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- Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizati
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393418715
ISBN-13
9780393418712
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038294819
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Perspectives from the Past : Primary Sources in Western Civilizations
Subject
Civilization, Europe / Western
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
7
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
909/.09821
Table Of Content
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16, From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism ( B.C.E. through 1725)Volume 2 includes Chapters 10-28, From the Age of Exploration through Contemporary Times (~1300 through the present)Asterisks indicate new selections.Contents not yet final and subject to change.CHAPTER 1: EARLY CIVILIZATIONSImage: Göbekli Tepe--the "world's first temple" (c.10,000 B.C.E.)* Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Urim* Hymn to HapyFROM The Epic of GilgameshFROM The Code of HammurabiLetters of Royal Women of the Old Babylonian PeriodFROM The Instructions of Ptah-HotepFROM The Book of the Dead* FROM Egyptian Love PoetryCHAPTER 2: PEOPLES, GODS, AND EMPIRES, 1700-500 B.C.E.Akhenaten, Hymn to the AtonFROM The Middle Assyrian Laws* Herodotus, FROM The Histories: On the Manners and Customs of the ScythiansImage: The Victory Stele of Merneptah (c. 1210 B.C.E.)* FROM The Babylonian Account of the Great Flood* Psalm 137, the Babylonian Destruction of JerusalemFROM The Torah: LawsFROM The Book of Isaiah: PropheciesCHAPTER 3: THE CIVILIZATION OF GREECE, 1000-400 B.C.E.Homer, FROM the OdysseySpartan Society and ValuesHippocrates, FROM "On Airs, Waters, and Places"Herodotus, FROM The Histories: The Second Persian Invasion of GreeceHerodotus, FROM The Histories: Customs of the PersiansThucydides, FROM The Peloponnesian WarsSophocles, FROM AntigoneAristophanes, FROM LysistrataImage: A Vase Depicting a Slave, Perhaps in a Scene from a Greek Play (c. 450 B.C.E.)Plato, FROM "Apology"CHAPTER 4: THE GREEK WORLD EXPANDS, 400-150 B.C.E.Plato, FROM The RepublicAristotle, FROM Politics* Arrian, FROM Alexander the Great and the Limits of Conquest Image: Hellenistic Architecture in the Near East (c. 175 C.E.)Epictetus, FROM The Manual: StoicismThe Jewish Encounter with Hellenism: The Maccabees' RebellionCHAPTER 5: THE CIVILIZATION OF ANCIENT ROMEFROM The Twelve TablesPlutarch, FROM LivesCicero, FROM On the LawsFROM Virgil, The AeneidTacitus, FROM GermaniaImage: A Mummy from the Time of the Roman Empire (100 C.E.)* Seneca, "On the Brevity of Life"CHAPTER 6: THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROMEThe Teaching of Jesus According to the Gospel of MatthewMartyrdom of Perpetua* Image: TKSt. Augustine, FROM City of God and Confessions* The Creed and the Canons of the Roman Church St. Benedict, FROM The RuleGregory of Tours, FROM History of the FranksCHAPTER 7: ROME'S THREE HEIRS: 500-950Image: Mosaics of Justinian and Theodora, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna (c. 500 C.E.)* FROM The Iconoclastic Council of Constantinople (754) and the Second Council of Nicaea (787)Muhammad, FROM The Qur'an* Ibn Fadlan, An Arabic View of the Viking Rus'Bede, FROM A History of the English Church and PeopleFROM The Anglo-Saxon Translation of the Book of GenesisEinhard, FROM The Life of CharlemagneCHAPTER 8: THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE, 950-1100* Fulcher of Chartres, FROM The Chronicles of the First Crusade Letter of the Princes Addressed to the Roman PlaintiffImage: Viking RunestoneAnna Comnena, FROM The AlexiadFROM the Song of RolandFROM The Anonymous of Mainz: A Hebrew Account of the First CrusadeAli ibn al-Athir: An Arabic Account of the First CrusadeFROM the Autobiography of AvicennaCHAPTER 9: THE CONSOLIDATION OF EUROPE, 1100-1250Heloise, Letter to AbelardGuibert of Nogent, On the Uprising of the Laon Commune and the Murder of Bishop GaudryFROM "The Wife of Orleans"Hildegard of Bingen, Letter to the Clergy of Mainz* Image: The Jewish badgeThe Magna Carta: The "Great Charter" of 1215Thomas Aquinas, FROM Summa TheologicaCHAPTER 10: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, 1250-1350* Marco Polo, FROM Prologue to The Description of the WorldIbn Battuta, FROM The TravelsPope Boniface VIII, papal bull Unam SanctamDante Alighieri, FROM The Divine ComedyImage: The Triumph of Death (c. 1340)Giovanni Bocc
Synopsis
Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations features a diverse range of primary sources, offering a total of 251 classic and contemporary documents of varying length, as well as images. In this revised Seventh Edition, the documents have been refreshed based on instructor feedback to reflect the materials most widely assigned in the course, and new documents touch on themes of nationalism, ethnicity, and migration. Together, this content makes Perspectives the most student-friendly and relevant reader--at an incredible value., A rich, relevant collection of primary sources at an exceptional value, Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations features a diverse range of primary sources, including classic and contemporary documents of varying length as well as visual sources. In this Seventh Edition, the documents have been refreshed based on instructor feedback, reflecting the texts and images most widely assigned in the course, and new documents touch on the theme of migration, highlighting the dynamism and movement of European people, cultures, and ideas. Together, this makes Perspectives from the Past the most student-friendly and relevant reader-all at an incredible value. Highlights, Over 250 primary-source documents across two volumes, roughly 20% new to this edition, Longer selections-many more than twice the length of those in other readers, Historical illustrations and photographs throughout, A balanced collection of widely assigned and fresh selections, informed by instructor feedback, Readable and accessible modern translations, with careful editorial apparatus, A new focus on the theme of migration, highlighting the dynamism and movement of European people, cultures, and ideas, Examples of New Sources in Volume 1 (Chapters 1-16) Include, Herodotus's commentary on the manners and customs of the Scythians, describing tribes of nomadic warriors from what is today Siberia (Chapter 2), An excerpt from Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander, which illustrates the breadth f the Macedonian ruler's military campaigns (Chapter 4), Ibn Fadlan's account of the Rus', in which an Arab chronicler comes into contact with a group of Scandinavian traders (Chapter 7), An excerpt from Martin Luther's astonishingly hateful treatise On the Jews and Their Lies (Chapter 13) Book jacket.
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