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The uniqueness of Western civilization / / Ricardo Duchesne
| The uniqueness of Western civilization / / Ricardo Duchesne |
| Autore | Duchesne Ricardo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 527 pages) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09821 |
| Collana | Studies in critical social sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Western
Civilization, Western - Historiography Civilization, Western - Philosophy Eurocentrism Multiculturalism Liberty - Western countries - History |
| ISBN |
9789004194618
1283120453 9786613120458 9004194614 9789004232761 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
1. The Fall of Western Civilization and the Rise of Multicultural World History -- Early World Historians and the Idea of Progress -- Termination of the Western Civilization Course -- World History Texts from the 1920s to the 1940s -- World History Texts in the 1960s -- Rise of Dependency Theory -- Wallerstein's World-System and Critical Theory -- Franz Boas's Relativism and Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism -- The Conversion of William McNeill: From "Rise of the West" to "Interactive Webs" -- Cultural Relativism, Scientific Materialism, and Humanism Combined -- The Exclusion of Sociobiology -- Kant's "unsocial sociability" -- Progress and the State of Nature -- Dynamic Man versus Reactive Man -- The Ascendancy of Multicultural World Historians -- Patrick Manning: It Takes an African Village to Write World History -- Disparaging the West: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto --
2. Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism -- The Basic Empirical Claims of the Revisionists -- The Two Arguments of Re-Orient -- One Asian World System? -- The Role of Colonial Profits -- Trade, Power, and Liberty: the Secret of British Imperial Success -- Chinas "high-level equilibrium trap" -- The "Geographical Limits" of Chinas Post-1400 Extensive Growth -- Was Eighteenth Century Europe following a Malthusian path? -- Was traditional China a Low Fertility Regime? -- Conclusion -- 3. Whence the Industrial Divergence? -- The Basic Propositions of Pomeranz's "Great Divergence" -- Malthus was Born too Late in a World too New -- End of the Old Malthusian Regime in England -- Standard-of-Living Debate -- New World Resources versus European Resources -- Was Cheap Coal Sufficient or Necessary? -- Dynamic Rather than Static Comparisons -- China's Ecological Endowments and Imperial Windfalls -- 4. The Continuous Creativity of Europe -- Hobson and the Eastern Origins of the West -- Eurocentric Historians -- Imitation, Innovation, and Invention -- Revolution in Time -- The Printing Revolution -- The Science and Chivalry of Henry the Navigator -- Columbus and the Cartographic Revolution -- The Industrial Enlightenment -- Goldstone's "Happy Chance" versus Jacob's Scientific Ethos -- Contingency versus Long Term Patterns -- Europe's Solo Act: A Mercantile-Militaristic State? -- Military Revolutions in Europe 1300-1800 -- The Inter-State System -- Greek Hoplites and the "Western Way of War" -- Mercantilism and the Birth of Political Economy -- Liberty and the States System -- 5. The `Rise' of Western Reason and Freedom -- The West is more than Wealth and Power -- The Cultural Poverty of the Revisionists -- The Cultural Richness of Max Weber -- Judaism and its Contribution to Western Rationalism -- Schluchter on the Genetic Developmental Dynamic of the West -- Habermas and the Rationalization of Substantive Values -- The Liberal Democratic Ideals of the West and its Historiography -- 6. The Restlessness of the Western Spirit from a Hegelian Perspective -- Change without Progress in the East -- Measuring Human Accomplishments -- The Historiography of Europe's Revolutions -- Phenomenology of the Western Spirit -- Hegel and the Geographical Basis of the "infinite thirst" of the West -- Hegel and the Beginnings of Western Reason -- Hegel on the "desire" of World-Historical Individuals -- The Master-Slave Dialectic and its Historical Reference -- Hegel's Account of the State of Nature -- Kojeve and the fight to the death for pure prestige -- Spengler and the Faustian Soul of the West -- McNeill and the Indo-European Roots of the West's Warrior Ethos -- 7. The Aristocratic Egalitarianism of Indo-Europeans and the Primordial Origins of Western Civilization -- The Founding Fathers of the West: Democratic Citizens or Aristocratic Warriors? -- Indo-Europeans as the "Other" of World History -- The Distinctive Indo-Europeanization of the West -- Chariots, Mycenaeans, and Aristocratic Berserkers -- Aristocratic and Martial Traits -- The Impact of Indo-Europeans on the Civilizations of the East -- "Big Man" Feasting and the Origins of Inequality -- Prestige-Seeking Chiefs -- From Simple to Paramount Chiefdoms -- "Eastern" Group-Oriented and "Western" Individualizing Chiefdoms -- City-States: Sumerian versus Greek -- The Autocratic Character of Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The Epic of Gilgamesh is not a Heroic Tragedy -- 8. The Emergence of the Self from the Western `State of Nature' and the Conciliation of Christianity and Aristocratic Liberty -- Fukuyama and the Megalothymia of the "first men" of the West -- Why Hegel's "Master" Must be Aristocratic -- Kojeve and the "first appearance" of Self-Consciousness -- Charles Taylor and Plato's Self-Mastery -- The Beginnings of Genuine Personalities in History -- Nietzsche's "Homer on Competition" -- Arete and the Education of the Greeks -- The Roman Aristocratic Link -- The Germanic Barbarian Rejuvenation of the West -- Feudalism: an Aristocratic Type of Rule -- Charlemagne's Continuation of the Western Tradition -- Christian Virtues and Aristocratic Expansionism -- Aristocratic liberty and the Rise of Representative Institutions. |
