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Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems & Sources in History, Vol. I
by Perry M. RogersISBN13:
9780130489760
ISBN10:
013048976X
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
1/1/1988
Publisher(s):
Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
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0C-0, 0-13-083203-0, Rogers, Perry M., Aspects of Western Civilization, Vol. II, 4/E*/ = A two-volume chronologically arranged compilation of primary and some secondary sources in Western Civilization organized around eight major themes. The book presents readers with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action and practical necessity while incorporating a wide variety of political, social, economic, religious, intellectual and scientific issues in an effort to present history as a vehicle for better understanding in the present rather than a stagnant observation of past societies. Earliest Civilizations, The Greek, Roman and Medieval Worlds, Transitions to the Modern World, Foundations of the Modern World, The Era of Revolution, and the Twentieth Century. For anyone interested in western civilization especially historians.
Table of Contents
| The Earliest Civilizations | |
| Civilization in the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel | |
| The Greek World | |
| The Glory of Greece | |
| The Age of Alexander the Great | |
| The Roman World | |
| Breakdown and Rebirth: The Crisis of the Roman Republic | |
| Caesar and Christ | |
| The Pax Romana and the Decline of Rome | |
| The Medieval World | |
| The Sword of Faith: Western Civilization During the Middle Ages | |
| Transitions to the Modern World | |
| The Age of the Renaissance | |
| The Reformation Era | |
| An Embarrassment of Riches: The Interaction of New Worlds | |
| Foundations of the Modern World | |
| I Am the State!: The Absolutism of Louis XIV | |
| Dare to Know!: The Revolution of the Mind in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
| The Era of Revolution | |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!: Romanticism and Revolution | |
| A World to Win!: The Industrial Revolution | |
| Nationalism and Imperialism: The Motives and Methods of Expansion | |
| The Twentieth Century | |
| The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Era | |
| The Russian Revolution and the Development of the Totalitarian State (1917-1939) | |
| Europe Between the Wars: Fascism and the Nazi Rise to Power (1919-1939) | |
| The Good War: World War II (1939-1945) | |
| The Jewish Holocaust | |
| The Era of Superpowers: Confrontation and the Dynamics of Change | |
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