Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture, Combined Volume, 18th Edition
by Joshua Cole, Carol Symes
W. W. Norton & Company | October 2013 | ISBN: 0393922138 | True PDF | 1161 pages | 99.4 mb

A storytelling approach that engages students with features to help them master core content, think critically, and make connections.
The engaging narrative and carefully crafted, innovative pedagogical tools in Western Civilizations are based on the co-authorsΓÇÖ own teaching experiences. The text provides balanced coverage, places the West in a larger global context, and carefully integrates new research. In the eighteenth edition, the early modern period has been completely overhauledΓÇöand now includes a new chapter on the Atlantic World.

About the Authors
Joshua Cole (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on gender and the history of population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, Germany, and Algeria. His first book was The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).
Carol Symes (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, where she has won the top teaching award in the College of Liberal Arts and Science. Her main areas of study include medieval Europe, especially France and England; cultural history; history of information media and communication technologies; and history of theater. Her first book was A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007). 

BRIEF CONTENTS
MAPS xxi
PRIMARY SOURCES xxiii
PREFACE xxvii
CHAPTER 1 Early Civilizations 3
CHAPTER 2 Peoples, Gods, and Empires: 1700ΓÇô500 B.C.E. 39
CHAPTER 3 The Civilization of Greece, 1000ΓÇô400 B.C.E. 75
CHAPTER 4 The Greek World Expands, 400ΓÇô150 B.C.E. 111
CHAPTER 5 The Civilization of Ancient Rome 145
CHAPTER 6 The Transformation of Rome 179
CHAPTER 7 RomeΓÇÖs Three Heirs, 500ΓÇô950 211
CHAPTER 8 The Expansion of Europe, 950ΓÇô1100 247
CHAPTER 9 The Consolidation of Europe, 1100ΓÇô1250 283
CHAPTER 10 The Medieval World, 1250ΓÇô1350 323
CHAPTER 11 Rebirth and Unrest, 1350ΓÇô1453 357
CHAPTER 12 Innovation and Exploration, 1453ΓÇô1533 389
CHAPTER 13 The Age of Dissent and Division, 1500ΓÇô1564 423
CHAPTER 14 Europe in the Atlantic World, 1550ΓÇô1660 453
CHAPTER 15 European Monarchies and Absolutism, 1660ΓÇô1725 491
CHAPTER 16 The New Science of the Seventeenth Century 519
CHAPTER 17 Europe during the Enlightenment 547
CHAPTER 18 The French Revolution 581
CHAPTER 19 The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society 617
CHAPTER 20 The Age of Ideologies: Europe in the Aftermath of Revolution, 1815ΓÇô1848 653
CHAPTER 21 Revolutions and Nation Building, 1848ΓÇô1871 687
CHAPTER 22 Imperialism and Colonialism, 1870ΓÇô1914 727
CHAPTER 23 Modern Industry and Mass Politics, 1870ΓÇô1914 761
CHAPTER 24 The First World War 799
CHAPTER 25 Turmoil between the Wars 837
CHAPTER 26 The Second World War 873
CHAPTER 27 The Cold War World: Global Politics, Economic Recovery, and Cultural Change 911
CHAPTER 28 Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960ΓÇô1990 947
CHAPTER 29 A World without Walls: Globalization and the West 983