Readings in world history.

Αποθηκεύτηκε σε:
Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
OCLC:1250881
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stavrianos, Leften Stavros (ed.)
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 1962.
Θέματα:
World history > Textbooks.
Histoire universelle > Discours, essais, conférences.
World history.
Μορφή:

Monograph

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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Contents: Man and mother earth / W. C. Lowdermilk.
  • Man and food: can they be balanced? / John Boyd-Orr.
  • Man's resources: exhaustible or inexhaustible? / New York Times ; Eugene Holman.
  • Are there superior and inferior races?
  • What we think of other people / Otto Klineberg.
  • How we learn about man before civilization / R. J. Braidwood.
  • Man's earliest civilization / S. N. Kramer.
  • Solving the mystery of Egypt's hieroglyphs / Aramco World.
  • India's forgotten civilization / Stuart Piggott.
  • The coming of the Iron Age / Alfred Metraux.
  • India: civilization bsed on religion / Paul Carus.
  • China: Civilization based on propriety / Confucius.
  • Palestine: Civilization based on the law of God.
  • Greece: Civilization based on the individual / Pericles.
  • Invention of coinage in the classical age / Aramco World.
  • Interregional trade during the classical age / Derk Bodde.
  • Rome at its height / Pauline Gregg.
  • German invaders and their customs / Tacitus.
  • The Christian church in medieval Europe / L. J. Lekai.
  • Recovery under Charlemagne / Eginhard.
  • Mohammed: founder of Islam / Arab World.
  • Civilization of Islam / Arab World.
  • The Mongols terrorize Europe / Matthew Paris.
  • Mongolia and the Mongols today / Harrison Salisbury.
  • Marco Polo discovers new worlds / J. de Benito.
  • The Crusades widen Europe's horizons / Aramco World.
  • Europe's drive to expand overseas / Leften S. Stavrianos.
  • Columbus discovers the New World / Christopher Columbus.
  • Vasco Da Gama reaches India / E. G. Ravenstein.
  • Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire / William Henry Prescott.
  • Magellan circles the globe / Antonio Pigafetta.
  • Holland challenges Portugal / the Fugger News-Letters.
  • Beginnings of New France in North America / Samuel de Champlain.
  • John Smith at Jamestown / John Smith.
  • Frontier life in the thirteen colonies / Joseph Doddridge.
  • England's triumph in North America / John Knox.
  • Russia's overland expansion / G. V. Lantzell ; Serghei Aksakoff.
  • Limites of European power in the eighteenth century / Alexander Frederick Whyte.
  • First factories in England / Ephraim Lipson.
  • Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution / Edward Baines.
  • A ride on an early railway / Frances Ann Kemble.
  • The place of science in western civilization / Leften S. Stavrianos.
  • Science aids the economic revolution / Leften S. Stavrianos.
  • Science in the modern world / H. S. Dinerstein.
  • The rise of liberalism.
  • The rise of nationalism.
  • The rise of socialism / Friedrich Engels.
  • Europe turns to expansion / Heinrich von Treitschke.
  • Europe's impact upon Japan / Sakutaro Fujioka.
  • An African view of European expansion / Jamo Kenyatta.
  • A new life in the new world / Billy McGinty.
  • The new imperialism / Leften S. Stavrianos.
  • Serbian nationalism triggers WW I / M. Edith Durham.

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