Somewhat suddenly, after a halfcentury of uninterrupted success, western civ. Cosmos and culture life as we know it is being threatened by everything from climate change to resource depletion. These 12 books will catch you up on everything you need to know about how the world particularly western civilization got to where we are now. Western civilization includes 185 maps and excerpts of. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentariesdrawn from a balanced spectrum of. The book is partly historical everything before 2014 is real and actually happened, and the speculations are intended to be based on modern science. Preventing the collapse of western civilization in times of terrorism, dr. The titles of these great peoples works are in quotation marks for lack of a better option. The shaping of western civilization is entirely different, in that, by highlighting puzzles and debates, it actually shows students what historians do. The rise and fall of a rainforest civilization and region and empire. Content largely derives from the social sciences and humanities with more than 2,000 academic journals and over 20,000 books. Bestselling author jackson spielvogel helped over one million students learn about the present by exploring the past. Today, the grand old course still clings to life at various schools.
Buy western civilization by jackson j spielvogel, phd online at alibris. The author writes in clear and jargonfree prose and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of western history. The restlessness of the western spirit from a hegelian perspective 7. A view from the future is a pertinent, quicktodigest distopic analysis in which the narrator, a historian living in the fictitious second peoples republic of china 2393 accounts for the catastrophic, farreaching consequences of the denial of anthropogenic climate change.
Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought andfinallythe disaster now known as the great collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the west antarctica ice sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Western civilisation is a similarly slippery concept. The uniqueness of western civilization by ricardo duchesne. Since the development of written language, books have played major roles in the world. In fact, the very notion of something called western culture is a modern.
At many other locations, however, it passed with the passing of the 1960s. The collapse of western civilization book by erik m. The rise and fall of the western civilization course. Bertrand russells a history of western philosophy is intended as a history of philosophy, but it also has a lot of history relevant to philosophy more than most histories of philosophy, and it is an easy read. The emergence of the self from the western state of nature and the conciliation of christianity and aristocratic. It is used as a textbook for students in the university of chicagos history of western civilization overview class. Students get a ba in liberal studies from the university of victoria after their 2 years in the program equivalent to 60% of their 3rd and 4th years at the college. Although the authors describe collapse as a hybrid of science fiction and history, it is more useful to view it as a scenario.
The aristocratic egalitarianism of indoeuropeans and the primordial origins of western civilization 8. Executed by the nazis for his involvement in the french resistance, marc block was an amazing historian whose feudal society was one of the most influential works. There is no such thing as western civilisation kwame. How western civilization ended, circa 2014 two historians turn to science fiction to scare the hell out of you about climate change.
Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and finally the disaster now known as the great collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the west antarctica ice sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. The collapse of western civilization columbia university. Roughly speaking, it covers parts of the world where the dominant cultural norms originated in western europe, including north america. The values of liberty, tolerance and rational inquiry are not the birthright of a single culture. Western civilization by jackson j spielvogel, phd alibris. The title of this book is a mouthful for such a slim volume. The collapse of western civilization, oreskes and conways latest work, revisits this narrative through a different lens. In civilization, roger osborne speeds through more than 40,000 years of western history in just under 500 pages, minus bibliography and index. The collapse of western civilization by naomi oreskes. He, and the other activists talk ultimately about the collapse of western civilization, and more so as if it would necessarily be a bad thing. The institute for the study of western civilization seeks to improve our collective understanding of how we in the twentyfirst century came to be who we are. Nef and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Michael youssef, whose ministry broadcasts the gospel of jesus christ to more than 160 million homes in the middle east, joined glenn on radio recently to discuss the growing threat islamists present to the united states. This novella can most effectively be summed up using passages plucked from its. Ideas, politics, and society senior author and general editor. This volume provides an introduction to the sources historians use, the kinds of interpretations historians make, and covers the history of western civilization. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and. Geldart the common elements in european literature and art, by.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of western civilization, a record of the development of human civilization beginning in ancient greece and ancient rome, and generally spreading westwards ancient greek science, philosophy, democracy, architecture, literature, and art provided a foundation embraced and built upon by the roman empire as it. You talk about the collapse of western civilisation as if. Spielvogels engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the western civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and hundreds of years of western civilization. Roger osborne challenges the assumptions that underlie western society in civilization, a thoughtprovoking survey of history from the cave painters to 911, says tim gardam. Jstor is an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journals in both digital and print formats, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three to five years. It teaches world civilisation east and west from the beginning to the present, including history, economics, sociology, literature, science, philosophy, and. I read this simply for my own learning and it turned out to be an enjoyable read as well. Anyone concerned about the state of our world, or, especially anyone who isnt, should read this book. The decline of the west npr coverage of the decline of the west by oswald spengler, helmut werner, arthur, sir helps, and charles francis atkinson. How to prevent the collapse of western civilization in. If and when i teach western civ again, i will almost certainly assign this text. The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the second peoples republic of china presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the socalled advanced industrial societies, entered into a penumbral period in the early decades of the twentyfirst century, a time when sound science and rational discourse about.
The unity of western civilization by francis sydney marvin. The most famous authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, mathematicians, and historians in western civilization, up to 1648. How western civilization ended, circa 2014 mother jones. Find history of western civilization textbooks at up to 90% off. Top 100 nonfiction list is a concise selection of books that provides the reader with an understanding of the social and natural world. Now, with 36 books that changed the world, a fascinating great courses collection crafted from our extensive library of courses, take a riveting tour of the profound impact of books from thousands of years of history and from. The miraculous greek victory at marathon and its impact on western civilization by jim lacey.
The name and original inspiration of the group is britannica great books of the western world, edited by mortimer adler and robert hutchins of the university of chicago. Outline of the history of western civilization wikipedia. The collapse of western civilization is a haunting and provocative book that analyzes how the world might look like less than 400 years from now if we fail to limit the damage we are doing to the. I am also pleased with the lowcost production, as i teach at a campus with many students of modest means. Marvin perry, now retired, taught history at baruch college, city university of new york. The collapse of western civilization gaile pranckunaite. The great conversation, established in 2004, is a book discussion group dedicated to reading the great works of western civilization. He has published several successful cengage learning texts, including western civilization.