Fernand Braudel,Richard Mayne
"Refreshingly broad-brush in its approach...this history provides the big picture."â€”,The Christian Science Monitor,. Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.,Contents,List of maps,TranslatorÂ´s introduction,By way of preface,Introduction: History and the present day,I. A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS,1. Changing vocabulary,2. The study of civilization involves all social sciences,3. The continuity of civilizations,II. CIVILIZATIONS OUTSIDE EUROPE,Part I. Islam and the Muslim World,4. History,5. Geography,6. The greatness and decline of Islam,7. The revival of Islam today,Part II: Africa,8. The past,9. Black Africa: Today and tomorrow,Part III: The Far East,10. An introduction to the Far East,11. The China of the past,12. China yesterday and today,13. India yesterday and today,14. The maritime Far East,15. Japan,III. EUROPEAN CIVILIZATIONS,Part I: Europe,16. Geography and freedom,17. Christianity, humanism and scientific thought,18. The industrialization of Europe,19. Unity in Europe,Part II: America,20. Latin America, the other New World,21. America ,par excellence,: the United States,22. Failures and difficulties: From yesterday to the present,23. An English-speaking Universe,Part III: The other Europe: Muscovy, Russia, the USSR and the CIS,24. From the beginning to the October Revolution of 1917,25. The USSR after 1917,Index
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A History of Civilizations