Kindler's cultural history

Kindler's cultural history is abroad-based cultural history composed of works by internationally renowned researchers, published by Kindler Verlag between 1961 and 1973 in 38 volumes, which extends from the cultures of Mesopotamia into the 20th century. Many internationally proven standard works have been recorded andtranslated into German especially for this series. The publisher was Egidius Schmalzriedt .

Title from Kindler's cultural history

(each with the first publication date)

• Henry William Frederick Saggs : Mesopotamia. Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians. 1966.
• Pierre Montet : Ancient Egypt. From prehistory to Alexander the great. 1964.
• Sabatino Moscati : The Phoenicians. From 1200 BC until the fall of Carthage. 1966.
• Stuart Piggott : Prehistory of Europe. From nomadism to high culture. 1974.
• Cecil Maurice Bowra : Greece. From Homer to 404 BC 1960.
• Michael Grant : Rome. 133 before Chr. To 217 after Chr. 1964.
• Michael Grant : Myths of the Greeks and Romans. 1964.
• Joseph Vogt : The decline of Rome. Metamorphosis of ancient culture from 200 to 500. 1965.
• Max Cary and Eric Herbert Warmington : The Discoveries of Antiquity. 1966.
• Myles Dillon and Nora Kershaw Chadwick : The Celts. From the prehistory to the Norman invasion. 1967.
• Steven Runciman : Byzantium. From the founding to the fall of Constantinople. 1969.
• Charles Burney and David Marshall Lang : The hill tribes of the Middle East. Armenia and the Caucasus from prehistoric times to the Mongol storm. 1973.
• Friedrich Heer : Middle Ages. From 1100 to 1350. 1961.
• René Grousset : The steppe peoples. Attila, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane. 1970.
• André Miquel : Islam. From Mohammed to Nasser. 1970.
• Richard Frye : Persia. 1962.
• Johann Maier : Judaism. From biblical times to modern times. 1973.
• John H. Parry : The Age of Discovery. From 1450 to 1630. 1963.
• S. Harrison Thomson : The Age of the Renaissance. From Petrarch to Erasmus. 1969.
• Maurice Ashley : The Age of Baroque. Europe between 1598 and 1715. 1968.
• Fernand Braudel : The History of Civilization. 15th to 18th century. 1971.
• John H. Parry : European Colonial Empires. World trade and world domination in the 18th century. 1963.
• Nicholas Mansergh : The British Commonwealth. Origin, history, structure. 1969.
• Eric Hobsbawm : European Revolutions 1789 to 1848. 1962.
• Robert Schnerb : The bourgeois age. Europe as a world power 1815–1914. 1971.
• George Lichtheim : Europe in the XX. Century. A contemporary intellectual history. 1973.
• Roger Portal : The Slavs. From peoples to nations. 1971.
• Dmitri Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirski : Russia. From prehistory to the October Revolution. 1967.
• Friedrich Katz : Pre-Columbian cultures. The great empires of ancient America. 1969.
• John Eric Sidney Thompson : The Maya. The rise and fall of an Indian culture. 1968.
• J. Alden Mason : Ancient Peru. A high Indian culture. 1965.
• Helen Miller Bailey and Abraham Phineas Nasatir : Latin America. From Iberian colonial empires to autonomous republics. 1969.
• Max Savelle : The United States of America. From colony to world power. 1969.
• Reginald Le May : Southeast Asia. The heritage of India. 1967.
• Romila Thapar and Thomas George Percival Spear : India. From the beginnings to colonialism. 1966.
• Charles Patrick Fitzgerald : China. From prehistory to the 19th century. 1967.
• George B. Sansom : Japan. From early history to the end of the feudal system. 1967.
• Jacques Maquet and Herbert Ganslmayr : Africa. The black civilizations. 1970.

Kindler's cultural history of the West

There was also a series of Kindler's Kulturgeschichte des Abendlandes in 22 volumes, published from 1974 to 1980 and edited by Friedrich Heer (Reprint dtv 1983). It contained some of the volumes from the first row, but also three new and revised ones:

• Volume 1: Stuart Piggott: Prehistory of Europe. 1974.
• Volume 2: Cecil Bowra: Greece. 1974.
• Volume 3: Moses Hadas : The Culture of Hellenism. Becoming and effect. 1975.
• Volume 4: Michael Grant: Rome. Portrait of a world culture. 1975.
• Volume 5: Joseph Vogt: The late antiquity. The decline of Rome - metamorphosis of ancient culture. 1976.
• Volume 6: Myles Dillon, Nora Kershaw Chadwick: The Celts. 1976.
• Volume 7: Emil Nack : The Teutons. 1976.
• Volume 8: Steven Runciman: Byzantium. 1976.
• Volumes 9 and 10: Friedrich Heer: Mittelalter , extended edition in two volumes, 1977.
• Volume 11: Samuel Harrison Thomson: The Age of the Renaissance. 1977.
• Volume 12: John Parry: The Age of Discovery. 1978.
• Volume 13: Maurice Ashley: The Age of Baroque. 1978.
• Volume 14: George Rudé : Europe in the 18th Century. The aristocracy and its challenge from the bourgeoisie. 1978.
• Volume 15: Eric Hobsbawm: European Revolutions. 1978.
• Volume 16: John Parry: European Colonial Empires. 1978.
• Volume 17: Nicholas Mansergh: The British Commonwealth. 1978.
• Volume 18: Fernand Braudel: The History of Civilization. 15th to 18th century. 1979.
• Volume 19: Robert Schnerb: Europe in the 19th Century: Europe as a World Power (1815-1914). 1979.
• Volume 20: Roger Portal: The Slavs. 1979.
• Volume 21: George Lichtheim: Europe in the 20th Century. 1979.
• Volume 22: Register, Timeline. 1980.

Bibliographical information

• Kindler's cultural history. 38 volumes. Kindler, Zurich / Munich 1962–1971.
• Kindler's Cultural History of the West , 22 volumes. Kindler, Zurich / Munich 1974–1980.

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