Civilization

Here are entered works on civilization in general. Works on the cultural influences of one civilization upon another are entered under the affected civilization with appropriate subdivision, e.g. Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences; Civilization, Medieval -- Jewish influences; Civilization, Slavic -- French influences. Works on the culture of individual ethnic groups are entered under the name of the group.

Works on the civilization of an individual place are entered under the name of the place with the subdivision Civilization, e.g. United States -- Civilization.

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• Auxiliary sciences of history

• Culture

• Civilization -- American influences
• Civilization -- Chinese influences
• Civilization -- Congresses
• Civilization -- Early works to 1800
• Civilization -- Egyptian influences
• Civilization -- Forecasting
• Civilization -- Greek influences
• Civilization -- History
• Civilization -- Hungarian influences
• Civilization -- Indian influences
• Civilization -- Middle East
• Civilization -- Periodicals
• Civilization -- Philosophy
• Civilization -- Psychological aspects
• Acculturation
• Aeronautics and civilization
• Animals and civilization
• Astronautics and civilization
• Bronze age
• Christian civilization
• Civilization, Aegean
• Civilization, Ancient
• Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
• Civilization, Baroque
• Civilization, Celtic
• Civilization, Classical
• Civilization, Greco-Roman
• Civilization, Hispanic
• Civilization, Homeric
• Civilization, Medieval
• Civilization, Modern
• Civilization, Mycenaean
• Civilization, Oriental
• Civilization, Semitic
• Civilization, Subterranean
• Civilization, Turkic
• Civilization, Western
• Computers and civilization
• Education
• Hindu civilization
• Islamic civilization
• Learning and scholarship
• Manners and customs
• Personality and culture
• Philosophy and civilization
• Plants and civilization
• Progress
• Religions
• Renaissance
• Social sciences
• Stone age
• Technology and civilization
• War and civilization
• Afghanistan -- Civilization
• Africa -- Civilization
• Asia -- Civilization
• Byzantine Empire -- Civilization
• Canada -- Civilization
• Central America -- Civilization
• China -- Civilization
• Colombia -- Civilization
• Crete (Greece) -- Civilization
• Cuba -- Civilization
• Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- Civilization
• Egypt -- Civilization
• England -- Civilization
• Europe -- Civilization
• France -- Civilization
• Georgia (Republic) -- Civilization
• Germany -- Civilization
• Great Britain -- Civilization
• Greece -- Civilization
• Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
• Hungary -- Civilization
• India -- Civilization
• Iraq -- Civilization
• Ireland -- Civilization
• Islamic countries -- Civilization
• Israel -- Civilization
• Italy -- Civilization
• Japan -- Civilization
• Jews -- Civilization
• Latin America -- Civilization
• Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
• Mediterranean Region -- Civilization
• Mexico -- Civilization
• North America -- Civilization
• Pacific Area -- Civilization
• Philippines -- Civilization
• Puerto Rico -- Civilization
• Romania -- Civilization
• Rome -- Civilization
• Russia -- Civilization
• Serbia -- Civilization
• Slovakia -- Civilization
• South America -- Civilization
• Southern States -- Civilization
• Soviet Union -- Civilization
• Spain -- Civilization
• Syria -- Civilization
• Tennessee -- Civilization
• Tombouctou (Mali) -- Civilization
• Turkey -- Civilization
• United States -- Civilization
• Uzbekistan -- Civilization
• Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Civilization
• Venice (Italy) -- Civilization
• West (U.S.) -- Civilization
• Yemen -- Civilization

