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Title

Studies in civilization / by Alan J.B. Wace, Otto E. Neugebauer, William S. Ferguson [and others]

Author

University of Pennsylvania. Bicentennial Conference (1940 : University of Pennsylvania)

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1941.

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Additional Authors

• Wace, A. J. B. (Alan John Bayard), 1879-1957.
• Neugebauer, O. (Otto), 1899-1990.
• Ferguson, William Scott, 1875-1954.

Description

vi, 200 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Civilization

Note

• At head of title: University of Pennsylvania. Bicentennial Conference.

Contents

The Mycenean civilization, by A. J. B. Wace.-- Exact science in antiquity, by O. E. Neugebauer.--The artistic and intellectual contribution of Greece, by W. S. Ferguson.-- The heritage of the Roman laws, by A. E. R. Boak.--The medieval pattern of life, by E. K. Rand.--The institutional pattern of the middle ages: inheritance and legacy, by A. C. Howland.--Literature and learning, by C. G. Osgood.--The search for the heroic poem, by W. J. Entwistle.--Unifying factors in the development of modern ideas, by J. H. Randall jr.--Some sceptical observations on the relationship of economic and political developments in modern Europe, by C. J. H. Hayes.--England's contribution to constitutional government, by C. H. McIlwain.-- World currents in American civilization, by A.M. Schlesinger.--A century of American poetry, by Charles Cestre.--Tradition and rebellion: European patterns in the literature of America, by S. T. Williams.

LCCN

41010569

OCLC

• ocm01297071
• SCSB-3970213

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Columbia University Libraries