The West and the World

by Reilly, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781558761520
• ISBN10: 1558761527
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: WIENER, MARKUS PUBLISHERS, INCORPOR

Table of Contents

Topical Outline	ix	(1)
Preface	x	(5)
Note on Chinese Spelling	xv
PART I THE ANCIENT WORLD: To 1000 B.C.	1	(70)
Preview of the Period	3	(8)
1. Men and Women: Hunters and Gatherers	11	(14)
The Longest View of Men and Women	11	(1)
Hunters and Gatherers: Sexual Division of Labor	12	(3)
Goddesses on Earth?	15	(1)
Equality Rather Than any "Archy": The Lessons of Anthropology	15	(3)
Nisa and the !Kung	18	(1)
North Alaskan Eskimo	19	(1)
The Pygmies of Zaire	19	(6)
2. Mothers and Fathers: Agricultural and Urban Revolutions	25	(18)
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State	26	(1)
Women's Work	26	(2)
Sexuality of Tools?	28	(1)
Catal Huyuk: The Goddess Returns	28	(1)
Earth Mothers and Fertility Goddesses	29	(1)
Neolithic India and the Goddess	30	(1)
Women in Neolithic China and Japan	31	(1)
Women and the Agricultural Revolution	32	(2)
Men's Place	34	(1)
The Origins of the Patriarchy: Plows and Cities	34	(1)
Fathers and Sons	35	(3)
Sky Fathers and Sons	38	(1)
City Skylines	39	(4)
3. Cities and Civilization: Civility and Class	43	(28)
Before There Were Cities	44	(1)
Village to City	45	(3)
The Urban Revolution: Civilization and Class	48	(3)
Civilization: Security and Variety	51	(1)
The "Eye" and "I"	52	(2)
Mesopotamian and Egyptian Civilizations: A Tale of Two Rivers	54	(6)
Caste and Class in Asian Civilization	60	(2)
Diversity, Diffusion, and Development of Civilization	62	(7)
Chronological Table of the Ancient World: To 1000 B.C.	69	(2)
PART II THE CLASSICAL WORLD: 1000 B.C.-A.D. 500	71	(144)
Preview of the Period	73	(6)
4. Age and Family: Religion and Cultural Change	79	(30)
Are People Living Longer?	80	(1)
Age and Prestige	81	(1)
Chinese Ancestor Worship	82	(1)
Origins of Ancestor Worship in Chinese Feudalism	83	(2)
Confucianism: Xiao, Ren, and Li	85	(3)
Family and State in China	88	(1)
India and the Buddha	89	(3)
Chinese Versus Indian Culture	92	(1)
Old Age in India	93	(2)
Salvation Religion	95	(1)
Ancient Judaism	96	(2)
Christianity	98	(4)
Missionaries and Monasteries	102	(1)
Buddhism in China	102	(1)
Buddhism and Daoism in China	103	(1)
Salvation from Barbarians	104	(1)
Family, Self, and Salvation	104	(5)
5. Self and Society: Communal and Individual Identity	109	(18)
Tribe and Individual	110	(1)
Metals and Medals: Heroic Bronze and Democratic Iron	111	(4)
Socrates and the Self	115	(1)
The Roman Self Possessed: Trimalchio	116	(3)
The Christian Soul Confessed: Augustine	119	(2)
The Self in India	121	(1)
Reincarnation and Atman	122	(1)
Atman Versus Ego	123	(4)
6. City and State: The Indo-European Tradition	127	(32)
Athens: The City-State and the Good Life	128	(3)
Athens: Acropolis, Agora, Amphitheater	131	(2)
The Greek Imperial City: Alexandrian Capitals of Culture	133	(2)
Alexandria: Sights, Seeing, and Spectacles	135	(2)
Alexandria: Spectacles and Spectators	137	(1)
The Roman Imperial City: Caesarian Capital of Power	138	(1)
Rome: Streets, Sleep, and Social Insomnia	139	(2)
Rome: Monumental Engineering and Mass Diversion	141	(4)
The Origins of the Commercial City in India	145	(1)
Caste and Commerce	146	(1)
Religious Reform, Commerce, and Cities	147	(1)
The Mauryan Empire	148	(1)
Mauryan Pataliputra	149	(2)
The Gupta Age	151	(2)
Pataliputra in the Gupta Age	153	(1)
The Indo-European City	153	(6)
7. Love and Sex: Passion and Conquest in Greece, Rome, and India	159	(26)
