Western civilization in world history

Western Civilization in World History

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-138

  Stearns, Peter N ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84911080738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203930090     Document Type: Book

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3. There are several really good, and critical, assessments of the origins of Western civ programs: Daniel Segal, " 'Western Civ' and the Staging of History in American Higher Education," American Historical Review 106 (2000): 770-805;
4. Gilbert Allardyce, "The Rise and Fall of the Western Civilization Course," American Historical Review 87 (1982): 695-725;
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8. on the continuing idea of Western civ as essential knowledge, Alan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York:Simon and Schuster, 1988);
9. for a critique of memorization history and a plea for analysis, Peter N. Stearns, Meaning over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History (Chapl Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993);
10. Lawrence W. Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996).
11. On forces attacking Western civ traditions: Howard Brick, Age of Contradiction:American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (New York: Twayne Publishers; London:Prentice Hall International, 1998);
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19. on compromise proposals: Betty Schmitz, Core Curriculum and Cultural Pluralism: A Guide for Campus Planners (Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges, c1992);
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57. Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor:American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987).
58. Peter N. Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in World History (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993);
59. Joel Mokyr, The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993);
60. Peter N. Stearns and Henrick Chapman, European Society in Upheaval: A Social History Since 1750 (London: Macmillan, 1992).
61. Karl D. Bracher, The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Effects of National Socialism (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970);
62. Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941);
63. Walter Laqueur, Fascism Past, Present and Future (1996);
64. Peter N. Stearns and Herridick Chapman, European Society in Upheaval: A Social History Since 1750 (London: Macmillan, 1992);
65. Walter Laqueur, Europe in Our Time: A History, 1945-1972 (New York: Viking, 1992).
66. For a comparison of Western democracies in the recent past, Robert Dahl, How Democratic is the American Constitution? (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
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68. Anthony Giddens, Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives (New York: Routledge, 2000);
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70. Paul Kirkbridge, ed., Globalization, The External Pressures (Chichester: Wiley, 2001).