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A History of Western Society (13th ed.; 2 vol 2020) 1300 pp; university textbook Moncure, James A. ed. Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450–Present (4 vol 1992); 2140 pp; historiographical guide to 200 major political and military leaders
Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization by Bruce Thornton, Encounter Books, 2002; How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill, 1995. Atlas of World Military History, edited by Richard Brooks. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
[1] Contributions also emerged from pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, such as the Celts and Germanic pagans as well as some significant religious contributions derived from Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism stemming back to Second Temple Judea, Galilee, and the early Jewish diaspora; [2] [3] [4] and some other Middle Eastern influences. [5]
Reviews of the second volume from Time and Boston Evening Transcript were very positive. [13] [14] J.W. Swain noted in reviewing the third volume the book was written for a popular audience rather than scholars, and was successful at that. [15] A review of the third volume in Time was positive. [16] John Day published a mixed review of the ...
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
William James Durant (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t /; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations.