Heritage of Western Civilization
Author: John Louis Beatty
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 464
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Author: John Louis Beatty
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 464
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian A. Pavlac
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011-01-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1442207833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage as it began in the first human societies and developed in ancient Greece and Rome, then through the Middle Ages. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian A. Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. The text is also informed by five other topical themes: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for a course on Western civilization.
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780130415769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor one-quarter/semester introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization; or a supplemental text in Art History or other basic cultural history surveys. This concise survey of Western civilization (based on the best-selling The Western Heritage, Seventh Edition), provides an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural development of Western civilization its strengths and weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding it. This brief edition condenses the central narrative without compromising on vocabulary or conceptual level to make it more fully accessible to today's students, and to allow instructors greater opportunity to supplement the course with extensive outside readings, if desired.
Author: Oliver A. Johnson
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Published: 1958
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Kagan
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 1098
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Gregg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1621579069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship between faith and reason." —Free Beacon The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith. But today that synthesis is under attack—from the East by radical Islam (faith without reason) and from within the West itself by aggressive secularism (reason without faith). The stakes are incalculably high. The naïve and increasingly common assumption that reason and faith are incompatible is simply at odds with the facts of history. The revelation in the Hebrew Scriptures of a reasonable Creator imbued Judaism and Christianity with a conviction that the world is intelligible, leading to the flowering of reason and the invention of science in the West. It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths. We can all see that faith without reason is benighted at best, fanatical and violent at worst. But too many forget that reason, stripped of faith, is subject to its own pathologies. A supposedly autonomous reason easily sinks into fanaticism, stifling dissent as bigoted and irrational and devouring the humane civilization fostered by the integration of reason and faith. The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century attests to the totalitarian forces unleashed by corrupted reason. But Samuel Gregg does more than lament the intellectual and spiritual ruin caused by the divorce of reason and faith. He shows that each of these foundational principles corrects the other’s excesses and enhances our comprehension of the truth in a continuous renewal of civilization. By recovering this balance, we can avoid a suicidal winner-take-all conflict between reason and faith and a future that will respect neither.
Author: The Hillsdale College History Faculty
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780916308278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Kagan
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780130277183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA core text for introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization. Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative, time-honored text presents a strong, clear narrative account of the central developments in Western history with a focus on several key themes the development of political freedom and constitutional government; the shifting relations among religion, society, and the state; the development of science and technology and their impact on thought and social institutions; and the major religious and intellectual currents that have shaped Western culture.
Author: John Louis Beatty
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780133872095
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