num_pages: 768
description: Includes over three hundred primary sources. Provides a rich variety of selections including literature, eyewitness accounts, and public documents. Offers pieces that range in length from one to seven pages. Takes a Continental perspective that gives a wide view of history-incorporates documents from political, cultural, social, and economic history. Uses broad themes to make numerous connections within and across periods. Includes pedagogical aids: an introduction to reading documents, development of contextual foundation, headnotes; non-interpretive footnotes, and several review questions.
language: English
title: Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Volume 1: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism
titlecomplete: Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Volume 1: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism
genres: Textbooks, History, School, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 45
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company