Western Heritage, Combined : Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition

by Kagan, Donald M.; Turner, Frank M.; Ozment, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780131501058
• ISBN10: 0131501054
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback w/Disk
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This highly visual, brief survey of Western civilization provides an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural development of Western civilizationits strengths and weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding it.From the Birth of Civilization to the present, this combined edition provides a broad survey of western civilization.For those interested in a lively account of western heritage.

Table of Contents

The Birth of Civilization

The Rise of Greek Civilization

Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Rome: From Republic to Empire

The Roman Empire

The Early Middle Ages: Creating a New European Society and Culture (476-1000)

The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States (1000-1300)

Medieval Society: Hierarchies, Towns, Universities, and Families (1000-1300)

The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300-1527)

Renaissance and Discovery

The Age of Reformation

The Age of Religious Wars

Paths to Constitutionalism and Absolutism: England and France in the Seventeenth Century

New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power (1686 - 1740 )

Society and Economy under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century

The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion

The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought

The French Revolution

The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism

The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832)

Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850)

The Age of Nation-States

The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I

The Birth of Modern European Thought

Imperialism, Alliances, and War

Political Experiments of the 1920s

Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s

World War II

The Cold War Era and the Emergence of the New Europe

The West at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

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