A short history of civilization.
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New York, London,
McGraw-Hill book company, inc.
1943.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lucas, Henry Stephen, |d 1889-1961. | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A short history of civilization. |c by Henry S. Lucas. |
| 260 | |a New York, |a London, |b McGraw-Hill book company, inc. |c 1943. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 994 p. |b illus. (incl. maps) diagrs. |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a "For further reading" at end of each chapter. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Beginnings of man and nature of his culture -- Dawn of culture : the Stone Ages -- Threshold of history : Bronze and early Iron Ages -- Civilization of Egypt -- Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley -- Phoenician and Hebrew contributions -- Migrations of Indo-European peoples, the Persians and their culture -- Far Eastern civilizations : India and China -- Foundations of Greek civilization -- Greek civilization through Aristotle -- Hellenistic civilization -- Foundations of Roman civilization -- Roman civilization -- Greco-Roman science and learning, Roman law -- Rise of Christianity -- Rome and the barbarian world -- Byzantium : creator and bulwark of civilization -- Arabic civilization -- Foundations of medieval cultural unity -- The Carolingian renaissance -- The Orient in medieval times -- Impact of the East on medieval culture : age of the crusades -- Peasant and noble : manor and castle -- Towns and guilds : commerce and industry -- Culture inspired by religion -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Medieval revival of learning -- Medieval art -- Medieval languages and literature -- Medieval inventions and technology -- Centralized monarchy : end of feudalism -- Culture at the close of the Middle Ages -- Age of humanism : the Renaissance -- Age of discovery and expansion -- Breakup of religious unity : Protestantism and Catholic reform -- Scientific revolution from 1500 to the death of Newton -- The Baroque age : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The Baroque age : ascendancy of France -- Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution -- Revolution in industrial and economic life -- Age of reason : the eighteenth century -- The Romantic age : literature and art to 1848 -- Age of social and political revolution : 1775 to 1832 -- Age of Romantic idealism -- Nineteenth-century inventions -- State and society in the industrial age -- Imperialism, nationalism, militarism -- Growth in the natural sciences -- Progress in biological science -- Development of social studies -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Progress in medicine and sanitation -- Scientific naturalism -- Recent tendencies in literature and art -- Some current problems. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization |x History. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Jesuitica. |2 local | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Jesuitica. |2 local | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Lucas, Henry Stephen, 1889-1961. |t Short history of civilization. |d New York, London, McGraw-Hill book company, inc. 1943 |w (OCoLC)645831409 |