The rise of the West : a history of the human community : with a retrospective essay / / by William H. McNeill ; drawings by Béla Petheö

• Autore: McNeill William Hardy <1917-2016>
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 828 p. ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetto topico: Civilization - History; Civilization, Western; History - General; History & Archaeology
• Note generali: "'The Rise of the West after twenty-five years' first appeared in the Journal of world history 1 (1990): 1-21; c1990 by University of Hawaii Press"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years -- Preface -- PART I THE ERA OF MIDDLE EASTERN DOMINANCE TO 500 B.C. -- I. IN THE BEGINNING -- II. THE BREAKTHROUGH TO CIVILIZATION IN MESOPOTAMIA -- III. THE DIFFUSION OF CIVILIZATION: FIRST PHASE -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE NILE AND INDUS VALLEYS TO 1700 B.C. -- 1. Ancient Egypt -- 2. The Indus Civilization -- C. THE TRANSPLANTATION OF CIVILIZATION TO RAIN-WATERED LANDS -- 1. Introductory -- 2. Asia Minor -- 3. Crete -- D. THE IMPACT OF CIVILIZATION ON THE OUTER FRINGES OF THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD -- 1. Megalithic Protocivilization -- 2. High Barbarism of the Eurasian Steppe -- IV. THE RISE OF A COSMOPOLITAN CIVILIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1700-500 B.C. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. MILITARY-POLITICAL CHANGES -- C. ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS -- D. SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- E. CULTURAL CONSERVATION AND ADVANCE -- 1. Babylonia -- 2. Egypt -- 3. The Intermediate Regions -- 4. Zoroastrianism and Judaism -- V. THE FORMULATION OF PERIPHERAL CIVILIZATIONS IN INDIA, GREECE, AND CHINA, 1700-500 B.C. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. THE FORMULATION OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION -- C. THE FORMULATION OF GREEK CIVILIZATION -- 1. Political and Social Development -- 2. Cultural Growth -- Religion -- Art -- Literature -- Philosophy -- D. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION TO 500 B.C. -- E. CHANGES IN THE BARBARIAN WORLD TO 500 B.C. -- PART II EURASIAN CULTURAL BALANCE 500 B.C.-1500 A.D. -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- VI. THE EXPANSION OF HELLENISM, 500-146 B.C. -- A. THE FLOWERING OF GREEK CULTURE, 500-336 B.C. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political Evolution -- 3. The Perfecting of Greek Cultural Forms -- Tragedy -- Philosophy -- History and Rhetoric -- Monumental Art -- Summary -- B. HELLENIC EXPANSION INTO BARBARIAN EUROPE -- C. THE HELLENIZATION OF THE ORIENT, 500-146 B.C. ; 1. Military and Political -- 2. Social and Cultural -- VII. CLOSURE OF THE EURASIAN ECUMENE, 500 8.c.-200 A.D. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NON-HELLENIC CIVILIZATIONS OF EURASIA, 5°0-100 B.C. -- 1. India -- 2. China -- 3. The Far West: Rome and Western Europe, 336-146 B.C. -- C. THE EURASIAN ECUMENE, 100 8.C.-200 A.D. -- 1. Political and Social Developments -- 2. Cultural Growth and Interchange -- Art -- Religion -- 3. Other Aspects of the High Cultural Tradition of Eurasia, 100 B.C.-200 A.D. -- VIII. BARBARIAN ONSLAUGHT AND CIVILIZED RESPONSE, 200-600 A.D. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. THE FLOWERING OF INDIAN CULTURE -- 1. Political and Social Framework -- 2. Cultural Achievements -- Language -- Literature -- Religion and Philosophy -- Science -- Art -- Other Aspects of Indian Culture -- C. THE EXPANSION OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION -- 1. Southeast Asia -- 2. Eastern Mediterranean, Iran, and Central Asia -- 3. China -- D. THE NORTHERN FRONTIER: BARBARIAN BREAKTHROUGH AND CIVILIZED REACTION -- 1. The Great Migrations -- 2. Consequences of the Migrations -- Civilizing the Barbarians -- Modification of Civilized Military and Political Institutions in Western Eurasia -- Cultural Changes in Persia and Rome -- E. THE OUTER FRINGES -- IX. THE RESURGENCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, 600-1000 A.D. