Civilization and Enlightenment

Civilization and Enlightenment
Author: Albert M. Craig
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674031081

The Scottish enlightenment and the stages of civilization -- American geography textbooks -- John Hill Burton's Political economy -- Invention, the engine of progress -- An outline of theories of civilization -- Reflections.

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949
Author: Thomas Fröhlich
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004426523

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic study of Chinese reflections on “progress,” its multifaceted expressions, contesting interpretations, highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism it encountered.

Insei Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan 1086–1185

Insei Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan 1086–1185
Author: G. Cameron Hurst
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1976
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9780231884471

Explains how and why abdicated sovereigns emerged as important political figures in the late Heian period of Japan and reevaluates the manner in which Japanese scholars have treated the abdicated sovereign in the politics of the period.

Civilization and Enlightenment

Civilization and Enlightenment
Author: Albert M. Craig
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674031083

The Scottish enlightenment and the stages of civilization -- American geography textbooks -- John Hill Burton's Political economy -- Invention, the engine of progress -- An outline of theories of civilization -- Reflections.