The Mainstream of Civilization

Chodorow, Stanley; Knox, MacGregor; Schirokauer, Conrad; Strayer, Joseph R.; Gatzke, Hans W.

ISBN 10: 0155011979 / ISBN 13: 9780155011977

Published by Wadsworth Publishing, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mainstream of Civilization
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0155011979
• ISBN 13: 9780155011977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

This affordable text offers a traditional political history approach in one convenient volume. A classic survey of Western civilization, this text has remained popular for its balanced coverage and its consistent efforts to explain why history exhibits the patterns it has.

About the Author

Conrad Schirokauer currently serves as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University as well as Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. In addition to A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE CIVILIZATIONS (and its separate volumes on China and Japan), he has published articles on Song intellectual history and served as co-editor (with Robert Hymes) of ORDERING THE WORLD: APPROACHES TO STATE AND SOCIETY IN SUNG DYNASTY CHINA and as translator of CHINA'S EXAMINATION HELL, by Miyazaki Ichisada.