Tag: Civilizing

Free Download A.A. den Otter, "Civilizing the Wilderness: Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert’s Land"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0888645465 | PDF | pages: 473 | 10.5 mb
In this collection of essays, A.A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts "civilizing" and "wilderness" within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant something quite different than they do today. Through careful readings and researches of a variety of lesser known individuals and events, den Otter teases out the striking dichotomy between "civilizing" and "wilderness," leading readers to a new understanding of the relationship between newcomers and Native peoples, and the very lands they inhabited. Historians and non-specialists with an interest in western Canadian native, settler, and environmental-economic history will be deeply rewarded by reading Civilizing the Wilderness.

Free Download Civilizing Money : Hume, His Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment
by George Caffentzis
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0745341519 | 289 Pages | True PDF | 12.3 MB

Free Download Michael J. Ryan, "Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts"
English | ISBN: 1498533205 | 2016 | 186 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of the secretive tradition of stick fighting within rural Venezuela. Despite profound political and economic changes from the early twentieth century to the modern day, traditional values, practices, and social imaginaries associated with older forms of masculinity and sociality are still valued. Stick, knife, and machete fighting are understood as key means of instilling the values of fortitude and cunning in younger generations. Recommended for scholars of anthropology, social science, gender studies, and Latin American studies.

Free Download The American Civilizing Process By Stephen Mennell
2007 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0745632084 | PDF | 4 MB
Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America’s role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society.

Free Download On Civilizing Capitalism
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303129680X | 356 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book shows how modern political, economic and moral theory, including our ideas of liberty and individualism, are trapped in 17th century notions of intuitive reasoning and not informed by modern scientific understanding. Brian Ellis starts with a re-appraisal of the founding of the United Nations and the political and economic policies of the post-war reconstruction period. He then shows how this period, despite its many faults, embodied a philosophy more closely embedded in scientific realism than dominant theories of either left or right today. He goes on to develop this philosophy, meticulously, demolishing theories of Rawls, Nozick and others along the way. The result is a philosophy that investigates how a society actually works, supports evidence-based economics and can better enable human beings to flourish. It is a philosophy that can also accommodate the historical differences between societies and their different, but parallel, development strategies over time.

Free Download Un-Civilizing America
by Bonner, WIlliam;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 139418056X | 419 pages | True PDF EPUB | 7.73 MB