num_pages: 408
description: This text engages students and provokes discussion by presenting the past through the prism of current and perennial issues. Interpretive chapters on such topics as gender, religion, war, ecology, and nationalism create both thematic narratives and the strands of a larger chronological account. The book makes great ideas accessible, explores major historical turning points, and reveals the dynamic of increasing global interactions (trade, migrations, etc.). It also compares cultures and civilizations while giving voice to individual lives. Economics and ecology, racism and nationalism, individuality and mass culture are explored.
language: English
title: The West and the World: A History of Civilization from 1400 to the Present
titlecomplete: The West and the World: A History of Civilization from 1400 to the Present
genres: History
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers