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David Staley, "Images of The Rise of the West: Cognitive Art and Historical Representation" The Journal of the Historical Society, Vol. 6, no. 3 (September 2006)

 

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Figure 1:
“The Industrial Revolution.” Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 743. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 2: 
“Relations Between Old World Civilizations” and “The Rise of the West.”  Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 169, 727. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 3: 
“Hammurabi’s Great Society.”  Source: Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 57. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 4:
“Japan 1500-1650.”  Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 648. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 5:
“Theory and Practice of Modern Dictatorship.” Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 802. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 6:
Gregory the Great: Moralia, Tree of Virtues (mid-13th century). Source: Edith Rothe, Mediaeval Book Illumination in Europe: The Collections of the German Democratic Republic (New York: W.W. Norton, 1968), plate 39. 

Figure 7:
“Russia Under Peter the Great.”  Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 670. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 8: 
Giotto, The Last Judgment (c.1305) from the Arena chapel in Padua.  http://www.wga.hu/frames
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Figure 9:
Compositional diagram of The Last Judgment

Figure 10:
“Evolution of Chinese Society, 1500 B.C.-220 A.D.” Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 229. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 11:
Compositional diagram of “Evolution of Chinese Society”

Figure 12:
Compositional diagram of “Hammurabi’s Great Society”

Figure 13:
Compositional diagram of “Japan: 1500-1650”

Figure 14:
Detail of “the gods” from “Hammurabi’s Great Society.” Source: Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 57. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 15:
Detail of “the gods” from “Evolution of Greek Society.”  Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 204-205. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 

Figure 16: 
Detail of pharaoh and Aton from “The Development of Monotheism.” Source: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 164. © by the University of Chicago.  All rights reserved. 
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