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In response to the success of The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, Michael Burger has written an overview that now covers the entire history of Western civilization from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Shorter and less expensive than its competitors, the new overview discusses many of the West's predominant civilizations, including the ancient Near East, classical Greece, the Roman Republic and Empire, medieval Europe, and modern North America. Unlike other histories that pile on dates and facts, The Shaping of Western Civilization provides a more coherent and interpretive synthesis of information. Burger's skills as a writer give readers the required background to ask meaningful questions of historical sources, especially those collected in the related anthologies, Sources for the History of Western Civilization: Volume I and Volume II.
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