A new AI podcast celebrating my old bibliography on Ireland at Academia:
_____. "Ireland: History." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. Online at Academia 23 Sept. 2010.*
https://www.academia.edu/336354
2015 (+AI podcast, 2026)
If you're curious, there's an updated bibliography on Irish history at the Bibliography's original website, 30th ed. (2023), here:
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/bibliography.html
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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Conquerors & Conquests
Benassar, Bartolomé. Hernán Cortés: Le conquérant de l'impossible. 2002.
_____. Hernán Cortés: El conquistador de lo imposible. Trans. María Calonge. Temas de Hoy, 2002.*
_____. Hernán Cortés: El conquistador de lo imposible. (Biblioteca Historia de España). Barcelona: RBA, 2006.
Bergamino, Giorgio, and Gianni Palitta. Conquistadores y exploradores españoles. Trans. Ana Doblado. (Militaria). Madrid: Tikal, n.d. (c. 2020).*
de Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris. Gonzalve de Cordove, ou Grenade reconquise. 1793.
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva-España: Escrita por el Capitán Bernal Díaz del Castillo, uno de sus Conquistadores: Sacada a lvz por el P. M. Fr. Alonso Remon, Predicador, y Cronista General del Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redempcion de Cautivos. A la Catholica Magestad del Mayor Monarca Don Felipe Qvarto, Rey de las Españas, y Nuevo Mundo, N. Señor. Con Privilegio. En Madrid en la Imprenta del Reyno. Año de 1632. (Francisco Hernández de Córdoba and Juan de Grijalva, conquerors of Yucatan 1517-18; Hernán Cortés, conqueror or the Aztec empire, 1519-21; Honduras exploration).
_____. Historia Verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Escrita por el Capitán Barnal Diáz del Castillo, uno de su Conquistadores. Madrid: Imprenta de Benito Cano, 1795.
_____. Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva España. (Biblioteca de Plata de los Clásicos Españoles). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1991.* (Biblioteca de Plata de los Clásicos Españoles). Series ed. Francisco Rico. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, c. 1991.*
_____. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (Antología). Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Garcilaso de la Vega, Sebastián, "el Inca Garcilaso". La Florida del Ynca: Historia del Adelantado Hernando de Soto, Governador y Capitán General del Reyno de la Florida y de otros Heroicos Cavalleros Españoles e Yndios. Based on the firsthand account of Gonzalo Silvestre. Lisbon, 1605.
_____. La Florida. Introd. and notes by Carmen de Mora. (Alianza Universidad, 519). Madrid: Alianza Editorial / Quinto Centenario, 1988.*
García Sanjuán, Alejandro. La conquista islámica de la península Ibérica y la tergiversación del pasado. Marcial Pons Historia, 2013.
Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo. Apuntamientos y anotaciones sobre la historia de Paulo Jovio (= Antijovio). 1567.
_____. Memoria de los Descubridores, que entraron conmigo a descubrir y conquistar el Reino de Granada. 1576.
La Varende, Jean de. Guillaume le Bâtard, le conquérant. (Collection Vox). Paris: Union Bibliophile de France, 1946.
Madariaga, Salvador de. Hernán Cortés. Biography. 1941. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
Marías, Javier. "Invasión, conquista, expansión y aniquilación." In Marías. Cuando los tontos mandan. Barcelona: Penguin Random House - Alfaguara, 2018. 69-71.*
Moa, Pío. "40. El espíritu de exploración y la conquista." In Moa, Nueva Historia de España. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2010. 448-59.*
Purchas, Samuel. "[Part I, Book 1] Chap. II § 7. Of America, whether it were then peopled. America new-peopled. Conquerors the conquest of Religion. Americas peopling and progresse. Multiplication of the Israelites in Egypt, and of Americans." In Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: or, Purchas His Pilgrimes. Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others. Vol. 1. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905. Rpt. (Cambridge Library Collection). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. 159-66.*
_____. "[Part I, Book 1] Chap. IX. Great Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related. Alexander. Bucephalus. Alexander the Great his Acts, Arts, Persian Expedition. Alexanders sicknesse, battles with Darius, Ammon-Voyage. Darius slaine. Amazonian fable. Crueltie. Fountaine of Oile. Alexanders Ambition frustrate; danger, escape, view of the Ocean. Alexanders returne, Mariage, Feasts, Guard, mourning, rage, death. (232). The Voyage of Nearchus and his Fleet set forth by Alexander the Great, from the River Indus to the bottome of the Persian Gulfe. Journall of Nearchus his voyage from Indus to the Persian Gulfe. Nearchus his Voyage from Indus to Tigris: honoured by Alexander." In Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: or, Purchas His Pilgrimes. Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others. Vol. 1. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905. Rpt. (Cambridge Library Collection). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. 220-39.*
_____. "[Part I, Book 1] Chap. XI. § 3. The Quantitie and Bounds. Frankes and Romanes. Quantitie, Qualitie, Conquests of Europe." In Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: or, Purchas His Pilgrimes. Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others. Vol. 1. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905. Rpt. (Cambridge Library Collection). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. 245-47.*
Rodríguez Freyle, Juan. "VIII. Conquista y descubrimiento del Nuevo Reino de Granada." In V.V.A.A. Crónicas fantásticas de las Indias. Ed. Jesús Paniagua Pérez. (Biblioteca de Literatura Universal). Barcelona: Edhasa, 2015. 757-1034.*
Sepúlveda, Ginés de. Democrates Primus. (Pro legitimacy of war in Christianity, vs. Erasmus).
