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Softcover, no jacket. Condition: fine. Clean, bright cover; corners sharp; clean text, no markings. Pages = xiii+156; two maps. One volume in The Development of Western Civilization series. Edward W. Fox, series editor. Cornell University Press, 1968. *** The books in this listing represent a full collection of this series, for sale as a set. The price quoted includes all 14 volumes. All volumes can be seen on the bookseller's storefront page on the AbeBooks site. Oversize, additional postage required.*** This series of narrative essays was created to provide material for the course in western civilization at Cornell University. Authors are eminent scholars and specialists in their field. The series was to "be brief, well written, based on unquestioned scholarship, assume almost no previous historical knowledge on the part of the reader, provide a coherent analysis, [and] constitute a systematic introduction to the collective memory of that tradition." Reading this collection replicates a university-level study in western civilization. *** All volumes are paperbound, in VG condition or better; format is small octavo (5.5 in. x 8.25 in.). Each volume includes a chronological summary for its period, suggestions for further reading, and index. *** Full list of volumes in this series: Harry M. Orlinsky, Ancient Israel; Morton Smith, The Ancient Greeks; Chester G. Starr, Jr., The Emergence of Rome as Ruler of the Western World; Solomon Katz, The Decline of Rome and the Rise of Mediaeval Europe; Richard E. Sullivan, Heirs of the Roman Empire; Sidney Painter, Mediaeval Society; Marshall W. Baldwin, The Mediaeval Church; Sidney Painter, The Rise of the Feudal Monarchies; Robert E. Lerner, The Age of Adversity: The Fourteenth Century; Jerah Johnson and William Percy, The Age of Recovery: The Fifteenth Century; E. Harris Harbison, The Age of Reformation; Charles E. Nowell, The Great Discoveries and the First Colonial Empires; Carl J. Friedrich and Charles Blitzer, The Age of Power; Frank E. Manuel, The Age of Reason.
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