Civilization category: 1351 books
Mankind
The Story of All Of Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind.
In conjunction with History Channel's hit television series...
Sprezzatura
50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?
“Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in...
Warlords of Ancient Mexico
How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico.
More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life...
by Jacob Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work he argues that the Renaissance's creativity, competitiveness, dynasties, great city-states and even its vicious rulers sowed the seeds of a new era.
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by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist...
Istanbul
City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across at the shores of Asia. The history of this city—known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul—is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Founded by the Greeks,...
Beyond the Blue Horizon
How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In Beyond the Blue Horizon, bestselling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding terrain.This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared...
by Henry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The Aztec Empire did not recoil from the face of an impending doom, they struggled faithfully. Destined to emerge from their humble beginnings, it grew into a highly-complex devoted civilization refusing to live at the mercy of more neighboring powerful rulers. Their powerful pocheca combed the valley...
by Roberto Calasso
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art
The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects—“the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else,” wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those...
The City of the End of Things
Lectures on Civilization and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The world has changed irrevocably in the last century. Fifty years ago, it looked completely different; and the way the world looked to the great thinkers of the time still holds surprises.J. Robert Oppenheimer helped to invent the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, which ultimately changed...
The Cave and the Light
Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light...
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1
A Translation from the German By John Lees ... With an Introduction By Lord Redesdale.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately. Elibron Classics. Replica of 1911 edition by F. Bruckmann, A. G., München.
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899) was the best-selling work by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In it he...
by Jacob Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This monumental work by a distinguished European scholar presents a scrupulously realistic approach to ancient Greek civilization. Professor Burckhardt dispenses with superficial and sentimental views of ancient Greece to embrace a more sophisticated and accurate vision of a complex culture that practiced...
by Edward Harper Parker
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
This is an easy to read yet highly informative history of ancient China. It is a classic in the field and covers all aspects of ancient Chinese life and culture. From the dynasties of the kings to the occupations and entertainments of the people, including ancient Chinese religions, sports, literature...