(eBook PDF) Cultures of the West: A History, Volume 1: To 1750 3rd Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0190070420
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190070427
- Author: Clifford R. Backman
Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world–for good and for ill. The development of such key ideas as religion, science, and philosophy form the central narrative of this book.
Cultures of the West stands apart from other textbooks in a variety of ways, the first being thematic unity. What did people think and believe, throughout our history, about human nature, the right way to live, God, the best forms of government, or the meaning of human life? Rather than maintaining a single interpretive stance, author Clifford R. Backman relies upon a consistent set of questions: What did people think and feel throughout the centuries about politics, science, religion, and sex? How did they come to their positions regarding the right way to live? Backman’s many years of experience in the classroom have informed his approach–students respond to engaging questions more than they are inspired by facts.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1: Water and Soil, Stone and Metal: The First Civilizations
CHAPTER 2: The Monotheists: Jews and Persians
CHAPTER 3: The Ancient Greeks: From Arrival to Glory
CHAPTER 4: The Classical and Hellenistic Ages
CHAPTER 5: Romans and Republicans
CHAPTER 6: Rome’s Empire
CHAPTER 7: The Rise of Christianity in a Roman World
CHAPTER 8: The Early Middle Ages
CHAPTER 9: The Expansive Realm of Islam
CHAPTER 10: Reform and Renewal in the Greater West
CHAPTER 11: Worlds Brought Down
CHAPTER 12: Renaissances and Reformations
CHAPTER 13: Worlds Old and New
CHAPTER 14: The Wars of All Against All
CHAPTER 15: From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New
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