Great Issues in Western Civilization

By L. Pearce Williams, Donald Kagan, Brian Tierney

Book Overview

This collection of edited readings (primary and secondary) is organized chronologically into chapters that each present a great issue: that is, a question or problem in Western civilization that is of ongoing interest to students and historians. The chapters present a variety of primary source materials - letters, chronicles, poems, government records, treatises - together with interpretations by modern historians representing a variety of points of view. This approach is designed to help students learn to evaluate historical materials critically and form their own opinions on issues. This edition includes a new chapter on the African origins of Western civilization. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070645760
• ISBN13: 9780070645769
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 3 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"