Dc Ver/Altern Ed - Culture & Values: A Survey Of The Humanities

by Cunningham

• ISBN13: 9780155065437
• ISBN10: 0155065432
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities.

Table of Contents

The Beginnings of Civilization	1	(30)
Early Greece	31	(24)
Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period	55	(32)
The Roman Legacy	87	(34)
Ancient Civilizations of India and China	121	(20)
Jerusalem and Early Christianity	141	(18)
Byzantium	159	(24)
Islam	183	(16)
Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture	199	(24)
High Middle Ages: The Search for Synthesis	223	(28)
The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition	251	(28)
The Early Renaissance	279	(32)
The High Renaissance in Italy	311	(26)
The Renaissance in the North	337	(34)
The Baroque World	371	(42)
The Eighteenth Century: From Rococo to Revolution	413	(32)
The Romantic Era	445	(42)
Toward the Modern Era: 1870--1914	487	(34)
India, China, and Japan: From the Medieval to the Modern World	521	(22)
The Peoples and Cultures of Africa	543	(16)
Between the World Wars	559	(28)
The Contemporary Culture	587	(39)
Glossary	626	(8)
Index	634	(32)
Photo Credits	666	(6)
Literary Credits	672