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Chinese Civilization in World History -- Geographic Factors -- Chinese Language -- Rise of Classical Thoughts -- Confucianism -- Daoism and Other Schools of Thought -- Buddhism in China -- Recurrent Themes in Chinese Civilization -- Changes over Two Millennia -- Late Imperial State and Society (Qing) -- Stratification of Late Imperial Society -- Sino-European Relations -- Background of the 19th Century Rebellion -- The Taiping Rebellion -- Foreign Affairs Movement -- Chinese Foreign Relations 1857-1895 -- The Transitional Generation -- The Boxers -- Revolutionary Intellectuals 1898-1911 -- The May Fourth Movement -- The New Literature -- The Political Scene in 1923-1927 -- The Nanjing Decade -- War of Resistance Against Japan. .

Ever since the International Monetary Fund's first bailout of Greece's sinking economy in 2010, the phrase "Greek debt" has meant one thing to the country's creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Where did this other idea of Greek debt come from, Johanna Hanink asks, and why does it remain so compelling today? The Classical Debt investigates our abiding desire to view Greece through the lens of the ancient past. Though classical Athens was in reality a slave-owning imperial power, the city-state of Socrates and Pericles is still widely seen as a utopia of wisdom, justice, and beauty--an idealization that the ancient Athenians themselves assiduously cultivated. Greece's allure as a travel destination dates back centuries, and Hanink examines many historical accounts that express disappointment with a Greek people who fail to live up to modern fantasies of the ancient past. More than any other movement, the spread of European Philhellenism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries carved idealized conceptions of Greece in marble, reinforcing the Western habit of comparing the Greece that is with the Greece that once was. Today, as the European Union teeters and neighboring Muslim nations disintegrate into civil war, Greece finds itself burdened by economic hardship and an unprecedented refugee crisis. Our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes how we view these contemporary European problems. --

"This volume offers an instructive comparative perspective on the Judaic, Christian, Greek and Roman myths in relation to each other, as well as a broad overview of their enduring relevance in the modern Western world and its conceptions of gender and identity. Taking the idea that the way in which a society regards humanity, and especially the roots of humanity, is crucial to an understanding of that society. Different models for the creation and nature of mankind, and their changing receptions at different periods and places, can therefore be seen to reflect fundamental continuities, evolutions and developments across cultures and societies: in no context are these more apparent than with regard to gender. Chapters explore the role of gender in Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian creation myths and their reception traditions, demonstrating how perceptions of 'male' and 'female' dating back to antiquity have become embedded in and significantly influenced subsequent perceptions of gender roles. Focusing on the figures of Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve and their instantiations in a broad range of narratives and media from antiquity to the present day, they examine how variations on these myths reflect the concerns of the societies producing them and the malleability of the stories as they are recast to fit different contexts and different audiences"--

The constitution, transmission and preservation of all knowledge about antiquity have always been highly mediated acts. As an epoch long past, antiquity can only be constituted through the mediation of relicts, texts, traditions and other evidence. This volume focuses on this aspect of mediacy, which is both a necessary and a decisive constituent of our knowledge of antiquity, and enquires searchingly into the aesthetic dimensions of mediation and how these are incorporated into the form of our knowledge about antiquity. Ernst Osterkamp, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Hegel's often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this collection of essays, originally presented at the sixth meeting of the Symposium Hellenisticum. An international team of leading scholars reveals a vigorous intellectual scene of great diversity: analyses of political leadership and the Roman constitution in Aristotelian terms; Cynic repudiation of the polis - but accommodation with its rulers; Stoic and Epicurean theories of justice as the foundation of society; Cicero's moral critique of the traditional political pursuit of glory. The volume as a whole offers a comprehensive guide to the main currents of social and political philosophy in a period of increasing interest to classicists, philosophers and cultural and intellectual historians

Andrew Linklater's The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011) created a new agenda for the sociology of states-systems. Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems builds on the author's attempts to combine the process-sociological investigation of civilizing processes and the English School analysis of international society in a higher synthesis. Adopting Martin Wight's comparative approach to states-systems and drawing on the sociological work of Norbert Elias, Linklater asks how modern Europeans came to believe themselves to be more 'civilized' than their medieval forebears. He investigates novel combinations of violence and civilization through a broad historical scope from classical antiquity, Latin Christendom and Renaissance Italy to the post-Second World War era. This book will interest all students with an interdisciplinary commitment to investigating long-term patterns of change in world politics

