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The Western Heritage [1] is an American history textbook used for the study of Western civilization and European history. It was published in 1979, [2] and has gone through twelve editions. [3] It was written by Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, and Frank M. Turner. It soon became a "standard survey text" [4] and is published in two volumes.
In addition to being a “special idea” that would set Great Books of the Western World apart, the Syntopicon serves four other purposes, outlined in its preface. The Syntopicon can serve as a reference book, as a book to be read, as an “instrument of liberal education,” and as “an instrument of discovery and research.” [9]
A map showing Charlemagne's additions (in light green) to the Germanic Frankish Kingdom. After his reign, the empire he created broke apart into the kingdom of France (from Francia meaning "land of the Franks"), Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom in between (containing modern day Switzerland, northern-Italy, Eastern France and the low-countries).
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History of Western civilization – 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 swept up Europe, including ...
When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources. This is a list of history topics covered on English Wikipedia :
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The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America (Borgo Press, 1983). Durham, Philip. "The Cowboy and the Myth Makers." Journal of Popular Culture (1967) 1#1 pp: 58–62. Frye, Steven, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West (Cambridge UP, 2016) Jones, Daryl (c. 1978). The dime novel western ...