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Sources of the Western Tradition, Vol 2: From the Renaissance to the Present (Seventh Edition)
Sources of the Western Tradition Vol 2 From the Renaissance to the Present - Seventh Edition Author:Marvin Perry, Joseph R. Peden, Theodore H. Von Laue [This book] contains a wide assortment of documents ... that have been carefully selected and edited to fit the needs of [Western Civilization] survey [courses] and to supplement standard texts ... In order to introduce students to those ideas and values that characterize Western tradition, [this book] emphasizes primarily the works of the great... more » thinkers. While focusing on the great ideas that have shaped the Western heritage, however, the reader also provides a balanced treatment of political, economic and social history ... An important feature of the reader is the grouping of several documents that illuminate a single theme; such a constellation of related readings reinforces understanding of important themes and invites comparison, analysis and interpretation.« less