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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: American Philosophical Society
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Athelstan Spilhaus
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691965
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.

Author: Morris Berman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791493245
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the history of ideas" (KIRKUS Reviews), "filled with piquant details" (Common Boundary), and "an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly, good-natured jeremiad" (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships. In an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century.

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392953
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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This important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.

Author: Donald L. Fixico
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135389608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110791463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. This examination of the central English archival system in the period before 1700 highlights the role played by the public records repositories in furnishing precedents for the constitutional struggle between Crown and Parliament. It traces the deployment of archival research in these controversies by three individuals who were at various points occupied with the keeping of records: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and William Prynne. The book concludes by investigating the secretive State Paper Office, home of the arcana imperii, and its involvement in the government's intelligence network: notably the engagement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in judicial and political intrigue on behalf of the Crown.

Author: Joe Jackson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143038832
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Like Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier—the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine—A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.

Author: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004125346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Annotation. This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today.

Author: van den Hoek
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004643990
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 858

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The contributions in this Festschrift extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to medieval times, and in the second part the more recent history of South Asia.