Western civilization : ideas, politics, and society : vol. 1: to 1789 / Marvin Perry [and five others]

By:

Perry, Marvin [author]

Contributor(s):

Chase, Myrna;Jacob, James R.;Jacob, Margaret C.;Daly, Jonathan W.;Von Laue, Theodore H [co-author;co-author;co-author;co-author;co-author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston, Massachusetts : Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd, c2016Edition: Eleventh EditionDescription: xvi, 448 pages : color illustrations, and maps ; 23 cmISBN:

9781305091412

Subject(s):

CIVILIZATION -- WESTERN

LOC classification:

CB 245 .W47 2016

Contents:

Part I. THE ANCIENT WORLD: FOUNDATION OF THE WEST TO A.D. 500.1. The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.2. The Hebrews: A New View of God and the Individual.3. The Greek City-State: Democratic Politics.4. Greek Thought: From Myth to Reason.5. The Hellenistic Age: Cultural Diffusion.6. The Roman Republic: City-State to World Empire.7. The Roman Empire: A World-State.8. Early Christianity: A World Religion. -- Part II. THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES 500-1400.9. The Heirs of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, and Latin Christendom.10. The High Middle Ages: Vitality and Renewal.11. The Flowering of Medieval Culture: The Christian Synthesis.12. The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Dissolution. -- Part III. EARLY MODERN EUROPE: FROM RENAISSANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT 1350-1789.13. The Renaissance: Transition to the Modern Age.14. The Reformation: The Shattering of Christian Unity.15. European Expansion: Economic and Social Transformations.16. The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State.17. The Scientific Revolution: The Universe Seen as a Mechanism.18. The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform.

Summary: This book offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content. Updated with more recent scholarship, the eleventh edition retains many popular features that help readers absorb and understand the material, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source boxes in each chapter.

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Includes index.

This book offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content. Updated with more recent scholarship, the eleventh edition retains many popular features that help readers absorb and understand the material, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source boxes in each chapter.

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