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Origin of Civilized Societies / Rushton Coulborn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2278Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1959Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691621944
  • 9781400878345
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901.9
LOC classification:
  • CB301
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Note to the Paperback Edition, 1969 -- Contents -- 1. Civilized Man and His History -- 2. Mesolithic and Early Agricultural Societies -- 3. The River Valleys -- 4. Middle America and Crete -- 5. The New Religions -- 6. Conclusion: The Meaning of the Advent of Civilized Societies -- Index
Summary: The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Cretan, Chinese, Middle American, and Andean. Professor Coulborn presents clearly and convincingly a number of significant conclusions concerning the formation of civilized societies as well as an abundantly documented and an analysis of the pertinent data drawn from archaeology, anthropology, and history. He shows how a new religion in each case gave the settlers the needed courage to survive the hazards of difficult physical environment, and he concludes that religious acts occupied a central place in the formation and initial development of all the primary societies.Originally published in 1959.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Note to the Paperback Edition, 1969 -- Contents -- 1. Civilized Man and His History -- 2. Mesolithic and Early Agricultural Societies -- 3. The River Valleys -- 4. Middle America and Crete -- 5. The New Religions -- 6. Conclusion: The Meaning of the Advent of Civilized Societies -- Index

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The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Cretan, Chinese, Middle American, and Andean. Professor Coulborn presents clearly and convincingly a number of significant conclusions concerning the formation of civilized societies as well as an abundantly documented and an analysis of the pertinent data drawn from archaeology, anthropology, and history. He shows how a new religion in each case gave the settlers the needed courage to survive the hazards of difficult physical environment, and he concludes that religious acts occupied a central place in the formation and initial development of all the primary societies.Originally published in 1959.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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