A brief history of Western civilization : the unfinished legacy
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A brief history of Western civilization : the unfinished legacy
Longman, c2002
3rd ed
- v. 1
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"Rev. ed. of: The unfinished legacy. 2nd ed. c1997"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of 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.
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