The new past and other essays on the development of civilisation
By: by J. H. Breasted [and others]
Contributors: Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Civilization
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Reprint of the 1925 ed.
The outcome of a conference held at Aberystwyth University in April, 1924.
Table of contents: title: The new past, by J. H. Breasted.; title: Some origins of civilisation, by H. J. Fleure.; title: The diffusion of civilisation, by W. J. Perry.; title: The Biblical record, by A. Nairne.; title: Classical civilisation and modern Europe, by H. J. Rose.; title: The cultural unity of Western Europe, by J. W. Headlam-Morley.; title: The problem of political unity, by R. Muir.; title: Some economic factors in general history, by G. Unwin.; title: The birth of modern science, by C. Singer.; title: The history of mathematics, by H. E. J. Curzon.; title: Some desultory remarks on art and civilisation, by W. Rothenstein.; title: Britain's place in Western civilisation, by F. S. Marvin.