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050			_aCB245.M375
100			_aMatthews, Roy T.
245			_aThe Western humanities _cRoy T. Matthews & F. DeWitt Platt.
250			_a 4th ed.
260			_aMountain View, Calif. : _bMayfield Pub. Co., _c©2001.
300			_axxxi,613 + various pagings: _b ill. (some col.), col. maps ; _c 28 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_aContents: Prehistory and near eastern civilizations -- Aegean civilizations: The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the archaic age -- Classical Greek civilization: The Hellenic age -- Classical Greek civilization: The hellenistic age -- Roman civilization: The Pre - christian centuries -- Judaism and the rise of christianity -- Late Roman civilization -- The successors of Rome: Byzantium, Islam and the early medieval west -- The High middle ages: The Christain centuries -- The Late middle ages: 1300 - 1500 -- The Early renaissance: Return to classical roots 1400-1494 -- The High renaissance and early mannerism: 1494-1564 -- Northern humanism, northern renaissance, religious reformations, and late mannerism: 1500-1603 -- The Baroque age: Glamour and grandiosity 1600-1715 -- The Baroque age II: Revolutions in scientific and political thought 1600-1715 -- The age of reason: 1700-1789 -- Revolution, reaction and cultural response 1760-1830 -- The Triumph of the bourgeoisie: 1830-1871 -- The Age of early modernism: 1871-1914 -- The Age of the masses and the Zenith of modernism: 1914-1945 -- The Age of Anxiety and beyond 1945- -- Appendix: Writing for the humanities: Research papers and essay examinations -- Glossary
650			_aCivilization, Western _xHistory
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