Collapse of Complex Societies 1ed, Tainter Joseph

Автор: Diamond Jared
Название: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
ISBN: 0393354326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393354324
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: "Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."-Bill Gates

Автор: Dunbar James S.
Название: Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast
ISBN: 0813062683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062686
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For more than 130 years, research aimed at understanding Paleoindian occupation of the coastal Southeast has progressed at a glacial pace. In this volume, James Dunbar suggests that the most important archaeological and paleontological resources in the Americas still remain undiscovered in Florida’s karst river basins.The late Pleistocene–early Holocene landscape hosted more species and greater numbers of them in the Southeast compared to any other region in North America at that time. Through extensive research, Dunbar demonstrates a masterful understanding of the lifeways of these people and the animals they hunted, showing that the geography and diversity of food sources was unique to that period. Building a case for the wealth of information yet to be unearthed, he provides a fresh perspective on the distant past and an original way of thinking about early life on the land mass we call Florida.

Автор: Robinson, David
Название: Muslim societies in african history
ISBN: 052153366X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521533669
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies over the last millennium. Concluding with chapters on the Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan, the Murid Sufi movement, and reflections in the wake of September 11, 2001.

Автор: Lapidus
Название: A History of Islamic Societies
ISBN: 0521514304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521514309
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus` history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam`s worldwide diffusion.

Автор: Lapidus
Название: A History of Islamic Societies
ISBN: 0521732972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521732970
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus` history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam`s worldwide diffusion.

Автор: H. Berghoff; U. Spiekermann
Название: Decoding Modern Consumer Societies
ISBN: 1349297291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349297290
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies.

Автор: Mac Sweeney Naoise
Название: Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses
ISBN: 081224642X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812246421
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Throughout the ancient world, origin stories were told across the ancient world in many different ways: through poetry, prose, monumental and decorative arts, and performance in civic and religious rituals. Foundation myths, particularly those about the beginnings of cities and societies, played an important role in the dynamics of identity construction and in the negotiation of diplomatic relationships between communities. Yet many ancient communities had not one but several foundation myths, offering alternative visions and interpretations of their collective origins.
Seeking to explain this plurality, Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies explores origin stories from a range of classical and ancient societies, covering both a broad chronological span (from Greek colonies to the high Roman empire) and a wide geographical area (from the central Mediterranean to central Asia). Contributors explore the reasons several different, sometimes contradictory myths might coexist or even coevolve. Collectively, the chapters suggest that the ambiguity and dissonance of multiple foundation myths can sometimes be more meaningful than a single coherent origin narrative. Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies argues for a both/and approach to foundation myths, laying a framework for understanding them in dialogue with each other and within a wider mythic context, as part of a wider discourse of origins.
Contributors: Lieve Donnellan, Alfred Hirt, Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Rachel Mairs, Irad Malkin, Daniel Ogden, Robin Osborne, Michael Squire, Susanne Turner.

Автор: Coulborn Rushton
Название: Origin of Civilized Societies
ISBN: 0691621942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691621944
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Описание: The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Cretan, Chinese, Middle America

Автор: Keightley, Thomas
Название: Secret societies of the middle ages
ISBN: 1578633346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781578633340
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages explores the foundations of modern secret societies, examining the history and known facts of three very different organizations.

1. The Assassins of the Middle Easthow they evolved from an Islamic religious sect into one of the most feared groups in all the world and how the very name of this ancient order became the word used for political killings of this nature.

2. The Templars of Europefrom a pious group of protectors and dedicated crusaders to their bitter end persecuted as heretics, they introduced the concept of banking to the world while amassing a fortune of incalculable wealth.

3. The Secret Tribunals of Westphaliathe feared and selfappointed judicial group who passed judgment and performed executions in a time of lawlessness in Germany. They enjoyed popular support, providing a rudimentary and vigilante law at a time when warlords ruled and the emperor was ineffective.

The echoes of these particular societies are still heard todayfrom presidential offices to battlegrounds in the Middle East. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages, originally published in 1846, was the first book to gather information on these secret orders. This foundational reference work, upon which many contemporary histories have relied, is now back in print with an introduction by James Wasserman, author of The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven.

Автор: Cooper Kate
Название: Making Early Medieval Societies
ISBN: 1316503607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316503607
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: While traditional histories look at the `Dark Ages` in light of the decline of the Roman state and the rise of early medieval kingdoms, Making Early Medieval Societies considers the period from an anthropological perspective, asking how small- and large-scale processes of dispute settlement and conflict resolution endured and evolved.