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Humanities 101 - Channing: ebooks

A survey of the major cultural influences from ancient Egypt through the Renaissance in western civilization: music, art, literature, film and philosophy. Course considers important movements and figures.

Humanities 101 ebooks

List of ebooks for research papers

Humanities 101 ebooks of Interest

These works are found in the ebrary and EBSCO ebook collections

Beginnings
- Image and Audience : Rethinking Prehistoric Art (EBSCO)
- On Art in the Ancient Near East - Volume I; Volume II (EBSCO)
- Picturing the Bronze Age (EBSCO)
- Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt (EBSCO)
Greece
- Ancient Greece (EBSCO)
- Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon : Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC-300 AD (EBSCO)
- Greece and Rome at War (EBSCO)
- Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed (EBSCO)
- On Greek Religion (EBSCO)
- Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens (EBSCO)
Rome
- A Critical History of Early Rome : From Prehistory to the First Punic War (EBSCO)
- Ancient Middle Classes (EBSCO)
- Roman Market Economy (EBSCO)
- Romans and Their World : A Short Introduction (EBSCO)
- The History of Rome : From Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire (EBSCO)
India & China
- China : A History (ebrary)
- Early Chinese Empires : Qin and Han (EBSCO)
- History of China (ebrary)
- History of India (ebrary)
- India : The Definitive History (EBSCO)
Judaism & Christianity
- Between Pagan and Christian (EBSCO)
- Bible in History : How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (ebrary)
- Christianity : A Very Short Introduction (ebrary)
- Christianity : An Introduction (ebrary)
- The Church at Turning Points of History (EBSCO)
- Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (ebrary)
- Historical Dictionary of Judaism (ebrary)
- History of the Popes : From Peter to the Present (ebrary)
- Judaism : An Introduction (ebrary)
- New History of Christianity (EBSCO)
- Short History of the Catholic Church (EBSCO)

Islam
- Art of Islam (ebrary)
- Beauty and Islam : Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture (ebrary)
- History of Medieval Islam (EBSCO)
- Islam : Its History, Teaching, and Practices (ebrary)
- Islamic History : A Very Short Introduction (ebrary)
- Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān Ser. : The History of the Qur'an (ebrary)
Byzantium
- Byzantine Art (ebrary)
- Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 (EBSCO)
- History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453 (ebrary)
- Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (EBSCO)
Medieval Culture & History
- Europe and the Islamic World: a History (EBSCO)
- Gothic Enterprise : A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral (ebrary)
- Handbook of Medieval Culture (see Table of Contents for topics and volume numbers, EBSCO)
  - Volume I – Covers art/architecture, chivalry, the church, hell/purgatory and more.
  - Volume II – Covers hunting, law, literature, music and revolutions and more.
  - Volume III – Covers saints, seafaring, travel/exploration, and weapons and warfare.
- Short History of Europe : From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon (ebrary)
- Rise of the Medieval World : A Biographical Dictionary (ebrary)
Renaissance
- Best of : Michelangelo (ebrary)
- Philosophers of the Renaissance (EBSCO)
- Renaissance : A Very Short Introduction (ebrary)
- Renaissance Art (ebrary)
- Renaissance Art : A Beginner's Guide (EBSCO)
- Renaissance Art in Venice : From Tradition to Individualism (EBSCO)
- Renaissance? : Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, C.1300-c.1550 (EBSCO)
- Short History of English Renaissance Drama (EBSCO)