Civilization and Its Contents.(Book review) From: Journal of World History | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Aydin, Cemil | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Civilization and Its Contents. By BRUCE MAZLISH. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. 188 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Written by a prominent public intellectual and historian of globalization, Civilization and Its Contents offers thought-provoking insights in a collection of seven well-integrated essays on the politics and historical trajectory of the concept of civilization. Today, scholars all agree that the notion of civilization, like its associa...

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