Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556520484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556520484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884631054
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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"This is the culmination of over 35 years of research by Cheikh Anta Diop in his attempt to reinforce the Afrocentric perspective of world history." -- Back cover
Author: Francine Masiello
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803231580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868–74), Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the “civilizing” agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of “barbarism,” to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the tightly outlined roles assigned to them. Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis. She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working class. Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises on crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women’s literature and illuminates the role of women in forming the culture of present-day Argentina.
Author: Michael Levin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135755035
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a standstill. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process. This study encompasses discourses on the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation from approximately the time of the American and French revolutions to that of the so-called mid-Victorian calm in which On Liberty was written. Current political issues concerning the West and Islamic countries have heightened interest in just the kind of question that this book discusses: that of how the West relates to, and assesses, the rest of the world.
Author: Brendan Lanctot
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611485460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines the role of cultural production in the struggle for power in Argentina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Identifying the pueblo, or people, as the common preoccupation of those vying to legitimize competing political projects, it argues that this decisive period of Latin American history was marked by a fundamentally modern debate to define the constitutive parts of the nation.
Author: Frederick Feied
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642980390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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PARADOX AND CONTRADICTION WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE RANDOLPH BOURNE WAR AND THE THREAT OF WAR HAVE CARRIED US TO UNDREAMED OF HEIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE. THEY HAVE ALSO LED TO THE WORST EXCESSES OF DEPRAVITY. THE LANDSCAPE OF HISTORY I LITTERED WITH THE RUINS OF ONCE GREAT CIVILIZATIONS CONSIGNED TO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, EIR MONUMENTS TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT, THEIR SUBJECTS ENSLAVED, DISPERSED OR PUT TO THE SWORD. ONE CAN HARDLY THRUST A SHOVEL IN
Author: Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher: Pantianos Classics
ISBN: 9781789870138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Renowned anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan examines the origins and history of humanity, sharing abundant insights on the conditions of primitive society. Of particular interest to Morgan is the gradual process by which humans organized into civil societies. Examining a range of contrasting civilizations, from the Mayans to the Iroquois to the Romans, the author attempts to arrive at commonalities in how these peoples went from a primitive and barbaric early existence to a relatively civilized height, whereupon their greatest achievements left their mark. For the author, human civilization progressed in three broad stages - savagery, wherein hunter-gatherer behaviors, crude language and inbreeding is prevalent; barbarism, wherein the first centralized settlements and signs of organizational military and political hierarchy appear; and civilization, where humans are at their most organized and capable of great advances in science, wealth, culture and the general well-being of the population. Although many of Morgan's points are speculative and based purely off of sources as diverse and disparate as Christian missionary accounts of tribes and histories dating to antiquity, his is the among the first works of anthropology which seek to boldly tackle the questions of human history. Though many ideas herein have been disproven or discredited, they served as the foundation upon which modern-day anthropology as a formal discipline supported by sound evidence was built.
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
ISBN: 9781556520723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The author presents documentary evidence supporting his theory that Egyptian civilization was of Black origin
Author: Bernard Wasserstein
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of respect and opportunity. It was a century of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental spoliation, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression - and of individualism resurgent. Covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic change, Barbarism and Civilization is by turns grim, humorous, surprising, and enlightening: a window on the century we have left behind and the earliest years of its troubled successor.
Author: Romy Wöhlert