Michael Burger

The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I

From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century begins with the ancient Near East and ends with the mid-eighteenth century. 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: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 188mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781442607569
• ISBN-10: 1442607564
• Artikelnr.: 39401549

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.Coda: The Shaping of Western Civilization
Epilogue
Sources
Index