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  2. List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Subject indexing - Wikipedia

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    Subject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms, keywords, or other symbols in order to indicate what different documents are about, to summarize their contents or to increase findability. In other words, it is about identifying and describing the subject of documents. Indexes are constructed, separately, on ...

  4. The Western Heritage - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. BISAC Subject Headings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. History of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Outline of the history of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Bibliography of the American frontier - Wikipedia

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    The American frontier, also known as the "Old West", popularly known as the "Wild West", encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...

  9. Outline of history - Wikipedia

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    Historiography – both the study of the methodology of historians and development of history as a discipline, and also to a body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.