| Description |
1 online resource (6 volumes) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Volume 1. List of articles -- Preface -- Historiography -- Reader's guide -- Abolitionism -- Common sense -- Volume 2. Reader's guide -- Communication of ideas-futurology -- Volume 3. Reader's guide -- Game theory-Lysenkoism -- Volume 4. Reader's guide -- Machiavellism-Phrenology -- Volume 5. Reader's guide -- Physics-Syncretism -- Volume 6. Reader's guide -- Taste-Zionism -- List of contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
A six-volume survey of the history of Western thought and culture, presented through 700 alphabetically arranged entries. Each entry explores the origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes of such subjects as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, among many others. For students and general readers. |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History -- Dictionaries.
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Intellectual life -- History -- Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, 1945- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New dictionary of the history of ideas. Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005 0684313774 |
| ISBN |
9780684314525 (electronic book) |
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0684314525 (electronic book) |
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0684313774 (set : alk. paper) |
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0684313782 (v. 1 : alk paper) |
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0684313790 (v. 2 : alk paper) |
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0684313804 (v. 3 : alk paper) |
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0684313812 (v. 4 : alk paper) |
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0684313820 (v. 5 : alk paper) |
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0684313839 (v. 6 : alk paper) |
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