Civilisation

Recognized as one of the most important works of sociology in the last century, On the Process of Civilisation has been influential and widely discussed across the whole range of the humanities and so

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that

Early Islamic civilisation spread across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia in the 7th and 8th centuries CE, forming a massive empire. Find out about the birth of Islam, amazing inventions and t

This outline of Korea’s civilisation is a cultural history that examines the ways the Korean people over the past two millennia understood the world and viewed their place in society.

Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the 'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of 'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term processes of transformation. Civilisations are best seen as practices of feeding and hospitality, of rituals and manners of living and dying, of entering the portals into the invisible world that surrounds and encompasses us, of healing and the knowledge of the encompassing universe and its powers, including its ghosts and demons. Civilisations furnish the moral ideals for people to live by and aspire to and they are changed more by the actions of disappointed grassroots and their little traditions than by their ruling authorities. Just as they revitalise and change their civilisations, this bo

"Naissance d'une civilisation" decrit l'emergence philosophique, politique et economique du nouvel age.Qu'est le nouvel age ? Un processus tres classique : celui par lequel la societe s'approprie l'es

Durant la derniaere phase de l'aAge du Bronze (XVIe-XIe s. av. J.-C.), la civilisation mycaenienne voit le jour et s'aepanouit en Graece continentale. Alors que la daecouverte des tombes aa fosse de M

Today, the Indus Valley Civilisation is known mainly through the ruins of its cities and the artefacts its people made. Ancient objects enable us to step back into the world of the people who made the

SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 The astonishing life of Kenneth Clark - the greatest British art historian of his time. As writer and presenter of the TV series Civilisation he was responsible

India...a young country, a timeless civilisationExplore it with India's very own storyteller, AmishIndia, a culture that witnessed the dawn of civilisation. That witnessed the rise of other cultures a

La civilisation franAaise en Acvolution II immerses students in the complexities of post-war France, and offers detailedoverviews and in-depth insights into everything that makes France French.