A Brief History of Western Civilization: The Unfinished Legacy, SVE

Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University
Patrick Geary, University of California - Los Angeles
Patricia O'Brien, University of California - Riverside
Single volume edition • 768 pp • Paper • 0-321-09700-9
Volume II • 400 pp • Paper • 0-321-09733-5
Volume I • 400 pp • Paper •0-321-09732-7

Concise and engaging, A Brief History of Western Civilization, 3/e, brings the study of Western Civilization alive with comprehensive coverage of a wide array of characters and events.

Fully integrated coverage of social—as well as economic, religious, and cultural—history within a traditional, political framework makes this text stand apart. Accessible and well written, this balanced text explores everyday events and ordinary people as well as momentous affairs and powerful elites.

Features

• Balanced approach that spotlights comprehensive coverage of social history within a traditional, political framework.
• Increased Coverage of Hellenism recognizes how Hellenism influenced the cultures of the western Mediterranean.
• The Visual Record pictorial chapter openers. The full-color images of each chapter opener provoke students to think critically about history and lend visual acuity to chapter themes. This marriage of vignettes with illustrations allows students to see—in an artifact or a piece of architecture—details that are not immediately apparent.

New to this Edition

• Four Color Design. The new four-color format enhances the value of the maps and graphics and makes the book more visually exciting, more accessible, and easier to read.
• Primary Sources. Selections from primary source documents designed to stimulate student interest in history. Each source is accompanied by an explanatory headnote that provides the necessary historical context.
• Geographical Tours of Europe. Thematic tours, each accompanied by a map, to guide the student around the changing contours of the geography of Western history.
• TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: Discovering Western Civilization On-Line. This end-of-chapter annotated website resource links students to top-rated sites of documents, images, and cultural resources.
• Updated scholarship and coverage in the post-World War II chapters.
• Special Feature Essays will be available on the Companion Website. There will be a link in the Discovering Western Civilization On-Line section.

Contents
1. The First Civilizations.
2. Early Greece.
3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece.
4. Early Rome and the Roman Republic.
5. Imperial Rome.
6. The Transformation of the Classical World.
7. The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam.
8. The West in the Early Middle Ages.
9. The High Middle Ages.
10. The Later Middle Ages.
11. The Italian Renaissance.
12. The European Empires.
13. The Reform of Religion.
14. Europe and War, 1555-1648.
15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650.
16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century.
17. Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe.
18. The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
19. Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
20. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1850.
21. Industrial Europe.
22. Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850.
23. State-Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850-1871.
24. The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914.
25. Europe and the World, 1870-1914.
26. War and Revolution, 1914-1920.
27. The European Search for Stability, 1920-1939.
28. Global Conflagration: Hot War and Cold War.
29. Postwar Recovery and the New Europe to 1989.
30. The West Faces the New Century, 1989 to the Present.

Supplements

Instructor Supplements

• Exam Copy, SVE / 0-321-09734-3
  
  
• Exam Copy, Volume 1 / 0-321-09735-1
  
  
• Exam Copy, Volume 2 / 0-321-09736-X
  
  
• Instructor's Manual / 0-321-10286-X
  
  
• Test Bank / 0-321-10285-1
  
  
• TestGen / 0-321-10283-5
  
  
• Revised text-specific Transparencies / 0-321-10287-8
  
  
• Blackboard Content
  
  
• CourseCompass

Student Supplements

• Study Guide, Volume 1 / 0-321-10284-3
  
  
• Study Guide, Volume 2 / 0-321-10293-2
  
  
• Blackboard Pinpack / 0-201-76301-X
  
  
• CourseCompass Student Pinpack / 0-321-10325-4
  
  
• Mapping Western Civilization / 0-673-53774-9
  
  
• Mapping Western Civilization Vol. 1 / 0-321-01878-8
  
  
• Mapping Western Civilization Vol. 2 / 0-321-01877-X
  
  
• Penguin Custom Editions: Western Civilization and Culture (A Joint Publication of Penguin and Pearson Custom Publishing / 0-321-10047-6

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