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Description Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture, Combined Volume, 18th Edition by Joshua Cole, Carol Symes W. W. Norton & Company | October 2013 | ISBN: 0393922138 | True PDF | 1161 pages | 99.4 mb http://www.amazon.com/Western-Civilizations-History-Culture-Eighteenth/dp/0393922146 A storytelling approach that engages students with features to help them master core content, think critically, and make connections. The engaging narrative and carefully crafted, innovative pedagogical tools in Western Civilizations are based on the co-authors’ own teaching experiences. The text provides balanced coverage, places the West in a larger global context, and carefully integrates new research. In the eighteenth edition, the early modern period has been completely overhauled—and now includes a new chapter on the Atlantic World. About the Authors Joshua Cole (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on gender and the history of population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, Germany, and Algeria. His first book was The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000). Carol Symes (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, where she has won the top teaching award in the College of Liberal Arts and Science. Her main areas of study include medieval Europe, especially France and England; cultural history; history of information media and communication technologies; and history of theater. Her first book was A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007). BRIEF CONTENTS MAPS xxi PRIMARY SOURCES xxiii PREFACE xxvii CHAPTER 1 Early Civilizations 3 CHAPTER 2 Peoples, Gods, and Empires: 1700–500 B.C.E. 39 CHAPTER 3 The Civilization of Greece, 1000–400 B.C.E. 75 CHAPTER 4 The Greek World Expands, 400–150 B.C.E. 111 CHAPTER 5 The Civilization of Ancient Rome 145 CHAPTER 6 The Transformation of Rome 179 CHAPTER 7 Rome’s Three Heirs, 500–950 211 CHAPTER 8 The Expansion of Europe, 950–1100 247 CHAPTER 9 The Consolidation of Europe, 1100–1250 283 CHAPTER 10 The Medieval World, 1250–1350 323 CHAPTER 11 Rebirth and Unrest, 1350–1453 357 CHAPTER 12 Innovation and Exploration, 1453–1533 389 CHAPTER 13 The Age of Dissent and Division, 1500–1564 423 CHAPTER 14 Europe in the Atlantic World, 1550–1660 453 CHAPTER 15 European Monarchies and Absolutism, 1660–1725 491 CHAPTER 16 The New Science of the Seventeenth Century 519 CHAPTER 17 Europe during the Enlightenment 547 CHAPTER 18 The French Revolution 581 CHAPTER 19 The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society 617 CHAPTER 20 The Age of Ideologies: Europe in the Aftermath of Revolution, 1815–1848 653 CHAPTER 21 Revolutions and Nation Building, 1848–1871 687 CHAPTER 22 Imperialism and Colonialism, 1870–1914 727 CHAPTER 23 Modern Industry and Mass Politics, 1870–1914 761 CHAPTER 24 The First World War 799 CHAPTER 25 Turmoil between the Wars 837 CHAPTER 26 The Second World War 873 CHAPTER 27 The Cold War World: Global Politics, Economic Recovery, and Cultural Change 911 CHAPTER 28 Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960–1990 947 CHAPTER 29 A World without Walls: Globalization and the West 983 Related Torrents
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