_____. Democrates Secundus. Written 1545, censored and unpublished, pub. 1892. (Pro legitimacy of war in Christianity, vs. Erasmus).
Tamames, Ramón. Hernán Cortés, gigante de la historia. Prologue by Josep Borrell. 2022.
Turchin, Peter. "Why Did Europe Conquer the World?" Cliodynamica 12 May 2016.*
http://peterturchin.com/blog/2016/05/12/why-did-europe-conquer-the-world/
2016
Vélez, Iván. Reconquista: La construcción de España. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2022.
Vidas de hombres célebres: Alejandro Magno, Aníbal, Viriato, El Cid Campeador, Jiménez de Cisneros, El Gran Capitán, Cristóbal Colón, Vasco de Gama, Hernán Cortés, Pizarro, Cervantes, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Mozart, Franklin, Godoy, Moratín, Vágner, Dante de Alighieri, Don Juan de Austria. (Biblioteca para niños). Barcelona: Editorial Ramón Sopena, 1935.*
Villehardouin, Geoffroy de. La Conquête de Constantinople. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Ed. Edmond Faral. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1961.
Audio
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España - Bernal Díaz del Castillo 1/6." Audiobook. YouTube (Audiolibros de LibriVox) 22 Oct. 2019.*
2024
Literature
Borges, Jorge Luis. La moneda de hierro. Poems. 1976. ("El conquistador").
_____. La moneda de hierro. In Borges, Obras completas. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores. Vol. 4.
_____. La moneda de hierro. In Borges, Obras Completas II. Barcelona: RBA / Instituto Cervantes, 2005. 119-62.*
Connolly, John, and Jennifer Ridyard. Conquista. (Serie La Crónica de los Invasores). Barcelona: Tusquets.
_____. Imperio. (Serie La Crónica de los Invasores). Barcelona: Tusquets.
Ganivet, Ángel. La conquista del Reino de Maya por el último conquistador español, Pío Cid. 1897.
_____. La conquista del Reino de Maya por el último conquistador español, Pío Cid. Madrid: Aguilar, 1945.* (Prologue by F.S.R., possibly Federico Sáinz de Robles).
Shakespeare, William. Henry V. many editions
Music
Sallinen, Aulis. Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan, Op. 53. Opera in 3 acts. Libretto by Paavo Haavikko, based on his radio play. 1983. Premiere at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, 1984. (The King Goes Forth to France: A Chronicle for the Music Theatre of the Coming Ice Age).
_____. The King Goes Forth to France. Tommi Hakala, Jyrki Korhonen, Riikka Rantanen, Lilli Paasikivi, Mari Palo, Laura Nykänen, Jyrki Anttila, Herman Wallén, Santeri Kinnunen. Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Okkko Kamu. 2 Cds. Helskinki: Ondine, 2006.*
Video
Bernad, Álvaro. "'El Islam viene a conquistarnos': Con Fortunata y Jacinta." Video. (Cara a Cara). YouTube (ViOne) 13 Sept. 2025.*
2025
Crónicas de la Historia. "La conquista de Canarias🔻 un capítulo olvidado de la historia de España." Video. YouTube (Crónicas de la Historia) 12 Aug. 2024.* (Jean de Bethencourt, Hernán Peraza el Viejo, Hernán Peraza el Joven, Juan Rejón, Pedro de Algaba, Pedro de Vera, Fernando Guanartema, Alonso Fernández de Lugo, Bencomo, Bentor).
2024
Tamames, Ramón. "Hernán Cortés, gigante de la historia." Video interview. YouTube (Cima & Holzenthal) 23 Feb. 2022.*
2022
Vox. "Europa Viva 2025 – Empieza la Reconquista." Video. YouTube (El Toro TV) 14 Sept. 2025.*
https://www.youtube.com/live/K0L9tsmOP5s
2025
See also Imperialism; Empires; American colonization; Alexander the Great; Julius Caesar; Hernán Cortés, Pizarro, Napoleon, Reconquista.
