Culture & Progress:Esc V8 (Hardcover)

PART I. Culture and Culture Change, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER I: CULTURE AREAS AND CULTURE TRAITS, CHAPTER II: METHODS OF INFERRING CULTURE DEVELOPMENT, CHAPTER III: MAGNITUDE OF DISTRIBUTION, CENTRIFUGAL SPREAD, AND CENTRIPEDAL ELABORATION OF CULTURE TRAITS, CHAPTER IV: THE DIFFUSION OF CULTURE TRAITS, CHAPTER V: THE ASSIMILATION OF CULTURE TRAITS, CHAPTER VI: CULTURE CHANGE AND SURVIVALS, CHAPTER VII: INDEPENDENT ORIGINS OF SIMILAR CULTURE TRAITS, CHAPTER VIII: CULTURE AND INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE, CHAPTER IX: CULTURE AND ULTIMATE AUTHORITY, CHAPTER X: CULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS, PART II. Theories of Progress, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER XI: THE PROBLEM OF PROGRESS, CHAPTER XII: CONCEPTS OF PROGRESS IN THE OLDER CIVILIZATIONS, CHAPTER XIII: GREEK THEORIES OF PROGRESS, CHAPTER XIV: STOIC AND EPICUREAN CONCEPTS OF PROGRESS, CHAPTER XV: THEORIES OF PROGRESS IN CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES BEFORE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, CHAPTER XVI: CONCEPTS OF PROGRESS IN FRENCH THOUGHT BEFORE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, CHAPTER XVII: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THEORIES OF PROGRESS IN ENGLISH AND IN GERMAN THOUGHT, CHAPTER XVIII: THEORIES OF PROGRESS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES, CHAPTER XIX. UTOPIAS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES, PART III. The Criteria of Progress, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER XX: VALUES IN CIVILIZATION AND IN SAVAGERY, CHAPTER XXI: PROGRESS AND VALUE, CHAPTER XXII: A TIME PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURE CHANGES, CHAPTER XXIII: A PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURE ACHIEVEMENTS, CHAPTER XXIV: CONCLUSION, REFERENCES FOR FURTHER READING, INDEX