Culture and Values, Volume I A Survey of the Humanities with Readings (with Resource Center Printed Access Card)
by Cunningham, Lawrence S.; Reich, John J.Edition: 7th
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Pub. Date: 2009-01-20
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES gives readers a solid introduction to art, music, philosophy and literature. Cunningham and Reich cover both Western cultures and non-Western traditions in the humanities, including ancient India and China, contemporary India, China, Japan, Africa, and Latin America, as well as an entire chapter on Islamic art.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Beginnings of Civilization | |
| Early Greece | |
| Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period | |
| The Roman Legacy | |
| Ancient Civilizations of India and China | |
| Judaism and Early Christianity | |
| Byzantium | |
| Islam | |
| Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture | |
| High Middle Ages: The Search for Synthesis | |
| The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition | |
| The Early Renaissance | |
| The High Renaissance in Italy | |
| The Renaissance in the North | |
| The Baroque World | |
| The Eighteenth Century: From Rococo to Revolution | |
| The Romantic Era | |
| Toward the Modern Era: 1870 AND 1914 | |
| India, China, and Japan: From the Medieval to the Modern World | |
| The Peoples and Cultures of Africa | |
| Between the World Wars | |
| The Contemporary Contour | |
| Notes | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index[134] | |
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