This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments in almost every corner of the globe, from the Muslim world and the Far East to Europe and the Americas. Includes maps..
Category: World History
Schaum’s Outline of Introduction To Philosophy
A comprehensive review of the material covered in a college-level Introduction to Philosophy course. The book is formatted in such a way as to present students with the essentials of the subject, to supplement to the regular assigned reading. It provides a valuable overview to the nature of philosophy, epistomology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and aesthetics..
The Western Intellectual Tradition, from Leonardo to Hegel
The history of science has been successfully integrated with other intellectual and political developments in the ‘Western tradition, ‘ instead of being cut off as a recondite specialty untouched by the humanists. The method used by Brunswick and Mazlish is to select twenty-five or more key persons or events and to weave the whole chronicle of Western thought from Leonardo to Heel (inclusive) around them. Their work is therefore less abstract than some histories of thought of a similar compass, since it does not hesitate to deal with specific persons and even political events: intellectual history is not reduced to themes and elements. The individual chapters, since they are really examples, present the newest learned evidence with some detail and even indicate the scholarly controversies that are involved. References to the learned literature in these essays are invariably apt….
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
During the terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable, a miraculous event took place in Le Chambon, a small Protestant town in southern France. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon’s villagers and clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death.Harper’sWhat make this story supremely beautiful is simply that it happened. These events took place and therefore demand a place in our view of the world. If awareness of history has pushed us to the point of losing faith in ourselves, the case may also be, as Hallie says, that ‘redemption lies in remembering’. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed is one of the rarest of books, the kind that can change the way we live..
A History of the Jews
The author delivers a brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history. His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social and political notions interplay with world history..