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Score: 1. This volume shows that they can be successfully linked, providing a tool to see each subject in the context of the other, identifying influences and connections. Western Civilization in World History takes up the recent debates about the merits of the well-established 'Western civ' approach versus the newer field of world history. Peter N. Stearns outlines key aspects of Western civilization - often assumed rather than analyzed - and reviews them in a global context.

Originally formulated by the eminent natural scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and expanded by the Prussian encyclopedist Cornelius de Pauw, this provocative thesis drew heated responses from politicians, philosophers, publicists, and patriots on both sides of the Atlantic. The ensuing polemic reached its apex in the latter decades of the eighteenth century and is far from extinct today. Translated in , The Dispute of the New World is the definitive study of this debate.

Antonello Gerbi scrutinizes each contribution to the debate, unravels the complex arguments, and reveals their inner motivations. As the story of the polemic unfolds, moving through many disciplines that include biology, economics, anthropology, theology, geophysics, and poetry, it becomes clear that the subject at issue is nothing less than the totality of the Old World versus the New, and how each viewed the other at a vital turning point in history.

Score: 5. The text contains individual sections on art, gender, religion, philosophy, literature, trade and technology. Book Description paperback. Seller Inventory BZE Please note that we cannot guarantee delivery by Christmas. Condition: Brand New. In Stock. Seller Inventory x Cole, Adrian ; Ortega, Stephen.

Publisher: Oxford University Press , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. View all copies of this ISBN edition:. Synopsis About this title The Thinking Past: Questions and Problems in World History to is based on the premise that asking questions and evaluating sources represents an insightful way to study world history.

About the Author : Adrian Cole is an independent scholar. Review : "Accessible-even conversational-in style, this imaginative approach revives an ancient teaching technique: the Socratic method of asking provocative questions and exploring possible answers.

It asks big questions and provides big answers. Each selection is introduced and contextualized by another liturgical theologian. Through this first-hand encounter with primary sources readers will develop a sense of the broad range of writings available to them. Chapters are What Is Liturgical Theology? Chupungco, O.

Duck; Justo L. Gonzalez; Romano Guardini; Angelus A. Kilmartin, S. Lathrop; L. Edward Phillips; David N. Power, O. Saliers; Alexander Schmemann; Robert F. Taft, S. Dwight W. Vogel is professor of theology and ministry and dean of the chapel at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary where he coordinates the. Book II's new additions include Bertrand Russell on appearance and reality, John Hick on the problem of evil, Carol Gilligan on a feminine voice in ethics, Walter Stace on ethical relativism, Simone de Beauvior and Joyce Trebilcot on the relevance of gender in the assignment of roles in society, and David Swenson, A.

Ayer, and Leo Tolstoy on the question of human destiny. The Gap Theory?. String Theory? Fallen Angels?. Forbidden Archeology? Authors Adrian Cole and Stephen Ortega believe that the classroom experience of debating different issues, such as the origins of war and the nature of empire, serves as a solid foundation for actually thinking about world history. Adrian Cole is an independent scholar.

He was educated at Exeter University and Harvard University. It asks big questions and provides big answers. It will engage students and make teaching fun, exciting, and satisfying. And crucially, it does so by also rethinking--with real insight and passion--the way that history itself should be done.

It also takes a thoughtful thematic approach that highlights what World History can do as a discipline. I also appreciate the authors' insistence that these themes remain relevant today. Johnson, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

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