A short history of civilization.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucas, Henry Stephen, 1889-1961
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: New York, London, McGraw-Hill book company, inc. 1943.
Subjects:
Civilization > History.
Jesuitica.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • Progress in medicine and sanitation
  • Scientific naturalism
  • Recent tendencies in literature and art
  • Some current problems.

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