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Documents in World History Vol. I : The Great Traditions--From Ancient Times to l500

ISBN: 9780060463823 | 0060463821
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/1997

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Table of Contents
Geographic Contents: The Major Civilizationsix
Topical Contentsxii
Prefacexv
Introduction1(8)
SECTION ONE Early Civilizations9(24)
... MORE
Mesopotamian Values: A Pessimistic View
11(5)
Rossiter Johnson
Babylonian Law: How a Civilized State Regulated Its Subjects
16(5)
G. R. Driver
John C. Miles
Ancient Egypt
21(4)
A. D. Godley
Judaism
25(8)
SECTION TWO The Classical Period, 1000 B. C to A. D. 50033(64)
China
Key Chinese Values: Confucianism
35(6)
Arthur Waley
Legalism: An Alternative System
41(6)
Han Fei-Tzu
W. K. Liao
Chinese Politics in Practice: A Historian's View
47(4)
Burton Watson
Women in Classical China: Pan Chao
51(6)
Pan Chao
Nancy Lee Swann
Classical India
The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
57(5)
Henry Clarke Warren
State and Society in Classical India
62(5)
William H. McNeill
Jean W. Sedlar
Caste and Moral Duty in Classical India
67(6)
Juan Mascaro
Gender Relations in Classical India: Two Hindu Tales
73(4)
Roy C. Amore
Larry D. Shinn
Greece and Rome
The Greek Political Tradition
77(5)
Oliver J. Thatcher
Greek Science
82(5)
Aristotle
Martin Ostwald
Morris R. Cohen
I. E. Drabkin
Mediterranean Social and Family Structure
87(4)
Aristotle
T. A. Sinclair
The Grandeur of the Roman Empire
91(6)
Aelius Aristides
SECTION THREE Change and Expansion in Traditional Civilizations, A.D. 500-150097
The Islamic Middle East
The Koran and the Family
99
Arthur J. Arberry
The Islamic Religion
107
Arthur Jeffery
Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East
112
Bernard Lewis
Islamic Culture
116
Ibn Khaldun
Franz Rosenthal
N. J. Dawodd
China and Japan
Poetry and Society in Tang China
121
Wu-chi Liu
Irving Yucheng Lo
An Uncommon Woman in Sung China
128
Patricia Buckley Ebrey
``The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangchow'': Marco Polo in China
135
Milton Rugoff
The Rise of the Samurai in Japan
140
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Bruce T. Tsuchida
George Sansom
India
Indian Society in the Seventh Century: The View of a Chinese Traveler
145
Si-Yu-Ki
Samuel Beal
Islam Comes to India: Two Views
150
H. M. Elliot
John Dowson
Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Russia
The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire
155
Aubrey Stewart
Russia Converts to Christianity
159
George Vernadsky
Western Civilization in the Middle Ages
Feudal Monarchy: The Magna Carta
164
R. Trevor Davis
Medieval Theology: Thomas Aquinas Blends Faith and Reason
169
Thomas Aquinas
Anton C. Pegis
Medieval Intellectual Life: The University
175
D. C. Munro
Lynn Thorndike
Ideals of Courtly Love: A New Definition of ``Relationships''
179
Andreas Capollanus
Frederick W. Lock
F. W. Strothmann
Africa and the Americas
Recapturing the African Religious Tradition
184
Chinua Achebe
Tribute Under the Aztecs
187
Benjamin Keen

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