduction by Robert Carneiro and Burton J. Brown assess White’s historical importance and continuing influence in the discipline. White is credited with reintroducing evolution in a way that had a profound impact on our understanding of the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture in the development of civilizations. A materialist, he was particularly concerned with societies’ ability to harness energy as an indicator of progress, and his empirical analysis of this equation covers a vast historical span. Fearlessly tackling the most fundamental questions of culture and society during the cold war, White was frequently a lightning rod both inside and outside the academy. His book will provoke equally potent debates today, and is a key component of any course or reading list in anthropological or archaeological theory and cultural ecology.
Author | : Carroll Quigley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David R. Montgomery |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2007-05-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520933168 |
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Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.
Author | : Stephen Blaha |
Publisher | : Pingree-Hill Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0972079572 |
Download The Rhythms of History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The Rhythms of History" presents a quantitative theory of civilizations supported by the data in Toynbee's classic 12-volume "A Study of History."
Author | : Enrico Coen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0691149674 |
Download Cells to Civilizations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A compelling investigation into the relationships between our biological past and cultural progress, "Cells to Civilizations" presents a remarkable story of living change.
Author | : Joseph McCabe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Roger Stuart Moorey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Origins of Civilization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays by leading scholars of archaeology and prehistory examines the emergence of permanent human settlements and the social, political, and religious ideas that may have accompanied this development. Two introductory lectures sketch the emergence of man and his development as hunter, farmer, and fisherman. Then, taking civilization in its most precise sense, separate essays review the evolution of urban societies in the Near East, Europe, China, and Mesoamerica. Final lectures address the role of religion in early human societies, and the development of writing in the Old World. This disinguished and highly accessible collection will appeal to both the specialist and the interested general reader.
Author | : Bruce G. Trigger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2003-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521822459 |
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