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Author Braudel, Fernand.

Title A history of civilizations / Fernand Braudel ; translated by Richard Mayne
Published New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1995
New York : Penguin Books, 1995
©1993
©1993

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Description xl, 600 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Contents I. A history of civilizations -- 1. Changing vocabulary -- 2. The study of civilization involves all the social sciences -- 3. The continuity of civilizations -- II. Civilizations outside Europe -- Pt. I. Islam and the Muslim world -- 4. History -- 5. Geography -- 6. The greatness and decline of Islam -- 7. The revival of Islam today -- Pt II. Africa -- 8. The past -- 9. Black Africa : today and tomorrow -- Pt. III. The Far East -- 10. An introduction to the Far East -- 11. The China of the past -- 12. China yesterday and today -- 13. India yesterday and today -- 14. The maritime Far East -- 15. Japan -- III. European civilizations -- Pt. I. Europe -- 16. Geography and freedom -- 17. Christianity, humanism and scientific thought -- 18. The industrialization of Europe -- 19. Unity in Europe -- Pt. II. America -- 20. Latin America, the other New World -- 21. America par excellence : the United States -- 22. Failures and difficulties : from yesterday to the present -- 23. An English-speaking universe -- Pt. III. The other Europe : Muscovy, Russia, the USSR and the CIS -- 24. From the beginning to the October Revolution of 1917 -- 25. The USSR after 1917
Summary Information on the development of Western civilizations
Notes Includes index
Reprint. First published: New York : Allen Lane, 1993
Translation of Grammaire de civilisations. Les Editions Arthaud, 1987
Subject Civilization -- History.
Author Mayne, Richard, 1926-2009, translator
LC no. 00001169
ISBN 0140124896 (paperback)
9780140124897
Other Titles Grammaire des civilisations. English