Primary Sources in Western Civilization, Volume 1 for Primary Sources in Western Civilization, Volume 1 [Paperback]

Courses in Western Civilization I and II; historiography courses primarily European.

 

Now that almost all sources are available on the web, a new kind of source book is needed.  Older source books cannot compete with the free (and easily chosen) sources on the web.  This book really makes students think through problems.  As a professor for over 20 years, the author has used and discarded most source books that bundle sources with a short intro and a few questions.   This book integrates sources within thematic chapters.

 

Questions are placed directly within the text after sources and groups of sources, so there is no need for students to go back and forth trying to remember what they have read. 

• Makes students stop and think about what they have read.

In each chapter there is an anonymous source marked with an encircled X (available to the instructor in the manual).

• Encourages students from an early stage in their college careers to engage in increasingly sophisticated and interdisciplinary historical analysis using a full ranglƒ.