# Western Civilization I

- By: Erin Stone
- Publisher: University of West Florida
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/Western_Civilization_I)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/Western_Civilization_I
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-490116/pdf

This textbook follows the contours of the basic Western Civilization narrative in terms of chronology and geography because it was written to be compatible with most Western Civilization courses as they exist today. It deliberately breaks, however, from the “triumphalist” narrative that describes Western Civilization as the most successful, rational, and enlightened form of civilization in human history. It casts a wider geographical view than do traditional Western Civilization texts.