"The word "civilization" apparently first appeared in a French book in the mid-eighteenth century (L'Ami des hommes (1756) by Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, the father of the French revolutionary politician). Since then, it has had close associations with the West's sense of its own superiority. In order to see the past clearly, we must try to avoid this assumption built into the word."
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Cynthia Stokes Brown
Cynthia Stokes Brown (March 20, 1938 – October 15, 2017) was an American educator and historian.
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