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The History Teacher, 1992
a political football in recent years in the struggle between the conservative forces of cultural homogeneity and the break-away forces of cultural pluralism. Lost in the struggle is any sense of what exactly constitutes Western Civilization. The major textbooks are no help; few if any attempt to define the temporal and spatial dimensions of the ...
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a political football in recent years in the struggle between the conservative forces of cultural homogeneity and the break-away forces of cultural pluralism. Lost in the struggle is any sense of what exactly constitutes Western Civilization. The major textbooks are no help; few if any attempt to define the temporal and spatial dimensions of the ...
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Poetry and Western Civilization
Academic Questions, 2023Despite those seeking to undermine canonical works and the societies that produced them, poetry remains central to the Western heritage.
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The Future of Western Civilization
2000THE MIDDLE of the 20th century has been considered as the beginning of the atomic age. It now seems that it should be considered as the beginning of the age of electronic computers.
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Academic Questions
David Randall dissects Josephine Crawley Quinn’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History, the latest scholarly effort to offshore the West’s achievements to the rest of the world.
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David Randall dissects Josephine Crawley Quinn’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History, the latest scholarly effort to offshore the West’s achievements to the rest of the world.
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Education and Western Civilization
1987The first question to be asked of educators is a simple but fundamental one. Who do we as Westerners educate, and why?
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The Other in Western Civilization
2017This chapter explores how the Otherness was imagined by Europeanness, as well as the stereotypes, prejudices and idealized image around the non-Western Other. This section not only discusses to what extent Europe launched to colonize the world but the socio-cultural background for the European proclamation of supremacy over the rest of the world.
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Chapters in Western Civilization
The American Catholic Sociological Review, 1949Russell C. Ewing, Columbia College
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1990
If pressed to date the beginnings of Western civilization, one could do worse than to suggest 750 bc; very close to that year the shepherd Amos of Tekoa, first of the recorded Old Testament prophets, denounced the ruling classes of Israel with inspired eloquence.
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If pressed to date the beginnings of Western civilization, one could do worse than to suggest 750 bc; very close to that year the shepherd Amos of Tekoa, first of the recorded Old Testament prophets, denounced the ruling classes of Israel with inspired eloquence.
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