Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. [With a Bibliography.].
Author: Clarence J. GLACKEN
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 763
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Author: Clarence J. GLACKEN
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 763
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Published: 1967
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. W. Trompf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780520034792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of viewing historical change as a cyclical process is analyzed, beginning with the works of Polybius, historian of the Roman empire, and ending with Machiavelli, with an examination of the biblical concept of historical change
Author: Gary S. Dunbar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 131730831X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the developments in the discipline of geography from the 1950s to the 1980s, examining how geography now connects with urban, regional and national planning, and impacts on areas such as medicine, transport, agricultural development and electoral reform. The book also discusses how technical and theoretical advancements have generated a renewed sense of philosophic reflection – a concern closely linked with the critical examination and development of social theory.
Author: Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0300190387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-01-21
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 019107487X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful and worthwhile form of enquiry. What kept it afloat between the middle of the eighteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, when its legitimacy began to hinge on an intimate link with technology? The answer lies in large part in an abrupt but fundamental shift in how the tasks of scientific enquiry were conceived, from the natural realm to the human realm. At the core of this development lies the naturalization of the human, that is, attempts to understand human behaviour and motivations no longer in theological and metaphysical terms, but in empirical terms. One of the most striking feature of this development is the variety of forms it took, and the book explores anthropological medicine, philosophical anthropology, the 'natural history of man', and social arithmetic. Each of these disciplines re-formulated basic questions so that empirical investigation could be drawn upon in answering them, but the empirical dimension was conceived very differently in each case, with the result that the naturalization of the human took the form of competing, and in some respects mutually exclusive, projects.
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-08-31
Total Pages: 1223
ISBN-13: 3110385449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.
Author: K. R. Howe
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780824822866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text places Oceania in a broad global and intellectual context and explores the meeting of two perceived entities - the west and Pacific peoples. It incorporates such diverse topics as notions of paradise, human destiny, technology, knowing, colonialism, racism, gender, and more.