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. THE MOSLEM WORLD -- C. CHRISTENDOM: -- D. INDlA -- E. CHINA AND THE FAR EAST -- F. THE OUTER FRINGES -- X. STEPPE CONQUERORS AND THE EUROPEAN FAR WEST, 1000-1500 A.D. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. INFILTRATION AND CONQUEST FROM THE STEPPE -- C. ISLAMIC REACTION TO THE PRESSURES FROM THE STEPPE -- 1. Political and Social -- 2. Cultural -- D. INDIANS, CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS UNDER MOSLEM RULE -- 1. The Moslem Heartlands -- 2. India -- 3. Orthodox Christendom -- E. THE FAR EAST -- 1. China -- 2. China's Outliers -- F. THE FAR WEST. ; 1. Introductory -- 2. The Struggle for Political Order -- 3. The Expansion of Western Europe -- 4. Cultural Growth: The High Middle Ages -- 5. Unique Characteristics of West European Civilization -- G. THE FRINGES OF THE ECUMENE -- PART III THE ERA OF WESTERN DOMINANCE, 1500 A.D.TO THE PRESENT -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- XI. THE FAR WEST'S CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD, 1500--1700 A.D. -- A. THE GREAT EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS AND THEIR WORLD-WIDE CONSEQUENCES -- B. THE TRANSMUTATION OF EUROPE, 15()()-1650 A.D. -- 1. Politics -- 2. Economics -- 3. Culture -- C. EUROPE'S OUTLIERS: THE AMERICAS AND RUSSIA, 1500-1650 A.D. -- 1. The Americas -- 2. Russia -- D. THE CHANGING BALANCE OF THE ECUMENE, 1500-1700 A.D. -- 1. The Moslem World -- The Iberian Crusade and Moslem Response -- The Rise of Russia and Its Consequences for Islam -- The Sunni-Shi'a Conflict and Its Consequences for Islam -- 2. The Subject Religious Communities in tbe Moslem World -- Hindu India and Buddhist Southeast Asia -- Christians under Moslem Rule -- Jews in Moslem Lands -- 3. The Far East -- China -- Japan -- Tibet, Mongolia, and the Central Asian Steppe -- 4. Africa -- E. CONCLUSION -- XII. THE TOTTERING WORLD BALANCE, 1700-1850 A.D. -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. THE OLD REGIME OF EUROPE, 1650-1789 A.D. -- 1. European Expansion to New Ground -- Exploration, Trade, and National Rivalries -- Plantations and the Conscious Transformation of Tropical and Subtropical Economies -- The Spread of European Settlement -- 2. Acculturation in tbe Older Outliers of Europe: America and Russia -- Spanish America -- Brazil and North America -- Russia -- 3. The Compromises of the Old Regime in the European Heartlands -- Political and Social Compromises -- Intellectual Compromises -- Compromises in the Arts -- Elements of Instability in the Old Regime -- C. MOSLEM CATALEPSY, 1700-1850 A.D. ; 1. Ottoman Reform and Christian Rebellion -- 2. Iran and Turkestan -- 3. Disintegration of the Mogul Empire in India -- 4. Islam in Africa and Southeast Asia -- D. HINDU AND BUDDHIST ASIA, 1700-1850 A.D. -- E. CREEPING CRISIS IN THE FAR EAST, 1700-1850 A.D. -- 1. China -- 2. Japan -- F. THE RETREAT OF BARBARISM, 1700-1850 A.D. -- XIII. THE RISE OF THE WEST: COSMOPOLITANISM ON A GLOBAL SCALE, 1850-1950 A.D. -- A. INTRODUCTORY -- B. THE WESTERN EXPLOSION, 1789-1917 A.D. -- 1. Territorial Expansion -- 2. Industrialism -- The First or British Phase -- The Second or German and American Phase -- 3. The Democratic Revolution -- 4. Artistic and Intellectual Aspects -- C. THE NON-WESTERN WORLD, 1850-1950 A.D. -- 1. The Changing Shape and Style of the Ecumene -- 2. The Moslem World -- 3. Hindu India -- 4. China -- 5. Japan -- 6. Other Parts of the World -- CONCLUSION -- A. SCALE OF POLITICS -- B. SCOPE OF POLITICS -- C. DILEMMAS OF POWER -- INDEX.
• Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): RISE OF THE WEST: A HISTORY OF THE HUMAN COMMUNITY; THE RISE OF THE WEST
• Altri titoli varianti: Rise of the West
• Titolo autorizzato: The rise of the West
• ISBN: 0-226-56161-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247922203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.