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Early works
Miscellaneous
Early works
Carpenter, Edward. Civilization: Its Cause and Its Cure. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
Casabo y Pages, Pelegrín. La civilización en sus manifestaciones artísticas, científicas y literarias en todo el mundo, desde los tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días. 3 vols. Barcelona: Mir, Tarrados y Comas, 1881.
Condorcet (Marquis of). Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind, being a posthumous work of the late M. de Condorcet. (Translated from the French.) Philadelphia, 1796. Online ed at Library of Liberty:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1669&Itemid=27
2012
_____. Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind. Partial trans. in The Noble Philosopher: Condorcet and the Enlightenment. By Edward Goodell. Buffalo (NY): Prometheus Books, 1994.
Diderot, Denis. Supplément au voyage de Bougainville. Written 1776, pub. 1796.
_____. Supplèment au Voyage de Bougainville. In Diderot, Œuvres philosophiques. Ed. P. Vernière. (Classiques Garnier). 1961.
_____. Supplément au voyage de Bougainville. Ed. Herbert Dieckmann. Geneva, 1965.
_____. Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville. In Diderot, Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville. Pensées Philosophiques. Lettre sur les aveugles. Ed. Antoine Adam. (GF 252). Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1972. 1995. 139-86.*
Engels, Friedrich. The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State. 1884. Trans. Ernest Untermann. Chicago: Kerr, 1902.
_____. [Frederick Engels] The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan. 1884. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1941.
_____. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. New York: International Publishers, 1942. 1972.
_____. Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Trans. Ernest Untermann. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954.
_____. The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Ed. Eleanor Burke Leacock. New York: International Publishers, 1972.
_____. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. 1884. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986.
_____. El origen de la familia, de la propiedad privada y del Estado. San Sebastián: Equipo Editorial, 1968.
Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo (Fray). "Senectud moral del género humano (sobre los romanos)." From Teatro Crítico Universal, vol. 2. In Feijoo, Antología popular. Ed. Eduardo Blanco-Amor. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Galicia, 1966. 41.*
Ferguson, Adam. An Essay on the History of Civil Society.1767.
_____. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. 5th ed. London: T. Cadell; W. Creech; Edinburgh: J. Bell, 1782.
_____. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Online at The Library of Liberty.*
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/ferguson-an-essay-on-the-history-of-civil-society
2016
_____. An Essay on Civil Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1966.
_____. An Essay on Civil Society. Ed. Duncan Forbes.
_____. Un ensayo sobre la historia de la sociedad civil. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Políticos, 1974.
Galor, Oded. El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad. Trans. Olga García Arrabal. (Imago Mundi, 331). Barcelona: Planeta-Destino, 2022.*
García Landa, José Ángel. "What Remains Unclear." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 May 2012.* (David Christian, Last man, civilization, Homo sapiens, future, Olduvai theory).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/what-remains-unclear.html
2012
_____. "'What Remains Unclear' (Lo que no está claro): Colapso o Sostenimiento." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 15 Dec. 2022.*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WhatRemainsUnclear.html
2022
Humboldt, Wilhelm von. Sobre la diversidad de la estructura del lenguaje humano y su influencia sobre el desarrollo espiritual de la humanidad. 1836. Introd. Emilio Lledó. Trans. and notes by Ana Agud. (Biblioteca Universal; Filosofía). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1995.*
Hume, David. "Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences." In Hume, Selected Essays. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. 56-77.*
Khaldun, Ibn. The Muqaddimah. ("An Introduction to History"). Trans. Franz Rosenthal. Abridged ed. N. J. Dawood. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1969.
Metchnikoff, Lev Illitch. La Civilisation et les grands fleuves historiques. 1889.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts." In Rousseau, Basic Political Writings. Ed. and trans. Donald A. Cress. Introd. Peter Gay. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987. 1-24.*
_____. From "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts." In From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Ed. Lawrence E. Cahoone. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 41-50.*
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von. "The Speaking Voice of the Civilized World." From Geschichte der romantischen Literatur. 1803. In Douglas Robinson, Western Translation Theory: From Herodotus to Nietzsche. Manchester: St. Jerome, 1997.*
Vico, Giambattista. The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Ed. and trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch. Rev. trans. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1968. (Trans. of the Scienza Nuova Terza).
_____. Ciencia nueva. Ed. Rocío de la Villa. (Colección Metrópolis). Madrid: Tecnos, 1995.*
Volney (Comte de). Les Ruines, ou Méditations sur les révolutions des empires. 1791.
_____. Las ruinas de Palmira: Meditación sobre las Revoluciones de los imperios adicionado con la Ley Natural. Barcelona: Manero, 1869.
Miscellaneous
Ackerman, Diane. The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us. New York: Norton, 2014.*
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. (Pulitzer Prize).
Cheddadi, Abdesselam. Ibn Khaldun: L'homme et le théoricien de la civilization. Paris: Gallimard, 2006.
