Search results for “[Subject: civilization]”

• Author(s): Michael H. Mitias • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Aesthetics

• Author(s): Ricardo Duchesne • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: World - GeneralThis extensively researched book argues that the development of a libertarian culture was an indispensable component of the rise of the West. The ...

• Author(s): Takeharu Ōkubo • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe Quest for Civilization illuminates the origins of modern Japan through the lens of its cultural contact with the Netherlands, tracing the influen...

• Author(s): Veronique Krings • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis collective volume is devoted to the Phoenician and the Punic civilization studied for its own purpose but also for its relationship with co...

• Author(s): Annika Hvithamar | Margit Warburg | Brian Arly Jacobsen • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionAlong with the processes of globalisation and the end of the cold war we have seen an upsurge in reli...

• Author(s): Augustus R. Norton • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralLaunched in 1992, the Civil Society in the Middle East program has brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political ...

• Author(s): Kenneth M. Wells • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - KoreaThis outline of Korea's civilisation is a cultural history that examines the ways the Korean people over the past two millennia understood the world ...

• Author(s): Adam B. Seligman • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

• Author(s): Carsten Lange • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralCassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Di...

• Author(s): Horst Nowacki | Wolfgang Lefèvre • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: HistoryThe design, construction and verification of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in architecture and ship geometry have always been ...

• Author(s): Johann P. Arnason | Björn Wittrock • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civ...

• Author(s): Zoja Pavlovskis • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient and Classical

• Author(s): Boris Barth • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: World - GeneralThe contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how top-down interventions to "improve" societies were justified in terms suc...

• Author(s): Shmuel N. Eisenstadt • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book is the analysis of the civilizational and historical context of the development of the Great Modern Revolutions; their relations...

• Author(s): Marie Gaille • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict, Marie Gaille discusses Machiavelli's conception of civil conflict, its historical and med...

• Author(s): Hsin-Hui Chiu • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book studies the dynamic encounter between Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples (the Formosans), the Dutch VOC and Chinese settlers between 1624 and 1662. F...

• Author(s): Carlo G. Lacaita • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThis volume offers an exhaustive selection of Cattaneo's writings, which cover a wide range of issues and advance highly innovative theories, such as the ...

• Author(s): László Török • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - General

• Author(s): Aonghas Maccoinnich • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Plantation and Civility Aonghas MacCoinnich offers an account of the Gaelic Scots, Lowland Scots, Dutch and English, who settled in Lew...

• Author(s): Richard W. Westall • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn Caesar's Civil War: Historical Reality and Fabrication, Westall combines literary analysis of Caesar's Bellum Civile with a concern for...

• Author(s): Vincent Hunink • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe epic poem Bellum Civile by the Roman poet M. Annaeus Lucanus, a contemporary of the emperor Nero (1st century A.D.), deals with the great ...

• Author(s): Augustus R. Norton • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralCivil Society in the Middle East provides, in two volumes, an unusually detailed and rich assessment of contemporary politics within t...

• Author(s): Mary Fulbrook • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: European - German

• Author(s): David Sciulli • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralProfessions are central to any political sociology of major associations, organizations and venues in civil society underpinning democracy; th...

• Author(s): Virginia Brown • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalNo detailed description available for "The Textual Transmission of Caesar's Civil War".

• Author(s): Guy Bechor • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: IslamicDr. 'Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī (1895-1971) is one of the most prominent jurists to emerge to date in the Arab world. His alarm at the growing social gap in his c...

• Author(s): Rabab El-Mahdi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralLatin America and the Middle East are two of the most important regions of the South and the world, yet they have hardly been studied compara...

• Author(s): Shun-Hing Chan • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralThis book examines the complex relationships of civil society and Christianity in Greater China. Different authors investigate to what extent...

• Author(s): Ming Wang • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American StudiesEmerging Civil Society in China, 1978-2008 is translated from the original Chinese to provide a look into how schola...

• Author(s): Shmuel N. Eisenstadt • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralThis volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity. The maj...

• Author(s): Leyla Dakhli | Klaus Wieland • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis volume, edited by Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland, is an overview of the cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War, as it has emerg...

• Author(s): John Baker | Stuart Brookes • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAs the title suggests, Beyond the Burghal Hidage takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and ar...

• Author(s): Roy Dilley • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Africa - GeneralNearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers an in-depth, intimate and rounded biography of Henri Gaden (1867-1939), an exceptional colonial so...

• Author(s): Kyong-Dong Kim | Hyun-Chin Lim • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralOver the past few decades, East Asia developments in terms of production, population and trade have shown re...

• Author(s): Mussche • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Greek Architecture, Volume 2 Civil and Military Architecture".

• Author(s): Harvey J. Graff • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralMyths and misconceptions dominate our understanding of higher education and especially public higher education. They mislead all parties includ...