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Civilizations in the West - Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, Patricia O'Brien

Civilizations in the West

Single Volume Edition
Buch | Hardcover
1160 Seiten
1998 | 3rd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-673-98525-5 (ISBN)
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This work recounts the story of Western civilization, using images of history - paintings, photographs, artifacts - to illustrate the social, political, economic and intellectual issues which have shaped Western civilization.
Strong scholarship and readability are the hallmark features of Civilization in the West, 3/E. Every feature in this text supports the authors<039> goal of making this a textbook students will find engaging and will want to read. Organized largely as a narrative, each chapter is presented as a story with unique chapter openers that speak directly to students. (Available as Single Volume Edition, Volume I and Volume II or as Volume A, B & C).

(Each chapter includes Focus Questions, Mastering the Chapter, Suggestions for Further Reading, Special Feature Essay and Documents.)

 1. The First Civilizations.


 2. Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C..


 3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C..


 4. Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-31 B.C..


 5. Imperial Rome, 27 B.C.-A.D. 192.


 6. The Transformation of the Classical World.


 7. The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam.


 8. The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900.


 9. The High Middle Ages.


10. The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500.


11. The Italian Renaissance.


12. The European Empires.


13. The Reform of Religion.


14. Europe at War, 1555-1648.


15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650.


16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century.


17. Science And Commerce in Early Modern Europe.


18. The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe.


19. Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe.


20. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815.


21. Industrial Europe.


22. Social Transformations and Political Upheavals, 1815-1850.


23. State-Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850-1871.


24. The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914.


25. Europe and the World, 1870-1914.


26. War and Revolution, 1914-1920.


27. The European Search for Stability, 1920-1939.


28. Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939-1945.


29. Postwar Recovery and Crisis: from the Cold War to the New Europe, 1945-1968.


30. The Contemporary West, 1968 to the Present.


Credits.


Index.


Maps.


Documents.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.1.1998
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 260 mm
Gewicht 2160 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
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ISBN-10 0-673-98525-3 / 0673985253
ISBN-13 978-0-673-98525-5 / 9780673985255
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