Samenvatting
This work spans the development of civilizations from their remotest origins to the present day. It examines the term 'civilization' with reference to culture, socio-economic structure, ethnicity and statehood. Socio-economic scenarios help the reader to explore the ways in which individual civilizations - through world views, styles of life and responses to the environment that each bear their own signature - struggle, merge, submerge in the flow of the currents of history.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781403917607
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
PART I: THE GLOBAL COMPREHENSION OF HISTORY The Choice of the Point of Departure The Concept of Civilization Civilization - Reality and Perception A Spatio-Temporal Outline of Civilizations Social Formations as Structures of Civilizations Structures and Ideas The Geopolitical Formations PART II: SOCIO-HISTORICAL SCENARIOS By Way of an Introduction The Levant South and South-East Asia Eastern Asia Europe PART III: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS The Turning Points on the Map of Civilizations The Varieties of the Human Condition Metahistorical Trends and Outlooks Appendix: A Short Note on Karl Marx, Max Weber and Arnold Toynbee