A History of Western Society, Volume 2

From the Age of Exploration to the Present
11. Revised Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4576-4219-7
Verlag: Bedford/Saint Martin's

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1322 g

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. Now integrated with LearningCurve, an adaptive online resource that helps students retain the material and come to class prepared.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckler, John

Hill, Bennett D.

McKay, John P.

Perry, Joe

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.

Crowston, Clare Haru

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650 World Contacts Before Columbus      The Trade World of the Indian Ocean.- The Trading States of Africa.- The Ottoman and Persian Empires      Genoese and Venetian Middlemen.-  The European Voyages of Discovery.- Causes of European Expansion     Technology and the Rise of Exploration.- The Portuguese Overseas Empire.- The Problem of Christopher Columbus.- Later Explorers.- Spanish Conquest in the New World.- Early French and English Settlement in the New World.- Primary Source 14.1: A Portuguese Traveler Describes Swahili City-States of East Africa.- Primary Source 14.2: Columbus Describes His First Voyage.- Primary Source 14.3: Doña Marina Translating for Hernando Cort  & # 233;s During His Meeting with Montezuma.- Primary Source 14.4: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives The Impact of Conquest.- Colonial Administration.- Impact of European.- Settlement on Indigenous Peoples.- Life in the Colonies.- The Columbian Exchange.- Primary Source 14.5: Tenochtit l& #225;n Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries Europe and the World After Columbus.- Sugar and Slavery.- Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects.- The Birth of the Global Economy Changing Attitudes and Beliefs.- New Ideas About Race.- Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity.-  William Shakespeare and His Influence Review and Explore — Learning Curve ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja Mapping the Past: Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange.-  Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589–1725 Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding.- The Social Order and Peasant Life.- Famine and Economic Crisis.- The Thirty Years’ War.- Achievements in State-Building.- Warfare and the Growth of Army Size.- Popular Political Action Absolutism in France and Spain.- The Foundations of Absolutism.- Louis XIV and Absolutism.- Life at Versailles.- French Financial Management Under Colbert.- Louis XIV’s Wars.- The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century     Primary Source 15.1: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1701.- Primary Source 15.2: Letter from Versailles Absolutism in Austria and Prussia.- The Return of Serfdom in the East.- The Austrian Habsburgs.- Prussia in the Seventeenth Century.- The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire.- The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow.