Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment - To 1715The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western influences, and 2) power in all its senses, public and private; economic, social, cultural, and political; symbolic and real. |
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... human beings and human society . Physi- cal anthropologists , archaeologists , and bio- chemists continue to make discoveries that call for the reassessment of previous theories . Still , there are some things about which we are rela ...
... human beings and human society . Physi- cal anthropologists , archaeologists , and bio- chemists continue to make discoveries that call for the reassessment of previous theories . Still , there are some things about which we are rela ...
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... human skull is distinctive , but differences between the modern and archaic human brain are a matter of scholarly debate . What no one debates , however , is that around 40,000 years ago modern humans put a revolution into effect : They ...
... human skull is distinctive , but differences between the modern and archaic human brain are a matter of scholarly debate . What no one debates , however , is that around 40,000 years ago modern humans put a revolution into effect : They ...
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... human body - and the betraying sense data it offers . In a leap of faith , Descartes presumed that he could count on the fact that God would not have given humans a mind if that mind were to betray them . For Descartes , God became the ...
... human body - and the betraying sense data it offers . In a leap of faith , Descartes presumed that he could count on the fact that God would not have given humans a mind if that mind were to betray them . For Descartes , God became the ...
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The Ancestors of the West | 1 |
Neolithic and Copper Age Europe | 5 |
Arts and Sciences | 11 |
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