The Story of Civilization Set by Will Durant 1st Ed

Item Specifics:

• Volume I: Our Oriental Heritage ; (1935) (1954) ; 1052 pages
• Volume II: The Life of Greece ; (1939) ; 756 pages
• Volume III: Caesar and Christ ; (1944) ; 752 pages
• Volume IV: The Age of Faith ; (1950) ; 1198 pages
• Volume V: The Renaissance ; (1953) ; 778 pages
• Volume VI: The Reformation ; (1957) ; 1028 pages
• Volume VII: The Age of Reason Begins ; (1961) ; 732 pages
• Volume VIII: The Age of Louis XIV ; (1963) ; 804 pages
• Volume IX: The Age of Voltaire ; (1965) ; 900 pages
• Volume X: Rousseau and Revolution ; (1967) ; 1094 pages

Additional Information:

This is a monumental work and no other work of history can top its scope, scholarship, or depth. This set covers over 2500 years of world history and over 9,000 pages bring that history to life. There are hundreds of maps, documents, and works of art shown throughout.

The Durants wrote The Story of Civilization to create what they called "integral history". 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.

The Story of Civilization is the most successful historical graphical series in history. It has been said that this series made Simon and Schuster one of the most prominent publishing houses of all time.

This series was originally intended to be only ten (10) volumes published over a number of years ranging from 1935 to 1967. In fact in the tenth volume, Rousseau and Revolution, they state that this is the "concluding volume" of The Story of Civilization to which they devoted themselves starting in 1929 and it had been a daily chore and solace of their lives through the completion of the tenth volume.

The last volume was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1967. Later, in 1975, they decided to add an eleventh book to the series entitled The Age of Napoleon and in 1977 they received the highest award granted by the United States government to civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ford. This set is for the original ten volumes only and does not include the eleventh volume. That volume can be purchased separately at most book stores if desired.

William "Will" Durant (1885-1981) along with his wife Ariel Durant (1898-1981) were prolific American writers, historians, and philosophers. The first six volumes of are credited with Will Durant as the author, and with Ariel receiving recognition in the acknowledgements. In later volumes, beginning with The Age of Reason Begins, Ariel is credited as a co-author.

This set is in excellent unread condition. It is bound in sturdy threaded cloth, clean inside pages, and tight bindings. All are First Editions except for volume number one. The end pages both front and back are maps. There are four dust jackets for the last four volumes only. Frankly, we feel the dust jackets actually cheapen the appeal of the set and they look much richer and much more presentable without the dust jackets. This is a beautiful set of books that appears unread and would make an ideal gift.

Shipping weight is approximately 37 pounds and therefore Media Mail is the least expensive method of shipping although it does take a little longer to arrive.

Contents:

Volume I: Our Oriental Heritage

The Establishment of Civilization

• The Conditions of Civilization
• The Economic Elements of Civilization
• The Political Elements of Civilization
• The Moral Elements of Civilization
• The Mental Elements of Civilization
• The Prehistoric Beginnings of Civilization
  

The Near East

• Sumeria
• Egypt
• Babylonia
• Assyria
• A Motley of Nations
• Judea
• Persia
  

India and Her Neighbors

• The Foundations of India
• Buddha
• From Alexander to Aurangzeb
• The Life of the People
• The Paradise of the Gods
• The Life of the Mind
• The Literature of India
• Indian Art
• A Christian Epilogue
  

The Far East

• The Age of the Philosophers
• The Age of the Poets
• The Age of the Artists
• The People and the State
• Revolution and Renewal
  

Japan

• The Makers of Japan
• The Political and Moral Foundations
• The Mind and Art of Old Japan
• The New Japan
  

Volume II: The Life of Greece

Aegean Prelude: 3500-1000 BC

• Crete
• Before Agamemnon
• The Heroic Age
  

The Rise of Greece: 1000-480 BC

• Sparta
• Athens
• The Great Migration
• The Greeks in the West
• The Gods of Greece
• The Common Culture of Early Greece
• The Struggle for Freedom

