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| Sources Of the Western Tradition Volume One Seventh Edition
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Edition: 7
Author: Marvin Perry, Joseph R. Peden, Theodore Von Laue
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Release Date: 2007-10-15
ISBN-10: 061895855X
ISBN-13: 9780618958559
List Price: $69.95
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With a collection of 300 sources, each accompanied by an introductory essay and review questions, this two-volume primary source reader emphasizes the intellectual history and values of the Western tradition. Sources are grouped around important themes in European history, allowing students to analyze and compare multiple documents. The Seventh Edition features additional sources by and about women, new attention to cultural and artistic documents, and updates to introductions and review questions.
[ but why a 7th edition ??? ]
| Customer Rating: | The idea behind a book like this is to acquaint students with historical documents, by giving translated excerpts. The latter are chosen to be succinct and somehow, given the vagaries of time and translation, convey the essentials of viewpoints centuries vanished.
Indeed, this seems quite successful. All the authors and excerpted works will be familiar to historians. So we have Marcus Aurelius and his Mediations. And Maimonides on Jewish learning. The selections are diverse across time, religion and subject matter.
The book takes the pragmatic view that most students, even of history, are unlikely to read the full works of these writers, even in translated form, let alone in the original languages. Thus the acquaintances brought about by this book may well be the only exposures many readers will ever get to these past luminaries.
A dissenting view about the book is based on the observation that it is the 7th edition. All the original authors have been dead for centuries. Their texts don't change. So why, in the space of a few recent years, have there been 7 editions of the book? |
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