Landmarks in Humanities, 3rd Edition

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Landmarks in Humanities is a single-volume survey of global culture designed to lend a hand students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts to be mindful and appreciate the relevance of historical works and ideas to their own day-to-day lives. In chronological sequence, Landmarks guides students on a journey of the most notable monuments of the human imagination and the most prominent ideas and issues that have shaped the course and character of the world’s cultures from prehistory to the present. The landmarks that mark this journey are the great works of their place and time and, in some cases, of all time.

The text reflects the creator’s extensive background in the study of Humanities, which has enabled her to craft a narrative that may be at once brief and comprehensive, giving students a thorough understanding of the interrelatedness of more than a few modes of expression―art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music–without overwhelming them with detail. Every of the text’s fifteen chapters is centered on a key idea related to the period being discussed, and accommodates a series of valuable pedagogical features including timelines, high-quality maps, and boxed material. Every chapter also takes a unique cultural or historical point of view, incessantly through primary sources, the stylistic relationship between two or more images and ideas or between text and image, and contemporaneous non-Western cultural landmarks and cross-cultural influences.

In this edition, Every chapter opens with “A First Look” at a landmark work that illustrates the key idea of the chapter and acts as a cultural guidepost to that chapter’s overarching theme. This new feature explains the artwork’s significance as a landmark in its own time in addition to in ours.

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