Historical context is particularly significant because many people, particularly Canadians who don't know much of the history of
Western civilization, have had their ignorance exploited.
But science itself is predicated on a whole host of other civilizational characteristics, all of which coalesced in what was once known as "Christendom" and has, more recently, come to be known as
Western Civilization.
Campbell seeks to acquaint readers with a high-level overview of the course of
Western Civilization within the larger context of world history using selections of primary source material from the Modern Age.
"The most fundamental key to the rise of
Western civilization has been the dedication of so many of its most brilliant minds to the pursuit of knowledge.
The new
Western Civilization textbook by Hutton, Marchand, and Harkness is a vast improvement over many textbooks today.
But the burst of the dot-com bubble, punctuated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, brought "declinology" back into the public debate about
Western civilization. Pessimism throughout society is now deepening, Eckersley says.
The Ayatollah strongly criticized the
western civilization and said this civilization is based on exploiting humans and materialism and is far from ethics.
ERIC Descriptors: Undergraduate Study; College Curriculum; Introductory Courses;
Western Civilization; Graduation Requirements; Required Courses; United States History; Cognitive Structures; Schemata (Cognition); History Instruction
Making Headway: The Introduction of
Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria.
This book, which is about the competing meaning of
Western civilization among northern Nigeria's vast communal groupings, documents the perspectives of colonial administrators and Christian missionaries, as well as the reactions of various peoples and local rulers, especially emirs, chiefs, and Islamic clerics under British colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century.