Advancement of Civilisation in the Western World
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Ancient tradition challenges the view that mankind is ever progressing from ape-like origins towards an apotheosis of humanity. The study of history tends to confirm the contrary thesis of a gradual descent from a golden age to an age of iron. Yet throughout history there have arisen societies that rise above decline to exhibit the characteristics of a high civilisation, where knowledge and art flourish and inspire later generations. The Advancement of Civilisation in the Western World seeks to portray these exemplary times of human genius, whilst showing them against the background of oft-recurring times of darkness. This is a series of 3 volumes which charts the advancement of civilisation from Ancient Egypt to the 20th Century through the study of great individuals or of ordinary people touched for a moment by a vision of greatness. All 3 can be purchased together here, or separately as individual volumes.
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- Märke:Originals (An imprint of Low Price Publications)
- Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-24
- Höjd:156 x 232 x 88 mm
- Vikt:878 g
- Antal sidor:1 288
- Förlag:Originals (An imprint of Low Price Publications)
- EAN:9788184541922
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Brian Hodgkinson qualified as a Chartered Accountant, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. During a long teaching career at Sussex University, Dulwich College and St James Schools in London, he developed a strong and diverse interest in writing, which involved studying History, Economics, Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and epic literature.
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- Volume 1IntroductionPart 1: FoundationsChapter 1: A Time to Live The Nature of HistoryChapter 2: The Ages of Man The Great Cycles Part 2: Egyptian CivilisationChapter 3: God Beyond All Name Egyptian Philosophy and Religion Chapter 4: Giants in the Earth The Old Kingdom Chapter 5: Renewing Births The Middle and New Kingdoms and the Decline of Egypt Part 3: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Homeric CultureChapter 6: Minotaur Theseus and Ancient Crete Chapter 7: Agamemnon's Return Mycenaean Society Chapter 8: One is the Race of Gods and Men Culture and Religion Chapter 9: Since Peace is in the Land The Greek Polis Chapter 10:The Crown of Wild Olive The Olympic Games Chapter 11: Obedient to their Laws Lycurgus & Sparta Chapter 12: Model Cities Colonisation & Solon Chapter 13: The Tomb of the Body Pythagoras; Egyptian & Eastern Influences Chapter 14: The Gates of Heaven Reforms of Cleisthenes & the Battle of Marathon Chapter 15: Triumph of the Greeks The Persian War Chapter 16: Alliance into Empire The Delian League Chapter 17: The Classical Moment Athenian Culture Chapter 18: The Saving Bulwark Pericles Chapter 19: A Vision of Hidden Things The Philosophy of Unity Chapter 20: Death of a Culture The Peloponnesian War Part 4: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Hellenistic CultureChapter 21: A Draught of Hemlock The Teaching of SocratesChapter 22: Scourge of Tyranny The Career of Epaminondas Chapter 23: Philosopher Kings Plato's Political Philosophy Chapter 24: Son of Zeus Alexander the Great Chapter 25: Our Fathers' Mingled Blood The Foundation of Rome Chapter 26: Sacred Fire Numa PompiliusChapter 27: Brave Days of Old The Kings of RomeChapter 28: Destined to Grow Great The Republic Conquers ItalyChapter 29: Natural Justice Growth of Roman Government and LawChapter 30: Tempered in the Fire War with CarthageChapter 31: The Fetters of Greece The Roman Conquest of GreeceChapter 32: Land and Liberty The Gracchi's Land Reform Chapter 33: Cruel Men of Rome Decline of the Republic Chapter 34: But One Only Man Julius Caesar Chapter 35: A Better Age of Gold The Rule of Augustus Part 5: The Rise of Christian CivilisationChapter 36: I Am the True Vine The Life of Jesus ChristChapter 37: When Uricon the City Stood Roman BritainChapter 38: Care of the Churches St Paul and the Early Church Chapter 39: One True Nobility The Empire from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius Chapter 