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For more information, please contact , . Review: Full Issue COMPARATIVE CIVILIZATIONS REVIEW No. 73 Fall 2015 Editor's Note Matthew Melko He Kept the Candlelight Aglow, Ever Brighter Matthew Melko and the Study of Real Peace Civilizational Trauma and Value Nihilism in Boccaccio’s “Decameron” Brokers of Legitimacy: Intellectuals and Politics in Early Republican China Evidence for a Belarusian-Ukrainian Eastern Slavic Civilization A Biosystematic View of Civilizations: Western Europe and Japan Before and After the Industrial Revolution Cerebral Predestination? Book Reviews 46th Annual ISCSC Conference at Monmouth University, N.J. June 2016 International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015 1 Comparative Civilizations Review, Vol. 73 [2015], No. 73, Art. 16 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Joseph Drew Managing Editor Peter Hecht Executive Editor Tseggai Isaac Book Review Editor David Wilkinson Senior Editor Carolyn Carpentieri Potter Editor Connie Lamb Editor Stefan Gunther Corresponding Editor Nejat Dogan Technical Editor Thomas Rienzo President, International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations David Rosner tel: 1-212-343-1234 Scholarly Senate of the Former Presidents of the ISCSC Andrew Targowski Michael Palencia-Roth Wayne N. 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All Rights Reserved https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol73/iss73/16 2 Review: Full Issue Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015 3 Comparative Civilizations Review, Vol. 73 [2015], No. 73, Art. 16 Table of Contents Editor's Note Joseph Drew ................................................................................................................ 1 A Festschrift for Matthew Melko, Part I He Kept the Candlelight Aglow, Ever Brighter Tseggai Isaac............................................................................................... 10 Matthew Melko and the Study of Real Peace David Wilkinson ......................................................................................... 17 Civilizational Trauma and Value Nihilism in Boccaccio’s “Decameron” David Rosner ......................................................................................................... 27 Brokers of Legitimacy: Intellectuals and Politics in Early Republican China Shakhar Rahav ....................................................................................................... 42 Evidence for a Belarusian-Ukrainian Eastern Slavic Civilization Piotr Murzionak ..................................................................................................... 51 A Biosystematic View of Civilizations: Western Europe and Japan Before and After the Industrial Revolution Kunio Kawamura .................................................................................................. 77 Cerebral Predestination? A Review of CCR #72 Leland Conley Barrows ....................................................................................... 101 Book Reviews Andrew Targowski, The Limits of Civilization Reviewed by Joseph Drew .............................................................................. 103 Barry Cunliffe, Europe Between the Oceans—9000BC-AD 1000 Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman .............................................................. 106 John Keegan, The First World War Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman .............................................................. 108 Andrew Targowski, The Deadly Effect of Informatics on the Holocaust Reviewed by Peter Hecht ................................................................................ 110 Bruce Mazlish & Ralph Buultjens, eds., Conceptualizing Global History Reviewed by Vitaliy Sholokhov ..................................................................... 112 Call for Papers .......................................................................................................... 115 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol73/iss73/16 4 Review: Full Issue This document is protected under copyright laws and international copyright conventions. 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