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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.
The Book Industry Study Group maintains the BISAC system. [1] BISAC classifies all works by topics. It does not favor Western culture, history and religion as much as the Dewey Decimal Classification used by many libraries. All topics and sub-topics are ordered alphabetically, which also encompasses works of fiction.
The book compares East and West across the last 15,000 years, arguing that physical geography rather than culture, religion, politics, genetics, or great men explains Western domination of the globe. Morris' Social Development Index considers the amount of energy a civilization can usefully capture, its ability to organize (measured by the size ...
903 Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances of history; 904 Collected accounts of events; 905 Serial publications of history; 906 Organizations and management of history; 907 Education, research, related topics of history; 908 History with respect to groups of people; 909 World history; 910 Geography and travel. 910 Geography and travel; 911 ...
Gradually however, the Christian religion re-asserted its influence over Western Europe. The Book of Kells. Danish seamen, painted mid-12th century. The Viking Age saw Norsemen explore, raid, conquer and trade through wide areas of the West. After the Fall of Rome, the papacy served as a source of authority and continuity.
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 ...
Local history – study of history in a geographically local context; Military history – study of warfare and wars in history; Naval history – branch of military history devoted to warfare at sea or in bodies of water; Paleography – study of ancient texts; Philosophy of history – philosophical study of history and its discipline.
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a book by University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill, first published in 1963 and enlarged with a retrospective preface in 1991. [1] It explores world history in terms of the effect different old world civilizations had on one another, and especially the deep influence of Western ...