The making of the Romanian people and language

The growth of the Romanian people in the Carpatho- Danubian area and its continuity in this area is a process similar to the growth and continuity of the other Romance European peoples: the French, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese. With all these peoples we see first a basic ethnic element: the Gauls in France, the Celtiberians in Spain and and Portugal, the Gauls in the north and the Etrusca…

Western impressions of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia

This book is based substantially on my doctoral dissertation (The Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in South- east Asia) submitted to the Geography Department, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley in June 1982. I owe a depth of gratitude to the many people that have made both the dissertation and book possible.

Inside Russia today

for a long time ago i have wanted to write an Inside book about the Soviet Union, and this is it. In general it follows the pettern of Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A, Inside Africa, and so on, but the canvas is more restricted still, big enough. After all the Soviet Union covers close to one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and has put its own moons into the sky.

Ussr Its people its society its culture

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The Uses of adversity :Essays on the fate of Central Europe

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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…

World civilizations their history and their culture Vol 2

THE TIME has long since passed when modern man could think of the world as consisting of Europe and the United States. Western culture is, of course, primarily a product of European origins. But it has never been that exclusively. Its original foundations were in Southwestern Asia and North Africa. These were soon supplemented by influences seeping in from India and eventually from China. From …