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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797277303321

Autore

Stoianovich Traian

Titolo

Balkan worlds : the first and last Europe / / Traian Stoianovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70620-2

1-317-47614-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

Sources and Studies in World History

Disciplina

949.6

Soggetti

Balkan Peninsula Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1994 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""List of Tables ""; ""List of Maps and Diagrams ""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part One""; ""1. Earth Culture ""; ""Earth Mother ""; ""Kouros ""; ""Green George ""; ""Rain and Fire Rites ""; ""Neolithic Culture ""; ""Salt of the Earth ""; ""Permanence of Culture Areas ""; ""Soil, Forest, and Climate ""; ""Space: Mana and Taboo ""; ""2. Biotechnics and Social Biology ""; ""Illustrious or Tarnished Face ""

""Reasonable Ear, Willful Eye, and Righteous Hand """"Narcotics and Stimulants ""; ""Gestures, Technics, and Civilization ""; ""Emotional States ""; ""Childbirth and Pedagogy ""; ""Mobility ""; ""3. Technology ""; ""Hoe, Ard, and Plow ""; ""Animal and Rotary Power ""; ""Metallurgy ""; ""Costs of War ""; ""Industrial Devolution and Transactional Modes ""; ""Technology and Politics ""; ""Capitalism and Communism: Six Industrializing Experiments ""; ""4. Society ""; ""Ethnogenesis ""; ""Sclaviniae and Mixobarbara ""; ""Between Turkey and ""Germany"" ""; ""Physical Types ""

""Semiotics of Religion """"Macrosociety: Tripartition and Estates States ""; ""Kinship, Clanship, and Men's and Women's Societies ""; ""From Re-Volution to Revolution ""; ""Theory of Nationality ""; ""5. Economy ""; ""Number and Economic Value ""; ""Nongenerative Cities and Command Economy ""; ""Freedom and Slavery ""; ""Prices, Wages, and the ""Second Serfdom"" ""; ""The Power and Rhythm of Number ""; ""The World-Economy of a Hegemonic Capitalism ""; ""Comparative Advantage of an



Informed New-Model Capitalism ""; ""6. Personality and Culture ""; ""Work and Leisure ""; ""Time and Space ""

""Individuality """"Part Two ""; ""7. The Liberties and Constraints of Culture ""; ""Freedom from Barbarity, Local and Universal ""; ""Remaking Time, Territory, and Mind ""; ""Customs, Laws, and Gods ""; ""Neither Universal nor Parochial ""; ""Pure and Impure ""; ""Cultural Mobilization by Generation ""; ""With or Without a Civil Society? ""; ""Rechtsstand or Gesetzstaat? ""; ""Permanent ""Narcissism of Minor Differences"" ""; ""Fetish, Mythomoteur, and the Media ""; ""A New Order ""; ""8. The Interacting Population Systems ""; ""Theater of the Gods ""; ""The Translatio of Rationalization ""

""The Margins as the Cores """"A Wild Space ""; ""Cities, Stock Raising, and Transhumance ""; ""Rural and Urban, People and Animals, Tamers and Tamed ""; ""Nongenerative Cities: A Second Look ""; ""Population Thresholds and Capitalism ""; ""A Closed World-Economy in a Closed Network of Ecosystems ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""; ""About the Author ""