Michael Burger

Shaping Westn Civilizatn V2 1500-Present

From Antiquity to the Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Shaping of Western Civilization begins with the ancient Near East and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 191mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781442601901
• ISBN-10: 1442601906
• Artikelnr.: 39045715

Autorenporträt

Michael Burger is a professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Notes on references, further reading, and dates
1. Foundations: The Ancient Near East
2. The Greeks: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
3. Rome: From Republic to Empire
4. Rome's Fall? Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
5. The High and Late Middle Ages
6. The Early Modern West I: The Reformation, the great consolidation, and
the end of Christendom
7. The Early Modern West II: Science, society, and the state
8. The Early Modern West III: Enlightenment, industrialization, and an
unraveled compromise
9. The West, 1815-1914: The search for community, and responses to the
Enlightenment and revolution
10. From ca. 1914 to the present: The search for community, global
conflict, and the harvest of the modern West
11. Coda: The Shaping of Western Civilization
Sources
Index