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A Brief History of the Western World
by Thomas H. Greer, Gavin Lewis
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers (2001-05-10)
ISBN: 0155074997
EAN: 9780155074996
Dewy Decimal #: 909
Paperback: 816 pages
Edition: 8th
SKU: 722q-7.87
Condition: New
Comments: New book, new condition. 5 star service. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
This text, which pioneered the brief format for this subject, provides a comprehensive view of the development of Western civilization in half the pages of other texts on this subject. Not simply an abridgement of a longer book, this text offers students in survey courses a concise, lucid narrative. Broad coverage of political, social, cultural, and religious themes gives instructors the flexibility to tailor their instruction, and to assign supplementary materials as desired.
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Clear, coherent, concise, expert; in short, bang-up!
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-07-23
6 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
As any historian will agree, to write a "brief history of the Western world" is a daunting task, even for a stable of collaborators. Amazing, then, that Prof's Greer and Lewis display expertise even regarding the most mundane of subjects. Granted, from time to time, their focus on western Europe leads them to use words such as "church," "Christian," and "Europe" as if the west were all (as when they discuss the conflict between the Enlightenment view of human perfectability and the dogma of "the Church" by which they mean that of the Roman Catholic/Protestant offshoot of Christianity's main, Greek-speaking trunk), but it's a swell text despite such predictable failings. The prose is good, the p.c. trendiness is limited (Maya Angelou the only contemporary author on their timeline, e.g.), and the bases are covered.
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