The Shaping of Western Civilization

Auteur

Michael Burger is a professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery.

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The Shaping of Western Civilization begins with the ancient Near East and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.

Résumé
The Shaping of Western Civilization begins with the ancient Near East and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.

Contenu

List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Notes on references, further reading, and dates

1. Foundations: The Ancient Near East
2. The Greeks: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
3. Rome: From Republic to Empire
4. Rome's Fall? Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
5. The High and Late Middle Ages
6. The Early Modern West I: The Reformation, the great consolidation, and the end of Christendom
7. The Early Modern West II: Science, society, and the state
8. The Early Modern West III: Enlightenment, industrialization, and an unraveled compromise
9. The West, 1815-1914: The search for community, and responses to the Enlightenment and revolution
10. From ca. 1914 to the present: The search for community, global conflict, and the harvest of the modern West

11. Coda: The Shaping of Western Civilization

    Sources
    Index