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 thousands of 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.
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Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan . . He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978-79; 1985). He has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace; several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and short stories on literary reviews.
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What historians call civilization arose some five to six thousand years ago out of small agricultural villages in the river valleys of the ancient Near East, first in Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and shortly thereafter in Egypt around the Nile. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Near East, Byzantine Empire, Black Death, New World, Classical Age, Oxford University Press, Royal Standard, Conciliar Movement, Peloponnesian War, Black Sea, Dark Age, Italian Renaissance, Martin Luther, Northern Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania Press, Asia Minor, Cambridge University Press, Houghton Mifflin, John Ball, Lord Jesus Christ, Penguin Books, Random House, Christine de Pizan, Finley Hooper New!
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What historians call civilization arose some five to six thousand years ago out of small agricultural villages in the river valleys of the ancient Near East, first in Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and shortly thereafter in Egypt around the Nile. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Near East, Byzantine Empire, Black Death, New World, Classical Age, Oxford University Press, Royal Standard, Conciliar Movement, Peloponnesian War, Black Sea, Dark Age, Italian Renaissance, Martin Luther, Northern Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania Press, Asia Minor, Cambridge University Press, Houghton Mifflin, John Ball, Lord Jesus Christ, Penguin Books, Random House, Christine de Pizan, Finley Hooper New!
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- Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources by Pennsylvania University on 7 pages
- Becoming Visible: Women in European History by Renate Bridenthal on 4 pages
- Medieval Callings by Jacques Le Goff on page 117, page 119, and page 138
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 25, and page 35
- The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine de Pizan on page 161, and page 162
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