The Essential Guide to Western Civilization
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The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

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eBook - ePub

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

About this book

This new edition of The Essential Guide to Western Civilization provides a succinct and engaging overview of European history for students.

With wide chronological coverage, from early humans and the first civilizations to the present, this book provides a narrative of key events in the West with insightful analysis to further contextualize the relationship of the West to the wider world. The second edition has been fully updated, with increased coverage of women, slavery, colonization, economics and finance, and concurrent developments in the non-Western world. It engages with recent scholarship and includes updated suggested readings to offer a more comprehensive view of Western Civilization. To further aid student understanding, this book includes review questions at the end of each section, key terms and definitions for each chapter, discussion questions at the end of every chapter, and maps and images to illustrate important concepts.

Ideal for undergraduates in Western Civilization and European history courses, this volume is a concise, accessible resource that encourages students to think critically and creatively about history.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040359747
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Prologue
  9. 1 Early Humans and the Dawn of Civilization
  10. 2 Ancient Greece: Politics and War
  11. 3 Ancient Greece: Society, Culture, and Daily Life
  12. 4 Ancient Rome: Politics and War
  13. 5 Ancient Rome: Society, Culture, and Daily Life
  14. 6 The Middle Ages: Politics and War, 500–1300
  15. 7 The Middle Ages: Society, Culture, and Daily Life
  16. 8 The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  17. 9 The Age of Discovery, the Protestant Reformation, and the Wars of Religion, 1492–1648
  18. 10 Politics, Colonialism, and War, 1648–1789
  19. 11 European Society during the Scientific, Agricultural, and Industrial Revolutions, 1600–1800
  20. 12 The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Age of Napoleon, 1700–1815
  21. 13 Challenging the Conservative Order: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socioeconomic Change, 1815–50
  22. 14 Middle-Class Europe: The Triumph of Liberalism and Nationalism, and the Rise of Socialism, 1850–1914
  23. 15 Industrialization, Imperialism, and Intellectual and Social Change, 1850–1914
  24. 16 World War I, 1914–18
  25. 17 Interwar Europe, 1919–39
  26. 18 World War II, 1939–45
  27. 19 The Cold War and the End of European Dominance, 1945–Present
  28. Epilogue: Europe, the United States, and the World in the Twenty-First Century
  29. Index