Worlds of history a comparative reader. Vol. 1, To 1550
Reilly, Kevin (1941-....)
Worlds of history a comparative reader. Vol. 1, To 1550 [Texte imprimé] : [Texte imprimé] / Kevin Reilly - 6th ed. - Boston : Bedford-St. Martins, cop. 2017 - 1 vol. (513 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes bibliogr.
Prehistory and the origins of patriarchy : gathering, agricultural, and urban societies, 40,000 - 1000 B.C.E. -- Were the first artists mostly women? / The "Venus" figurines: textiles, basketry, gender, and status in the upper paleolithic / Paleolithic and neolithic art from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, c.15000-2000 B.C.E. -- Women in prehistory / Women in the first urban communities / The urban revolution and "civilization" : ancient societies in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Peru, 3500 - 1000 B.C.E. -- Cities and civilizations / The epic of Gilgamesh -- The exaltation of Inana / Hammurabi's Code -- The tale of the eloquent peasant -- Images from Hunefer's Book of the dead -- An Assyrian law and a palace decree -- First city in the New World? / Identity in caste and territorial societies : Greece and India, 1000 - 300 B.C.E. -- Greek and Indian civilization / The Rig Veda: sacrifice as creation -- The Upanishads: karma and reincarnation -- The Upanishads: Brahman and Atman -- The Bhagavad Gita: caste and self -- The Athenian constitution: territorial sovereignty / The funeral oration of Pericles / The republic / Empire and government : China and Rome, 300 B.C.E. - 300 C.E. -- The Analects / Daoism: The way and the power / Legalism / A record of the debate on salt and iron -- Rome: the arts of government / Letter to his brother Quintus / Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan -- Meditations / Gender, sex, and love in classical societies : India, China, and the Mediterranean, 500 B.C.E. - 550 C.E. -- Women in the classical era / Lessons for women / On the conduct of wives, husbands, and women of the harem / The symposium / The art of love / Depictions of gender in classical societies -- From tribal to universal religion : Hindu-Buddhist and Judeo-Christian traditions, 1000 B.C.E. - 100 C.E. -- Hinduism: Svetasvatara Upanishad -- Buddhism: Gotama's discovery -- Buddhism and caste -- Mahayana Buddhism: the lotus sutra -- Judaism and the Bible: history, laws, and psalms -- Judaism and the Bible: prophecy and the apocalypse -- The Christian Bible: Jesus according to Matthew -- Letters / The spread of universal religions : Afro-Eurasia, 100 - 1000 C.E. -- The invention of the Jewish people / Life of Constantine / Christianity in China: the Nestorian monument -- Buddhism in China: the disposition of error -- Selections from the Quran -- The Islamization of the Silk Road / Peace terms with Jerusalem -- Epic of Sundiata -- Migrations, trade, and travel: the movement of people, goods, and ideas in Eurasia, Africa, and the Pacific, 3000 B.C.E. - 1350 C.E. -- Austronesian, Indo-European, and Bantu migrations / Southernization / Travel on the Silk Road and seas / Travels / Merchant handbook / Love, sex, and marriage : medieval Europe and Asia, 400 - 1350 -- Love in medieval Europe, India, and Japan / The service of ladies / The art of courtly love / Locales of love: tournament and temple -- The Rubáiyát / The tale of Genji / Sex in the city of Angkor / Muslim, Christian, and Jewish encounters: Afro-Eurasia, 1000-1300 -- Interfaith relations in Muslim North Africa (1000-1300) / Grant to the Jews / The First Crusade: Pope Urban's speech at Clermont / Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson -- A Muslim history of the First Crusade / The conquest of Jerusalem / Letter from a Jewish pilgrim in Egypt -- Ecclesia and Synagoga -- Raiders of steppe and sea : vikings and mongols, Eurasia and the Atlantic, 900 - 1350 -- Were the barbarians a negative or positive factor in ancient and medieval history? / The viking Rus / Eirik's Saga -- The Mongols / The secret history of the Mongols -- The Mongols / History of the Mongols / The black death : Afro-Eurasia, 1346 - 1350 -- Biological warfare at the 1346 siege of Caffa / Origins of the Black Death / The plague in Florence: from the Decameron / Causes according to College of Physicians, Paris -- Images of the Black Death -- The plague in Cairo / Students and education: the world, 800-1400 -- Islam, literacy, and education in the Sudan / The Chinese civil service exam / Regulations of Buddhist monks in a Japanese mountain school -- Founding edict, Korea / The tale of Genji: Chinese literacy among Japanese women / Merton College statutes / Codex Mendoza: Aztec discipline and education -- Environment, culture, and technology: Europe, Asia, and Oceania, 500-1500 -- The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Image from a Cistercian manuscript -- Image from a French calendar -- Image of a Chinese Feng-shui master -- Image of European surveying instruments -- Easter Island's end / Rethinking the fall of Easter Island / Sustainable survival / Virginia Hughes -- Olga Soffer, James M. Adovasio, and David C. Hyland -- Margaret Ehrenberg -- Catherine Clay, Chandrika Paul, and Christine Senecal -- Kevin Reilly -- Enheduanna -- Smithsonian Magazine -- William H. McNeill -- Aristotle -- Thucydides -- Plato -- Confucius -- Laozi -- Han Fei -- Nicholas Purcell -- Cicero -- Marcus Aurelius -- Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes -- Ban Zhao -- Vatsyana -- Plato -- Ovid -- Paul -- Shlomo Sand -- Eusebius -- Richard C. Foltz -- Patrick Manning -- Lynda Norene Shaffer -- Faxian -- Ibn Battuta -- Francesco Balducci Pegolotti -- Kevin Reilly -- Ulrich von Liechtenstein -- Andreas Capellanus -- Omar Khayyám -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Zhou Daguan -- Shelomo Dov Goitein -- Bisho of Speyer -- Fulcher of Chartres -- Ibn al-Athir -- Ibn al-Athir -- Gregory Guzman -- Ibn Fadlan -- Yvo of Narbona -- Ibn al-Athir -- John of Plano Carpini -- Mark Wheelis -- Gabriele de' Mussis -- Giovanni Boccaccio -- Ahmad al-Maqrizi -- J. J. Fisher -- Ishisada Miyazaki -- King T'aejo -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Walter de Merton -- Lynn White, Jr. -- Jared Diamond -- Terry Hunt -- J. R. McNeill
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Worlds of history a comparative reader. Vol. 1, To 1550 [Texte imprimé] : [Texte imprimé] / Kevin Reilly - 6th ed. - Boston : Bedford-St. Martins, cop. 2017 - 1 vol. (513 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes bibliogr.
Prehistory and the origins of patriarchy : gathering, agricultural, and urban societies, 40,000 - 1000 B.C.E. -- Were the first artists mostly women? / The "Venus" figurines: textiles, basketry, gender, and status in the upper paleolithic / Paleolithic and neolithic art from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, c.15000-2000 B.C.E. -- Women in prehistory / Women in the first urban communities / The urban revolution and "civilization" : ancient societies in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Peru, 3500 - 1000 B.C.E. -- Cities and civilizations / The epic of Gilgamesh -- The exaltation of Inana / Hammurabi's Code -- The tale of the eloquent peasant -- Images from Hunefer's Book of the dead -- An Assyrian law and a palace decree -- First city in the New World? / Identity in caste and territorial societies : Greece and India, 1000 - 300 B.C.E. -- Greek and Indian civilization / The Rig Veda: sacrifice as creation -- The Upanishads: karma and reincarnation -- The Upanishads: Brahman and Atman -- The Bhagavad Gita: caste and self -- The Athenian constitution: territorial sovereignty / The funeral oration of Pericles / The republic / Empire and government : China and Rome, 300 B.C.E. - 300 C.E. -- The Analects / Daoism: The way and the power / Legalism / A record of the debate on salt and iron -- Rome: the arts of government / Letter to his brother Quintus / Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan -- Meditations / Gender, sex, and love in classical societies : India, China, and the Mediterranean, 500 B.C.E. - 550 C.E. -- Women in the classical era / Lessons for women / On the conduct of wives, husbands, and women of the harem / The symposium / The art of love / Depictions of gender in classical societies -- From tribal to universal religion : Hindu-Buddhist and Judeo-Christian