The Traditions of the Western world

by J.H. Hexter

Originally published by Rand McNally in 1967 and now out-of-print, the first edition of The Traditions of the Western World, edited by J.H. Hexter with the assistance of John W. Snyder, Peter Riesenberg, Franklin L. Ford, and Klaus Epstein, provided teachers with a wide variety of historical documents to introduce the college reader to the traditions of the Western world. This shortened version of the text concentrates on Riesenberg's section. The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, and the Reformation, as well as a portion of Ford's, The Early Modern Period.

310 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1967

About the author

Jack H. Hexter (who published as J.H. Hexter) received his doctorate from Harvard and later taught at Yale and Washington University (St. Louis), specializing in Tudor history and seventeenth century British history, as well as historiography.