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Rise and Decline of Civilizations
Shalom Salomon Wald
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Description for Rise and Decline of Civilizations
Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 821.
Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared Diamond, who describe the rise and decline of nations and civilizations. None of the 23 is a historian of Judaism. The key question of the book is whether the reasons that explain the rise, decline, and fall of other civilizations could apply to the Jews as well. The answer of the author is a qualified yes. From the work of these historians he extracts 12 drivers, or ... Read more
Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared Diamond, who describe the rise and decline of nations and civilizations. None of the 23 is a historian of Judaism. The key question of the book is whether the reasons that explain the rise, decline, and fall of other civilizations could apply to the Jews as well. The answer of the author is a qualified yes. From the work of these historians he extracts 12 drivers, or ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
452
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618112767
SKU
V9781618112767
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99-15
About Shalom Salomon Wald
Shalom Salomon Wald's wide-ranging research interests include economics, sociology, history, and the history of religion and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis on the sociologist-historian Alfred Weber received the University of Basle's prize as the best thesis in the social sciences in 1962. From 1964-2001 Dr. Wald served at the OECD Paris, the West's biggest policy think-tank and advisory body, as an ... Read more
Reviews for Rise and Decline of Civilizations
“This sweeping examination of the history of civilizations as it applies to Jewish civilization is an impressive, long-overdue look at the way by which Jewish history should be examined in today’s fast-moving world. . . . Wald selects twenty-three Jewish and non-Jewish writers from Thucydides (ca. 460-400 BCE) to Arthur Herman (1956 - ) and skillfully encapsulates their philosophy of ... Read more