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The Story of Civilization Will & Ariel Durant

Rarely seen Heron Books collection. The Durants strove throughout The Story of Civilization to create what they called “integral history”. They opposed this to the “specialization” of history, an anticipatory rejection of what some have called the “cult of the expert”. Their goal was to write a “biography” of a civilization, in this case, the West, including not just the usual wars, politics and biography of greatness and villainy, but also the culture, art, philosophy, religion, and the rise of mass communication. Much of The Story considers the living conditions of everyday people throughout the 2,500 years their “story” of the west covers. They also bring an unabashedly moral framework to their accounts, constantly stressing the repetition of the “dominance of strong over the weak, the clever over the simple”. The Story of Civilization is the most successful historiographical series in history. It has been said that the series put Simon and Schuster on the map as a publishing house. For Rousseau and Revolution (1967), the 10th volume of The Story of Civilization, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

This superb 32 volume collection contains;

• OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE,
• I The Establishment of Civilization, Sumeria, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria,
• II Judea, Persia, India and Her Neighbours,
• III China, Japan.

• THE LIFE OF GREECE,
• I Aegean Prelude, The Rise of Greece,
• II The Golden Age,
• III The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom, The Hellenistic Dispersion.

• CAESAR AND CHRIST,
• I Roma, Origins, The Republic, The Revolution,
• II The Principiate,
• III The Empire, The Youth of Christianity.

• THE AGE OF FAITH,
• I The Byzantine Zenith, Islamic Civilization,
• II Judaic Civilization, The Dark Ages,
• III The Climax of Christianity I,
• IV The Climax of Christianity II.

• THE RENAISSANCE,
• I Prelude, The Florentine Renaissance, Italian Pageant,
• II Italian Pageant, The Roman Renaissance,
• III Debacle, Finale.

• THE REFORMATION,
• I From Wyclif to Luther,
• II The Religious Revolution,
• III The Strangers in the Gate, Behind the Scenes, The Counter Reformation.

• THE AGE OF REASON BEGINS,
• I The English Ecstasy,
• II The Faiths Fight for Power,
• III The Faiths Fight for Power, The Tentatives of Reason.

• THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV,
• I The French Zenith, England,
• II England, The Periphery,
• III The Intellectual Adventure, France Against Europe.

• THE AGE OF VOLTAIRE,
• I France: The Regency, England,
• II France, Middle Europe,
• III The Advancement of Learning, The Attack Upon Christianity.

• ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION,
• I Prelude, France Before the deluge, The Catholic South,
• II The Catholic South, Islamic and The Slavic East,
• III The Protestant North, Johnson’s England,
• IV Johnson’s England, The Collapse of Feudal France.

Features;

• Publisher Heron Books/Edito-Service, London/Geneva; Undated [1967]
• Faux Quarter Leather Blacl/Olive Green Hardback
• Superbly Illustrated Throughout
• Size 220 x 150mm, 22kg

Condition: Very Good – No Inscriptions, Very Good Collection

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