The story of man

S. O SIMPLE and so basic is the aim of this book that its first sentence must be a warning to the reader not to look behind the words for hidden meanings or academic profundities. This aim is to describe the main events of human history from the time that man appeared on the face of the earth until the present moment, when he has the power to destroy it. For the best part of a cen tury historia…

Negara dan bangsa

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The discoverers

FROM far-northwest Greenland to the southernmost tip of Patagonia, peo ple hail the new moon a time for singing and praying, eating and drinking Eskimos spread a feast, their sorcerers perform, they extinguish lamps and exchange women. African Bushmen chant a prayer, Young Moonl Hail, hail, Young Moon!" In the light of the moon everyone wants to dance And the moon has other virtues. The ancient…

The civilizational process

In recent years, most anthropologists have readopted an evolutionary point of view, but have rephrased it in multilinear terms and disassociated it from the more conjectural earlier attempts to trace the origin of customs and insti- rutions. There is not yet available, however, a global scheme for the stages of sociocultural evolution that is based on the most recent contributions from archeolo…

The structures of everyday life :The limits of the possible

MATERIAL LIFE is made up of people and things. The study of things, of every thing mankind makes or uses food, housing, clothing, luxury, tools, coinage or its substitutes, framework of village and town is not the only way of analysing daily life. The number of people who share the wealth of the world is also significant. The outward feature that immediately differentiates the present world fro…

Geografi :Perkembangannya di Indonesia dan pelajaran geografi di sekolah lanj…

Ilmu pengetahuan, pada dasarnya, bukanlah sesuatu yang berkotak- kotak, melainkan merupakan suatu kesatuan. Namun, demi kemudahan penanganannya, pembidangan ilmu tidak bisa dihindarkan.2 Malahan justru karena adanya pembidangan itu, kemudian kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan men- jadi sangat pesat. Pembidangan ilmu itu sekaligus juga menunjukkan, betapa kecilnya manusia dengan kemampuannya, kalau diban…

Metodologi Sejarah

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9793472790

Collation

425 halaman

Series Title

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Call Number

907.209598 Sja m

Fundamental of economic geography

THE FIFTH edition of this book differs to a con siderable extent from the previous one. Only in Chapters 6, 13, 14, 17. and 30 have the changes been minor All other chapters needed to be brought up to date and considerable re writing and reorganization proved to be de- sirable The present Chapter 1 was considered to be a better introduction to the subject matter of the book Chapter 19 was writt…

Readings in economic geography

World economic geography is taking on new sig- nificance in the modern age Premodern man's concern with situation and habitat was mainly local, but modern man's concern is more and more world- wide. The pressure of world communism for he- gemony, the pressure exerted by underdeveloped societies to develop their own political and eco- nomic overlordship, the pressure of dynamic science and techn…

The historian as detective :Essays on evidence

that it did? In other words, while the professional historian fre quently is engaged in judging the credibility of a witness, in at- tempting to gauge the hias that will he present in the account of a contemporary involved in the events he describes, the lay reader more often is concerned with assessing the credibility of a printed record, of one book's account against another's. Both levels of…