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This book provides the broadest possible introduction to Western civilization in a strong, clear narrative. It fosters lively debate about the West, defines how the West has interacted with other cultures, and shows how Western civilization can be used to understand global challenges today. The text integrates social, cultural, and political history, and it provides a flexible presentation to accommodate different teaching and learning approaches.
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Donald Kagan
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 1104
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Pearson
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780205393923
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Donald Kagan is an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. At present, Kagan is considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history. Source: Wikipedia
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