An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World II.

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AN INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
by Harry Elmer Barnes
This remarkable set is generally considered to be the magnum opus of one of America's foremost historians and social scientists. Some ten years in the making, it is the only book in the English language to accomplish a nearly impossible task: tracing the origins and surveying the development of Western culture. It is not simply a history in the narrower range of political or diplomatic history, or a chronicle of contemporary events, but a very profound, systematic tracing and evaluating of the myriad threads that have gone to make up culture from its emergence in the Paleolithic to the present.
Organized chronologically into cultural areas and periods, this set ranges over every aspect of man's achievement up to the present: institutions, social structures, ideas, economic systems, art, literature, music, architecture, technology, social thought, mathematics, the sciences, medicine, philosophy,... Tovább

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AN INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
by Harry Elmer Barnes
This remarkable set is generally considered to be the magnum opus of one of America's foremost historians and social scientists. Some ten years in the making, it is the only book in the English language to accomplish a nearly impossible task: tracing the origins and surveying the development of Western culture. It is not simply a history in the narrower range of political or diplomatic history, or a chronicle of contemporary events, but a very profound, systematic tracing and evaluating of the myriad threads that have gone to make up culture from its emergence in the Paleolithic to the present.
Organized chronologically into cultural areas and periods, this set ranges over every aspect of man's achievement up to the present: institutions, social structures, ideas, economic systems, art, literature, music, architecture, technology, social thought, mathematics, the sciences, medicine, philosophy, religion, political structures and the other threads of human accomplishment that have made up our present or have been important in the past. It summarizes and evaluates the achievement of every culture in the Western World, lists and evaluates the contributions of hundreds of the world's most important men in all areas of thought and action.
This new edition of Dr. Barnes's work has been revised and corrected in the light of the most recent research and understandings. A team of world-famous scholars, in addition, has undertaken to bring the survey up to the present, so that the reader will have a full coverage of human culture up to the early 1960's, with a statement on every important contribution to the arts and sciences.
Reviewers said of the first edition: "Such a work could only have been done by a man of gigantic industry, exceptional intelligence, and special training . . . the need for a guide to intellectual history has now at last been amply and adequately supplied," Preserved Smith, N.Y. Herald Tribune. "Sound and extremely valuable . . . intelligent selection and lucid presentation a book which every college and university student should be required to read," D. H. Finlayson, Cornell University. "No former history of the intellectual development of Europe can compare with this book in comprehensiveness of matter and attractiveness of style . . . masterly," D. S. Muzzey, Columbia University.
Enlarged, greatly revised edition (1964). 12 illustrations; 12 diagrams. Indices. Total of xxix + 1381pp. 53/g x 814.
T1275. Vol. I. (Earliest Times through Middle Ages) Paperbound $2.00 T1276. Vol. II. (Renaissance through 18th Century) Paperbound $2.00 T1277. Vol. III. (19th Century to Present) Paperbound $2.00
Three-volume set, Paperbound $6.00
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