Complete Set (Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment) - Hardcover

Noble, Professor Thomas F. X.; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618102086 ISBN 13: 9780618102082

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic), 2001

Synopsis

Discussing Western civilization from its origins in 3000 B.C. up to the present, 30 chapters cover the ancestors of the West; Greek and Roman, late antiquity, and the medieval civilizations; the Renaissance; European overseas expansion to 1600; the Reformation; Europe in the ages of religious wars and Louis XIV, and on the threshold of modernity; an age of revolution; the industrial transformation of Europe; restoration, reform, and revolution; optimism, tensions, war and revolution, the illusion of stability, a tortured decade (1930-39), and the era of World War II; the Cold War; and the West and the world since 1989. New features in this edition include information technology essays, focus questions, 10 to 12 definitions per chapter, chronologies, pronunciation guides, and expansion of Weighing the Evidence essays and primary sources. Illustrated with color and b&w images and maps. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Synopsis

This team of expert scholars present an integration of social and cultural history within a chronological, political framework. The result is a clear, incisive account of the forces that have shaped the Western past that focuses on two main themes - power in all its senses and the role of frontier and non-European regions in the historical development of the West. The third edition has now been extensively revised and includes; new 'information technology' essay feature which offers glimpses of key innovations in communication technology; new chapter outlines; extremely useful pronunciation guide; web research exercises

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic)
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618102086
• ISBN 13: 9780618102082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1104