The Western Heritage Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Volume 2 (Since 1648)

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

• ISBN13: 9780205728930
• ISBN10: 0205728936
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

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, Tenth 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.

Author Biography

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958–1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought, The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969); The Archidamian War (1974); The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981); The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); a biography of Pericles, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991); On the Origins of War (1995); and The Peloponnesian War (2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of While America Sleeps (2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor of Great Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004.

 

Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books. The Age of Reform, 1250—1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club: Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe (1986), Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany (1990), Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution (1992), The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town (1996), and Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001), A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2004), and “Why We Study Western Civ,” The Public Interest 158 (2005).

 

Frank M. Turner is John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974), The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain  (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award,  Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life  (1993), and  John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion  (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He edited The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996), Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). Between l996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Table of Contents

European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline Urban Prosperity Economic Decline

Two Models of European Political Development Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England James I Charles I

The Long Parliament and Civil War Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Republic Charles II and the Restoration of the Monarchy

The ldquo;Glorious Revolutionrdquo;

The Age of Walpole Rise of Absolute

Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV Years of Personal Rule Versailles King by Divine Right Louisrsquo;s

Early Wars Louisrsquo;s Repressive Religious Policies Louisrsquo;s

Later Wars Franceafter Louis XIV Central and Eastern Europe Poland: Absence of Strong Central Authority

The Habsburg Empire _and the Pragmatic Sanction Prussiaand the Hohenzollerns RussiaEnters the European Political Arena

The Romanor Dynasty Peter the Great

The Ottoman Empire Religious Toleration and Ottoman Government

The End of Ottoman Expansion In Perspective

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

The Scientific Revolution Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler

Make New Scientific Discoveries Galileo Galilei Argues for a Universe of Mathematical Laws

Isaac Newton Discovers _the Laws of Gravitation Philosophy Responds to Changing Science Nature as Mechanism Francis Bacon:

The Empirical Method Reneacute;

Descartes: The Method of Rational Deduction Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolute Government

John Locke: Defender of Moderate Liberty and Toleration

The New Institutions of Expanding Natural Knowledge Women in the World of the Scientific Revolution

The New Science and Religious Faith The Case of Galileo Blaise Pascal: Reason and Faith

The English Approach to Science and Religion Continuing Superstition Witch-Hunts and Panic

Who Were the Witches?

End of the Witch-Hunts Baroque Art In Perspective

Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eig

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