Marvin Perry (City University of New York Baruch College)

Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume I

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a concise introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Easy to read and updated with recent scholarship, this eleventh edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and primary source boxes in each chapter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cengage Learning, Inc
• 11 ed
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 183mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781305091597
• ISBN-10: 1305091590
• Artikelnr.: 41124107

Autorenporträt

Marvin Perry, now retired, taught history at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (senior author and general editor); WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY; the leading Western Civilization reader, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION; AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE; SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 (senior editor); HUMANITIES IN THE WESTERN TRADITION (senior author and general editor); and WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: A CONCISE HISTORY. His scholarly work includes ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE WESTERN TRADITION (1996); ANTISEMITISM: MYTH AND HATE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (coauthor, 2002); ANTISEMITIC MYTHS: A HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008); and THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008). Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on the history of ideas.