The Cultural History of Mankind

Abstract

IN six hundred and fifteen pages the author of this book surveys the whole cultural history of mankind, tracing the development of politics, art, religion, science, literature, economics and social life through the ages. Broadly speaking, his classification of topics under periods is—prehistoric and early empires, classical civilization, taking in, in addition to Greece and Rome, early India, China and Central and South America, the Middle Ages, the development of national cultures, and subsequent history down to the close of the War of 1914-18 and “Beginning of an International Culture”. In the survey of each section the story of the course of events under each topic is followed by an evaluation of the contribution of the period or people under review to progress.

A History of orld Civilization

By Prof. James Edgar Swain. Pp. xix + 615. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1938.) 15s.