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The Cultures of the West
Author | : Clifford R. Backman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
ISBN | : 0190240458 |
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Cultures of the West focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed internally and how they have shaped the Greater West - for good and for ill. Comprehensive and geographically broad in scope, such key ideas as political and economic developments,intellectual and artistic ventures, and social trends and countertrends form the central narrative of this text.
Four Cultures of the West
Author | : John OMALLEY |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674041691 |
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The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four "cultures" so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religion, education, and the arts, this timely book provides a broad framework for addressing these questions in a fresh way.
Cultures of the West
Author | : Clifford R. Backman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-02 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
ISBN | : 0190070447 |
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Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world--for good and for ill. The development of such key ideas as religion, science, and philosophy form the central narrative of this book. Cultures of the West stands apart from other textbooks in a variety of ways, the first being thematic unity. What did people think and believe, throughout our history, about human nature, the right way to live, God, the best forms of government, or the meaning of human life? Rather than maintaining a single interpretive stance, author Clifford R. Backman relies upon a consistent set of questions: What did people think and feel throughout the centuries about politics, science, religion, and sex? How did they come to their positions regarding the right way to live? Backman's many years of experience in the classroom have informed his approach--students respond to engaging questions more than they are inspired by facts.
The Decline of the West
Author | : Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195066340 |
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Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.
The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World
Author | : Alessandro Arcangeli,Jörg Rogge,Hannu Salmi |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000097917 |
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The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts – medieval, early modern and modern – that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living, mobility and transport, cultural exchange and transfer, power and conflict, emotion and communication, and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world, but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries, the book takes a wide geographical coverage, devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities, and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times, spaces and aspects of human experience. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.
The Two Cultures
Author | : C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2012-03-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107606142 |
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The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.
The Culture of Wilderness
Author | : Frieda Knobloch |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807862544 |
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In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in the broad context of European and classical Roman agricultural history. Knobloch shows how western land, plants, animals, and people were subjugated in the name of cultivation and improvement. Illuminating the cultural significance of plows, livestock, trees, grasses, and even weeds, she demonstrates that discourse about agriculture portrays civilization as the emergence of a colonial, socially stratified, and bureaucratic culture from a primitive, feminine, and unruly wilderness. Specifically, Knobloch highlights the displacement of women from their historical role as food gatherers and producers and reveals how Native American land-use patterns functioned as a form of cultural resistance. Describing the professionalization of knowledge, Knobloch concludes that both social and biological diversity have suffered as a result of agricultural 'progress.'
Across the Great Divide
Author | : Matthew Basso,Laura McCall,Dee Garceau |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136689000 |
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In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.