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| Leiden : , : Brill, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The uniqueness of Western civilization / / Ricardo Duchesne
| The uniqueness of Western civilization / / Ricardo Duchesne |
| Autore | Duchesne Ricardo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 527 pages) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09821 |
| Collana | Studies in critical social sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Western
Civilization, Western - Historiography Civilization, Western - Philosophy Eurocentrism Multiculturalism Liberty - Western countries - History |
| ISBN |
9789004194618
1283120453 9786613120458 9004194614 9789004232761 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
1. The Fall of Western Civilization and the Rise of Multicultural World History -- Early World Historians and the Idea of Progress -- Termination of the Western Civilization Course -- World History Texts from the 1920s to the 1940s -- World History Texts in the 1960s -- Rise of Dependency Theory -- Wallerstein's World-System and Critical Theory -- Franz Boas's Relativism and Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism -- The Conversion of William McNeill: From "Rise of the West" to "Interactive Webs" -- Cultural Relativism, Scientific Materialism, and Humanism Combined -- The Exclusion of Sociobiology -- Kant's "unsocial sociability" -- Progress and the State of Nature -- Dynamic Man versus Reactive Man -- The Ascendancy of Multicultural World Historians -- Patrick Manning: It Takes an African Village to Write World History -- Disparaging the West: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto --
2. Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism -- The Basic Empirical Claims of the Revisionists -- The Two Arguments of Re-Orient -- One Asian World System? -- The Role of Colonial Profits -- Trade, Power, and Liberty: the Secret of British Imperial Success -- Chinas "high-level equilibrium trap" -- The "Geographical Limits" of Chinas Post-1400 Extensive Growth -- Was Eighteenth Century Europe following a Malthusian path? -- Was traditional China a Low Fertility Regime? -- Conclusion -- 3. Whence the Industrial Divergence? -- The Basic Propositions of Pomeranz's "Great Divergence" -- Malthus was Born too Late in a World too New -- End of the Old Malthusian Regime in England -- Standard-of-Living Debate -- New World Resources versus European Resources -- Was Cheap Coal Sufficient or Necessary? -- Dynamic Rather than Static Comparisons -- China's Ecological Endowments and Imperial Windfalls -- 4. The Continuous Creativity of Europe -- Hobson and the Eastern Origins of the West -- Eurocentric Historians -- Imitation, Innovation, and Invention -- Revolution in Time -- The Printing Revolution -- The Science and Chivalry of Henry the Navigator -- Columbus and the Cartographic Revolution -- The Industrial Enlightenment -- Goldstone's "Happy Chance" versus Jacob's Scientific Ethos -- Contingency versus Long Term Patterns -- Europe's Solo Act: A Mercantile-Militaristic State? -- Military Revolutions in Europe 1300-1800 -- The Inter-State System -- Greek Hoplites and the "Western Way of War" -- Mercantilism and the Birth of Political Economy -- Liberty and the States System -- 5. The `Rise' of Western Reason and Freedom -- The West is more than Wealth and Power -- The Cultural Poverty of the Revisionists -- The Cultural Richness of Max Weber -- Judaism and its Contribution to Western Rationalism -- Schluchter on the Genetic Developmental Dynamic of the West -- Habermas and the Rationalization of Substantive Values -- The Liberal Democratic Ideals of the West and its Historiography -- 6. The Restlessness of the Western Spirit from a Hegelian Perspective -- Change without Progress in the East -- Measuring Human Accomplishments -- The Historiography of Europe's Revolutions -- Phenomenology of the Western Spirit -- Hegel and the Geographical Basis of the "infinite thirst" of the West -- Hegel and the Beginnings of Western Reason -- Hegel on the "desire" of World-Historical Individuals -- The Master-Slave Dialectic and its Historical Reference -- Hegel's Account of the State of Nature -- Kojeve and the fight to the death for pure prestige -- Spengler and the Faustian Soul of the West -- McNeill and the Indo-European Roots of the West's Warrior Ethos -- 7. The Aristocratic Egalitarianism of Indo-Europeans and the Primordial Origins of Western Civilization -- The Founding Fathers of the West: Democratic Citizens or Aristocratic Warriors? -- Indo-Europeans as the "Other" of World History -- The Distinctive Indo-Europeanization of the West -- Chariots, Mycenaeans, and Aristocratic Berserkers -- Aristocratic and Martial Traits -- The Impact of Indo-Europeans on the Civilizations of the East -- "Big Man" Feasting and the Origins of Inequality -- Prestige-Seeking Chiefs -- From Simple to Paramount Chiefdoms -- "Eastern" Group-Oriented and "Western" Individualizing