Civilization in the West
By: Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, Patricia O'Brien.
Contributors: Geary, Patrick J., 1948-; O'Brien, Patricia, 1945-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 963
Subjects: Civilization, Western -- History -- Textbooks.
Genres: Textbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first civilizations; title: Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C.E.; title: Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E.; title: Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-146 B.C.E.; title: Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.-192 C.E.; title: The transformation of the classical world; title: The classical legacy in the East : Byzantium and Islam; title: The West in the early Middle Ages, 500-900; title: The high Middle Ages; title: The later Middle Ages, 1300-1500; title: The Italian Renaissance; title: The European empires; title: The reform of religion; title: Europe at war, 1555-1648; title: The experiences of life in early modern Europe, 1500-1650; title: The royal state in the seventeenth century; title: Science and commerce in early modern Europe; title: The balance of power in eighteenth-century Europe; title: Culture and society in eighteenth-century Europe; title: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, 1789-1815; title: Industrial Europe; title: Political upheavals and social transformations, 1815-1850; title: State-building and social change in Europe, 1850-1871; title: The crisis of European culture, 1871-1914; title: Europe and the world, 1870-1914; title: War and revolution, 1914-1920; title: The European search for stability, 1920-1939; title: Global conflagration : hot war and Cold War; title: Postwar recovery and the new Europe to 1989; title: The West faces the new century, 1989 to the present.