Civilization A New History of the Western World

Name: Civilization A New History of the Western World
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ISBN: 9781933648767

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Authors: Roger Osborne

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"An intellectual high-wire act that the author pulls off with deceptive ease. . . . Battles and wars, scientists and inventors, artists and tycoons, all get their turn in a smoothly rolling narrative. Mr. Osborne, with great skill, ties his disparate topics together into a coherent narrative, as absorbing as any novel. . . . It would be hard to imagine a more readable general history of the West that covers so much ground so incisively."-William Grimes, The New York Times Ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Western leaders have described a world engaged in "a fight for civilization." But what do we mean by civilization ? We believe in a Western tradition of freedom that has…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Roger Osborne's work has provided a range of innovative insights into our views of the past, and how they infect the present. His previous books include The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology, The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China, The Dreamer of the Calle San Salvador: Visions of Sedition and Sacrilege in Sixteenth-Century Spain and Civilization: A New History of the Western World. He lives in Scarborough.



Illustrations


List of Maps


Prologue



In the Beginning: Prehistory and Illiterate Societies



A Torrent of Words: Change and Custom in Classical Greece



The Birth of Abstraction: Plato, Aristotle and the Rational Mind



The Universal Civilization: Rome and the Barbarians



Augustine's Vision of Christianity: From Rebel Sect to Universal Faith



Religion as Civilization: The Establishment of Western Christendom



Another Way of Living: The Medieval Town and Communal Life



Art as Civilization: Wealth, Power and Innovation in the Italian Renaissance



The Search for the Christian Life: The European Reformation as a New Beginning



Kings, Armies and Nations: The Rise of the Military State



Us and Them: Colonization and Slavery



The Rational Individual: Theory and Practice in Making Society



Enlightenment and Revolution: Politics and Reason in France and America



Industrialization and Nationalism: British Dominance and the Ideology of Freedom



From Rural Colonies to Industrial Continent: The Making of Modern America



Towards the Abyss: Technology, Ideology, Apocalypse



The End of Civilization: Depression, Extremism and Genocide in Europe, America and Asia



The Post-War World: From Social Cohesion to Global Marketplace


Acknowledgements, References and Further Reading


Index