Civilization, Western -- History
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The Impulse of Power: Formative Ideals of Western Civilization, by Michael W. Kelley (PDF at Wayback Machine)- The Story of Stupidity, by James F. Welles (HTML at mensch.net)
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Filed under: Civilization, Western- The Collapse of Civilization (New York: Church Peace Union, 1914), by Church Peace Union (page images here at Penn)
- Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Penguin Island, by Anatole France, trans. by A. W. Evans (Gutenberg text)
- Penguin Island (London: J. Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1925), by Anatole France, trans. by A. W. Evans, illust. by Frank Cheyne Papé (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, by Rudyard Kipling and Charles Wolcott Balestier (text at Gutenberg Australia)
- A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1898), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Sidney Paget
- Persian Letters (English translation; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1891), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by John Davidson
- The Razor's Edge (c1944), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)
- Islamic Contributions to Civilization (1963), by Stanwood Cobb (HTML at bahaistudies.net)
- The Public Domain Review (2011-) (full serial archives)
- The West, Christians, and Jews in Saudi Arabian Schoolbooks (2003), by Arnon Groiss (PDF at impact-se.org)
- Chinese Cultural Traditions and Modernization (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
- Philosophy and Modernization in China (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Liu Fangtong, Huang Songjie, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
- Economic Ethics and Chinese Culture (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Yu Xuanmeng, Lu Xiaohe, Liu Fangtong, Zhang Rulun, and Georges Enderle (multiple formats at Google)
- The Bases of Values in a Time of Change: Chinese and Western (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Kirti Bunchua, Liu Fangtong, Yu Xuanmeng, and Yu Xujin (multiple formats at Google)
- Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)
- Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (electronic edition), by Morgan Gibson (HTML at Light and Dust)
- Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Internationales Taschenbuch für Orientalisten (first edition of what aimed to be an annual guide, in German; Halle a. Salle and New York: R. Haupt, 1907), ed. by Rudolf Haupt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Internationales Taschenbuch für Orientalisten (second edition, in German; Leipzig: R. Haupt, 1910), ed. by Rudolf Haupt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)
- Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Spirit of Japan: A Lecture (Tokyo: Indo-Japanese Association, 1916), by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg text)
- Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)
- Civilization and Beyond: Learning From History (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1975), by Scott Nearing (Gutenberg text)
- Man the Measure: A New Approach to History (New York: Pantheon Books Inc., c1943), by Erich Kahler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Emily Wilbourne and Suzanne G. Cusick (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Emotion as the Basis of Civilization (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928), by John Hopkins Denison, contrib. by George Foot Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Decline of the West (mid-1920s translation, but only pre-1923 copyright notices), by Oswald Spengler, ed. by Charles Francis Atkinson
- 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)
- The Martyrdom of Man, by William Winwood Reade (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
- Paideuma: Umrisse einer Kultur- und Seelenlehre (in German; Munich: Beck, 1921), by Leo Frobenius
- Prehistoric Man and His Story: A Sketch of the History of Mankind from the Earliest Times (third edition; London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1920), by G. F. Scott Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
- Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
- 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 Romance of Savage Life: Describing The Life of Primitive Man, His Customs, Occupations, Language, Beliefs, Arts, Crafts, Adventures, Games, Sports, &c. &c. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley and Co., 1908), by G. F. Scott Elliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Fire as an Agent in Human Culture (US National Museum bulletin #139; Washington: GPO, 1926), by Walter Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 Influence of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in the East and in America (Manchester: At the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916), by Grafton Elliot Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Man of the North and the Man of the South: or, The Influence of Climate (New York: F. W. Christern; et al., 1864), by Charles Victor de Bonstetten
- The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform, by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text)
- The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- Atlantis, die Urheimat der Arier (in German; Berlin: Arier, 1922), by Karl Georg Zschaetzsch
- Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (2 volumes in German; Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1899), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (second edition, 2 volumes in German; Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1899), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (ninth edition, 2 volumes in German; Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1909), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (14th edition, 2 volumes in German; Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1922), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Essai sur l'Inégalité des Races Humaines (4 volumes in 2, in French; Paris: Didot Frères, 1853-1855), by Arthur Gobineau (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essai sur l'Inégalité des Races Humaines (secone edition, 2 volumes in French; Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1884), by Arthur Gobineau
- 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 Wayback Machine)
- Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane Co., 1912), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and John Lees (page images at HathiTrust)
- Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (in 2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1913), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by John Lees, contrib. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
- Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (2 volumes; New York: J. Lane Co., 1914), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by John Lees (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Inequality of Human Races (London: W. Heinemann, 1915), by Arthur Gobineau, trans. by Adrian Collins, contrib. by Oscar Levy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- La Genèse de XIXme Siècle (4th edition, 2 volumes in French; Paris: Payot et cie, 1913), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Robert Godet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races, With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind (with an appendix by Nott on "the question of unity or plurality of species" of humans; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856), by Arthur Gobineau, ed. by H. Hotz, contrib. by Josiah C. Nott
- 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)
- Versuch über die Ungleichheit der Menschenracen (second edition; 4 volumes in German; Stuttgart: F. Frommann, 1902-1904), by Arthur Gobineau and Paul Kleinecke, trans. by Ludwig Schemann
- Versuch über die Ungleichheit der Menschenracen (fourth edition, in German; Stuttgart: F. Frommann, 1922), by Arthur Gobineau, trans. by Ludwig Schemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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