40: Saints and Martyrs The Growth of the Church to the Council of Chalcedon Chapter 41: Long Autumn of Empire The Fall of the Western Empire and the Creation of Constantinople BibliographyIndexIndex of MapsVolume 2AcknowledgementImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: The Creation of Medieval CultureChapter 1: The Once and Future King King ArthurChapter 2: A Being Self-sufficient BoethiusChapter 3: The Way Found by Us The Empire of JustinianChapter 4: One Sacred Work The Beginning of MonasticismChapter 5: Servant of the Servants of God Gregory the Great Chapter 6: Beneath the Banner of Muhammad The Rise of IslamChapter 7: The Bonds of Kinship The Nature of the Anglo-SaxonsChapter 8: A Host of Heroes The Growth of Unity in Anglo-Saxon EnglandPart 2: The Carolingian RenaissanceChapter 9: New Athens The Age of CharlemagneChapter 10:The Greatest Treasure-giver of all the Kings Alfred the GreatChapter 11:The Peace of all Christians Otto the GreatChapter 12:The Annihilation of Hades The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian EmperorsChapter 13:Cruel Injustice Feudalism in the Eleventh CenturyChapter 14:Redemption John Scotus Eriugena and Anselm Part 3: The Twelfth Century RenaissanceChapter 15:The Royal and Ancient Seat The Character of Paris in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 16:How Shall a Man not Sing? The Awakening of ReasonChapter 17:The Land which He had Promised Them Economic Revival in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 18:Under God and the Law Henry II and the Common Law Chapter 19:Soldiers of Christ Chivalry and the Crusades Chapter 20:The Imitation of Christ Crisis in the Medieval ChurchChapter 21:The Law Makes the King Magna Carta and the English Parliament Chapter 22:La Douce France St Louis Part 4: The Decline of Medieval CultureChapter 23:The Love that Moves the Sun Dante and Late Medieval Italy Chapter 24:Houmout; Ich Dene The Black Prince and the Hundred Years' War Chapter 25:The Roots of the Truth Faith Wycliffe and Hus Chapter 26:The Dance of Death The End of the Middle AgesBibliographyIndexVolume 3AcknowledgementsImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The City of Good Government The Master Builders of Quattrocento FlorenceChapter 2: Rejoice in the Present The Sources of the Florentine RenaissanceChapter 3: At the Feet of the Master The Growth of the RenaissanceChapter 4: The New Found Land Exploration and Land DevelopmentChapter 5: The Way of Reason Religious and Social Conflict in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 6: This Side of the Sea and Beyond The Siege of Malta 1565Chapter 7: The Melody of our Sweet Isle The Elizabethan AgeChapter 8: Men of Butter William the Silent and the Dutch Struggle for IndependenceChapter 9: The Seven Sounding Harmony The Origins of Modern ScienceChapter 10: The Lion of the North Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years WarChapter 11: Whose Slaves the Poor Shall Be? The Civil War in EnglandChapter 12: Batavian Freedom The Golden Age of the DutchChapter 13: "Nec Pluribus Impar" The Defeat of Louis XIVChapter 14: No More Worlds to Conquer The Seven Years WarChapter 15: The Reward Due to Valour Thomas Jefferson's Vision of AmericaChapter 16: Vienna Gloriosa Mozart and. the Emperor Joseph IIChapter 17: A Fall of Snow on Blossoming Leaves* The French RevolutionChapter 18: With Pomp of Waters, Unwithstood Victory over NapoleonChapter 19: Freedom Rejected Immanuel Kant and the Reform of PrussiaChapter 20: Above the Vaulted Sky The Industrialisation of EnglandChapter 21: A Son of Liberty The Unification of ItalyChapter 22: God's Private Secretary Florence NightingaleChapter 23: The Last, Best Hope of Earth The American Civil WarChapter 24: The Liberty of the Nation Liberal England and Imperial GermanyChapter 25: The Magic Mountain The Development of Science from the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 26: The Swift Iron Burning Bee The First World War Chapter 27: "Beacons in the Night" Artists and Writers c1850-1945Chapter 28: An Armistice for Twenty Years The Causes of the Second World WarChapter 29: Victory over Tyranny The Second World WarBibliographyIndex
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