Civilization Pa
ISBN: 9781933648767 | 1933648767
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: MICROCASM
Pub. Date: 3/1/2008
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Ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Western leaders have described a world engaged in "a fight for civilization." But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a Western tradition of freedom that has produced a fulfilling existence for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative power. But the history of our civilization is also filled with unspeakable brutality'”for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini, for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, for every Chrysler Building a My Lai massacre. An am... MORE
| Illustrations | p. ix |
| List of Maps | p. xii |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| In the Beginning: Prehistory and Illiterate Societies | p. 20 |
| A Torrent of Words: Change and Custom in Classical Greece | p. 46 |
| The Birth of Abstraction: Plato, Aristotle and the Rational Mind | p. 72 |
| The Universal Civilization: Rome and the Barbarians | p. 94 |
| Augustine's Vision of Christianity: From Rebel Sect t... MORE | p. 113 |
| Religion as Civilization: The Establishment of Western Christendom | p. 134 |
| Another Way of Living: The Medieval Town and Communal Life | p. 162 |
| Art as Civilization: Wealth, Power and Innovation in the Italian Renaissance | p. 180 |
| The Search for the Christian Life: The European Reformation as a New Beginning | p. 213 |
| Kings, Armies and Nations: The Rise of the Military State | p. 236 |
| Us and Them: Colonization and Slavery | p. 256 |
| The Rational Individual: Theory and Practice in Making Society | p. 281 |
| Enlightenment and Revolution: Politics and Reason in France and America | p. 305 |
| Industrialization and Nationalism: British Dominance and the Ideology of Freedom | p. 341 |
| From Rural Colonies to Industrial Continent: The Making of Modern America | p. 369 |
| Towards the Abyss: Technology, Ideology, Apocalypse | p. 397 |
| The End of Civilization: Depression, Extremism and Genocide in Europe, America and Asia | p. 428 |
| The Post-War World: From Social Cohesion to Global Marketplace | p. 454 |
| Acknowledgements, References and Further Reading | p. 493 |
| Index | p. 507 |
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