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Western Societies: A Documentary History, Volume 1

ISBN: 9780070648449 | 0070648441
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 8/6/1999

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SummaryTable of Contents
These volumes present a collection of primary source materials from the earliest times to the present intended for use in college courses in Western Civilization. An outstanding feature of the book is the wide variety of source materials included-- readings from literary classics, letters, biographies, chronicles, diaries, philosophic and scientific writings, government records. Women' s history is emphasized throughout.

Preface

I THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST --- NATURE, GODS, AND HUMANS

IN THE BEGINNINGS

Egypt

From The Book of Knowing the Creations

Mesopotamia

From The Creation Epic

The Hebrews

From The Book of Genesis

RELIGION AND NATURE

Egypt: The Nile and the Sun

From Hymn to the Nile

From Hymn to the Aton

Mesopotamia: Fertility and Myth

Innana and the King

Hymn to Ishtar

From The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Hebrews: The Garden of Eden

From The Book of Genesis

ETHICS AND LAW

Egypt: Death ... MORE



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