Studies in Civilization
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2016
208 pages
978-1-5128-1954-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Series
Edition
Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-1954-0 (9781512819540)
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Alan J. B. Wace | Otto E. Neugebauer | William S. Ferguson
Studies in Civilization
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01/1941
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Mycenean Civilization
- Exact Science in Antiquity
- The Artistic and Intellectual Contribution of Greece
- The Heritage of the Roman Law
- The Medieval Pattern of Life
- The Institutional Pattern of the Middle Ages: Inheritance and Legacy
- Literature and Learning
- The Search for the Heroic Poem
- Unifying Factors in the Development of Modern Ideas
- Some Sceptical Observations (While They Are Still Possible) on the Relationship of Economic and Political Developments in Modern Europe to Contemporary Political Totalitarianism and Economic Determinism
- England's Contribution to Constitutional Government
- World Currents in American Civilization
- A Century of American Poetry
- Tradition and Rebellion: European Patterns in the Literature of America