Christian, David. "9. From Power over Nature to Power over People: Cities, States, and 'Civilization'." In Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004. 2005. 245-82.*
_____. "10. Long Trends in the Era of Agrarian 'Civilizations'." In Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004. 2005. 283-334.*
Clark, Kenneth (Sir). Civilization: A Personal View. 1969.
Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. New York: Perseus Books-Basic Books, 2009.*
Cohen, M. N. Health and the Rise of Civilization. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.
Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. L'Anti-Œdipe. Paris: Minuit, 1972.
_____. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. New York: Viking, 1977.
_____. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. New York: Viking, 1977.
_____. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. Preface by Michel Foucault. London: Athlone, 1984.*
Diamond, Jared. "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race". Discover (May 1987): 64-66. (Hunter-gatherers; agriculture).
http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/mistake_jared_diamond.pdf
2009
_____. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York, 1992.
_____. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years. London: Jonathan Cape, 1997.
_____. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997. 1999.
_____. Armas, gérmenes y acero. Barcelona: Debate, 1998.
_____. Sociedades Comparadas: El Impacto de los Factores Geográficos y Ambientales en la Historia Humana. 2016. (Trans. of Guns, Germs, and Steel).
_____. "Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the last 13,000 Years?" Lecture, 22 April 1997. Online at Edge.org
2012
_____. "La evolución de los gérmenes y las armas de fuego." In Evolución: Sociedad, ciencia y universo. Ed. Andrew C. Fabian. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001. 77-102.*
_____. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
Duncan, Richard C. "The Olduvai Theory: Energy, Population, and Industrial Civilization." The Social Contract (Winter 2005-2006).* (Henry Adams, Olduvai theory, Energy, Population, Crisis, Apocalypse, Exponential Growth).
2011
_____. "The Olduvai Theory: Terminal Decline Imminent." The Social Contract (Spring 2007).
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/seventeen-three/tsc_17_3_duncan.pdf
2011
"Duncan: The Olduvai Theory of Industrial Civilization." Oil Crisis.*
http://www.oilcrisis.com/duncan/olduvai.htm
2011
Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization. 11 vols. 1935-1975.
Eban, Abba. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews. Jerusalem: La Semana Publishing, 1984.
_____. Legado: La civilización y los judíos. Madrid: Sheva Publicaciones, 1987.*
Elias, Norbert. Über den Prozess der Zivilisation: Soziogenetische und psychogenetische Untersuchungen, I. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1976.
_____. The Civilizing Process. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. New York: Urizen Books, 1978. (Manners, etc.).
_____. Of Civilization, Power and Knowledge (Heritage of Sociology). Ed. Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.
_____. Sport et civilisation. Trans. from the English by Josette Chicheportiche and Fabienne Duvigneau. Foreword by Roger Chartier. Paris: Fayard, 1994.
Esteban, Carlos. "Soros participa en el globalista Foro de Davos y deja un inquietante mensaje sobre el futuro de la civilización." La Gaceta 25 May 2022.*
2023
Falgueras Cano, Javier. Somos hijos de la guerra. Lulu.com
2011
Farb, Peter. Man's Rise to Civilization. New York: Dutton.
Flannery, Kent V. La evolución cultural de las civilizaciones. (Cuadernos Anagrama 103). Barcelona: Anagrama [1970s].
Freud, Sigmund. "'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness." 1908. In Freud, Collected Papers. Vol. 2.
_____. "Das Interess an der Psychoanalyse." Scientia 14 (Bologna, 1913).
_____. "The Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest." 1913. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol 13. London: Hogarth Press / Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1955.
_____. "The Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest." In Freud, Historical and Expository Works on Psychoanalysis: History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, An Autobiographical Study, Outline of Psychoanalysis and Other Works. Trans. James Strachey et al. Ed. Albert Dickson. (Pelican Freud Library). London: Penguin-Pelican, 1986. Rpt. (Penguin Freud Library, 15). London: Penguin, 1993. 29-58.* (II. The Claims of Psychoanalysis to the Interest of the Non-Psychological Sciences: E. The Interest of Psychoanalysis from the Point of View of the History of Civilization).
_____. "Múltiple interés del psicoanálisis." In Freud, Obras completas. Madrid: Orbis, 1988. 10.1851-67.*
_____. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. 1929. (pub. 1930).
_____. Civilization and Its Discontents. Trans. J. Riviere. (International Psycho-Analytical Library, ed. E. Jones, 17). London: Hogarth, 1930.
_____. Civilization and Its Discontents. Ed. and trans. James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1961. 1971.
_____. "Civilization and Its Discontents." 1930. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. and trans. J. Strachey. London: Hogarth, 1962. 21.21-103.
_____. "Civilization and Its Discontents." In The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. J. Strachey. London, 1961. 21.64-145.
