Search results for “[Subject: civilization]”

• 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): 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): 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): Eric S. Janus • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralMost crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim--acquaintances and family mem...

• 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): D. T. Potts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyThe best way to achieve an understanding of the art, architecture, history, and literature of a great civilization su...

• 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): 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): John Haywood • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also Travel - Maps & Road AtThis new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreati...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Adam H. Domby • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralThe Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twe...

• 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): Suzanne Staubach • Publisher: University Press of New England • Publisher Imprint: University Press of New England • BISAC: World - GeneralMore than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental ...

• 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): 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): Michael C. Hawkins • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturySemi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating ...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptFrom our vantage point ancient Egyptian civilization, with its strictly hierarchic organization, ...

• Author(s): Mark S. Schantz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world th...

• Author(s): Christopher R. Duncan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate mino...

• Author(s): Christopher R. Duncan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate mino...

• Author(s): Michael Leroy Oberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New...

• Author(s): Ariella Azoulay • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: HistoryIn this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be ...

• Author(s): Walter J. Fraser • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of South Carolina Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,An examination of the Georgian city's c...