Western civilization
Subtitle: combined volume
By: Jackson J. Spielvogel.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Thomson Learning Australia; Thomson Wadsworth
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Southbank, Vic; Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 952
ISBN-13: 9780534646028
Subjects: Civilization, Western -- History -- Textbooks
Genres: Textbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 885) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient Near East : the first civilizations; title: The ancient Near East : peoples and empires; title: The civilization of the Greeks; title: The Hellenistic world; title: The Roman Republic; title: The Roman Empire; title: Late antiquity and the emergence of the medieval world; title: European civilization in the early Middle Ages, 750-1000; title: The recovery and growth of European society in the High Middle Ages; title: The rise of kingdoms and the growth of church power; title: The later Middle Ages : crisis and disintegration in the fourteenth century; title: Recovery and rebirth : the age of the Renaissance; title: Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century; title: Europe and the world : new encounters, 1500-1800; title: State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century; title: Toward a new heaven and a new earth : the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science; title: The eighteenth century : an age of Enlightenment; title: The eighteenth century : European states, international wars, and social change; title: A revolution in politics : the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon; title: The Industrial Revolution and its impact on European society; title: Reaction, revolution, and romanticism, 1815-1850; title: An age of nationalism and realism, 1850-1871; title: The mass society in an "Age of Progress," 1871-1894; title: An age of modernity, anxiety, and imperialism, 1894-1914; title: The beginning of the twentieth century crisis : war and revolution; title: The futile search for stability : Europe between the wars, 1919-1939; title: The deepening of the European crisis : World War II; title: Cold War and a new western world, 1945-1973; title: The contemporary western world since 1973