_____. Civilization and its Discontents. In Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion: Group Psychology, Civilization and Its Discontents and Other Works. Trans. James Strachey et al. Ed. Albert Dickson. (Pelican Freud Library). London: Penguin-Pelican, 1985. Rpt. (Penguin Freud Library, 12). London: Penguin, 1991. 243-340.*
_____. From Civilization and Its Discontents. In From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Ed. Lawrence E. Cahoone. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 212-18.*
_____. El malestar en la cultura. In Freud, Obras completas. Madrid: Orbis, 1988. 17.3017-66.*
_____. El malestar en la cultura. Trans. José L. Etcheverry. Introd. Carlos Castilla del Pino. (Biblioteca Universal; Ensayo Contemporáneo). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1999.*
_____. Civilization, Society and Religion: Group Psychology, Civilization and Its Discontents and Other Works. Trans. James Strachey et al. Ed. Albert Dickson. (Pelican Freud Library). London: Penguin-Pelican, 1985. Rpt. (Penguin Freud Library, 12). London: Penguin, 1991.*
_____. Civilization, Society and Religion. Vol. 12 of Selected Works. Harmondsworth: Penguin 1991.
Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
_____. The End of Order. c. 1997.
García Landa, José Ángel. "What Remains Unclear." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 May 2012.* (David Christian, Last man, civilization, Homo sapiens, future, Sustainability, Olduvai theory).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/what-remains-unclear.html
2012 DISCONTINUED 2025 – Online at the Internet Archive.*
2025
_____. "'What Remains Unclear' (Lo que no está claro): Colapso o Sostenimiento." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 15 Dec. 2022, 20 Jan. 2025.*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WhatRemainsUnclear.html
2022
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/whatremainsunclear.pdf
2025
_____. "Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimiento (What Remains Unclear: Collapse or Sustainability) (May 16, 2012)." SSRN 24 March 2025.*
https://ssrn.com/abstract=5110508 http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110508
2025
Development Economics eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Dev-Econ-Agriculture-Nat-Res-Enviro.html
2025
Economic Growth eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/economic-growth.html
2025
Global Commodity Issues eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Global-Commodity-Issues.html
2025
Other Economics Research eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Other-Economics-Research.html
2025
Macroeconomics: Aggregative Models eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Aggregative-Models.html
2025
Banking, Finance, Economy & Trade eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Oikonomia-Banking-Finance-Economy-Trade.html
2025
History of Science & Environment eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Amet-Environmental-History-Rev.html
2025
Sustainability & Economics eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Sustainability-Economics.html
2025
Sustainable Technology eJournal 24 March 2025.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Sustainable-Technology.html
2024
_____. "Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimiento." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 March 2025.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/03/lo-que-no-esta-claro-colapso-o.html
2025 DISCONTINUED – Online at the Internet Archive.*
2025
_____. "Burbuja inmobiliaria." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 8 July 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/burbuja-inmobiliaria.html
2012
_____. "Comentario Sobre la Auténtica Grandeza." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 28 August 2012.* (F. Storr and C. H. Gibson).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/comentario-sobre-la-autentica-grandeza.html
2012
_____. "Evolución, anaciclosis y dialéctica social de la historia." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 5 Sept. 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/evolucion-anaciclosis-y-dialectica.html
2012
_____. "Post-apocalipsis y civilización: El evolucionismo social en Platón." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 27 Feb. 2018.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2018/02/post-apocalipsis-y-civilizacion-el.html
2018
Graeber, David, and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. 2021. (Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Darwin, Pinker, primitive societies, war).
_____. El amanecer de todo. Barcelona: Ariel, 2022.
Halphen and Sagnac. Peuples et civilisations.
Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind. Trans. Yuval Noah Harari with John Purcell and Haim Watzman. London: Vintage, 2015. (Orig. In Hebrew, 2011).
_____. Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind (Part 1). Audiobook. YouTube (audio book business hd) 6 Aug. 2015.*
2015
_____. De animales a dioses: Una breve historia de la humanidad. Debate.
_____. (The History of Tomorrow, in Hebrew). Israel: Kinneret zmora-Bitan Dvir, 2015.
_____. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. (I. Homo Sapiens conquers the world; II. Homo sapiens gives meaning to the world; III. Homo Sapiens loses control).
_____. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Vintage, 2016.*
_____. "6. Civilización. Solo existe una civilización en el mundo." In Harari, 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI. Trans. Joandomènec Ros. Barcelona: Penguin Random House – Debate, 2018. 115-31.*
Hernández Arias, José Rafael. Oswald Spengler: El destino de la civilización occidental.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations. 1996.
_____. El choque de civilizaciones. Barcelona: Paidós, 1997. Rpt. (Surcos), 2005.
Ingold, Tim. "La evolución de la sociedad." In Evolución: Sociedad, ciencia y universo. Ed. Andrew C. Fabian. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001. 127-56.*
Keeley, Laurence H. War Before Civilization. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
Lorenz, Konrad. Los ocho pecados capitales de la humanidad civilizada. Barcelona: RBA, 2011.
