內容簡介
✨ 內容特色：
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🔹 ① 由兩位傑出歷史學家攜手打造，重新以「西方」為核心構建全新的西方文明課程基礎
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🔹 ② 精緻流暢的敘事風格，專為初學者量身打造，重現歷史的生動面貌
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🔹 ③ Grafton與Bell共同描繪一場關於「秩序追尋」的史詩故事，展現西方世界在政治、社會與文化層面的內部張力與全球影響
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🔹 ④ 呈現歷史當下的真實樣貌，而非僅以現代觀點解讀過去，敘事兼具平衡性、全面性與時間脈絡
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🔹 ⑤ 搭配豐富的數位學習資源，強化學生的實用歷史技能，為西方文明課程建立充滿活力的新典範
Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the center of the Western Civilizations course
This beautifully written history recenters the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society, and culture, driven by internal tensions and global influences. They deliver the past not as a path to the present but as it was lived at the time, grounded in a balanced, comprehensive, chronological narrative. Combined with rich digital resources to instill practical history skills, The West establishes a dynamic NEW foundation for teaching the Western Civilizations course.
