... The recognition that history involves discovery as much as physics or astronomy does is often unshared by students, whose classroom experience of history frequently does not extend beyond listening to lectures and reading textbooks. The primary goal of Discovering The Western Past: A Look At Evidence is to allows students enrolled in the Western Civilization course to do history in the same way we as historians do - to examine a group of original sources in order to answer a question about the past. We feel that contact with original sources is an excellent means of communicating the excitement of doing history, but incorporating complete works or a collection of documents into Western Civilization course can be problematic for many instructors. Rome - Athens - Augustus - Horace - Greece - Christianity - Medieval - Feudal Power - Universities - Paris - Commercial Revolution - Economic and Social Change Middle Ages - The Renaissance - Reformation - Exploration - Absolutism - Republics
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About the Author:
Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979. She has published WORKING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE GERMANY (Rutgers, 1986) as well as numerous articles on women and the Reformation and urban social history. She is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008), DISCOVERING THE MEDIEVAL PAST (2003), DISCOVERING THE ANCIENT PAST (2005), DISCOVERING THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD (2005), and BECOMING VISIBLE: WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1998). She is also the General Editor of the PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION series.
Julius Ruff (Marquette University) received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina 1979. He is the author of Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France (Croom Helm, 1984) in addition to many articles and book reviews.
William Bruce Wheeler received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1967. He is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE AMERICAN PAST (2012), and DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008). He has also written books on Tennessee history and the Tellico Dam.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin School
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0395475864
- ISBN 13 9780395475867
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages2
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