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世界文化史-(英文版) 本书特色
《世界文化史(英文版)》从全球观点出发，系统论述了世界文化自远古至今日的发展历程，描述了世界各民族文化发展的共同规律和各自的特点，介绍了各民族的文化特色以及它们对世界文化发展所作出的突出贡献，力图揭示出多元一体的人类文化演变的内在本质。
世界文化史-(英文版) 目录
introduction: axial age, the golden age of human wisdom
unit one a long and hot debate about the birth of the world
unit two two views concerning cultural studies
section one: cultural relativism
section two: cultural imperialism
unit three cultural traditions and roots
section one: theology
section two: philosophy
section three: science
unit four time and history in the context of culture
section one: ancient history of the world
section two: the middle ages
section three: modern history
section four: contemporary time
unit five compositions and elements of culture
section one: faith, a spiritual pillar of a person
section two: language, an important element of culture
section three: mythology, an area of human imagination
section four: institution
section five: norms, code of conduct for human society
unit six powerful and pervasive ideas
section one: colonialism, a propelling force of the west
section two: capitalism, a magic power of the west
section three: communism, the highest ideal of mankind
section four: constitutionalism, the idea of rule of law
section five: nationalism, a theoretic foundation of nation-state
unit seven great ideas spread through great books
section one: analects, a collection of wisdom of china
section two: the bible, the holy scripture in the world
section three: quran, the holy scripture of islam
section four: buddhist texts
unit eight an eventful human history
section one: the roman empire
section two: heliocentricism
section three: the crusades
section four: mongol conquests
section five: columbus and his significant voyages
section six: the ottoman empire
section seven: the founding of the united states of america
section eight: the opium wars
section nine: the united nations, an instrument for peace
unit nine milestone figures for human history
section one: abraham, father of three major religions
section two: jesus christ, god for christians
section three: muhammad, prophet of muslims
section four: shakyamuni, the buddha of buddhist adherents
section five: confucius, a holy figure of traditional china
section six: socrates, founding father of western philosophy
section seven: sir isaac newton, a towering scientist
section eight: karl marx, a profound thinker who changed the world
section nine: albert einstein, a modem isaac newton
unit ten a study of civilizational history of the world
section one: the ancient egyptian civilization
section two: the andes civilization
section three: ancient chinese civilization
section four: minoan civilization
section five: sumer civilization
section six: maya civilization
section seven: history of ancient india
section eight: hittites, ancient anatolian people
section nine: ancient greek civilization
section ten: the western or occidental civilization
section eleven: the eastern orthodox church civilization
section twelve: far eastern civilization ring
section thirteen: orthodox christian civilization
section fourteen: the ancient persian civilization
section fifteen: islamic civilization at its golden age
section sixteen: hindu civilization
section seventeen: the mexica
section eighteen: yucatec maya civilization
section nineteen: ancient babylonian civilization
unit eleven a possible form of a future global culture
section one: cultural implications of cultural diversity
section two: cultural, social and political implications of unesco universal declaralion on cultural diversity
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