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Toward a History of Histories of Civilization

open access: yesComparative Literature: East & West, 2023
ABSTRACTThis essay discusses efforts to write non-Eurocentric histories if civilization, beginning with H. G. Wells’s bestselling Outline of History, an early attempt to move beyond older European histories with their Western focus and ideas of linear progress over time.
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The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations [PDF]

open access: yesCell, 2021
The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Helladic (Mycenaean) cultures define the Bronze Age (BA) of Greece. Urbanism, complex social structures, craft and agricultural specialization, and the earliest forms of writing characterize this iconic period. We sequenced six Early to Middle BA whole genomes, along with 11 mitochondrial genomes, sampled from the ...
Lucas Anchieri   +47 more
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On History, Progress, and Civilization

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2002
ls history progressive? Does progress lead to civilization? If history is progressive and progress leads to civilization, why then do civilizations rise and fall in history? These questions lead to more questions. What is progress? High rise buildings? fncrease in economic and material production? 'Increase in longevity?
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Rewriting the History of Civilizations

open access: yesComparative Literature: East & West, 2023
ABSTRACTDepending on the viewpoint of the author, discourse is presented in narration, or rather, discourse is first formed in the perception, narration, and interpretation of the history of civilizations. However, Western scholars have dominated the definition of the concept of ”civilization” in addition to the global output of this concept as well as
Cao Shunqing, Liu Shishi
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Review: Energy and Civilization: A History [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Green Journal, 2019
Review:  Energy and Civilization: A ...
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Civil Religion as Myth, Not History [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2019
This article draws upon recent historiography to critique the concept of “civil religion”, and argues that it should be replaced by nationalism. Its central point is that there is indeed a dominant language of American nationalism and one that has largely reflected the culture of the Anglo-Protestant majority, but that it has always been contested and ...
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A Brief History of Civilization [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1925
WE ought to welcome the efforts, which are now becoming so frequent, to present the history of mankind as one, a progressive thing, culminating in a unity of which the League of Nations is the symbol and organ. Mr. Hoyland's little book is the best we have seen at the size and price, and it is published by the Oxford Press, which is distinguishing ...
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A Short History of Civilization [PDF]

open access: yesThought, 1943
Harry Elmer Barnes, Henry S. Luca
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