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The Paths of Civilization

Understanding the Currents of History

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  • © 2004

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  1. Jaroslav Krejčí
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Global Comprehension of History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Choosing the Point of Departure

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Concept of Civilization

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 7-12

    4. Civilization — Reality and Perception

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 13-16

    5. A Spatio-Temporal Outline of Civilizations

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 17-26

    6. Social Formations as Structural Elements of Civilizations

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 27-32

    7. Structures and Ideas

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 33-36

    8. The Geopolitical Formations

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 37-43

  3. Socio-Historical Scenarios

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. By Way of an Introduction

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 47-49

    3. The Levant

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 50-85

    4. South and South-East Asia

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 86-109

    5. Eastern Asia

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 110-141

    6. Europe to AD 1500

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 142-173

    7. The Bid to Envelop the Globe

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 174-222

  4. General Observations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Turning-Points on the Map of Civilizations

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 225-229

    3. The Varieties of the Human Condition

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 230-240

    4. Metahistorical Trends and Outlooks

      • Jaroslav Krejčí
      Pages 241-249
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About this book

This work spans the development of civilizations from their remotest origins to the present day. It examines the term 'civilization' with reference to culture, socio-economic structure, ethnicity and statehood. Socio-economic scenarios help the reader to explore the ways in which individual civilizations - through world views, styles of life and responses to the environment that each bear their own signature - struggle, merge, submerge in the flow of the currents of history.

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"[T]his book may be characterized as historical sociology informed by theory, sensitive to ideas, and enriched by a lively, provocative intelligence... Recommended." - CHOICE

About the author

JAROSLAV KREJCÍ was born in 1916 in what, two years later, became Czechoslovakia. After studying law and economics at the Charles University in Prague he was employed in the State's economic institutions. As his views clashed with those of the Czechoslovakian communist regime he was made a political prisoner (1954-60). In 1968 (The Prague Spring) he returned to academic work. When the Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia, Krej?í, with his wife Anna, went into exile and settled in England, where Lancaster University awarded him, in 1976, a full professorship and, in 2000, an honorary doctorate for literature. Since 1990 he has also been active in the Czech republic; in 1998 President Vaclav Havel presented him with the Medal of National Merit and in 2003 he was awarded a special prize from the Czech Foundation for Literature.

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