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Sources for Cultures of the West: Volume 1: To 1750
Designed to accompany Cultures of the West: Volume 1: To 1750, Third Edition (2019), and Cultures of the West: Volume 2: Since 1350, Third Edition (2019), by Clifford R. Backman, the third editions of Sources for Cultures of the West, Volume 1: To 1750 and Sources for Cultures of the West, Volume 2: Since 1350 feature approximately six written sources per chapter that highlight key themes in the study of Western civilization. Each of the 189 sources is accompanied by a headnote. Each volume begins with a special unit, "How to Read a Primary Source," that provides students with important advice on how to work with textual documents in studying the past. The third edition includes twenty-one new sources.
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304 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2019
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August 3, 2016
This is the companion volume to the textbook The Cultures of the West, Volume 1: A History: To 1750.
Clifford Backman is an excellent writer, and he must speak every language ever recorded. This volume is a collection of primary-source documents from ancient Sumeria all the way up to eighteenth-century western Europe, and Backman translated a lot of them. The documents are grouped chronologically, organized chapter by chapter to match the chapters in the main textbook. Each chapter ends with a couple of study questions that expand upon the readings.
Most of the text is clear and well-translated, but the book loses a star for the ridiculous number of typos. (This is odd because the main textbook seems to have been much better edited.) Most of these typos are harmless but some of them are egregious, as when two main characters are confused with each other because the editors can't keep straight who is who.
Clifford Backman is an excellent writer, and he must speak every language ever recorded. This volume is a collection of primary-source documents from ancient Sumeria all the way up to eighteenth-century western Europe, and Backman translated a lot of them. The documents are grouped chronologically, organized chapter by chapter to match the chapters in the main textbook. Each chapter ends with a couple of study questions that expand upon the readings.
Most of the text is clear and well-translated, but the book loses a star for the ridiculous number of typos. (This is odd because the main textbook seems to have been much better edited.) Most of these typos are harmless but some of them are egregious, as when two main characters are confused with each other because the editors can't keep straight who is who.
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