Looks at the politics, economy, history, and culture of Europe during the twentieth-century.
Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.
Although many of Morgan's points are speculative and based purely off of sources as diverse and disparate as Christian missionary accounts of tribes and histories dating to antiquity, his is the among the first works of anthropology which ...
Ancient Society: Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, Through Barbarism to Civilization
This book is like those stairs, a clear, concise explanation, often humorous way to seek out the truth. In this first installment in the "Stacks of Books" series, the author explores the transition from lawless barbarism to civilization.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Twenge, Jean M., and W. Keith Campbell. The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. New York: Atria, 2010. Ulmer, Jeffrey T., and Julia Laskorunsky. “Sentencing Disparities.” In Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice ...
CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM explores questions in several disciplines in a number of chapters with provocative titles such as: Rube Goldberg, Barney Google and Charles Darwin; Malthus The Undead; Darwin's Mice And Steinbeck's Men; Positive ...
The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African ...
Current political issues concerning the West and Islamic countries have heightened interest in just the kind of question that this book discusses: that of how the West relates to, and assesses, the rest of the world.
This book investigates Mill's notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process and his discourses on the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation.