Western Civilization
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, and European civilization, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western World that originated in or are associated with Europe. The term also applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization, or influence. For example, Western culture includes countries in Northern America, such as Canada and the United States, or Australasia, such as Australia and New Zealand, whose language and demographic ethnicity majorities are of …
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CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …
picture a supermarket after the end of Western civilization and imagine that the scattered dregs of …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 16 April 2024 English
A biographer is, in a sense, the ghostwriter of someone else’s life, trying to keep out of the way but inevitably leaving an imprint and being changed in the enterprise. …
Wasserman talked about the cultural history of Western civilization. As the three years passed I found hospital …
Wilson Center Canada · 18 March 2024 English
ideology,” support for oil pipelines, liberalization of gun laws and protecting the values of “Western civilization”—the votes it gained may have been a harbinger of a new immigration politics in Canada.5 Recent …
of gun laws and protecting the values of “Western civilization”—the votes it gained may have been a harbinger …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial …
undeniably “good” and “just”—“the values of Western civilization.” The shallowness and weakness of this … this concept notwithstanding,7 “Western civilization” does serve to create the appearance of an alliance … to the “nations of civilization” (i.e., “Western civilization”), despite Canada’s role in preventing Palestinian …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 February 2024 English
Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada’s political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately …
a program focused on the great texts of Western civilization. Here his politics began to shift rightward …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 4 January 2024 English
A Personal Declaration of Opposition to The Abuse of Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms by The State I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom …
‘One of the indispensable institutions of Western civilization is the rule of law. That rule is central …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 17 November 2023 English
Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s …
not make them fundamentally different. Western civilization and the Christian world of meaning were …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 2 November 2023 English
Human rights codes emerged in the aftermath of the atrocities of the Second World War and during the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States. [...] Specifically: …
society are some of the oldest elements in Western civilization. Enlightenment thinkers were often bracingly …
Yellowhead Institute · 25 October 2023 English
“Israeli forces have killed and under the rubble; 2 million deliberately cut o from food, injured thousands of Palestinian civilians in the OPT water, fuel, and electricity, unrelieved by the …
so is illuminated the barbarism of this “Western civilization” that attempts to launder its own atrocities …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. He was an exemplary figure in twentieth-century intellectual work on exile who experienced both Nazi …
beleaguered defenders of the Christian heritage of Western civilization, the last bulwark against the onslaught … affective sensitizing ideas that postulate that Western civilization is in a state of terminal crisis. The name …
