Western heritage by kagan 10th edition

His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis , and Victorian Studies. Between l and he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between and as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council.

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You have successfully signed out and will be required to sign back in should you need to download more resources. This title is out of print. Western Heritage, The: Since , 10th Edition. Donald M. Turner, Yale University. Availability This title is out of print. Engage students and get them excited about history. Outstanding maps —including maps on European immigration in the 19 th century, the Holocaust, and the war in Iraq.

Their ideas about God, society, law, gender, human nature, and the physical world have changed over the centuries and continue to change. We cannot fully grasp our own approach to the world without understanding the intellectual currents of the past and their influence on our thoughts and conceptual categories.

As in earlier editions, we have paid careful attention to the quality of our writing, subjecting every paragraph to critical scrutiny. Our goal was to make our presentation fully accessible to students without compromising vocabulary or conceptual level. We hope this effort will benefit both teachers and students. In every chapter we highlight a work of art or architecture and discuss how the work illuminates and reflects the period in which it was created.

In Chapter 5, for example, a portrait of a young woman on the wall of a house in Pompeii and the accompanying essay provide a glimpse into the life of well-to-do young women in the Roman Empire p.

In Chapter 7, two views of Salisbury Cathedral illustrate an essay on Gothic architecture p. In Chapter 16, two paintings tell contrasting stories about domestic life in eighteenth-century France p. Part 5 includes discussions of paintings by Grosz, Magritte, and Picasso. In Chapter 30, Bread, painted by the Soviet realist Tatjiana Yablonskaya, and Jackson Pollock's One Number 31, , offer starkly contrasting views of twentieth-century culture p.

See p. In the seventh edition, the essays are:. Part 1: Ancient Warfare new p. Of particular interest are expanded discussions of:. Women in the history of the West. Adding to our longstanding commitment to the inclusion of the experience of women in Western civilization, this edition presents new scholarship on women in the ancient world and the Middle Ages, women and the scientific revolution, and women under the authoritarian governments of the twentieth century.

See, especially, chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, 14, The Scientific Revolution. Chapter 14, which addresses the rise of the new science, has been wholly revised and rewritten to clarify the new scientific theory arising from the Copernican revolution, the new understanding of the Galileo case, the role of women in the new science, and the social institutions of the new science.

The Dutch Golden Age. A new section in Chapter 15 discusses the United Netherlands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Africa and the transatlantic economy. An extensive section in Chapter 17 explores the relationship of Africa to the transatlantic economy of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. We examine the role of African society and politics in the slave trade, the experience of Africans forcibly transported to the Americas, and the incorporation of elements of African culture into the New World.

Jewish thinkers in the Enlightenment. A new section in Chapter 18 discusses the thought of Spinoza and Moses Mendelsohn as they relate to the role of Jewish religion and society in the wider European culture.

The Holocaust. The discussion of the Holocaust has been significantly expanded in two ways. Chapter 29 provides more analysis of the causes of the Holocaust, and Chapter 30 includes an extensive new narrative of the particular case of the destruction of the Jews of Poland. Twentieth-century social history. The seventh edition of The Western Heritage presents the most extensive treatment of twentieth-century social history available in a survey text.

We examine, in Chapter 30, the experiences of women under authoritarian governments, the collectivization of Soviet agriculture, the destruction of the Polish Jewish community, and European migration. The chapter concludes with a new section on the coming of the computer and the impact of new technology on European life. The history of the Cold War and Europe at the start of the twenty-first century. Chapter 31, on the Soviet-American rivalry and the collapse of communism, has been wholly rewritten and includes the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Instructors may close their course with either of the twentieth-century chapters, depending on the issues they wish to emphasize. Chapter-by-Chapter Revisions. Chapter 1 The treatment of the origins of humankind has been completely rewritten to reflect the newest scholarship. Chapter 14 has a wholly rewritten discussion of the Scientific Revolution and of the impact of the Scientific Revolution on philosophy, new or extensively rewritten sections on women and early modern science, the new institutions associated with the emerging scientific knowledge, religious faith and the new science, with an expanded discussion of the Galileo case.

Chapter 15 contains an extensive new section on the Dutch Golden Age, including the impact of its overseas empire on its prosperity. Chapter 17 includes a much expanded and revised section on African Slavery, the experiences of Africans in the Americas, and the cultural institutions they brought with them.

Chapter 30 is a largely new chapter on twentieth-century social history, with major new sections on state violence, women under authoritarian governments, the collectivization of Soviet agriculture, the destruction of the Polish Jews, and the impact of the computer.

Chapter 31 has been extensively rewritten and reorganized to reflect the latest scholarship on the Cold War through the collapse of communism. He received the A. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of While America Sleeps With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor of Great Issues in Western Civilization , a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in He is the author of eleven books.

Frank M. He received his B. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis , and Victorian Studies. Between l and he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between and as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council.

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