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Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations : From the Early Modern Era Through Contemporary Times
By Cat Nilan (editor), John Robertson (editor), Steven Epstein (editor), Thomas Max Safley (editor) and James M. Brophy (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication date April 1, 2002
Binding Paperback
Edition 2
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780393978223
ISBN-10 0393978222
Dimensions 1.25 by 7.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight 2.75 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $49.00
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the ancient near east to contemporary times, Perspectives from the Past offers a rich variety of sources both familiar and fresh. The reader contains excerpts from classic texts by Plato, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Marx, and Mill and includes substantive representation of women writers, such as Anna Comnena, Hildegard of Bingen, Madame Roland, Flora Tristan, Emmeline Pankurst, Vera Brittain, and Elizabeth Robbins.

Perspectives from the Past offers a wide selection of readings from all regions of Europe, including Venetian ambassadors' reports; excerpts from Mickiewic's Books of a Polish Nation and Its Pilgrimage; Czar Alexander II's Edict of Emancipation of 1861 freeing the serfs; the Constitution of the Black Hand, the Serbian nationalist group instrumental in the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; and In Search of Splendor, Constance de la Mora's account of the Spanish Civil War.

Also included are non-European writers whose works have made an impact on Western thought, among them Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Battutah, Luiz Vaz de Camoes, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and Mahatma Gandhi.

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2 edition from W W Norton & Co Inc (April 1, 2002)
9780393978223 | details & prices | 7.50 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 2.75 lbs | List price $49.00
About: From the ancient near east to contemporary times, Perspectives from the Past offers a rich variety of sources both familiar and fresh.
With James M. Brophy (other contributor) | 2 edition from W W Norton & Co Inc (April 1, 2002)
9789990863567 | details & prices | 7.50 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 2.90 lbs | List price $0.02

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