Greek Loves	160	(2)
Greek Prostitution: Love, Death, and Social Disease	162	(3)
Greek Homosexuality: Ideals and Education	165	(2)
Greek Romance: The Delicious Disease	167	(3)
The Roman Contribution: Love As Sex	170	(1)
Fashionable Romans: Ovid's Art of War	171	(3)
Old-fashioned Romans: Pliny Loves Calpurnia?	174	(2)
A Christian Dilemma	176	(1)
The Ideal of Chastity	177	(1)
Love and Sex in India	178	(2)
The Kama Sutra	180	(1)
Kalidasa's Shakuntala	181	(1)
Indian Love and Marriage	182	(3)
8. War and Society: Empires and Armies in Rome and China	185	(30)
Frontiers, Settlers, and Herders: The Longest War	186	(3)
The Roman Phase of the Longest War: Some Questions	189	(1)
Patrician Response: Republican Constitution and Army	190	(1)
Preserving Inequality with Foreign Land	191	(1)
A Roman Peace for All of Italy	192	(2)
New Frontiers Make New Enemies: Carthage and Greece	194	(2)
The Fruits of Empire at Home	196	(2)
Radical Reform Rejected	198	(1)
Private Armies and Civil War	199	(1)
Empire and Epitaph	200	(3)
China and Rome	203	(1)
Qin China	203	(2)
Former Han Dynasty Reform	205	(2)
Later Han Dynasty Reaction	207	(1)
Third-Century Crisis	207	(1)
Cao Cao and Diocletian	208	(1)
Empires, States, and Landed Estates	209	(3)
Chronological Table of the Classical World: 1000 B.C.-A.D. 500	212	(3)
PART III THE TRADITIONAL WORLD: 500-1500	215	(2)
Preview of the Period	217	(18)
9. Violence and Vengeance: Religion and the State	235	(36)
Children of Attila: The Barbarians	236	(4)
The Barbarians Civilize Themselves	240	(2)
Islam and the Muslims	242	(3)
The Jihad and the Growth of Islam	245	(1)
Succession, Sectarianism, and the Blood of Martyrs	245	(3)
Sunni Centrism	248	(1)
Nomads and Knights: Two Ways of Warfare	249	(1)
State Lands and Armies: China and Byzantium	250	(2)
European Knighthood and Feudalism	252	(2)
Trading and Raiding: The Vikings	254	(5)
Praying and Preying: The Crusades	259	(12)
10. Love and Devotion: Chivalry and Sexuality	271	(24)
The Arabs and Greek Philosophy	272	(1)
The Love of the Muslim Sufi	273	(1)
Masking Love of God	274	(1)
Loving Masks of God	275	(1)
Adab and The Dove's Necklace	276	(1)
Troubadours and Ladies	277	(2)
In the Service of Woman	279	(1)
Courtly Love	280	(3)
The Court of Love	283	(1)
Courting and Cavorting	284	(1)
The Triumph of Romance	284	(3)
A Medieval Indian Alternative: Mystical Eroticism	287	(2)
Polygamy, Sexuality, and Style: A Japanese Alternative	289	(6)
11. Citizens and Subjects: City and State	295	(34)
City and Country: China and Europe	296	(1)
Changan: Subjects and Citizens	297	(3)
Kaifeng: Commerce and Civil Servants	300	(2)
Hangzhou: Migrants, Merchants, and Mandarins	302	(5)
Islam and Cities	307	(6)
The Revival of Cities in the West: The Commune	313	(1)
Late Medieval and Renaissance Cities: Pageantry and Participation	314	(5)
The Renaissance City: A School of Art	319	(3)
The Renaissance City: The Lessons of Venice	322	(10)
The City Since Community: The Baroque and the Broken	323	(6)
12. Ecology and Theology: Religion and Science	329	(27)
The Responsibility of the Judeo-Christian Tradition	330	(2)
Alternate Visions: Polytheism and Animism	332	(3)
Native American Environmental Religions	335	(1)
Alternate Visions: Eastern Religions	336	(1)
Ideals Versus Behavior?	337	(4)
The Responsibility of the Western Scientific Revolution	341	(2)
The World As Garment or Stage: Galileo	343	(4)
Science, Science, Everywhere	347	(2)
Science and Ecology	349	(4)
Chronological Table of the Traditional World: 500-1500	353	(3)
Credits	356	(2)
Index	358