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Civilization, Western

Here are entered works on the civilization stemming from the Greco-Roman traditions of the Occident, or the region conventionally designated as the West, in contrast to those of Islam, India, or the East.

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• Civilization, Western -- 19th century
• Civilization, Western -- African influences
• Civilization, Western -- Austria
• Civilization, Western -- Chinese influences
• Civilization, Western -- Fiction
• Civilization, Western -- Greek influences
• Civilization, Western -- History
• Civilization, Western -- Islamic influences
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• Civilization, Western -- Periodicals
• Civilization, Western -- Poetry
• Civilization, Western -- Sources
• Civilization, Western -- Study and teaching
• China -- Civilization -- Western influences
• East and West
• Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences
• Motion pictures -- Western influences
• Music -- Western influences
• Russia -- Civilization -- Western influences
• Soviet Union -- Civilization -- Western influences
• Turkey -- Civilization -- Western influences

• Civilization, Occidental
• Occidental civilization
• Western civilization
• Western countries -- Civilization
• Western culture

• The Collapse of Civilization (New York: Church Peace Union, 1914), by Church Peace Union (page images here at Penn)
• Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chapters in Western civilization (Columbia University Press, 1961), by Columbia College (Columbia University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The peace aims of humanity (The Orange Press, 1943), by Powell Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im Spiegel Chinas, vom Zusammenstoss unserer westlichen mit asiatischer Kultur und Bolschewismus. (K. Vowinckel, 1925), by Gustav Amann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The races of Europe : a sociological study. (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1965), by William Zebina Ripley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ... Western races and the world; essays arranged and ed. by F. S. Marvin ... (H. Milford, 1922), by Francis Sydney Marvin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chapters in Western civilization (Columbia Univ. Press, 1948), by Columbia University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chapters in Western civilization (Columbia University Press, 1954), by Columbia College (Columbia University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zmierzch światopoglądu naukowego (Odnowa, 1974), by Henryk Skolimowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oriental and occidental cultures contrasted: an introduction to "culturology," (The Gillick press, 1943), by Chʻi-yü Chêng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conflict and conciliation of cultures (College of the Pacific Press, 1951), by Ralph Tyler Flewelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oriental and Occidental culture : an interpretation (Century Co., 1928), by Maurice Parmelee (page images at HathiTrust)
• In defense of the West, a political and economic study (Duke university press, 1942), by Herbert von Beckerath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Défense de l'Occident. (Plon, 1927), by Henri Massis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nanban kibun sen. (1926), by Sōsen Mishima (page images at HathiTrust)
• German reconstruction and the invention of the West (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• M. Thomas G. Masaryk, President de la Republique Tchecoslovaque a l'inauguration de l'Institut d'etudes Slaves a Paris : le dix-sept Octobre de l'an MCMXXIII. (s.n., 1923), by T. G. Masaryk, Vojtěch Preissig, and Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne. Institut d'études slaves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1913), by William Zebina Ripley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westward empire; or, The great drama of human progress. (Harper & Brothers, 1856), by Elias Lyman Magoon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Asien als Erzieher. (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1920), by Paul Cohen-Portheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the West with China. (Trübner, 1887), by Pierre Laffitte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Auferstehung des Abendlandes; die abendländische Kultur als Ausfluss des planetarischen Weltgefühls, Entwicklung und Zukunft. (W. Heimberg, 1923), by Otto Dickel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Development of contemporary civilization (D.C. Heath and Company, 1940), by William J. Bossenbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Lebensproblem in China und Europa (Quelle & Meyer, 1922), by Rudolf Eucken and Carson Chang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origen y desarrollo de las instituciones occidentales : exposición y crítica de las nuevas ideas (Sempere, 1908), by Alvaro Armando Vasseur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from a Chinese official: being an eastern view of western civilization. (Doubleday, Page, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unity of Western civilization (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1922), by Francis Sydney Marvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschland und die abendländische Civilisation. Zur läuterung unserer politischen und socialen Begriffe. (Karl Göpel, 1852), by Gustav Diezel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de l'Occident (Perrin et cie., 1904), by Adrien Mithouard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untergang der Welt durch schwarze Magie (Verlag "Die Fackel", 1925), by Karl Kraus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our heritage : (a romance of the Sierras) in five books (H E Roxburgh, 1914), by Thomas E. Kepner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foundations of western civilization (D. C. Heath and company, 1939), by William J. Bossenbrook and Rolf Johannesen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new renaissance of the spirit. (Philosophical Library, 1949), by Vincent A. McCrossen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Auferstehung des Abendlandes : die abendländische Kultur als Ausfluss des planetarischen Weltgefühls, Entwicklung und Zukunft. (Gebrüder Reichel, 1921), by Otto Dickel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die innere Beziehung zwischen den Kulturproblemen des Orients und des Okzidents; eine Botschaft an die Völker des Ostens. (E. Diederichs, 1913), by Hermann Keyserling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masarykova čítanka : s podobiznou T.G. Masaryka (Otakar Sobek, 1923), by T. G. Masaryk and Karel Jaroslav Obrátil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums (Johnson Reprint, 1967), by Johann Peter Kirsch, H. Grimme, and Engelbert Drerup (page images at HathiTrust)
• The men of the north and their place in history a lecture delivered before the Montreal Literary Club, March 31st, 1869 (s.n.], 1869), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The men of the north and their place in history (s.n.], 1869), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of western civilisation (G.N. Morang, 1902), by Benjamin Kidd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the East contrasted with the spirit of the West: being a lecture delivered before the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences at its opening meeting of the season of 1905-'6 (New York, 1905), by P. Irāmaṉātaṉ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seiyō bunmei no tōitsu (Dai Nihon Bunmei Kyōkai Jimusho, 1919), by Francis Sydney Marvin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Western civilization; a political, social, and cultural history. (D. Van Nostrand Co., 1949), by Franklin Charles Palm, John James Van Nostrand, and James Westfall Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lie about the West; a response to Professor Toynbee's challenge. (Sheed and Ward, 1954), by Douglas Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of western civilization (Prentice-Hall, 1939), by Arthur Pryor Watts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of western civilization. (D. C. Heath, 1940), by Charles Edward Smith and Lynn Marshall Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• A roster of civilizations and culture. (Distributed through Current Anthropology for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1962), by A. L. Kroeber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb gharāʾib al-Gharb (Maṭbaʻat al-Muqtabas, 1910), by Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western civilization. (D. C. Heath, 1948), by Charles Edward Smith, Lynn Marshall Case, and Lynn Marshall Case (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Unity of Western Civilization, ed. by Francis Sydney Marvin (Gutenberg ebook)

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