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Civilization and Its Contents

Civilization and Its Contents( )
Author: Mazlish, Bruce
ISBN:978-0-8047-5083-7
Publication Date:Jan 2005
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.00
Book Description:

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.

Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: History / Civilization
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.385 x 0.702 Inches
Book Weight:0.528 Pounds
Author Biography
Mazlish, Bruce (Author)
Bruce Mazlish was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 15, 1923. During World War II, he served in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the C.I.A. He received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a Ph.D. in European history from Columbia University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1955 and became a full professor in 1960.

His first book, The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel, written with the British mathematician and poet Jacob Bronowski, was published in 1960. His other books include In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry, The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines, and The Uncertain Sciences. He also wrote psychoanalytic biographies about Henry A. Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, and Mao Zedong. He died on November 27, 2016 at the age of 93.

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