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Title: The Western Experience: To the Eighteenth Century by Mortimer Chambers, Raymond Grew, David Herlihy, Theodore K. Rabb, Isser Woloch ISBN: 0-07-011068-9 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $69.95

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Summary: Tapestry of Life , Through the Ages
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'The Western Experience, Volume 1, To the Eighteenth Century ' is a fascinating journey through the history of Europe and the Middle East, from the Agrarian Neolithic Revolution in c 10 000 BCE to the Peace of Hubertusburg in 1763 CE, which ended the Seven Years War in Europe.
It is illustrated with wonderful colorful maps, and magnificent and exquisite art through the ages, decorates the pages. Examples include a Roman wall painting showing Theseus having killed the Minotaur (pg 69), photographs of Ancient sites and Ancient Greek and Roman vases, magnificent statues such as the Venus of Cyrene , a most elegant and graceful depiction of ideal female beauty (pg 78) , the art of Egyptian , Greek and Etruscan tombs , the fine Christian mosaics in Ravenna (pg 143) , a twelfth century silver reliquary from Aachen representing Charlemagne (pg 150) , a Christian tapestry of Ezra restoring the Bible (pg 177) , a Silk Textile from Constantinople ( pg 193) , an effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine (pg 229) , a Crown of the Holy Roman Empire (pg 232) , photographs of glorious cathedrals , a manuscript illustration of Women Assisting Knights (pg 282) , the Onion domes of Khizi in Russia (pg 309) , Joan of Arc , 1484 ( pg 333) , Procession of the Three Kings by Benozzo Gozzoli (pg 339) , Federigo Montefeltro by Joos van Wassenhove and Pedro Berruguete (pg 358) , The Expulsion of Adam ca 1425 and Eve by Masaccio (pg 362) , Birth of Venus ca 1480 by Sandro Boticcelli , the Creation of Man by Michelangelo , Bacchanai by Titian 1518 (pg 367) , The Peasant Dance 1567 (pg 388) , The Three Ages of Women 1510 by Hans Baldung Grien (pg 390) , Cartoon from Lutheran Woodcut Broadside (pg 402) , Carnival and Lent 1559 by Pieter Brueghel The Elder ( pg 427) , Francis I and His Court (pg 443) , The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day by Francois Dubois (pg 460) , The Spanish Inquisition 1560 (pg 489) , The Ecstasy of St Theresa 1652 (pg 517) , Judith Slaying Holofernes 1620 (pg 523) , The Palace of Versailles in 1668 (pg 534) , Maria Theresa And Her Family , 1750 (pg 563) , Engraving From The Westminster Magazine , 1774 (pg 567) and The Battle of Fontenoy , 1745 (pg 568) are just a few of the host of splendid works of art throughout the ages which this book presents. These are not just decorations but give us the essence of the life of the ages explored in this book.
This book explores the politics, economics, society, culture, art and literature of the various periods covered. It also explores the roles of women.
Unlike many books about World History, there is a fairly comprehensive section on Ancient Israel, which is unfortunately referred to as usual as Palestine (Palestine was named by the Emperor Hadrian around 70 BCE, in order to humiliate the Jews, by using the name of their ancient enemies, the Philistines).
The religious conflicts and the Reformation and Renaissance are well covered.
This book arouses your interest for more information giving a list of resources at the end of each chapter. But you can also look up topics on the Internet for more information. The book, including through, the art gives you a real feeling for the men, women and children who lived through these ages-as well as the past affects the present today. We must also remember that not everything in past ages was to do with wars and troubles, there where great cultures and nations that thrived, and people lived their lives, worked, celebrated and loved.
All people should keep the legacy of the traditions, and history should be seen as a continuum, whereby we try to conserve all that is good, and grow rather than discard.
It only through knowledge of where we came from, that we can really be whole human beings today.