Chiefdoms -- City-States: Sumerian versus Greek -- The Autocratic Character of Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The Epic of Gilgamesh is not a Heroic Tragedy -- 8. The Emergence of the Self from the Western `State of Nature' and the Conciliation of Christianity and Aristocratic Liberty -- Fukuyama and the Megalothymia of the "first men" of the West -- Why Hegel's "Master" Must be Aristocratic -- Kojeve and the "first appearance" of Self-Consciousness -- Charles Taylor and Plato's Self-Mastery -- The Beginnings of Genuine Personalities in History -- Nietzsche's "Homer on Competition" -- Arete and the Education of the Greeks -- The Roman Aristocratic Link -- The Germanic Barbarian Rejuvenation of the West -- Feudalism: an Aristocratic Type of Rule -- Charlemagne's Continuation of the Western Tradition -- Christian Virtues and Aristocratic Expansionism -- Aristocratic liberty and the Rise of Representative Institutions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813534803321 |
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Duchesne Ricardo
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| Leiden : , : Brill, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns
| Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns |
| Autore | Stearns Peter N. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09821 |
| Collana | Themes in world history |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Western - History
World history |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-37475-5
1-281-10083-8 9786611100834 0-203-93009-6 |
| Classificazione | 15.50 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Western civ?; Part I: The Western civ tradition; Chapter 2 Why Western civ courses: The constraints of success; Chapter 3 The fall of Western civ, and why it still stands; Part II: Getting Western civilization started; Chapter 4 Defining civilizations; Chapter 5 When in the world is Western civilization?; Chapter 6 The West in the world; Part III: The rise of the West, 1450-1850; Chapter 7 Causes of a new global role; Chapter 8 Transformations of the West
Chapter 9 Where in the world was Western civilization?Part IV: The West in the contemporary world; Chapter 10 Western civilization and the industrial revolution; Chapter 11 Disruptions of the twentieth century; Chapter 12 The West in a globalized world; Epilogue: Western civilization and Western civ; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451309703321 |
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Stearns Peter N.
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns
| Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns |
| Autore | Stearns Peter N. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09821 |
| Collana | Themes in world history |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Western - History
World history |
| ISBN |
1-134-37474-7
1-134-37475-5 1-281-10083-8 9786611100834 0-203-93009-6 |
| Classificazione | 15.50 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Western civ?; Part I: The Western civ tradition; Chapter 2 Why Western civ courses: The constraints of success; Chapter 3 The fall of Western civ, and why it still stands; Part II: Getting Western civilization started; Chapter 4 Defining civilizations; Chapter 5 When in the world is Western civilization?; Chapter 6 The West in the world; Part III: The rise of the West, 1450-1850; Chapter 7 Causes of a new global role; Chapter 8 Transformations of the West
Chapter 9 Where in the world was Western civilization?Part IV: The West in the contemporary world; Chapter 10 Western civilization and the industrial revolution; Chapter 11 Disruptions of the twentieth century; Chapter 12 The West in a globalized world; Epilogue: Western civilization and Western civ; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784990703321 |
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Stearns Peter N.
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns
| Western civilization in world history / / Peter N. Stearns |
| Autore | Stearns Peter N. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09821 |
| Collana | Themes in world history |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Western - History
World history |
| ISBN |
1-134-37474-7
1-134-37475-5 1-281-10083-8 9786611100834 0-203-93009-6 |
| Classificazione | 15.50 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Western civ?; Part I: The Western civ tradition; Chapter 2 Why Western civ courses: The constraints of success; Chapter 3 The fall of Western civ, and why it still stands; Part II: Getting Western civilization started; Chapter 4 Defining civilizations; Chapter 5 When in the world is Western civilization?; Chapter 6 The West in the world; Part III: The rise of the West, 1450-1850; Chapter 7 Causes of a new global role; Chapter 8 Transformations of the West
Chapter 9 Where in the world was Western civilization?Part IV: The West in the contemporary world; Chapter 10 Western civilization and the industrial revolution; Chapter 11 Disruptions of the twentieth century; Chapter 12 The West in a globalized world; Epilogue: Western civilization and Western civ; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807037003321 |
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Stearns Peter N.
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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