A History of Western Society, Combined Volume

by McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D.; Buckler, John; Crowston, Clare Haru; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.; Perry, Joe

• ISBN13: 9780312687731
• ISBN10: 0312687737
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-13
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Now from Bedford/St. Martin's,A History of Western Societyis one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past and ties social history to the broad sweep of politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen the text's readability, heighten its attention to daily life, and incorporate the insights of new scholarship, including an enhanced treatment of European exploration and a thoroughly revised post-1945 section. With a dynamic new design, new special features, and a completely revised and robust companion reader, this major revision makes the past memorable and accessible for a new generation of students and instructors.

Author Biography

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 (1970) and Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe (1976).  He most recently contributed to Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997).

 

Bennett D. Hill (Ph.D., Princeton), late of the University of Illinois, was the history department chair from 1978 to 1981. He published English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century (1968), Church and State in the Middle Ages (1970), and numerous articles and reviews, and was one of the contributing editors to The Encyclopedia of World History (2001). A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he was also a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

 

John Buckler (Ph.D., Harvard University) taught history at the University of Illinois.  Published books include Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C. (1980), Philip II and the Sacred War (1989), and Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C. (2003). With Hans Beck, he most recently published Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century (2007).

 

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (2001), which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History (vol. 18, nos. 3 and 4), has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies and a former chair of the Pinkney Prize Committee.

 

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds (2009) and Gender in History (2nd ed., 2010). She currently serves as the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

 

Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. He has published numerous articles and is author of the recently published book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (2010). His current research interests include issues of consumption, gender, and television in East and West Germany after World War II.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Origins, ca. 400,000-1100 B.C.E.

 

Chapter 2
Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, ca. 1100-513 B.C.E.

 

Chapter 3
The Development of Classical Greece, ca. 2000-338 B.C.E.

 

Chapter 4
The Hellenistic World, 336-30 B.C.E.

 

Chapter 5
The Rise of Rome, ca. 750-31 B.C.E.

 

Chapter 6
The Pax Romana, 31 B.C.E.-284 C.E.

 

Chapter 7
Late Antiquity, 250-600

 

Chapter 8
Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1000

 

Chapter 9
State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300

 

Chapter 10
The Life of the People in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300

 

Chapter 11
The Creativity and Challenges of Medieval Cities, 1100-1300

 

Chapter 12
The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450

 

Chapter 13
European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550

 

Chapter 14
Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600

 

Chapter 15
European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650

 

Chapter 16
Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725

 

Chapter 17
Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789

 

Chapter 18
The Expansion of Europe, 1650-1800

 

Chapter 19
The Changing Life of the People, 1700-1800

 

Chapter 20
The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815

 

Chapter 21
The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780-1850

 

Chapter 22
Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850

 

Chapter 23
Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1900

 

Chapter 24
The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914

 

Chapter 25
The West and the World, 1815-1914

 

Chapter 26
War and Revolution, 1914-1919

 

Chapter 27
The Age of Anxiety, ca. 1900-1940

 

Chapter 28
Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945

 

Chapter 29
Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945-1965

 

Chapter 30
Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960-1991

 

Chapter 31
Europe in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present