The Making of the West, Combined Volume: Peoples and Cultures - Softcover

Hunt, Lynn; Martin, Thomas R.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.; Smith, Bonnie G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457681439 ISBN 13: 9781457681431

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2015

Synopsis

Sharing the cross-cultural exchanges that shaped western history, Making of the West, Combined Volume presents a global context and chronological narrative to highlight significant moments throughout this time period.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynn Hunt (PhD. Stanford University) is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Inventing Human Rights, Measuring Time, Making History, and The Book that Changed Europe.

Thomas R. Martin (PhD, Harvard University) is Jeremiah O Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece and Ancient Greece, and is one of the originators of Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (www.perseus.tufts.edu). He is currently conducting research on the career of Pericles as a political leader in classical Athens as well as on the text of Josephus' Jewish War.

Barbara H. Rosenwein (PhD, University of Chicago) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author or editor of several books, including A Short History of the Middle Ages and Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. She is currently working on a general history of the emotions in the West.

Bonnie G. Smith (PhD, University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books including Ladies of the Leisure Class; The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice; and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century."

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1457681439
• ISBN 13: 9781457681431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1106