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The Paths of Civilization: Understanding the Currents of History
Jaroslav Krejci
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Description for The Paths of Civilization: Understanding the Currents of History
Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 351.
This work spans the development of civilizations from their remotest origins to the present day. It examines the term 'civilization' with reference to culture, socio-economic structure, ethnicity and statehood. Socio-economic scenarios help the reader to explore the ways in which individual civilizations - through world views, styles of life and responses to the environment that each bear their own signature - struggle, merge, submerge in the flow of the currents of history.
This work spans the development of civilizations from their remotest origins to the present day. It examines the term 'civilization' with reference to culture, socio-economic structure, ethnicity and statehood. Socio-economic scenarios help the reader to explore the ways in which individual civilizations - through world views, styles of life and responses to the environment that each bear their own signature - struggle, merge, submerge in the flow of the currents of history.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403938213
SKU
V9781403938213
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Ref
99-15
About Jaroslav Krejci
JAROSLAV KREJCÍ was born in 1916 in what, two years later, became Czechoslovakia. After studying law and economics at the Charles University in Prague he was employed in the State's economic institutions. As his views clashed with those of the Czechoslovakian communist regime he was made a political prisoner (1954-60). In 1968 (The Prague Spring) he returned to academic work. ... Read more
Reviews for The Paths of Civilization: Understanding the Currents of History
"[T]his book may be characterized as historical sociology informed by theory, sensitive to ideas, and enriched by a lively, provocative intelligence... Recommended." - CHOICE