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The West in the World
The West in the World

The West in the World, 5th Edition

ISBN10: 0073407038 | ISBN13: 9780073407036
By Dennis Sherman and Joyce Salisbury
© 2014

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The West in the World, Fifth Edition, prompts students to take an active, analytical approach to understanding history and historical change. Readers will come to appreciate that history does not happen in isolation but rather is the consequence of a complex set of intersecting events, forces, and human actions among which there are cause-and-effect links that extend into the present day. As it compellingly tells the story of Western civilization, The West in the World encourages a critical examination and analysis of major events and themes. The fifth edition retains the medium length of previous editions, long enough to present a comprehensive, rich narrative but concise enough to give instructors the flexibility to supplement reading with other sources and books.

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Chapter 1. The Roots of Western Civilization: The Ancient Middle East to the Sixth Century B.C.E.

Chapter 2. The Contest for Excellence: Greece, 2000-338 B.C.E.

Chapter 3. The Poleis Become Cosmopolitan: The Hellenistic World, 336-150 B.C.E.

Chapter 4. Pride in Family and City: Rome from Its Origins Through the Republic, 753-44 B.C.E.

Chapter 5. Territorial and Christian Empires: The Roman Empire, 31 B.C.E. to 410 C.E.

Chapter 6. A World Divided: Western Kingdoms, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, ca. 376-1000

Chapter 7. The Struggle to Bring Order: The Early Middle Ages, ca. 750-1000

Chapter 8. Order Restored: The High Middle Ages, 1000-1300

Chapter 9. The West Struggles and Eastern Empires Flourish: The Late Middle Ages, ca. 1300-1500

Chapter 10. A New Spirit in the West: The Renaissance,ca. 1300-1640

Chapter 11. "Alone Before God": Religious Reform and Warfare 1500-1648

Chapter 12. Faith, Fortune, and Fame: European Expansion, 1450-1700

Chapter 13. The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty: Europe's Social and Political Order, 1600-1715

Chapter 14. A New World of Reason and Reform: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800

Chapter 15. Competing for Power and Wealth: The Old Regime, 1715-1789

Chapter 16. Overturning the Political and Social Order: The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815

Chapter 17. Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850

Chapter 18. Coping with Change: Ideology, Politics, and Revolution, 1815-1850

Chapter 19. Nationalism and Statebuilding: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870

Chapter 20. Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914

Chapter 21. Modern Life and the Culture of Progress: Western Society, 1850-1914

Chapter 22. Descending Into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution, 1914-1920

Chapter 23. Darkening Decades: Recovery, Dictators, and Depression, 1920-1939 00

Chapter 24. Into the Fire Again: World War II, 1939-1945

Chapter 25. Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: The Cold War,1945-1980s

Chapter 26. Into the Twenty-First Century: The Present in Perspective

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About the Author

Dennis Sherman

Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan . . He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978-79; 1985). He has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace; several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and short stories on literary reviews.

Joyce Salisbury

Joyce Salisbury is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she taught history of undergraduates for more than twenty years. She received a Ph.D in medieval history from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a respected historian who has published many articles and has written or edited more than ten books, including the critically acclaimed Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman, The Blood of Martyrs: Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence, The Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World, and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, which won many awards for its creative organization and timely presentation of the material. In 2010, Salisbury published a second edition of her classic work on the history of attitudes towards animals: The Beast Within: Humans and Animals in the Middle Ages. Salisbury is an award-winning teacher, who was named "Professor of the Year for Wisconsin in 1991" by CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education), a prestigious national organization. Since retiring from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Salisbury has taught twice on Semester at Sea, a program sponsored by the University of Virginia that teaches students as they circumnavigate the world. Salisbury brought a global perspective to the history of Western Civilization while teaching abroad, and the fourth edition of The West in the World has benefitted from her interaction with students as they make sense of our twenty-first century global civilization.

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