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9780073513249

Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, from the Renaissance to the Present : Sources, Images, and Interpretations, from the Renaissance to the Present

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    9780073513249

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    0073513245

  • Edition: 7th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-09
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and 6,000 years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts' full historical significance.

Table of Contents

Renaissance, Reformation, And Expansion
The Renaissance Primary Sources
A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
On the Liberal Arts
The City of Ladies
The Prince
The Book of the Courtier Visual Sources
The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Wealth
Culture
and Diplomacy (illustration) Secondary Sources
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Peter Burke
The Myth of the Renaissance
Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Northern Sources of the Renaissance
The Reformation Primary Sources
The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
Justification by
On the Bondage of the Will
Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
Institutes of the Christian Religion: Predestination Constitution of the Society of Jesus Teresa of Avila
The Way of Perfection Visual Sources Luther and the New Testament (illustration)
Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration) Secondary Sources
What was the Reformation?
A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
The Catholic Reformation
The Legacy of the Reformation
Women in the Reformation
Overseas Expansion and New Politics Primary Sources
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Letter to Lord Sanchez 1493
Memoirs: The Aztecs
Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics Visual Sources
The Assets and Liabilities of Empire (text and illustration) The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs (illustration) Exploration
Expansion, and Politics (maps) Secondary Sources
The Expansion of Europe
The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Red
White
and Black: The Peoples of Early America
The Early Modern Period
War and Revolution: 1560-1660 Primary Sources
Civil War in
Political Will and Testament
The Powers of the Monarch in England The House of Commons
The Powers of Parliament in England
The Hammer of Witches Visual Sources
War and Violence (illustration)
Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and illustration) Germany and the Thirty Years' War (maps) Secondary Sources
A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years'
A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years'
War and Peace in the Old Regime
The Causes of the English Civil War
The Devil's Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century Primary Sources
Austria Over All If She
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