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This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed. For courses in history of Western civilization An authoritative account of Western civilizations The Western Heritage weaves social, cultural, and political history into a strong, clear, narrative account of the central developments in Western history. Authors Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, and Frank Turner define how the West has interacted with other cultures, and show how the history of Western civilization can shed light into global challenges today. In order to help students achieve a thorough understanding of Western civilization, the 12th Edition has been updated to reflect recent developments - in the West and beyond.

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Author:   Donald Kagan ,  Steven Ozment ,  Frank Turner ,  Gregory Viggiano
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   12th edition
ISBN:  

9780134104102

ISBN 10:   0134104102
Pages:   944
Publication Date:   02 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART 1: The Foundations of Western Civilization in the Ancient World to 400 C.E. 1. The Birth of Civilization 2. The Rise of Greek Civilization 3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece 4. Rome: From Republic to Empire 5. The Roman Empire PART 2: The Middle Ages, 476 C.E. -1300 C.E. 6. Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Creating a New European Society and Culture (476-1000) 7. The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States (1000-1300) 8. Medieval Society: Hierarchies, Towns, Universities, and Families (1000-1300) PART 3: Europe in Transition, 1300 -1750 9. The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300-1453) 10. Renaissance and Discovery 11. The Age of Reformation 12. The Age of Religious Wars 13. European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 14. New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 15. Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century 16. The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion PART 4: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700 -1850 17. The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought 18. The French Revolution 19. The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism 20. The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832) 21. Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850) PART 5: Toward the Modern World, 1850 -1939 22. The Age of Nation-States 23. The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I 24. The Birth of Modern European Thought 25. The Age of Western Imperialism 26. Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace 27. The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression PART 6: Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions, 1939 to Present 28. World War II 29. The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a New Europe 30. Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West through the Present Volume I includes chapters 1-14; Volume II includes chapters 13-30.

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Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received his A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, his M.A. in classics from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958 to 1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought, The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969); The Archidamian War (1974); The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981); The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); a biography of Pericles, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991); On the Origins of War (1995); and The Peloponnesian War (2003). He is the coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of While America Sleeps (2000). 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 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004. Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of twelve books, including When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (1983). The Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club: Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe (1986), Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany (1990), Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution (1992), The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town (1996), and Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001), A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2004), Why We Study Western Civ, The Public Interest, 158 (2005), and The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation (2011). Frank M. Turner was John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974); The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award; Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (1993); and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion (2002). He also contributed numerous articles to journals and served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He edited The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman (1996), Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and A pologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). He served as a Trustee of Connecticut College from 1996-2006. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Contributor Gregory F. Viggiano received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale University and is Associate Professor of History at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he teaches courses on ancient Greece and Rome and Western civilization. With Donald Kagan, he authored of Problems in the History of Ancient Greece (2009) and edited Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece (2013), which has been translated into Spanish (2017). He has published chapters and articles on ancient Greek history and is currently editing A Cultural History of War in Antiquity. He joined the authorship team of The Western Heritage during preparation of the 12th Edition for publication.

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