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Additional order info. K educators : This link is for individuals purchasing with credit cards or PayPal only. Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and accessible narrative account of the central developments in Western history.

Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural and political history, this text is presented in a flexible chronological organization. This new edition attempts to reflect the unprecedented impact of globalization on this century. Specifically, the Eighth Edition offers expanded treatment of popular culture, increased coverage of the relationship between Islam and the West, and more discussion of the contribution of women in the history of Western Civilization.

Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more. 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.

He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for He is the author of nine books. 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.

Since he has served as a Trustee of Connecticut College. We have reorganized and rewritten the last two chapters 30 and 31 to permit instructors to end their course by emphasizing either social or political factors in the twentieth-century experience. This coverage reflects the explosive growth in social historical research in the past quarter century, which has enriched virtually all areas of historical study.

In this edition we have again expanded both the breadth and depth of our coverage of social history through revisions of existing chapters, the addition of major new material, and the inclusion of new documents. While strongly believing in the study of the social experience of the West, we also share the conviction that internal and external political events have shaped the Western experience in fundamental and powerful ways.

The experiences of Europeans in the twentieth century under fascism, national socialism, and communism demonstrate that influence, as has, more recently, the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. We have also been told repeatedly by teachers that no matter what their own historical specialization, they believe that a political narrative gives students an effective tool to begin to organize their understanding of the past.

Consequently, we have made every effort to integrate the political with the social, cultural, and intellectual. No other survey text presents so full an account of the religious and intellectual development of the West.

People may be political and social beings, but they are also reasoning and spiritual beings. What they think and believe are among the most important things we can know about them.

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. It ends with a discussion of Europe at the Opening of the Global Century.

The last two chapters are written so that instructors, though teaching both chapters, may choose to close their course with either, depending upon their personal emphasis.

Those instructors wishing to emphasize social history might end the course with Chapter 30 and those wishing to emphasize political development and great power relations may choose to conclude with Chapter All 90 maps have been carefully edited for accuracy. The text also contains close to color and black and white illustrations, many of them new to the seventh edition. Each of these features is designed to make the text more accessible to students and to reinforce key concepts.

Illustrated timelines open each of the six parts of the book summarizing, side-by-side, the major events in politics and government, society and economy, and religion and culture. Primary source documents, more than The site is a comprehensive resource that is organized according to the chapters within the text and features a variety of learning and teaching modules:. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Pearson, Softcover. Pearson, Hardcover. Book Description Condition: new. More information about this seller Contact this seller.

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