Revel for The Humanities Culture, Continuity and Change, Combined Volume -- Combo Access Card

by Sayre, Henry M

• ISBN13: 9780135254981
• ISBN10: 0135254981
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-07-24
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Revel for The Humanities: Culture, Continuity, and Change, Third Edition helps students to see context and make connections across the humanities, and to enjoy countless “ah-ha” moments as they piece together the cultural history of world. Believing that students learn best by remembering stories rather than memorizing facts, author Henry Sayre employs a narrative storytelling approach, deftly conveying multifaceted cultural experiences in a way that students can understand and will remember — throughout the course and beyond.

Revel™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel offers an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Enlivening course content with media interactives and assessments, Revel empowers educators to increase engagement with the course, and to better connect with students.

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Author Biography

Henry M. Sayre is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus in Bend, Oregon. He earned his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Washington. He is producer and creator of the 10-part television series, A World of Art: Works in Progress, aired on PBS in the fall of 1997; and author of seven books, including A World of Art, The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams, The Object of Performance: The American Avante-Garde since 1970; and an art history book for children, Cave Paintings to Picasso.

Table of Contents

PART I
1. The Rise of Culture: From Forest to Farm
2. The Ancient Near East: Power and Social Order in the Early Middle East
3. The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and FDun
4. The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece
5. Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World
6. Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty
7. Emerging Empires in the East: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty in China and India

PART TWO
8. The Flowering of Christianity: Faith and the Power of Belief in the Early First Millennium
9. The Rise and Spread of Islam: A New Religion
10. Fiefdom and Monastery, Pilgrimage and Crusade: The Early Medieval World in Europe
11. Centers of Culture: Court and City in the Larger World
12. The Gothic Style: Faith and Knowledge in an Age of Inquiry
13. Siena and Florence in the Fourteenth Century: Toward a New Humanism

PART III
14. Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy
15. The High Renaissance in Rome and Venice: Papal Patronage and Civic Pride
16. The Renaissance in the North: Between Wealth and Want
17. The Reformation: A New Church and the Arts
18. Encounter and Confrontation: The Impact of Increasing Global Interaction
19. England in the Tudor Age: “This Other Eden”
20. The Early Counter-Reformation and Mannerism: Restraint and Invention

PART IV
21. The Baroque in Italy: The Church and its Appeal
22. The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation
23. The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage
24. The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason
25.  The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason
26.  The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

PART V
27. The Romantic World View: The Self in Nature and the Nature of Self
28. Industry and the Working Class: A New Realism
29. Defining a Nation: American National Identity and the Challenge of Civil War
30. Global Confrontation and Modern Life: The Quest for Cultural Identity
31. The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe
32. The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
33. The Fin de Siècle: Toward the Modern

PART VI
34. The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World
35. The Great War and Its Impact: A Lost Generation and a New Imagination
36. New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making it New
37. The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, Holocaust and Bomb
38. After the War: Existential Doubt, Artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption
39. Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s
40. Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World