This classic volume is now available in paperback. No better teacher of general anthropology can be imagined than A. L. Kroeber.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

The Way of the World asserts that the human race has been borne on the waters of a great river--a river of scientific and technological innovation that has been flowing in the Western world for a thousand years, and that now surges forward ...

Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses.

A history of cilization in Italy from the birth of Petrarch to the death of Titian - 1304 to 1576.

This text gains coherence through decisions about time, about place, and about topic. In all three cases, the book encourages analysis, relating facts to vital issues of interpretation.

Traces the history of the world's major civilizations discussing their special characteristics and contributions.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.