Our Oriental Heritage: Being a History of Civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the Beginning to Our Own Day"Here is the first volume of the Story of Civilization, Our Oriental Heritage, complete in itself. Dr. Durant worked on it steadily from 1927 to 1932, and the book represents the third complete rewriting. Our Oriental Heritage deals first with the establishment of civilization and then takes up, not in rapid view but in rich and fascinating detail, the colorful, complex dramas of the Near East, India and her neighbors, and the Far East. The story is carried up to the present"--Front jacket flap. |
Contents
THE ECONOMIC ELEMENTS OF CIVILIZATION | 5 |
ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION | 16 |
LAW | 25 |
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