World Cultures

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   One central purpose of these Internet courses and readers is to produce an environment inducing students to do collaborative work with others outside the walls of Washington State University. As a result, we encourage people to visit, use, and download material from this site freely and without fee, as well as to participate in the student discussions. The goal I hope this encourages is to produce a richly textured and dense textbook and primary readings source across several sites and universities for the teaching of World Civilizations courses; this multiply-authored, free wealth of materials would produce an interactive classroom limited only by the size of the imagination. However, the material not in the public domain on this site is subject to all the same copyright restrictions as apply to printed works, so please read the following disclaimer.

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