Western Civilization
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Western Civilization

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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Western Civilization

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Join the more than 1 million students who have used Spielvogel's texts to succeed in their Western civilization course. There's a reason why WESTERN CIVILIZATION is a bestseller: It makes history come alive. Updated with the most current scholarship, the 11th Edition is packed with primary source features that highlight real voices from the past, a variety of end-of-chapter study tools to help you prepare for exams, colorful maps, vivid photographs and visuals and dramatic firsthand historical accounts -- bringing to life the stories of the people and events that have shaped Western civilization. In addition, MindTap equips you with anywhere, anytime digital learning tools.

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Information

Publisher
Cengage Learning EMEA
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780357362976
eBook ISBN
9780357363171
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Brief Contents
  3. Contents
  4. Documents
  5. Maps
  6. Features
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction to Students of Western Civilization
  10. Chapter 1: The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations
  11. Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires
  12. Chapter 3: The Civilization of the Greeks
  13. Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World
  14. Chapter 5: The Roman Republic
  15. Chapter 6: The Roman Empire
  16. Chapter 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World
  17. Chapter 8: European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000
  18. Chapter 9: The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages
  19. Chapter 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
  20. Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century
  21. Chapter 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
  22. Chapter 13: Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century
  23. Chapter 14: Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800
  24. Chapter 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century
  25. Chapter 16: Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science
  26. Chapter 17: The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment
  27. Chapter 18: The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change
  28. Chapter 19: A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
  29. Chapter 20: The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society
  30. Chapter 21: Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850
  31. Chapte 22: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871
  32. Chapter 23: Mass Society in an "Age of Progress," 1871-1894
  33. Chapter 24: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914
  34. Chapter 25: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
  35. Chapter 26: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe between the Wars, 1919-1939
  36. Chapter 27: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II
  37. Chapter 28: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965
  38. Chapter 29: Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965-1985
  39. Chapter 30: After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)
  40. Glossary
  41. Index

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