The Golden Age: 480-399 BC

• Pericles and the Democratic Experiment
• Work and Wealth in Athens
• The Morals and Manners of the Athenians
• The Art of Periclean Greece
• The Advancement of Learning
• The Conflict of Philosophy and Religion
• The Literature of the Golden Age
• The Suicide of Greece
  

The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom: 399-322 BC

• Philip
• Letters and Arts in the Fourth Century
• The Zenith of Philosophy
• Alexander
  

The Hellenistic Dispersion: 322-146 BC

• Greece and Macedonia
• Hellenism and the Orient
• Egypt and the West
• Books
• The Art of the Dispersion
• The Climax of Greek Science
• The Surrender of Philosophy
• The Coming of Rome
  

Volume III: Caesar and Christ

Introductions: Origins

• Etruscan Prelude: 800-508 BC
  

The Republic: 508-30 BC

• The Struggle for Democracy: 508-264 BC
• Hannibal Against Rome: 264-202 BC
• Stoic Rome: 508-202 BC
• The Greek Conquest: 201-146 BC
  

The Revolution: 145-30 BC

• The Agrarian Revolt: 145-78 BC
• The Oligarchic Reaction: 77-60 BC
• Literature Under the Revolution: 145-30 BC
• Caesar: 100-44
• BC Antony: 44-30 BC
  

The Principate: 30 BC-AD 192

• Augustan Statesmanship: 30 BC-AD 14
• The Golden Age: 30 BC-AD 18
• The Other Side of Monarchy: AD 14-96
• The Silver Age: AD 14-96
• Rome at Work: AD 14-96
• Rome and Its Art: 30 BC-AD 96
• Epicurean Rome: 30 BC-AD 96
• Roman Law: 146 BC-AD 192
• The Philosopher Kings: AD 96-180
• Life and Thought in the Second Century: AD 96-192
  

The Empire: AD 146-AD 192

• Italy
• Civilizing the West
• Roman Greece
• The Hellenistic Revival
• Rome and Judea: 132 BC-AD 135
  

The Youth of Christianity: 4 BC-AD 325

• Jesus: 4 BC-AD 30
• The Apostles: AD 30-95
• The Growth of the Church: AD 96-305
• The Collapse of the Empire: AD 193-305
• The Triumph of Christianity: AD 306-325
  

Volume IV: The Age of Faith

The Byzantine Zenith: AD 325-565

• Julian the Apostate: 332-63
• The Triumph of the Barbarians: 325-476
• The Progress of Christianity: 364-451
• Europe Takes Form: 325-529
• Justinian: 527-65
• Byzantine Civilization: 337-565
• The Persians: 224-641
  

Islamic Civilization: AD 569-1258

• Mohammed: 569-632
• The Koran
• The Sword of Islam: 632-1058
• The Islamic Scene: 632-1058
• Thought and Art in Eastern Islam: 632-1058
• Western Islam: 641-1086
• The Grandeur and Decline of Islam: 1058-1258
  

Judaic Civilization: AD 135-1300

• The Talmud: 135-500
• The Medieval Jews: 500-1300
• The Mind and Heart of the Jew: 500-1300
  

The Dark Ages: AD 566-1095

• The Byzantine World: 566-1095
• The Decline of the West: 566-1066
• The Rise of the North: 566-1066
• Christianity in Conflict: 529-1085
• Feudalism and Chivalry: 600-1200
  

The Climax of Christianity: 1095-1300

• The Crusades: 1095-1291
• The Economic Revolution: 1066-1300
• The Recovery of Europe: 1095-1300
• Pre-Renaissance Italy: 1057-1308
• The Roman Catholic Church: 1095-1294
• The Early Inquisition: 1000-1300
• Monks and Friars: 1095-1300
• The Morals and Manners of Christendom: 700-1300
• The Resurrection of the Arts: 1095-1300
• The Gothic Flowering: 1095-1300
• Medieval Music: 326-1300
• The Transmission of Knowledge: 1000-1300
• Abélard: 1079-1142
• The Adventure of Reason: 1120-1308
• Christian Science: 1095-1300
• The Age of Romance: 1100-1300
• Dante: 1265-1321
  

Volume V: The Renaissance

Prelude: 1300-77

• The Age of Petrarch and Boccaccio: 1304-75
• The Popes in Avignon: 1309-77
  

The Florentine Renaissance: 1378-1534

• The Rise of the Medici: 1378-1464
• The Golden Age: 1464-92
• Savonarola and the Republic: 1492-1534
  

Italian Pageant: 1378-1534

• Milan
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Tuscany and Umbria
• Mantua
• Ferrara
• Venice and Her Realm
• Emilia and the Marches
• The Kingdom of Naples
  

The Roman Renaissance: 1378-1521

• The Crisis in the Church: 1378-1521
• The Renaissance Captures Rome: 1447-92
• The Borgias
• Julius II: 1503-13
• Leo X: 1513-21
  

Debacle

• The Intellectual Revolt
• The Moral Release
• The Political Collapse: 1494-1534

Finale: 1534-76

• Sunset in Venice
• The Waning of The Renaissance
  

Volume VI: The Reformation

From John Wyclif to Martin Luther: 1300-1517

• The Roman Catholic Church: 1300-1517
• England, Wyclif, Chaucer, and the Great Revolt: 1308-1400
• France Besieged: 1300-1461
• Gallia Phoenix: 1453-1515
• England in the Fifteenth Century: 1399-1509
• Episode in Burgundy: 1363-1515
• Middle Europe: 1300-1460
• The Western Slavs: 1300-1517
• The Ottoman Tide: 1300-1516
• Portugal Inaugurates the Commercial Revolution: 1300-1517
• Spain: 1300-1517
• The Growth of Knowledge: 1300-1517
• The Conquest of the Sea: 1492-1517
• Erasmus the Forerunner: 1469-1517
• Germany on the Eve of Luther: 1453-1517
  

The Religious Revolution: 1517-64

• Luther: The Reformation in Germany: 1517-24
• The Social Revolution: 1522-36
• Zwingli: The Reformation in Switzerland: 1477-1531
• Luther and Erasmus: 1517-36
• The Faiths at War: 1525-60
• John Calvin: 1509-64
• Francis I and the Reformation in France: 1515-59
• Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey: 1509-29
• Henry VIII and Thomas More: 1529-35
• Henry VIII and the Monasteries: 1535-47
• Edward VI and Mary Tudor: 1547-58
• From Robert Bruce to John Knox: 1300-1561
• The Migrations of Reform: 1517-60

The Strangers in the Gate: 1300-1566

• The Unification of Russia: 1300-1584
• The Genius of Islam: 1258-1520
• Suleiman the Magnificent: 1520-66
• The Jews: 1300-1564
  

Behind the Scenes: 1517-1564

• The Life of the People
• Music: 1300-1564
• Literature in the Age of Rabelais
• Art in the Age of Holbein
• Science in the Age of Copernicus
  

The Counter Reformation: 1517-65

• The Church and Reform
• The Popes and the Council
  

Volume VII: The Age of Reason Begins

The English Ecstasy: 1558-1648

• The Great Queen: 1558-1603
• Merrie England: 1558-1625
• On the Slopes of Parnassus: 1558-1603
• William Shakespeare: 1564-1616
• Mary Queen of Scots: 1542-87
• James VI and I: 1567-1625
• The Summons to Reason: 1558-1649
• The Great Rebellion: 1625-49

The Faiths Fight For Power: 1556-1648

• Alma Mater Italia: 1564-1648
• Grandeur and Decadence of Spain: 1556-1665
• The Golden Age of Spanish Literature: 1556-1665
• The Golden Age of Spanish Art: 1556-1682
• The Duel for France: 1559-74
• Henry IV: 1553-1610
• Richelieu: 1585-1642
• France Beneath the Wars: 1559-1643
• The Revolt of the Netherlands: 1558-1648
• From Rubens to Rembrandt: 1555-1660
• The Rise of the North: 1559-1648
• The Islamic Challenge: 1566-1648
• Imperial Armageddon: 1564-1648
  

