Western civilization
Subtitle: a brief survey : To 1789
By: Marvin Perry ; George W. Bock, editorial associate
Contributors: Bock, G. W.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780395529898
Subjects: Textbooks; Western Civilization; History
Table of contents: title: The ancient world: foundation of the West to A.D. 500; title: The ancient Near East: the first civlizations; title: The rise to civilization; title: Mesopotamian civilization; title: Egyptian civilization; title: Empire builders; title: The religious orientation of the Near East; title: Myth-making world-view; title: The Hebrews: a new view of God and the individual; title: The Greeks: from myth to reason; title: The Romans: from city-state to world empire; title: Early Christianity: a world religion; title: The Middle Ages: the Christian centuries 500-1400; title: The rise of Europe: fusion of classical, Christian and German traditions; title: The flowering of medioeval civilization: the Christian synthesis; title: The rise of modernity: from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 1350-1789; title: Transition to the modern age: Renaissance and Reformation; title: Political and economic transformation: national states, overseas expansion, commercial revolution; title: Intellectual transformation: the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.