Titolo: Personalities & Problems: Interpretive Essays in World Civilization, Vol II
Editore: McGraw-Hill College (edition Subsequent)
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN 10: 0070713499
ISBN 13: 9780070713499
Rilegatura: Paperback
Edizione: Subsequent.
Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

This is a unique collection of original essays about real people whose lives or careers show us different solutions to problems of their times. Each chapter focuses on a problem or issue and illustrates this issue or problem by discussing the lives of two historical figures (actual or near contemporaries of each other) whose career show us different solutions to the problem. Most of the chapters develop cross-cultural comparisons.

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Preface

Chapter 1: Prince Henry and Zheng He: Sailing South

Chapter 2: Erasmus and Luther: The Reformer's Dilemma

Chapter 3: Elizabeth and Akbar: The Religion of the Ruler?

Chapter 4: Kangxi and Louis XIV: Dynastic Rulers, East and West

Chapter 5: Bacon and Galileo: The New Science

Chapter 6: Burke and Condorcet: Are People Perfectible?

Chapter 7: Toussaint and Tecumseh: Resisting the Odds

Chapter 8: George Sand and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Exploring Women's "Sphere"

Chapter 9: Bismarck and Ito: Conservatives and Constitutions

Chapter 10: Chimwere and York: Heroes in Two Worlds

Chapter 11: Hitler and Stalin: Ideas or Personalities?

Chapter 12: Eva Peron and Golda Meir: Helping and Dispossessed-Two Models

Chapter 13: M. K. Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh: Paths to Independence

Chapter 14: Teller and Sakharov: Scientists in Politics

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