A History of Western Society Complete Edition plus LaunchPad access card

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-60787-4
Verlag: Macmillan Learning

Buch, Englisch, Book, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Long praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the eleventh edition of A History of Western Society includes even more built-in tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a brand-new, comprehensive primary source program in-text and online, expanded chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. Enhanced with a wealth of digital content—including carefully developed online document assignments for each chapter with auto-graded exercises—the eleventh edition provides easily assignable options for instructors and novel ways for students to master the content.   This multi-media pack contains the print textbook and LaunchPad access for an additional £5 per student.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckler, John

Crowston, Clare Haru

Hill, Bennett D

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents from Book.-1. Origins ca. 400,000-1100 B.C.E.- 2. Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East ca. 1100-513 B.C.E.- 3. The Development of Classical Greece ca. 2000-338 B.C.E.- 4. Life in the Hellenistic World 336-30 B.C.E.- 5. The Rise of Rome ca. 750-31 B.C.E.- 6. The Pax Romana 31 B.C.E.-284 C.E.- 7. Late Antiquity 250-600.- 8. Europe in the Early Middle Ages 600-1000.- 9. State and Church in the High Middle Ages 1000-1300.- 10. The Life of the People in the High Middle Ages 1000-1300.- 11. The Creativity and Challenges of Medieval Cities 1100-1300.- 12. The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages 1300-1450.- 13. European Society in the Age of the Renaissance 1350-1550.- 14. Reformations and Religious Wars 1500-1600.- 15. European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650.- 16. Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725.- 17. Toward a New Worldview 1540-1789.- 18. The Expansion of Europe 1650-1800.- 19. The Changing Life of the People 1700-1800.- 20. The Revolution in Politics 1775-1815.- 21. The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780-1850.- 22. Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850.- 23. Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1900.- 24. The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914.- 25. The West and the World, 1815-1914.- 26. War and Revolution, 1914-1919.- 27. The Age of Anxiety, ca. 1900-1940.- 28. Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945.- 29. Cold War Conflict and Consensus 1945-1965.- 30. Challenging the Postwar Order 1960-1991.- 31. Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present.

Über Autor(innen)

John P. McKay is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA.   Clare Haru Crowston is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA.   Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor in History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.   Joe Perry is Associate Professor of Modern German and European History at Georgia State University, USA.