- Will and Ariel Durant - The Story of Civilization - All 11 Volumes
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This is a monumental work by a revered historian who writes well, reveals great insight, and is eminently quotable. Where are our Will Durant's today? Few serious scholars are willing to accept the criticism that is inevitable with such a massive undertaking. And far too many are stifled from revealing history and its lessons adequately because of the current all-consuming academic fad of political correctness.
Of course, He and his wife can't cover everything from the dawn of civilization to Napoleon. What he does do is paint the broad picture using specific examples from time to time. Naturally some subjectivity is involved, and he acknowledged this readily.
Volume I should get you hooked as he tells us the many necessities for transition from savagery to civilization, why he regards the first culture as agriculture, etc. This was not his only profound and esteemed writing, but it is an excellent example, and many would consider this his masterpiece. It certainly is huge
This set was revised or rewritten 3 times by Will Durant. This, his 3rd version, has 11 volumes by adding The Age of Napoleon.from wikipedia
The Durants strove throughout The Story of Civilization to create what they called "integral history". They opposed this to the "specialization" of history, an anticipatory rejection of what some have called the "cult of the expert." Their goal was to write a "biography" of a civilization, in this case, the West, including not just the usual wars, politics and biography of greatness and villainy, but also the culture, art, philosophy, religion, and the rise of mass communication. Much of The Story considers the living conditions of everyday people throughout the twenty-five hundred years their "story" of the West covers. They also bring an unabashedly moral framework to their accounts, constantly stressing the repetition of the "dominance of strong over the weak, the clever over the simple." The Story of Civilization is the most successful historiographical series in history. It has been said that the series "put Simon and Schuster on the map" as a publishing house.
The Story of Civilization is also noteworthy because of the excellence of its writing style, and contains numerous apothegms worthy of the Roman and Renaissance authors Durant admired. Discussing certain inconsistencies in the character of Botticelli in The Renaissance (page 137), he writes: "Doubtless like all of us he was many men, turned on one or another of his selves as occasion required, and kept his real self a frightened secret from the world."
For Rousseau and Revolution, (1967), the 10th volume of The Story of Civilization, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature; later followed one of the two highest awards granted by the United States government to civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Ford in 1977.I wish to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind – to chronicle and contemplate, in their causes, character and effects, the advances of invention, the varieties of economic organization, the experiments in government, the aspirations of religion, the mutations of morals and manners, the masterpieces of literature, the development of science, the wisdom of philosophy, and the achievements of art. I do not need to be told how absurd this enterprise is, nor how immodest is its very conception … Nevertheless I have dreamed that despite the many errors inevitable in this undertaking, it may be of some use to those upon whom the passion for philosophy has laid the compulsion to try to see things whole, to pursue perspective, unity and time, as well as to seek them through science in space. … Like philosophy, such a venture [as the creation of these 11 volumes] has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. —Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, preface
Volume 1 - Our Oriental Heritage
Volume 2 - The Life of Greece
Volume 3 - Caesar and Christ
Volume 4 - Age of Faith
Volume 5 - The Renaissance
Volume 6 - The Reformation
Volume 7 - The Age of Reason Begins
Volume 8 - The Age of Louis XIV
Volume 9 - The Age of Voltaire
Volume 10 - Rousseau and Revolution
Volume 11 - The Age of Napoleon
His other writings, some with his wife, Ariel, as co-author, include, A Dual Autobiography, The Lessons of History, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, The Story of Philosophy, and Heroes of History.
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Volume 2 - The Life of Greece
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Volume 3 - Caesar and Christ
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Volume 4 - Age of Faith
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Volume 5 - The Renaissance
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Volume 6 - The Reformation
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Volume 7 - The Age of Reason Begins
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Volume 8 - The Age of Louis XIV
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Volume 9 - The Age of Voltaire
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Volume 10 - Rousseau and Revolution
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Volume 11 - The Age of Napoleon
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Download from Uploading:Volume 1 - Our Oriental Heritage
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Volume 2 - The Life of Greece
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Volume 3 - Caesar and Christ
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Volume 4 - Age of Faith
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Volume 5 - The Renaissance
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Volume 6 - The Reformation
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Volume 7 - The Age of Reason Begins
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Volume 8 - The Age of Louis XIV
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Volume 9 - The Age of Voltaire
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Volume 10 - Rousseau and Revolution
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Volume 11 - The Age of Napoleon
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