Research Catalog

Title

Balkan worlds : the first and last Europe / Traian Stoianovich.

Author

Stoianovich, Traian.

Publication

Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, ©1994.

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Details

Description

xix, 433 pages : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Covering the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south.

Series Statement

Sources and studies in world history

Uniform Title

Sources and studies in world history

Subjects

• History (form)
• Balkan Peninsula > Civilization
• Balkan
• Südosteuropa
• Europe du Sud-Est
• Zivilisation
• Civilization
• Civilisations
• 15.70 history of Europe

Genre/Form

History (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-419) and index.

Contents

List of Tables -- List of Maps and Diagrams -- Foreword / Kevin Reilly -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1 Earth Culture (starting p. 7) -- Earth Mother (starting p. 7) -- Kouros (starting p. 8) -- Green George (starting p. 10) -- Rain and Fire Rites (starting p. 11) -- Neolithic Culture (starting p. 13) -- Salt of the Earth (starting p. 16) -- Permanence of Culture Areas (starting p. 20) -- Soil, Forest, and Climate (starting p. 24) -- Space: Mana and Taboo (starting p. 37) -- 2 Biotechnics and Social Biology (starting p. 47) -- Illustrious or Tarnished Face (starting p. 47) -- Reasonable Ear, Willful Eye, and Righteous Hand (starting p. 51) -- Narcotics and Stimulants (starting p. 56) -- Gestures, Technics, and Civilization (starting p. 58) -- Emotional States (starting p. 59) -- Childbirth and Pedagogy (starting p. 61) -- Mobility (starting p. 63) -- 3 Technology (starting p. 69) -- Hoe, Ard, and Plow (starting p. 69) -- Animal and Rotary Power (starting p. 71) -- Metallurgy (starting p. 85) -- Costs of War (starting p. 93) -- Industrial Devolution and Transactional Modes (starting p. 95) -- Technology and Politics (starting p. 99) -- Capitalism and Communism: Six Industrializing Experiments (starting p. 107) -- 4 Society (starting p. 120) -- Ethnogenesis (starting p. 120) -- Sclaviniae and Mixobarbara (starting p. 131) -- Between Turkey and "Germany" (starting p. 133) -- Physical Types (starting p. 134) -- Semiotics of Religion (starting p. 137) -- Macrosociety: Tripartition and Estates States (starting p. 147) -- Kinship, Clanship, and Men's and Women's Societies (starting p. 158) -- From Re-Volution to Revolution (starting p. 168) -- Theory of Nationality (starting p. 176) -- 5 Economy (starting p. 186) -- Number and Economic Value (starting p. 186) -- Nongenerative Cities and Command Economy (starting p. 193) -- Freedom and Slavery (starting p. 196) -- Prices, Wages, and the "Second Serfdom" (starting p. 203) -- The Power and Rhythm of Number (starting p. 205) -- The World-Economy of a Hegemonic Capitalism (starting p. 212) -- Comparative Advantage of an Informed New-Model Capitalism (starting p. 223) -- 6 Personality and Culture (starting p. 235) -- Work and Leisure (starting p. 235) -- Time and Space (starting p. 247) -- Individuality (starting p. 253) -- 7 The Liberties and Constraints of Culture (starting p. 267) -- Freedom from Barbarity, Local and Universal (starting p. 267) -- Remaking Time, Territory, and Mind (starting p. 268) -- Customs, Laws, and Gods (starting p. 271) -- Neither Universal nor Parochial (starting p. 274) -- Pure and Impure (starting p. 276) -- Cultural Mobilization by Generation (starting p. 280) -- With or Without a Civil Society? (starting p. 289) -- Rechtsstand or Gesetzstaat? (starting p. 295) -- Permanent "Narcissism of Minor Differences" (starting p. 300) -- Fetish, Mythomoteur, and the Media (starting p. 302) -- A New Order (starting p. 306) -- 8 The Interacting Population Systems (starting p. 318) -- Theater of the Gods (starting p. 318) -- The Translatio of Rationalization (starting p. 319) -- The Margins as the Cores (starting p. 324) -- A Wild Space (starting p. 328) -- Cities, Stock Raising, and Transhumance (starting p. 331) -- Rural and Urban, People and Animals, Tamers and Tamed (starting p. 335) -- Nongenerative Cities: A Second Look (starting p. 340) -- Population Thresholds and Capitalism (starting p. 342) -- A Closed World-Economy in a Closed Network of Ecosystems (starting p. 345) -- Bibliography (starting p. 359) -- Index (starting p. 421) -- About the Author (starting p. 433)

ISBN

• 1563240327
• 9781563240324
• 1563240335
• 9781563240331

LCCN

94016917

OCLC

• ocm30361012
• 30361012
• SCSB-2049291

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library