Search results for “[subject: civilization]”

• Author(s): John Trenchard • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: EssaysAlmost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancien...

• Author(s): Harald Haarmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Traditional scholarship on how ancient civilizations emerged is outmoded and new insights call for revision....

• Author(s): Neil Hunter Raiford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In April 1862, the Civil War was entering its second year and North Carolina ...

• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: CivilizationFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist ...

• Author(s): Newton T. Colby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military "The shells of the enemy flew over us here tearing great limbs off the trees and screaming horribly ... then a shell ...

• Author(s): James P. Faust • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) At the start of the Civil War, volunteers from six counties in southeastern Alabam...

• Author(s): Roger D. Hunt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The sixth in a series documenting Union army colonels, this biographical dictionary lists regimental c...

• Author(s): Martin W. Husk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This regimental history follows the 111th New York Volunteer Infantry's service from muster through v...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: EnergyA comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven...

• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first hal...

• Author(s): Christopher M. Watford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) "I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the ene...

• Author(s): Marilyn Mayer Culpepper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different walks of...

• Author(s): Simon Price • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceAn innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Peng...

• Author(s): Henry E. Sigerist | Elizabeth Fee • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryOriginally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the m...

• Author(s): Bryan Feuer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Classical Greeks considered the Mycenaean civilization to be the basis of their glorious and heroic h...

• Author(s): Harald Haarmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were th...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnergyEnergy is the only universal currency. One of its many forms must be transformed into another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, living thi...

• Author(s): François Guizot • Publisher: Hansebooks • Publisher Imprint: Hansebooks • BISAC: Europe - GeneralHistory of Civilization in Europe - From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of ...

• Author(s): Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Europe - GeneralOriginally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, François Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe was p...

• Author(s): Sang-Woon Jeon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryIt might surprise Western scientists to learn that there were periods in Korean history when the level of scientific achievement was the highest in ...

• Author(s): Flavio Josefo • Publisher: Editorial Clie • Publisher Imprint: Editorial Clie • BISAC: Biblical Studies - History & CultureFrom the Back CoverAn eyewitness account of a turning point in Judaism, Christianity, and all of Western c...

• Author(s): Richard Miles • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThe first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist ) Drawing ...

• Author(s): Jooyeon Rhee • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHaving been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transf...

• Author(s): Steve Glassman | Armando Anaya • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Telling the story of the Maya peoples from their earliest beginnings to the start of the 20th c...

• Author(s): F. K. Kong • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Materials Science - GeneralThis text is intended for all university, polytechnic and college courses in civil engineering. It concentrates on developing a sound ...