Kuklick, Bruce (1996).https://archive.org/details/puritansinbabylo0000kuklPuritans in Babylon: the ancient Near East and American intellectual life, 1880–1930. Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://archive.org/details/puritansinbabylo0000kukl/page/259Textbooks...The true texts brought all of these strands together, the most important being James Henry Breasted, Ancient Times: A History of the Early World (Boston, 1916), but a predecessor, George Stephen Goodspeed, A History of the Ancient World (New York, 1904), is outstanding. Goodspeed, who taught at Chicago with Breasted, antedated him in the conception of a 'crescent' of civilization.