Ideas That Shaped Our World: Great Concepts of Then and Now
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ISBN: 1571450882 / Publisher: Thunder Bay Pr, July 1997
Summarizes key ideological advances in politics, philosophy, human sciences, the arts, and science during the past 250 years
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A timeline of Western thought from 3300 BC (marking writing's development) to AD 1750 (the Enlightenment-era publication of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws ) lays the foundation for a well-illustrated introduction to intellectual milestones of the last 250 years. One wonders if the covered subject areas are in priority order: politics, philosophy and spirituality, human sciences, the arts, and science. Oversize (9.25x11.75
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