The Making of the West: A Concise History, Volume I: Peoples and Cultures (Making of the West, Peoples and Cultures)
LYNN HUNT (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Inventing Human Rights(2007) andMeasuring Time, Making History(2008). She has in press a co-authored work on religious toleration in early eighteenth-century Europe.THOMAS R. MARTIN (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author ofSovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece(1985) andAncient Greece(1996, 2000) and is one of the originators ofPerseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece(www.perseus.tufts.edu). He is currently conducting research on the career of Pericles as a political leader in classical Athens as well as on the text of Josephus'Jewish War.BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author or editor of several books includingA Short History of the Middle Ages(2001; 2004; 2009) andEmotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages(2006). She is currently working on a general history of the emotions in the West.BONNIE G. SMITH (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books includingLadies of the Leisure Class(1981);The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice(1998); andTheOxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History(2007). Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century.