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Offers chronologically arranged primary and secondary source readings, including background information and study questions.
Author : Benjamin C. Sax
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565109919
Offers chronologically arranged primary and secondary source readings, including background information and study questions.
Author : L. Pearce Williams
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Civilization, Western
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V.1. Antiquity and Middle Ages. v.2. The scientific revolution. v.3. Modern sci ence, 1700-1900.
Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher :
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 1967
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ISBN :
Author : Perry McAdow Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN :
Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN :
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1101548029
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Author : Donald Kagan
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Page : 735 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : H. F. Cohen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9089642390
Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket - so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome.
Author : Benjamin Sax
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565109889
Offers chronologically arranged primary and secondary source readings, including background information and study questions.
Author : Toby E. Huff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1139495356
Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.