Описание: In this page-turning, myth-busting history, acclaimed author Rodney Stark shows exactly why Western civilization triumphed over other cultures—and why we all should be thankful it did.Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap.The question is, Why?Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping look at Western civilization.Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. How the West Won shows, for example:Why the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilizationWhy the “Dark Ages” never happenedWhy the Crusades had nothing to do with grabbing loot or attacking the Muslim world unprovokedWhy there was no “Scientific Revolution” in the seventeenth centuryWhy scholars’ recent efforts to dismiss the importance of battles are ridiculous: had the Greeks lost at the Battle of Marathon, we probably would never have heard of Plato or AristotleStark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa; that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims; that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world.This bold, insightful book will force you to rethink your understanding of the West and the birth of modernity—and to recognize that Western civilization really has set itself apart from other cultures.
Автор: McCrone Название: Understanding National Identity ISBN: 1107496195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107496194 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Have people become more English and more Scottish? Has the sense of being `British` declined? Who is seen or accepted as a Scot or as English? On what basis do people make these judgements? This book uses empirical material to enable readers to understand behaviours and attitudes relating to `national identity`.
Автор: McCrone Название: Understanding National Identity ISBN: 1107100380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107100381 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Have people become more English and more Scottish? Has the sense of being `British` declined? Who is seen or accepted as a Scot or as English? On what basis do people make these judgements? This book uses empirical material to enable readers to understand behaviours and attitudes relating to `national identity`.
Автор: K. Tonkiss Название: Migration and Identity in a Post-National World ISBN: 1349456284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349456284 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "What does post-national identity mean for the control of migration? Katherine Tonkiss engages with the post-national theory of `constitutional patriotism` and argues in favour of both post-national identity and relaxed migration controls. She explores the implications of such liberalised migration for the dynamics of identity and belonging in local communities, drawing on qualitative research on Eastern European migration to the UK. Illustrated with rich case study material, this book offers a novel contribution to the post-nationalism literature"--
Автор: Annalies Corbin; Matthew Russell Название: Historical Archeology of Tourism in Yellowstone National Park ISBN: 1441910832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441910837 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15366.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume presents three studies that trace the history of tourism in Yellowstone National Park through material remains discovered in both terrestrial and underwater archeological sites.
Описание: Investigates how the values of the rule of law, solidarity and democracy can be understood in the European Union in order ensure the sustainability of the European political order.
Автор: Jarrett, Kylie (national University Of Ireland Maynooth) Название: Feminism, labour and digital media ISBN: 1138575666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138575660 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8420.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book uses Marxist feminist perspectives on domestic work to interrogate the social, political and economic role of digital media consumers` labour.
Описание: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Freudenstadt, Germany, July 19-26, 1992
Автор: Murray Feshbach Название: National Security Issues of the USSR ISBN: 9401081301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401081306 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16065.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of the Workshop Held after the 27th Party Congress of the USSR, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, November 6-7, 1986
Описание: BACKGROUND In June of 1988, approximately forty scholars and researchers met for four days in the Leeuwenborst Congres Center in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, to participate in a workshop entitled Self-Report Metho- dology in Criminological Research.
Описание: Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development.
Описание: Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Pri
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