The Study Guide, Reader, and Lesson Overviews, used in conjunction with a number of other textbooks, form the core of the Global Civilization study program. Classical World is the second module, or…
This book, while forming the second part, has been written as an independent unit, complete in itself. To bring the book into smaller compass, reduced type has been used for technical or recondite …
This volume brings Jewish, Christian, and Muslim philosophers and theologians together to answer this question, offering rare insight into how representatives of each religion view the other monoth…
This book provides a penetrating guide to historical knowledge and its structure and limits. The treatment given to the origins of historical understanding, its epistemology, and its character in v…
Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material...
The embarrassment of riches is well named. Schama's method is wonderfully inclusive; with wit and intencese curiosity he teases out meaning from every aspect of Dutch seventeeh century life, from i…
The author outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the crueles…
The author looks beyond rhetoric to challenge prevailing - and misleading - views of Islamic history and the idea of a clash of civilizations. Offering a fresh perspective on the shared histories o…
A dialogue offers the first sustained analysis of the trend toward multireligiosity and its implications for the study of religion. Drawing on the resources of cultural analysis, religious studies …
This book offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black…