Civilization

A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication (such as writing).Civilizations are intimately associated with and often further defined by other socio-politico-economic characteristics, such as centralization, the domestication of both humans and other organisms, specialization of labour, culturally-ingrained ideologies of progress and supremacism, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming and expansionism.Historically, "a civilization" has often been understood as a larger and "more advanced" culture, in implied contrast to smaller, supposedly primitive cultures. In this broad sense, a civilization contrasts with non-centralized tribal societies, including …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …

leftism of no less than destroying West- ern civilization (Ganesh 2018). The Proud Boys in the US and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

environment by identifying themselves with the civilization and culture of France, so that many of them


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …

Europe constructs itself as the pinnacle of civilization, modernity, and Enlightenment to which all justification for colonialism and as a means to bring “civilization” and “modernity” to “primitive” peoples; it


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

otherwise great work in the nineteenth century, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.10 The Pendulum exhibits order, goes back to the beginning of civilization. The same nature that brought humans the order


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 September 2024 English

In a rare convergence of academic and political worlds, Professor Morton draws on his experience as a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, inviting readers into a reflection on Alberta’s …

and to better understand the roots of Western civilization. Upon graduation my student deferment expired


DDN: Dundurn Press · 24 September 2024 English

“Quick-paced, well-researched and well-illustrated, this is the first new history of Canada’s armed forces in decades.” — J. L. Granatstein, author of Canada’s ArmyPunching Above Our Weight takes readers on …

“Indians” who would be pushed aside the minute civilization arrived in the form of the Canadian state.


ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 24 September 2024 English

Other major supporters through the of community, pulsing transition of the Institute from Nonprofit to with original thinkers Community Prosperity included the McConnell and life-changing teach- Foundation, The Calgary Foundation, …

more of the Centre’s events. of what kind of civilization we are Unique for a university-based initiative


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 September 2024 English

All names, views and claims expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated organizations, …

government are striving to build a marine ecological civilization and have formulated some marine environmental Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization, which called for in-depth and sustained promotion promotion of the construction of the ecological civilization. In 2019, the State Oceanic Administration revised protection • Public publicity of marine ecological civilization construction • Green national economy accounting protection • Public publicity of marine ecological civilization construction • Green national economy accounting


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 10 September 2024 English

Harold Rhenisch’s poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest A collection of shanties laid out in couplets that move between English and …

received the instruction that passed for wisdom: civilization was better than living on Earth as one of its were down and on one side of the table it was civilization and on the other Čamná, he would have had to among stars, you won’t be alone, I promise. Civilization is over. It’s finished. Be a man, or a woman


NSP: New Society Publishers · 10 September 2024 English

The essential bestselling guide to designing and leading useful and effective group conversations, now completely revised and updated Integrating over 60 years of research and development, this essential guide to …

they tried to fathom that fearsome failure of civilization. They searched for a way to understand the


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