Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: contents, civilization
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-01-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0804750831
ISBN-13: 9780804750837

“Civilization” is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a colonial ideology, and then as a support for racism. The term was extended to a dead society, Egyptian civilization, and was appropriated by Japan, China, and Islamic countries. This latter development lays the groundwork for the contemporary call for a “dialogue of civilizations.” The author proposes instead that today the use of the term “ci

Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: sciences, uncertain
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1412806305
ISBN-13: 9781412806305

This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that knowledge be called scientific? and, What do we mean by "scientific" in such a context? In this wide-ranging book, one of the most esteemed cultural historians of our time turns his attention to major questions about human experience and various attempts to understand it "scientifically." Mazlish considers the achievements, failings, and possibilities of the human sciences - a domain that he broadly de

Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: birth, sociology, connections, breakdown, science, new
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 1993-09
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0271010924
ISBN-13: 9780271010922

This text explains the rise of sociology by placing it in the context of late-18th and early-19th-century social thought.

Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: mill, stuart, john, james
Number of Pages: 475
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0887387276
ISBN-13: 9780887387272

Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, global, new
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-12-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0415409217
ISBN-13: 9780415409216

From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, The New Global History offers a fresh, overarching view of the process of globalization that is always empirically based and discusses the most important themes, such as policy, trade, cultural imperialism and warfare. Bruce Mazlish argues that globalization is not something that the West has impose

Authors:Leo Marx, Bruce Mazlish,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: illusion, fact, progress
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0472106767
ISBN-13: 9780472106769

Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy fire recently because, after three centuries, advances in science and technology seem increasingly to bring problems in their wake: alienation, environmental degradation, the threat of nuclear destruction. The idea of progress is brought into question by postmodern critique, attacking the notion of science as truth. Yet no other meaningful organization of humankind’s sense of time looms on the horizon. This volume seeks to reassess the meaning and prospects of the idea of progress.Looking tow

Author: Professor Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: sciences, uncertain
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-11-10
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0300074778
ISBN-13: 9780300074772

In this philosophical history of broad sweep and original synthesis, Bruce Mazlish considers the human sciences-their achievements, failings, and possibilities. Starting with the remote human past and continuing to the present , the author discusses what sort of knowledge the human sciences claim to offer, what role the scientific method can or should assume, and the direction of human sciences in the future.