traditions, 1000 B.C.E. - 100 C.E. -- Hinduism: Svetasvatara Upanishad -- Buddhism: Gotama's discovery -- Buddhism and caste -- Mahayana Buddhism: the lotus sutra -- Judaism and the Bible: history, laws, and psalms -- Judaism and the Bible: prophecy and the apocalypse -- The Christian Bible: Jesus according to Matthew -- Letters / The spread of universal religions : Afro-Eurasia, 100 - 1000 C.E. -- The invention of the Jewish people / Life of Constantine / Christianity in China: the Nestorian monument -- Buddhism in China: the disposition of error -- Selections from the Quran -- The Islamization of the Silk Road / Peace terms with Jerusalem -- Epic of Sundiata -- Migrations, trade, and travel: the movement of people, goods, and ideas in Eurasia, Africa, and the Pacific, 3000 B.C.E. - 1350 C.E. -- Austronesian, Indo-European, and Bantu migrations / Southernization / Travel on the Silk Road and seas / Travels / Merchant handbook / Love, sex, and marriage : medieval Europe and Asia, 400 - 1350 -- Love in medieval Europe, India, and Japan / The service of ladies / The art of courtly love / Locales of love: tournament and temple -- The Rubáiyát / The tale of Genji / Sex in the city of Angkor / Muslim, Christian, and Jewish encounters: Afro-Eurasia, 1000-1300 -- Interfaith relations in Muslim North Africa (1000-1300) / Grant to the Jews / The First Crusade: Pope Urban's speech at Clermont / Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson -- A Muslim history of the First Crusade / The conquest of Jerusalem / Letter from a Jewish pilgrim in Egypt -- Ecclesia and Synagoga -- Raiders of steppe and sea : vikings and mongols, Eurasia and the Atlantic, 900 - 1350 -- Were the barbarians a negative or positive factor in ancient and medieval history? / The viking Rus / Eirik's Saga -- The Mongols / The secret history of the Mongols -- The Mongols / History of the Mongols / The black death : Afro-Eurasia, 1346 - 1350 -- Biological warfare at the 1346 siege of Caffa / Origins of the Black Death / The plague in Florence: from the Decameron / Causes according to College of Physicians, Paris -- Images of the Black Death -- The plague in Cairo / Students and education: the world, 800-1400 -- Islam, literacy, and education in the Sudan / The Chinese civil service exam / Regulations of Buddhist monks in a Japanese mountain school -- Founding edict, Korea / The tale of Genji: Chinese literacy among Japanese women / Merton College statutes / Codex Mendoza: Aztec discipline and education -- Environment, culture, and technology: Europe, Asia, and Oceania, 500-1500 -- The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Image from a Cistercian manuscript -- Image from a French calendar -- Image of a Chinese Feng-shui master -- Image of European surveying instruments -- Easter Island's end / Rethinking the fall of Easter Island / Sustainable survival / Virginia Hughes -- Olga Soffer, James M. Adovasio, and David C. Hyland -- Margaret Ehrenberg -- Catherine Clay, Chandrika Paul, and Christine Senecal -- Kevin Reilly -- Enheduanna -- Smithsonian Magazine -- William H. McNeill -- Aristotle -- Thucydides -- Plato -- Confucius -- Laozi -- Han Fei -- Nicholas Purcell -- Cicero -- Marcus Aurelius -- Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes -- Ban Zhao -- Vatsyana -- Plato -- Ovid -- Paul -- Shlomo Sand -- Eusebius -- Richard C. Foltz -- Patrick Manning -- Lynda Norene Shaffer -- Faxian -- Ibn Battuta -- Francesco Balducci Pegolotti -- Kevin Reilly -- Ulrich von Liechtenstein -- Andreas Capellanus -- Omar Khayyám -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Zhou Daguan -- Shelomo Dov Goitein -- Bisho of Speyer -- Fulcher of Chartres -- Ibn al-Athir -- Ibn al-Athir -- Gregory Guzman -- Ibn Fadlan -- Yvo of Narbona -- Ibn al-Athir -- John of Plano Carpini -- Mark Wheelis -- Gabriele de' Mussis -- Giovanni Boccaccio -- Ahmad al-Maqrizi -- J. J. Fisher -- Ishisada Miyazaki -- King T'aejo -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Walter de Merton -- Lynn White, Jr. -- Jared Diamond -- Terry Hunt -- J. R. McNeill
1-319-03258-3 978-1-319-03258-6
World history World history
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