Maalouf, Amin. El naufragio de las civilizaciones. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2019.
Marcuse, Herbert. Eros and Civilization. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
_____. Eros and Civilisation. London: Lane, 1970.
_____. Eros et civilisation. (Points). Paris: Seuil.
_____. Eros y civilización. Trans. Juan García Ponce. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1968.
_____. Eros y civilización. Barcelona: Ariel, 1981.
Mennell, Stephen. Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-Image. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
Metchnikoff. La Civilisation et les grands fleuves historiques.
Moa, Pío. "Introducción – Cultura y civilización – A qué llamamos España." In Moa, Nueva Historia de España. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2010. 17-26, 26-34.*
Morin, Edgar, and Sami Naïr. Pour une politique de civilisation. Paris: Arléa, 1997. Rpt. (Arléa-poche, 76). Paris: Arléa, 2002.
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York: Harcourt, 1961. (National Book Award 1961).
_____. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt, 1963.
_____. Técnica y civilización. Madrid: Alianza, 1977.
_____. The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development. 2 vols. New York: Harcourt, 1967.
Onfray, Michel. Cosmos: Pour une sagesse sans morale. Paris: Flammarion, 2015. (Materialist ontology and theory of civilizations).
Ortega y Gasset, José. "El origen deportivo del Estado." 1924. From El Espectador, vol. 7 (1929). In In El Espectador: Tomos VII y VIII. (El Arquero). Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1961. 67-93.*
_____. "Socialización del hombre." 1930. From El Espectador, vol. 8 (1934). In El Espectador: Tomos VII y VIII. (El Arquero). Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1961. 283-88.*
Page, Thomas Nelson. "The Torch of Civilization." In Modern Eloquence: After Dinner Speeches. Ed. Thomas B. Reed. Philadelphia: John D. Morris, 1900. 3.861-71.
Piggott, Stuart, dir. Historia de las civilizaciones: 1. El despertar de la civilización. Madrid: Alianza.
Quigley, Carroll. The Evolution of Civilizations.
Roberts, Paul Craig. "The Western World Has Forsaken All of Its Former Values." The Unz Review 24 April 2023.*
https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-western-world-has-forsaken-all-of-its-former-values/
2023
Rodrigo Mora, Félix. Naturaleza, ruralidad & civilización. N.p.: Editorial Brulot, 2008. 2nd ed. 2010.*
_____. "V. Por una sociedad desindustrializada y desurbanizada." In Rodrigo Mora, Naturaleza, ruralidad & civilización. N.p.: Editorial Brulot, 2008. 2nd ed. 2010. 75-84.*
Service, E. R. Origins of the State and Civilization. New York, W. W. Norton, 1975.
Shaffer, Brian W. "Civilization in Bloomsbury: Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Bell's 'Theory of Civilization'." Journal of Modern Literature 19.1: 73-87.*
Smil, Vaclav. Energy and Civilization: A History. c. 2017.
Soustelle, J. Los cuatro soles: Origen y ocaso de las culturas. Barcelona: Guadarrama.
Spengler, Oswald. Der Untergang des Abendlandes. 1918.
_____. Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1923. (Civilization; Culture; Decadence; Social structure).
_____. The decline of the West. Trans. C. F. Atkinson. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1926.
_____. La Decadencia de Occidente: Bosquejo de una morfología de la Historia Universal. 5th ed. (Biblioteca de Ideas del Siglo XX, 6). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1940.
_____. La Decadencia de Occidente: Bosquejo de una morfología de la Historia Universal. Trans. Manuel G. Morente [Manuel García Morente]. 2 vols. (Colección Austral, 445-446). Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1998. 2nd ed. 2002.* (Vol. 1: Introduction; Forma y Realidad; Vol. 2: Perspectivas de la Historia Universal).
_____. La decadencia de Occidente. Trans. Manuel G. Morente. 2 vols. (Grandes Obras de la Cultura). Barcelona: RBA, 2005.*
_____. "II. Ciudades y pueblos." In Spengler, La Decadencia de Occidente. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2002. 137-290.* (I. El alma de la ciudad. II. Pueblos, razas, idiomas. III. Pueblos primitivos, pueblos cultos, pueblos 'felahs').
_____. "Ciudades y pueblos." In Spengler, La decadencia de Occidente II. Barcelona: RBA, 2005. 137-290.*
Stapledon, Olaf. "Mankind at the Crossroads." Unpublished lecture, 1947. Selection in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley. Syracuse (NY): Syracuse UP, 1997. 211-17.* (Pro Europeanism).
Storey, G. R., ed. Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006.
Stratford, Wingfield. History of British Civilisation.
