Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 05 - The Renaissance
5th in the Civilization series - A word painting of the Italian Renaissance, a magnificent cultural flowering.
V. The Renaissance (1953)
1. Prelude: 1300-77
2. The Florentine Renaissance: 1378-1534
3. Italian Pageant: 1378-1534
4. The Roman Renaissance: 1378-1521
5. Debacle
6. Finale: 1534-76
7. Envoi
Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 03 - Caesar and Christ
CAESAR AND CHRIST, Volume three of The Story of Civilization, depicts the rise of Rome from a crossroads town to an empire. The world's first republic, Rome spread its civilization over the Mediterranean and Western Europe. Its long, slow crumbling and final collapse plunged Europe into darkness and chaos.
Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 01 - Our Oriental Heritage
"Every chapter, every paragraph in this book will offend or amuse some patriotic or esoteric soul: the orthodox Jew will need all his ancestral patience to forgive the pages on Yahveh; the metaphysical Hindu will mourn this superficial scratching of Indian philosophy; The Chinese or Japanese sage will smile indulgently at these brief and inadequate selections from the wealth of Far Eastern literature and thought. ... Meanwhile a weary author may sympathize with Tai T’ung, who in the thirteenth century issued his "History of Chinese Writing" with these words: "Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished." (p.ix)
This volume covers "The Orient." In 1935, this term referred to all of history east of Greece or earlier than Homer.
Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 02 - The Life of Greece
Volume 2 of The Story of Civilization, the Durants' dynamic synthesis of world history, deals with Greek civilization. THE LIFE OF GREECE tells the whole story of Hellas, from the days of Crete's vast Aegean empire to the Roman conquest.
The Durants' picture of 5th-century Athens is a masterpiece of compression, synthesizing the high spots and highlighting the significance of what many consider the most fruitful epoch in history.
"Tribute must be paid not merely to the immense learning which has gone into the making of the book but to the ease of its style and particularly the Durants' gift of concise, epigrammatic statement." (The New Yorker)
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Threaten Our Culture and Civilization is a 2001 book by paleoconservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan.
Here is the description of the book that appears on the back of the paperback edition: The West is Dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the United States, coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation. The Death of the West details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world order that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the preeminence of American democracy.
His book The Death of the West expressed concern at the declining numbers of non-Hispanic whites in America, arguing that few nations have ever held together without an ethnic majority. In a 2002 speech, he said, "In the next 50 years, the Third World will grow by the equivalent of 30 to 40 new Mexicos. If you go to the end of the century, the white and European population is down to about three percent. This is what I call the death of the West. I see the nations dying when the populations die. I see the civilization dying. It is under attack in our own countries, from our own people."[27] Buchanan believes that if these demographic trends continue, young Americans will spend their golden years in a "third world America", which will reduce the nation to a conglomeration of peoples with nothing in common. He believes this can be credited to the 1965 Immigration Act and the cultural revolution of the 1960s. He also notes that past immigration was European, while 90 percent of new legal immigrants are Asian, African, and Latin American and that they are not "melting and reforming".