The Tentatives of Reason: 1558-1648

• Science in the Age of Galileo: 1558-1648
• Philosophy Reborn: 1564-1648
  

Volume VIII: The Age of Louis XIV

The French Zenith: 1643-1715

• The Sun Rises: 1643-84
• The Crucible of Faith: 1643-1715
• The King and the Arts: 1643-1715
• Molière: 1622-73
• The Classic Zenith in French Literature: 1643-1715
• Tragedy in the Netherlands: 1649-1715
  

England: 1649-1714

• Cromwell: 1649-60
• Milton: 1608-74
• The Restoration: 1660-85
• The Glorious Revolution: 1685-1714
• From Dryden to Swift: 1660-1714

The Periphery: 1648-1715

• The Struggle for the Baltic: 1648-1721
• Peter the Great: 1698-1725
• The Changing Empire: 1648-1715
• The Fallow South: 1648-1715
• The Jewish Enclaves: 1564-1715

The Intellectual Adventure: 1648-1715

• From Superstition to Scholarship: 1648-1715
• The Scientific Quest: 1648-1715
• Isaac Newton: 1642-1727
• English Philosophy: 1648-1715
• Faith and Reason in France: 1648-1715
• Spinoza: 1632-77
• Leibniz: 1646-1716
  

France Against Europe: 1683-1715

• The Sun Sets
  

Volume IX: The Age of Voltaire

Prologue

• France: The Regency 1715-23
  

England: 1714-56

• The People
• The Rulers
• Religion and Philosophy
• Literature and the Stage
• Art and Music
  

France: 1723-56

• The People and the State
• Morals and Manners
• The Worship of Beauty
• The Play of the Mind
• Voltaire in France: 1729-50
  

Middle Europe: 1713-56

• The Germany of Bach
• Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa
• Switzerland and Voltaire
  

The Advancement of Learning: 1715-89

• The Scholars
• The Scientific Advance
• Medicine
  

The Attack Upon Christianity: 1730-74

• The Atheists: 1730-51
• Diderot and the Encyclopedie: 1713-68
• Diderot Proteus: 1758-73
• The Spreading Campaign: 1758-74
• Voltaire and Christianity: 1734-78
• The Triumph of the Philosophes: 1715-89
  

Volume X: Rousseau and Revolution

Prelude

• Rousseau Wanderer: 1712-56
• The Seven Years' War: 1756-63
  

France Before the Deluge: 1757-74

• The Life of the State
• The Art of Life
• Voltaire Patriarch: 1758-78
• Rousseau Romantic: 1756-62
• Rousseau Philosopher
• Rousseau Outcast: 1762-67
  

The Catholic South: 1715-89

• Italia Felix: 1715-59
• Portugal and Pombal: 1706-82
• Spain and the Enlightenment: 1700-88
• Vale, Italia: 1760-89
• The Enlightenment in Austria: 1756-90
• Music Reformed
• Mozart
  

Islam and the Slavic East: 1715-96

• Islam: 1715-96
• Russian Interlude: 1725-62
• Catherine the Great: 1762-96
• The Rape of Poland: 1715-95
  

The Protestant North: 1756-89

• Frederick's Germany: 1756-86
• Kant: 1724-1804
• Roads to Weimar: 1733-87
• Weimar in Flower: 1775-1805
• Goethe Nestor: 1805-32
• The Jews: 1715-89
• From Geneva to Stockholm
  

Johnson's England: 1756-89

• The Industrial Revolution
• The Political Drama: 1756-92
• The English People: 1756-89
• The Age of Reynolds: 1756-90
• England's Neighbors: 1756-89
• The Literary Scene: 1756-89
• Samuel Johnson: 1709-84
  

The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774-89

• The Final Glory: 1774-83
• Death and the Philosophers: 1774-1807
• On the Eve: 1774-89
• The Anatomy of Revolution: 1774-89
• The Political Debacle: 1783-89
  

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