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9780857452696 | Berghahn Books, February 15, 2012, cover price $120.00
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9781782386841 | Berghahn Books, December 10, 2014, cover price $34.95
Product Description: This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period...read more
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9789004205772 | Brill Academic Pub, February 1, 2011, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period.
Product Description: This book contains 19 papers, most of which were prepared for the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology. They are divided into 6 categories, which areThe Legacy and Frontiers of SociologySociology and the Historical SciencesSociology and the Economic SciencesSociology and the Cultural SciencesSociology and the Cognitive SciencesSociology and the Mathematical and Statistical Science...read more
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9789004165694 | Brill Academic Pub, December 15, 2008, cover price $122.00 | About this edition: This book contains 19 papers, most of which were prepared for the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology.
Product Description: Universities are said to be the "powerhouses" of modern society. They educate our leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and society. The essays in this book discuss how universities work, and have worked, in relation to other parts of the higher education "system" and in the context of their historical development...read more
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9780521031103 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 23, 2006, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Universities are said to be the "powerhouses" of modern society.
Product Description: The overarching theme of the book is the historical meaning of the Axial Age, commonly defined as a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE, and its cultural innovations. The civilizational patterns that grew out of this exceptionally creative phase are a particularly rewarding theme for comparative analysis...read more
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9789004139558 | Brill Academic Pub, December 1, 2004, cover price $230.00 | About this edition: The overarching theme of the book is the historical meaning of the Axial Age, commonly defined as a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE, and its cultural innovations.
Eurasian Transformations, Tenth To Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances
Product Description: This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period...read more
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9789004143104 | Brill Academic Pub, June 30, 2004, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period.
Product Description: Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780765807144 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 2001, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building.
Since Alexis de Tocqueville first made the linkage in his writings on America, a healthy democracy has been associated with the flourishing of civil society, as measured by popular participation in voluntary and civic activities and the vitality of organizations that mediate between the individual and the state. This volume takes a fresh look at this classic theme in the context of post-communist Eastern Europe, the West European welfare states and the United States, asking: what patterns of participation characterize the new democracies of Eastern Europe?; what levels of civic activism are characteristic of contemporary Western democracies?; what factors account for differences among countries and changing patterns over time?; and what do findings suggest about the prospects for democracy in the 21st century?
Hardcover:
9780765602299 | M E Sharpe Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: Since Alexis de Tocqueville first made the linkage in his writings on America, a healthy democracy has been associated with the flourishing of civil society, as measured by popular participation in voluntary and civic activities and the vitality of organizations that mediate between the individual and the state.
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9780765602305 | M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $47.95
Hardcover:
9780792345893 | Kluwer Academic Pub, February 1, 1998, cover price $309.00
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9781402002540 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, January 1, 2002, cover price $119.00
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9789122007432 | Coronet Books Inc, October 1, 1985, cover price $37.50
Product Description: Book by Schwarz, Brita, Svedin, Uno, Wittrock, Bjorn
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9780865319097 | Westview Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Book by Schwarz, Brita, Svedin, Uno, Wittrock, Bjorn
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