The uniqueness of Western civilization (Record no. 214896)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02080nam a2200409 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 909/.09821 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Duchesne, Ricardo. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The uniqueness of Western civilization |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Leiden ; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of publisher | Brill, |
| Year of publication | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 527 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Studies in critical social sciences, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The fall of Western civilization and the rise of multicultural world history -- Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism -- Whence the industrial divergence? -- The continuous creativity of Europe -- The "rise" of Western reason and freedom -- The restlessness of the Western spirit from a Hegelian perspective -- The aristocratic egalitarianism of Indo-Europeans and the primordial origins of Western civilization -- The emergence of the self from the Western "state of nature" and the conciliation of Christianity and aristocratic liberty. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Civilization, Western. |
| Topical Term | Civilization, Western |
| Topical Term | Civilization, Western |
| Topical Term | Eurocentrism. |
| Topical Term | Multiculturalism. |
| Topical Term | Liberty |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10470564 |
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