Tambling, Jeremy. "Civilization and Natural Depravity: On Forster, Melville, Lawrence, and Britten." In Only Connect: E. M. Forster's Legacies in British Fiction. Ed. Elsa Cavalié and Laurent Mellet. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017. 27-46.*
Torrey, Fuller. Schizophrenia and Civilization. 1980.
Turchin, Peter, et al., "Quantitative Historical Analysis Uncovers a Single Dimension of Complexity that Structures Global Variation in Human Social Organization" PNAS (2017).
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708800115
2017
Unamuno, Miguel de. "Civilización y cultura." In Unamuno, Ensayos. Prologue and notes by Bernardo G. de Candamo. 2 vols. 4th ed. Madrid: Aguilar, 1958. 1.303-10.*
_____. "La civilización es civismo." Salamanca, April 1907. In Unamuno, Ensayos. Prologue and notes by Bernardo G. de Candamo. 2 vols. 4th ed. Madrid: Aguilar, 1958.* (Vol. 2, "Con una antología epistolar comentada por Bernardo G. de Candamo). 7th ed., 1967. Rpt. 1970. 2.439-44.*
Wengrow, David. What Makes Civilization.
White, Leslie A. The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
Williams, Robert A., Jr. Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0230338763
2014
Wood, Michael. Legacy: The First Civilizations.
Yoffee, Norman. Myths of the archaic state: evolution of the earliest cities, states and civilizations. Cambridge UP, 2005.
Zschirnt, Christiane. "7. Civilización. Baldassare Castiglione: El cortesano. Robert Burton: Anatomía de la melancolía. Molière: Comedias. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes. Denis Diderot: El sobrino de Rameau. Thomas Mann: Los Buddenbrook. Theodor W. Adorno y Max Horkheimer: Dialéctica de la Ilustración. Elias Norbert: El proceso de la civilización." In Zschirnt, Libros: Todo lo que hay que leer. Madrid: Santillana-Taurus, 2004. 157-84.*
Audio
Cochran, Gregory. "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution." Interview by Marshall Poe in New Book in History 5 March 2009. Online Audio.
2014
Onfray, Michel. "L'oubli nihiliste du cosmos." Audio lecture. YouTube (Blasphématrice) 31 May 2022.* (Nature, rootedness, civilization).
2022
Blogs
Cliodynamics: A Blog about the Evolution of Civilizations.* (Peter Turchin).*
2015
Films
Civilization. Dir. Adrian Penninck. Presented by Niall Ferguson. BBC series. Prod. Chimericamedia for Channel 4. 2013. (Part 1: Is the West History?) YouTube (Peter Murphy) 10 Dec. 2015.*
2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel. Based on the book by Jared Diamond. National Geographic. Online at YouTube (Zaarsham) 25 Sept. 2013.*
2016
Le Sacre de l'Homme. Dir. Jacques Malaterre. Written by Jacques Malaterre and Michel Fessler. Narrated by Frédéric Fougea. Scientific dir. Yves Coppens and Jean Guilaine, narr. Thierry Fremont. Music by Cyril Orcel. Prod. Barthélémy & Frédéric Fougea, Jacquelin Bouchard, Nicola Merola. Boréales / Pixcom / Nota Bene / France 2 / France 5 / ProSieben / RTBF / Motion Investment Group / Sagrera / NHK / Rainbow Angels, YouTube 17 Oct. 2015.* ("Le Sacre de l'Homo Sapiens invente les Civilisations.")
2017
_____, dir. Birth of Civilization. Dir. Jacques Malaterre. National Geographic, 2008. YouTube
2014
_____, dir. Birth of Civilization (2008). In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 May 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/birth-of-civilization-2008.html
2014
Internet resources
"Civilization and Its Discontents." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Discontents
2017
Resources for the Study of World Civilizations. (Washington State U)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/
2005-11-08
"Teoría de Olduvai." Wikipedia: La enciclopedia libre.*
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teor%C3%ADa_de_Olduvai
2011
YouTube (Fall of Civilizations). (Paul Cooper).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew
2020
Literature
Bryant, William Cullen. "The Ages." Poem.
London, Jack. "A Hyperborean Brew." Metropolitan Magazine (New York) 14 (July 1901).
_____. "A Hyperborean Brew." In The World of Jack London
http://www.jacklondons.net/hyperborean_brew.html
2006-07-28
_____. "A Hyperborean Brew." Electronic edition. In ClassicReader.com:
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.567/
_____. "Una destilería hiperbórea." In London, Narraciones. Madrid: Alba, 1998. 82-108.*
_____. "The Strength of the Strong." Hampton's Magazine (March 1911).
_____. "The Strength of the Strong." In London, The Strength of the Strong. New York: Macmillan, 1914.
_____. "7. La fuerza de los fuertes." In London, Fragmentos del Futuro. Ed. and trans. Francisco Cabezas Coca. Madrid: Tus Libros, 1984. 131-52.*
_____. "The Scarlet Plague." Story.
Monzón, Aitana. La civilización no era esto. Espasa, 2021.
