TY - BOOK AU - Edgar N. Johnson. TI - An Introduction to the History of the Western Tradition. AV - CB245 .J64 1959 U1 - 909.0982 PY - 1959/// PB - London, Ginn and Co. KW - Civilization, Western -- History. Intellectual life. Civilization, Western. N1 - 1copy available on shelf No.3 N2 - An Introduction to the History of the Western Tradition. Vol.I This book introduces the American undergraduate to some of the many strands that form a Western Tradition he may he called upon to defend with his life. It suggests that this tradition has been shaped in part by conflict between two points of view: the humanistic, represented by the ancient Greeks, and the ascetic, represented in general by christianity. ER -