Revel for Story and History Western Civilization since 1550 -- Combo Access Card

by Davis, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780135201534
• ISBN10: 0135201535
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Access Card
• Copyright: 2018-09-01
• Publisher: PEARSO

Summary

For courses in Western Civilization: Volume 2 (after 1650).

Enriching historical survey with in-depth stories
With its unique approach, Revel^™ Story and History: Western Civilization Since 1550–Present fulfills Part II (1650–present) of a Western civilization course. Through sixty in-depth stories, Robert Davis captivates students and immerses them in underlying historical issues. The selected historical figures and events, both famous and unknown, provide context for the forces, challenges, and ideologies that shaped the West.

Revel is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience – for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.

NOTE: This Revel Combo Access pack includes a Revel access code plus a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience. In addition to this access code, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

Author Biography

Robert C. Davis finished his undergraduate studies at a private California university in 1970, then spent much of the 1970s and 1980s working as a furniture maker, moving periodically to Europe. He then returned to university studies and earned his PhD in History at Johns Hopkins University in 1989. Having learned the nature, feel, and smell of wood and woodworking, he was attracted to the story of shipwrights and boat building while living in Venice, Italy, and he chose this as the topic of his dissertation. He published his first book, Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal, in 1991, and followed this with several more studies focused on Venetian society and popular culture during the 16th and 17th centuries, including The War of the Fists (1994) and The Jews of Early Modern Venice (2001). He co-authored an ethnographic/historical study of the Venetian hospitality industry from 1300 to the present, titled Venice, the Tourist Maze, in 2004.
 
While teaching at Ohio State University from 1992 until retiring in 2015, he broadened his interests to encompass Italian and Mediterranean history more generally. While doing so, he co-edited Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (1998) and co-authored Renaissance People (2011). He also traveled and researched widely around the Italian peninsula, the eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa. Out of this came several articles on banditry in central Italy and two books on piracy and slavery in the early-modern Mediterranean: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters (2003) and Holy War and Human Bondage (2009). His research and writing were made possible by year-long fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Ohio State University, the American Academy in Rome, the Fulbright Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 
Since retiring, Davis has lived in Santa Cruz, California, where he has been at work finishing a very long textbook. He spends his spare time walking through the redwoods, listening to the sounds of the Pacific, and looking for otters.

Table of Contents

1. Premodern Europe and the Ancien Régime
2. God, Government, and War
3. The New Science
4. Europe and the World
5. The Enlightened Century
6. Revolution and Its Discontents
7. The Industrial Revolution
8. The Age of Nations
9. Nineteenth-Century Ideologies and Practicalities
10. Europe’s Imperial Age
11. War and Revolution
12. The Totalitarian Tragedy
13. Europe in Flames
14. Europe Divided
15. Europe in the Balance