The Age of Voltaire Part IX Will and Ariel Durant

898 pgs with the Bio,notes,index maps inside covers, and several sections of pics. They traveled the world to write these book. 1965 second printing. No Dj the boards are clean, letters faded and wear in the spine area along with some on the corners. Text looks clean,tight, no marks or torn pgs noticed.

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.Wikipedia