Western Heritage, The: Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Volume 2 (Chapters 13-30)

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

• ISBN13: 9780132211055
• ISBN10: 013221105X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Volume II: Since 1648 For introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization; or a supplemental text in Art History or other basic cultural history survey courses. This highly visualbriefsurvey of Western civilization provides an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural development of Western civilization-its strengths and weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding it. The Teaching & Learning Classroom edition of the highly successfulThe Western Heritage, Ninth Editionprovides your students with the most help available in reading, thinking, and applying the material they are learning in the text and in lecture. A series of pedagogical aids, in text and out of class study companions, as well as complete instructor presentational and assessment support makes this text the perfect choice for those looking to make history come alive for their students.

Table of Contents

European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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

Society and Economy under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century

The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion

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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