After Collapse Schwartz, Glenn M; Nichols, John J
08/2010
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From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these ...societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and collapse.Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed "collapse." They seek to discover how societal complexity reemerged, how second-generation states formed, and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them.The contributors draw on material culture as well as textual and ethnohistoric data to consider such factors as preexistent institutions, structures, and ideologies that are influential in regeneration; economic and political resilience; the role of social mobility, marginal groups, and peripheries; and ethnic change. In addition to presenting a number of theoretical viewpoints, the contributors also propose reasons why regeneration sometimes does not occur after collapse. A concluding contribution by Norman Yoffee provides a critical exegesis of "collapse" and highlights important patterns found in the case histories related to peripheral regions and secondary elites, and to the ideology of statecraft.After Collapseblazes new research trails in both archaeology and the study of social change, demonstrating that the archaeological record often offers more clues to the "dark ages" that precede regeneration than do text-based studies. It opens up a new window on the past by shifting the focus away from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to their often more telling fall and rise.CONTRIBUTORSBennet Bronson, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Christina A. Conlee, Lisa Cooper, Timothy S. Hare, Alan L. Kolata, Marilyn A. Masson, Gordon F. McEwan, Ellen Morris, Ian Morris, Carlos Peraza Lope, Kenny Sims, Miriam T. Stark, Jill A. Weber, Norman Yoffee
This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of ...Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.
A Walk in the Garden Morris, Paul; Sawyer, Deborah
1992, 1992-05-01, Letnik:
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This collection of essays by notable scholars offers a unique, multi-faceted approach to the understanding of the Garden story. Starting with the motifs, context, structure and language of the ...biblical text itself, the chapters trace the Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions, and developments in literature and iconography. This is an invaluable book for students and scholars of biblical studies, theology, literature, art history and the psychology of religion.
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國立臺灣大學
政治學研究所
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Citizen’s support of checks-and-balances (CB) is one of the most important democratic values in developing and consolidating democracy, a belief that compromise is both necessary ...and desirable. Do Taiwanese voters support the idea of CB? What are the theoretical and practical issues in analyzing attitude toward CB? Are those CB attitudes measured nowadays the same as what they apparently are? What are the origin and explanation of diverse types of CB support among Taiwanese voters?
Taiwan had just experienced the first split-government during 2000-2008. In 2004 congressional election, the incumbent pan-green camp attracted voters by the slogan of “unified and then efficient government”, while the opposite pan-blue camp appealed to voters for the value of constitutional balances. Yet, once the pan-blue camp won back both of the congress and president seats in 2008, the two camps opted for the government structure to which they previously opposed. The dramatic position switch is a rare and
