Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West
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Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West
| Full title | Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West: A Source Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Contemporary Civilization Staff of Columbia College |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The primary-source anthology behind Columbia College’s Contemporary Civilization course, the general-education survey that has run since 1919 and is the ancestor of every “Western Civ” requirement — not a narrative history but the documents themselves, arranged so a class argues with the originals in sequence. |
Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 24 of the History of Western Civilization section, cited as Columbia University Press with no year. That section is effectively a syllabus, and this is the entry that admits it: Li Lu is recommending the reader from an actual course, which also explains the section’s chronological ordering.
About this edition
The documents run from the medieval and Reformation periods through the modern political and economic writers. Columbia University Press published it in two volumes across several revised editions.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Li Lu — the Himalaya Capital founder who assembled it.
- Approaches to the Asian Classics — the Columbia counterpart for the Asian canon, on the same list in section II.
- Education — the course this book exists to serve.
- Reading — a curriculum built on reading primary documents rather than summaries of them.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.