the story of civilization will durant volume 1

Durant, then 81, and his 69-year-old wife had planned to leave the next two centuries to ''fresher spirits.''īut in 1975, in the week of Dr. With the publication of the 10th volume, Dr. The 10th volume, ''Rousseau and Revolution,'' brought the chronicle up to the dawn of the 19th century. The aim, he said, is ''to portray in each period the total complex of a nation's culture, institutions, adventures and ways.'' Published in 1935, the first volume, ''Our Oriental Heritage,'' traced the beginnings of man and the story of Eastern civilization. ''It may be of some use,'' he went on, ''to those upon whom the passion for philosophy has laid the compulsion to try to see things whole, to pursue perspective, unity and understanding through history in time.''

Durant's design, he said later, was ''to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contribution that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind.'' The Literature and Philosophy of the BibleĢ.Dr.

The Death and Resurrection of Jerusalemħ. So the Durants embarked on an encyclopedic survey of all civilization, ancient and modern, Occidental and Oriental.Ĭhapter 1: The Conditions of CivilizationĬhapter 2: The Economic Elements of CivilizationĬhapter 3: The Political Elements of CivilizationĬhapter 4: The Moral Elements of CivilizationĬhapter 5: The Mental Elements of CivilizationĬhronological Chart: Types and Cultures of Prehistoric ManĬhapter 6: The Prehistoric Beginnings of CivilizationĬhronological Table of Near Eastern Historyĥ.

This is the classic reference on world history, recognized as the most comprehensive general history ever written, the result of four decades of work by Will and Ariel Durant - a set that The New York Times called 'a splendid, broad panorama of hereditary culture in words and images that the layman can fully understand.' This series began as an effort to write a history on the nineteenth century, an undertaking that Will Durant realized could only be understood in terms of what had come before. The first volume of the expansive Pulitzer Prize-winning series The Story of Civilization.ĭiscover a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China, and Japan from the beginning with an introduction on the nature and foundations of civilization.

The story of civilization will durant volume 1