Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture (Brief Fourth Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) - Softcover

Cole, Joshua; Symes, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393265323 ISBN 13: 9780393265323

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

The most pedagogically innovative brief text―now connecting western civilizations to broader global contexts and students’ own experiences.

Western Civilizations―written by two expert teachers―is the most pedagogically innovative text for the survey course. A carefully crafted text and media program empower students to master core content, engage in historical analysis, and think critically, and the Brief Fourth Edition has been substantially updated with the latest scholarship that connects the West to global contexts, as well as new “Past and Present” features that connect historical themes to contemporary topics.

About this title

About the Author:

Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Specializing in the social and cultural history of France since the Revolution of 1789, he earned his Ph.D. at University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (2000).

Carol Symes is an Associate Professor of history and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 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; history of theatre. Her first book was A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393265323
• ISBN 13: 9780393265323
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 928