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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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 September 2024 English

In a rare convergence of academic and political worlds, Professor Morton draws on his experience as a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, inviting readers into a reflection on Alberta’s …

explore and to better understand the roots of Western civilization. Upon graduation my student deferment expired


C.D. Howe Institute · 17 September 2024 English

However, Canadian COVID cases per million were well below the average among high-income countries.1 Independent of the pandemic, the aging of the Canadian population is increasing the per capita demand …

sympathy for the welfare state, “a triumph of Western civilization.” However, he warned, “if we do not watch


Alberta Teachers' Association · 26 August 2024 English

The answer is we continue to advocate, of the same concerns and the same Let us harness the power of our unity to we raise our voices and we fight …

figures both privately and publicly about of western civilization. (If you are not Park’s major claim to fame


Alberta Teachers' Association · 23 August 2024 English

The answer is we continue to advocate, of the same concerns and the same Let us harness the power of our unity to we raise our voices and we fight …

figures both privately and publicly about of western civilization. (If you are not Park’s major claim to fame


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


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