Series
(Points, Civilisation, 193). Paris: Oliver Orban / Seuil, 1988.*
Video
Alvargonzález, David. "Etnocentrismo, relativismo cultural, multiculturalismo y Choque de Civilizaciones." Lecture at the I Curso de Filosofía de Santo Domingo de la Calzada, July 2004. Video. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 11 Dec. 2021.* (Ideology, values, female genital mutilation, cultural superiority, globalization, Samuel R. Huntington).
2021
Birth of Civilization. Dir. Jacques Malaterre. National Geographic, 2008. YouTube
2014
_____. Birth of Civilization (2008). In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 May 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/birth-of-civilization-2008.html
2014
Carlson, Tucker. "Tucker Carlson's Astonishing Interview With Elon Musk." Video. YouTube (Decentralised Fusion) 24 June 2023.* (Artificial intelligence, Civilization, Political correctness, Disinformation, Chat GPT, Control, Twitter, Social media, Investments, Interest rates and banks, Business, news media, attention focus).
2023
Chomsky, Noam. "The End of Organized Humanity." Video talk. 2023. YouTube (The Poetry of Predicament) 1 Dec. 2024.* (Surveillance capitalism, Elites, Environmentalism, Nuclear war, Self-destruction, Progress and civilization).
2024
Civilization Lost. H2 documentary. YouTube
2014
_____. Civilization Lost. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 May 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/civilization-lost.html
2014
The Crisis of Civilization. Film based on the book by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. YouTube
2014
_____. The Crisis of Civilization. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 May 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-crisis-of-civilization.html
2014
"La cuna de los dioses: Göbekli Tepe." YouTube (José Antonio Heredia) 1 July 2015.*
2016
Earth 2100. Online at YouTube (whatcanyouhave) 20 April 2012.* (With Jared Diamond et al.).
2014
Fukuyama, Francis. "The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution." Video (lecture, 28 Apr. 2011). YouTube (Buffett Institute) 10 March 2015.*
2016
Harari and Diamond. "Prof. Yuval Noah Harari with Prof. Jared Diamond." Talk at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 9 May 2013. YouTube (Yuval Noah Harari) 10 May 2013.*
2017
Kelly, Pete. "Breaking News - Astonishing Revelations at 'Oldest Temple on Earth' // Gobekli Tepe." Video. YouTube (Pete Kelly) 28 May 2020.*
2020
Marín, Higinio. "El origen de la civilización: Una arqueología de lo humano." Video lecture. YouTube (Facultad de Teología – Universidad de Navarra).* (Anthropology; Symbolism, Prohibition, Incest, Family, Community, Matriarchy, St. Augustine, Cannibalism, Odyssey, Hospitality and the Other, Private Property, Theft, Clans and Law, Twins, Religion; Offspring, Mothers, Burials, Death and Absence, Antigone, Homes, Temples, Resentment; Sacred; Memory).
2025
Onfray, Michel. "Cosmos." Interview at Librairie Mollat. YouTube (librairie mollat) 27 April 2015.*
2018
_____. "Décadence - Conférence à l'ILERI." YouTube (ILERI) 8 Feb. 2017.*
Pinker, Steven. "Is the World Getting Better or Worse? A Look at the Numbers." Video lecture. TED 21 May 2018.*
2018
Robledo, Julen. "El poder como realidad efectiva – EFO377." Video, lecture at the Escuela de Filosofía de Oviedo, 24 Nov. 2025. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 24 Nov. 2025.* (Cognitive mapping; Strategy, planning, philosophy of action, materialism, institutions, action, intention, ideology, power: Biological, Emotional, Communicative, Social, Institutional, Economic, Political, Strategic, Technical-Technological, Cultural; Retrospection, Planning, Civilization).
2025
Searle, John R. "The Normative Structure of Human Civilization." (Law as Culture Forum). Video lecture. YouTube (Law as Culture) 16 July 2013.*
2015
Turchin, Peter. "Peter Turchin on Cultural Macroevolution – Understanding the Rise of Large-Scale Complex Societies in Human History." Video lecture, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Jan. 2023. YouTube (Institute for Analytical Sociology) 26 Jan. 2023.* (Statistics, Civilizations, Agriculture, Warfare, Weapons, Paradigms, Revolutions, Political organization, States, Moralizing religion).
2023
Weinstein, Bret, and Heather Heying. "Is Graham Hancock Right? Is Civilization Far Older Than We Know?" Video. YouTube (Bret Weinstein) 3 Dec. 2025.*
2025
See also Development (social); Neolithic; Cities.
