The West
Encounters and Transformations, Combined Volume
by Brian Levack, Edward Muir, Meredith Veldman
5th Edition
Publisher: Pearson
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780135496800 |
| eText ISBN | 9780134229126 |
| Publisher | Pearson |
| Publishing Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 5th Edition |
| Language | English |
The West: Encounters and Transformations, Combined Volume, 5th Edition, is an academic textbook designed for courses in the History of Western Civilization. Authors Brian Levack, Edward Muir, and Meredith Veldman examine how the West developed and redefined itself over time through cultural contact and ongoing processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Thematic coverage traces the beginnings of civilization, the ancient Mediterranean, Greek and Roman societies, medieval borderlands, and early modern religious reformations. The narrative extends through global encounters, political revolutions, the world wars, and post-war realignments through to the contemporary era.
To aid study and review, the volume provides dedicated chronologies that list historical events associated with specific topics.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Civilization, 10,000-1150 B.C.E.
Chapter 2: The Age of Empires: The International Bronze Age and Its Aftermath, ca. 1500-550 B.C.E.
Chapter 3: Greek Civilization
Chapter 4: Hellenistic Civilization
Chapter 5: The Roman Republic
Chapter 6: Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors, 31 B.C.E.-235 C.E.
Chapter 7: Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600
Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: Byzantium and Islam
Chapter 9: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
Chapter 10: Medieval Civilization: The Rise of Western Europe
Chapter 11: The Medieval West in Crisis
Chapter 12: The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture
Chapter 13: The West and the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650
Chapter 14: The Reformations of Religion
Chapter 15: The Age of Confessional Division
Chapter 16: Absolutism and State Building, 1618-1715
Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 18: The West and the World: Empire, Trade, and War, 1650-1815
Chapter 19: Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture
Chapter 20: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
Chapter 21: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 22: Ideological Conflict and National Unification, 1815-1871
Chapter 23: The Coming of Mass Politics, 1870-1914
Chapter 24: The West and the World: Cultural Crisis and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914
Chapter 25: The First World War
Chapter 26: Reconstruction, Reaction, and Continuing Revolution: The 1920s and 1930s
Chapter 27: World War II
Chapter 28: Redefining the West After World War II
Chapter 29: The West in the Contemporary Era: New Encounters and Transformations
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