University of Toronto Press Sources for the History of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century: 1: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact one on-one with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention. The material has been tailored to fit perfectly with Michael Burger's popular narrative overview, The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I. The primary source reader begins in the second millennium BC with The Descent of Ishtar and ends with Isaac Newton's The Principia. New to this edition is an example for students of how to read a primary source, selections from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, additional material on Augustine's Confessions, additional letters from Sidonius Appolinaris and Desiderius Erasmus, and the Code Noir.