File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-07-31.055, message 99


Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 02:36:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Good History of Western Civilization?
From: tallpaul-AT-nyc.pipeline.com (tallpaul)


Try Charles van Doren's _History of Knowledge_, Birch lane Press, New York,
1991. 419 pp., hc. Uneven in spots, hardly Marxist, but interesting. 
 
--tallpaul 
 
On Jul 27, 1996 21:37:54, 'Philip Locker <jesusc-AT-interport.net>' wrote: 
 
 
>Hi, 
> 
>I know this is sort of out of the blue but I wanted some help finding a
book. 
>Can anybody recomend a good history of Western Civilization (It does not 
>have to be marxist) from the Greeks on up.  It could be a serries or 
>individual books on different periods (Greeks, Romans, Middle Ages, etc, 
>18th century) or 1 book!  I'm looking for a all around hisrory in the 
>historical sense, i.e. not that much of an interpertation ,but more what 
>happened (intellectually, cultural, economic, political, etc.) 
> 
>Any help would be appreciated. 
> 
>-- 
>Philip Locker 
> 
> 
> 
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