The Western Experience: To the Eighteenth CenturyA collection of interpretive essays that can serve as an example of historical writing. It shows and exemplifies how historians struggle and deal with the past, by discussing the various controversies in history such as the Black Athena question. It presents a chronological survey of the history of Western Civilization. |
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The First Civilizations | 3 |
The Earliest Humans | 4 |
Writing Medieval Womens History | 11 |
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