Matthews, Roy T.

The Western humanities / Roy T. Matthews & F. DeWitt Platt. - 4th ed. - Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c2000. - xxxi, 613 + various pagings : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: The Early Renaissance: Return to classical roots 1400-1494 -- The High Renaissance and Early Mannerism 1494-1564 -- Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, religious reformations and late mannerism 1500-1603 -- The Baroque Age: Glamour and grandiosity 1600-1715 -- The Baroque Age II: Revolutions in scientific and political thought, 1600-1715 -- The Age of Reason 1700-1789 -- Revolution, reaction and cultural response 1760-1830 -- The Triumph of the bourgeoisie 1830-1871 -- The Age of early modernism 1871-1914 -- The Age of the masses and the Zenith of modernism 1914-1945 -- The Age of anxiety and beyond 1945 - -- Appendix: Writing for the humanities: Research papers and essay examinations.

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Civilization, Western--History.

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