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unusual facts about Western Civilization



Anarchism in China

In Europe, Paris was particularly popular because it was relatively cheap, the French government helped to subsidize the students, and because France was seen as the center of Western civilization.

Ibrahim Al-Buleihi

From his studies he has concluded that Western Civilization has several deep cultural principles that make it more dynamic, more open-minded and therefore able to develop faster, through empowering individuality and independent thinking.

James McKinnon

He also edited the collection The Music of Antiquity and the Middle Ages which includes chapters he wrote on early Western civilization, Christian antiquity and the emergence of Gregorian chant.

Lee Bass

In 1991, under the presidency of Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., he donated $20 million to Yale University to start a new program in Western civilization.


see also

Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam

Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam (ISBN 0-15-500115-9) is a history book written by Alan I. Marcus in 1998.

Cistercian architecture

Woods, Thomas, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (2005), ISBN 0-89526-038-7.

Donald J. Devine

Before and after his government service he has been an academic, teaching 14 years as associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and for a decade as a professor of Western civilization at Bellevue University.

Evander Childs Educational Campus

In 1938, James Michael Newell, working under the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project, painted eight murals titled The History of Western Civilization at the school.

Greil Marcus

His next book, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), stretched his trademark riffing across a century of Western civilization.

Honorary Aryan

American president Theodore Roosevelt said that "Japan is the only nation in Asia that understands the principles and methods of Western civilization", and approved of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 which ended the latter's independence.

Jacques de Kadt

Beyond the predictively accurate analysis of Fascism and its limitations, the book contains a normative defence of 'western civilization' and its scientific underpinning - perhaps best expressed by Max Eastman's notion of 'affirmative scepticism'.

Ndoucoumane

Although Ndoucoumane holds nearly no importance for western civilization, the area is noted in Ken Bugul's book The Abandoned Baobab or in the original French, Le Baobab Fou, meaning the crazy baobab.

Post-Impressionism

Modernism, thus, is now considered to be the central movement within international western civilization with its original roots in France, going back beyond the French Revolution to the Age of Enlightenment.

Richard J. Maybury

In his book, The Thousand Year War, he says that Muslims have been persecuted as much as the Jews by Western civilization through events such as the Crusades, and that they are retaliating after being wronged by the Europeans and the western culture, including the United States government.

Sensitive style

P.H. Lang, Music in Western Civilization (1941), pp. 585ff.