The Western Experience, Volume 2, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb: v. 2 - Softcover

Chambers, Mortimer; Hanawalt, Barbara; Rabb, Theodore; Woloch, Isser; Grew, Raymond; Tiersten, Lisa

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9780073260006: The Western Experience, Volume 2, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb: v. 2

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ISBN 10: 0073260002 ISBN 13: 9780073260006

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006

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The Western Experience offers a thorough, analytical overview of Western civilization, giving students an introduction to the major achievements in Western thought, art, and science as well as the social, political, and economic context for understanding those developments. To demonstrate the connected nature of all histories, these various aspects of history are examined in an integrated way. To help readers develop their reasoning and writing skills, each chapter is constructed to serve as an example of a historical essay: A historical problem is presented and arguments are developed using historical evidence. The ninth edition features many improvements, including the work of Lisa Tiersten in her new chapter on Nineteenth Century Empires.

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From the Publisher:

New author, Barbara Hanawalt, revised the Medieval chapters (6-11) significantly
Chapters on the 20th century (27-30) significantly revised and updated
Increased coverage of the history of women and the family throughout
Increased coverage of popular culture
Narrative broken up by more headings and shorter paragraphs to increase readability
Chapter introductions revised to focus students on themes presented within chapter
Updated scholarship and interpretation
More historical debate boxes with excerpts from secondary sources
Chronologies in every chapter
End of book videography with recommended films as sources
Intellectual quality and superb scholarship
Strong balance between political narrative and other sub-disciplines of history
Strong coverage of cultural and intellectual history (e.g., Art and Artists in the Italian Renaissance)
Stellar art history program, with substantial explanatory captions, enforces the emphasis on cultural history

About the Author:

Mortimer Chambers is a Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a Rhodes scholar from 1949 to 1952 and received an M.A. from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1955 after obtaining his doctorate from Harvard University in 1954. He has taught at Harvard University (1954-1955) and the University of Chicago (1955-1958). He was visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1958, the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971, The University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1974 and Vassar College in 1988. A specialist in Greek and Roman history, he is a co-author of Aristotle’s History of Athenian Democracy (1962), editor of a series of essays entitled The Fall of Rome (1963), and author of Georg Busolt: His Career in His Letters (1990) and of Staat der Athener, a German translation and commentary to Aristotle’s Constitution of the Athenians (1990). He has edited Greek texts of the latter work (1986) and of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (1993). He has contributed articles to the American Historical Review and Classical Philology as well as other journals, both in America and in Europe.

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