Updated with recent scholarship, the Tenth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and primary source excerpts in each chapter.
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This edition includes new Historians Debate topics and a new feature entitled Global Perspectives along with updated scholarship and new images. Also available is MindTap for WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, 10th Edition.
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On the relationship between Renaissance artists and the Scientific Revolution, see P. H. Smith, ... On the relationship of science and industry, see M. C. Jacobs, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (Oxford, 1997).
Western Civilization: Since 1660
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Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading including outlines, focus questions, chronologies, numerous maps and boldface key terms with definitions.
From CANDIDE OR OPTIMISM by Voltaire, translated by John Butt (Penguin Classics, 1947). ... The Ignorant Philosopher, and the second is from his only real literary masterpiece, the novel Candide, where he used humor to make the same ...
Be sure to check out the Cengage Western Civilization playlist on YouTube—a curated collection of interesting videos on topics from the ancient world to the present day. You'll find the link in the Course Videos, Images, Maps, ...
This is Volume II (chapters 13-29) of the best-selling Western civilization text that has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn about the present by exploring the past.
In addition to weaving the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, military, and other threads of Western civilization into a compelling story, this BRIEF DISCOVERY EDITION, Volume 1 helps students develop critical ...
Western Civilization: since 1300
On the impact of the war on civilians, see J. Bourke, The Second World War: A People's History (Oxford, 2003). ... Nazi atrocities are examined in R. C. Lukas, Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–44, 2nd ed.
The seventh edition has a streamlined design and has been carefully revised with features such as focus questions, key terms, and section summaries to help readers understand the material.
While focusing on key ideas and broad themes, the text also provides a balanced treatment of economic, political, and social history for students in Western civilization courses.
A variety of pedagogical tools, including features on relevant films and new end-of-chapter study aids, make this edition accessible to any learning style.
A variety of pedagogical tools, including features on relevant films and new end-of-chapter study aids, make this edition accessible to any learning style.
These Western Civilization, Second Edition books explain why western civilization is worth knowing about.
This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and thousands of years of Western ...