Origins myths : ex septentrione lux -- A Nordic Mediterranean : Greece, Rome, and the north, between German cousins -- Mens sana : antiquity, the humanities, and German youth -- From stone to flesh : the body of the new Aryan man between aesthetics and eugenics -- The racial state and totalitarian society : Plato as philosopher-king, or the Third Reich as second Sparta -- From empire to reich : the lessons of Roman rule and Classical colonialism -- History as racial struggle : the clash of civilizations between east and west in antiquity -- Volkstod or Rassenselbstmord : how civilizations die -- The choreography of the end : aesthetism, nihilism, and the choreography of the final catastrophe

From the raw egalitarian Quranic narratives on the idea of justice to the varied aspects of the prophetic idea of the polis, the genre of political thought has emerged as an extension of the larger epistemic worldview of Islam. The relationship between the ruler and the ruled has remained, for long, a part of a larger political project of Muslim imagination a nd a theoretical framework for political thinking. Yet, sub-genres like al-Âdāb As-Sulṭāniyya (literature of Sultanic ethics) and other concepts such as Hisba have not been generally well served by scholarship except within rather narrow constraints of the political history insofar as only a small number of individual thinkers have been the focus of particular interest. Basic research and monographic studies in the field of al-Âdāb As-Sulṭāniyya have generally been rather sparse. Consequently, systematic and synthetic studies – as opposed to summary statements – have been few and far between. This review article is part of the researcher's larger project to excavate a few works in the genre of al-Âdāb As-Sulṭāniyya and investigate the development of this field in the classical period.
Classical Islamic political thought was not an independent field of study, and its contributions can be found in different types of writing that span three disciplines with distinct methods, aims, orientations and conclusions. These disciplines are: fiqh, such as al-Ahkam As-Sulṭāniyya w'al-Wilayat al-Diniyya by al-Māwardī; Islamic philosophy such as al-Madina al-Fadila by al-Farabi; and al-Âdāb As-Sulṭāniyya (the main focus of this article). For instance, unlike al-Ahkām As-Sulṭāniyya books, al-Âdāb As-Sulṭāniyya does not deal with fiqh and legal issues related to the legitimacy of authority i.e., when a sultan should be removed from his position, and how he can be appointed. And unlike the philosophy concentration on the city like in al-Mādīna al-Fādila

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Chapter 1 Early Civilizations -- Mesopotamia -- The Invention of Writing -- The Code of Hammurabi -- The Splendor of Babylon -- Ancient Egypt -- Egyptian Society -- The Hieroglyphs -- The Indian Civilization -- The Indus Culture -- The Legacy of India -- The Hebrew People -- The Kings of Israel -- Judaism -- Chapter 2 Classical Antiquity -- Ancient China -- Dynastic China -- The Emperor and His Court -- Ancient Greece -- The Greek Poleis -- Greek Cultural Heritage -- The Persian Empier -- Cyrus, the Founder of the Empier -- Persepolis, the Persian Capital -- The Celts -- Celtic Dwellings -- The Splendor of Rome -- The Roman Senate -- Chapter Three Civilizations of the Medieval Period -- The Vikings -- Viking Explorers -- The Byzantine Empier -- The Court of Byzantium -- The Crusades -- The Islamic Empier -- Baghdad, Abbasid Capital -- The Maya and the Aztecs -- Cultural Legacy in Mesoamerica -- The Incas -- The Inca Road Network -- Imperial Japan -- Japanese Clans -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

When historians refer to the "classical" period in Southeast Asia, they usually mean the era roughly between the ninth and fourteenth centuriesA.d.When they speak of the "classical" states, they are referring most often to the region's first great kingdoms — Pagan, Sukhothai, Angkor, Dai Viet, Srivijaya, and Majapahit — the civilizations that gave birth to many of the nations in Southeast Asia today. Yet, the very idea of a "classical" Southeast Asia has not been debated sufficiently in the literature.