• Civilisation

• Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization (London: Macmillan and Co., 1881), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Icarus: or, The Future of Science, by Bertrand Russell (HTML at Michigan)
• Latini e Anglo-Sassoni (Razze Inferiori e Razze Superiori) (second edition, in Italian; Rome: Rivista Popolare, 1906), by Napoleone Colajanni
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (1939), by Weston A. Price (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine (New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), by Frank Hamilton Hankins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (1922), by Lothrop Stoddard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at mo-net.com
• The Rights of Man (c1940), by Harold Joseph Laski (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Science of Power (8th edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1919), by Benjamin Kidd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Secret of Divine Civilization, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Situationist International Anthology, ed. by Ken Knabb (HTML at bopsecrets.org)
• Success Among Nations (London: Chapman and Hall, 1904), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Towards the Great Peace (1922), by Ralph Adams Cram (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Where is Civilization Going? (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Scott Nearing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World (electronic edition, 2007), by Gerald Massey, ed. by Jon Lange (illustrated HTML at masseiana.org)

• Teilhard and the Future of Humanity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), ed. by Thierry Meynard (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Civilization and Beyond: Learning From History (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1975), by Scott Nearing (Gutenberg text)
• The Decline of the West (mid-1920s translation, but only pre-1923 copyright notices), by Oswald Spengler, ed. by Charles Francis Atkinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on the History of Civil Society, by Adam Ferguson (text files at McMaster)
• An Essay on the History of Civil Society (based on the 8th edition), by Adam Ferguson (Gutenberg text)
• Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages, by James Dunbar (text files at McMaster)
• Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (in English and German), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by John Lees, contrib. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (HTML at hschamberlain.net)
• Histoire du Droit des Gens et des Relations Internationales (in French, 18 volumes (some in the second edition); Brussels: Meline, Cans and Co., 1861-1870), by F. Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Martyrdom of Man, by William Winwood Reade (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform, by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text)
• Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind (Philadelphia, 1796), by Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Shepherd of Men: An Official Commentary on the Sermon of Hermes Trismegistos (San Francisco: Hermetic Pub. Co.; Chicago: Sterling, 1916), by A. S. Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harper's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Harper's Weekly (partial serial archives)

• The Discovery of the Future (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1913), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Inequality of Human Races (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Arthur Gobineau, trans. by Adrian Collins, contrib. by Oscar Levy (page images at Google; US access only)
• Spengler's Future, by John J. Reilly (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• The Nature of Civilization: A Psychological Analysis, by Paul Rosenfels (HTML at the English Server)

• Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era (c2000), ed. by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF with commentary at spaceandsociety.org)
• Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age (c1992), by David Lavery (PDF files (linked from a frame-dependent page) at davidlavery.net)
• Man in Space: Study of Alternatives, by Harry A. Butowsky (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Christianity and Civilization (slightly revised version of 1940 lecture), by Arnold Toynbee (HTML at myriobiblios.gr)

• Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane (2002), ed. by Cathy Callaway and P. A. Draper (HTML at stoa.org)
• Antiquity Online: Civilizations, Philosophies, and Changing Religions, by Frank E. Smitha (HTML at fsmitha.com)
• Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, Book I (only book published; 1926), by Drusilla Dunjee Houston (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Mesopotamian Archaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Babylonia and Assyria (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Percy Stuart Peache Handcock (DjVu at Georgia)

• The Enlightenment Against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Remy G. Saisselin (HTML at UC Press)

• The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg (English portions only; Welse text and related footnotes omitted), by Iolo Morganwg, ed. by John Williams
  • Volume I: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume II: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: An Ethnography of the Gael, A.D. 500-1750, by C. Thomas Cairney (HTML at electricscotland.com)

• Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Anti-Evolutionist Points of View: Roman Law, Classical Slavery, Social Conditions (Oxford: Parker and Co., 1890), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times, ed. by Elaine K. Gazda (illustrated HTML at Michigan)

• Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang
  • PDF at Case Western
  • Gutenberg text

• Barbarian and Noble, by Marion Florence Lansing (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Mediaeval Lore From Bartholomaeus Anglicus, by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. by Robert Steele, contrib. by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Patriots and Tyrants, by Marion Florence Lansing (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• When Knights Were Bold (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1911), by Eva March Tappan (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

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