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- Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries, 5th Edition
- Thomas F. X. Noble - University of Notre Dame
- Barry S. Strauss - Cornell University
- Duane J. Osheim - University of Virginia
- Kristen B. Neuschel - Duke University
- Elinor Accampo - University of Southern California
- David D. Roberts - University of Georgia
- William B. Cohen - Late of Indiana University
- ISBN-10: 0618794247 ISBN-13: 9780618794249
- 1088 Pages CB
- ©2008 Published
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- Western Civilization, 5/e, is distinguished for its wider definition of Europe that includes Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and European frontiers. Recognizing that factors outside the continent affected European history, the authors highlight Europe's place in the world throughout the narrative and in the primary source feature, "The Global Record. "Carefully revised and edited for greater accessibility, the Fifth Edition incorporates new pedagogical features such as focus questions, key terms, and section summaries to better support students of western civilization. The reconceived narrative and streamlined organization, featuring smaller, more cohesive learning units, lend to greater ease of use for both students and instructors.
- Revised! End-of-chapter material serves as a helpful review tool for students: Looking Ahead sections prepare students for events to come in the next chapter, while Suggested Readings and Notes round out the material.
- Updated! Scholarship has been thoroughly revised throughout, and approximately one-third of the boxed features in this edition are new. The final chapter has been entirely rewritten to reflect current events, such as America's response to global terrorism and the state of religious identities, family life, and gender roles.
- Thomas F. X. Noble
- After receiving his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, Thomas Noble taught at Albion College, Michigan State University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Virginia. In 1999 he received the University of Virginia's highest award for teaching excellence. In 2001 he became Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825; Religion, Culture and Society in the Early Middle Ages; Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Images and the Carolingians: Tradition, Order, and Worship; and From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms. Noble's articles and reviews have appeared in many leading journals, including the American Historical Review, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Catholic Historical Review, Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, Speculum, and Studi medievali. He has also contributed chapters to several books and articles to three encyclopedias. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1994 and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 1999-2000. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) and the American Philosophical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2004.
- Barry S. Strauss
- Professor of history and Classics at Cornell University, Barry Strauss holds a Ph.D. from Yale. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Korea Foundation, and the Killam Foundation of Canada. He is the recipient of the Clark Award for excellence in teaching from Cornell. He is Director of Cornell's Program on Freedom and Free Societies and Past Director of Cornell's Peace Studies Program. His many publications include "Athens After the Peloponnesian War: Class, Faction, and Policy, 403-386 B.C."; "Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War"; "The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists" (with Josiah Ober); "Hegemonic Rivalry from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age" (co-edited with R. New Lebow); "War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War" (co-edited with David R. McCann); "Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty"; "The Battle of Salamis, the Naval Encounter That Saved Greece – and Western Civilization"; "The Trojan War: A New History"; and "The Spartacus War." His books have been translated into six languages. His book "The Battle of Salamis" was named one of the best books of 2004 by the Washington Post.
- Duane J. Osheim
- A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome with a Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Davis, Duane Osheim is professor of history at the University of Virginia. He has held American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humantities and Fulbright Fellowships. He is author and editor of "A Tuscan Monastery and Its Social World"; "An Italian Lordship: The Bishopric of Lucca in the Late Middle Ages"; "Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy"; and "Chronicling History: Chroniclers and Historians in Medieval and Renaissance Italy."
- Kristen B. Neuschel
- After receiving her Ph.D. from Brown University, Kristen Neuschel taught at Denison University and Duke University, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is a specialist in early modern French history and is the author of "Word of Honor: Interpreting Noble Culture in Sixteenth-Century France" and articles on French social history and European women's history. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has also received the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, which is awarded annually on the basis of student nominations for excellence in teaching at Duke.
- Elinor Accampo
- Professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Elinor Accampo completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her career at USC, she taught at Colorado College and Denison University. She specializes in modern France and is the author of "Blessed Motherhood"; "Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France"; and "Industrialization, Family, and Class Relations: Saint Chamond, 1815–1914." She has also published "Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France" (co-edited with Rachel Fuchs and Mary Lynn Stewart) and articles and book chapters on the history of reproductive rights and birth control movements. She has received fellowships and travel grants from the German Marshall Fund, the Haynes Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as an award for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching at USC.
- David D. Roberts
- After receiving his Ph.D. in modern European history at the University of California, Berkeley, David Roberts taught at the Universities of Virginia and Rochester before becoming professor of history at the University of Georgia in 1988. At Rochester he chaired the Humanities Department of the Eastman School of Music, and he chaired the History Department at Georgia from 1993 to 1998. A recipient of Woodrow Wilson and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, he is the author of "The Syndicalist Tradition and Italian Fascism"; "Benedetto Croce and the Uses of Historicism"; "Nothing but History: Reconstruction and Extremity After Metaphysics"; "The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-Century Europe: Rethinking the Poverty of Great Politics"; and "Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy," as well as two books in Italian and numerous articles and reviews. He is currently the Albert Berry Sayre Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia.
- William B. Cohen
- William Cohen (of late) received his PhD from Stanford in 1968. His scholarly research focused on French Urbanization, and he was the author of "The French Encounter with Africans: White Responses to Blacks"; "European Empire Building, Rulers of Empire," and "Rober Delavignette and the French Empire," as well as numerous articles and reviews.
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1. The Ancestors of the West
Origins, to ca. 3000 B.C.
Mesopotamia, to ca. 1600 B.C.
Egypt, to ca. 1100 B.C.
Widening Horizons: The Levant and Anatolia, 2500-1150 B.C.
The Visual Record: The Iceman and His World
2. The Sword, the Book, and the Myths: Western Asia and Early Greece
Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians, and Persians, ca. 1200-330 B.C.
Israel, ca. 1500-400 B.C.
Early Greece, to ca. 725 B.C.
The Visual Record: The Trojan War
3. The Age of the Polis in Greece, ca. 750-350 B.C.
Society and Politics in Archaic Greece, ca. 750-500 B.C.
The Culture of Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
The Public Culture of Classical Greece
The Visual Record: The Parthenon
4. Alexander the Great and the Spread of Greek Civilization, ca. 350-30 B.C.
Philip and Alexander
The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 323-30 B.C.
Alexandrian Culture
The Turn Inward: New Philosophies, New Faiths
The Visual Record: Images of Cleopatra
5. Rome, from Republic to Empire
Before the Republic, 753-509 B.C.
The Early And Middle Republic at Home, ca. 509-133 B.C.
The Early And Middle Republic Abroad, ca. 509-133 B.C.
The Late Republic And Its Collapse, 133-31 B.C.
The Visual Record: From Poseidonia to Paestum
6. Imperial Rome, 31 B.C.-A.D. 284
Augustus and the Principate, 31 B.C.-A.D. 68
The Roman Peace and Its Collapse, A.D. 69-284
Early Christianity
The Visual Record: Gladiators
7. The World of Late Antiquity, 284-ca.600
Rebuilding the Roman Empire, 284-395
The Catholic Church and the Roman Empire, 313-604
The Rise of Germanic Kingdoms in the West, ca. 370-530
The Roman Empire in the East, 395-565
Society and Culture in Late Antiquity
The Written Record: Two Views of the Huns
The Global Record: Christianity Arrives in Nubia
The Visual Record: The Ravenna Mosaics
8. Early Medieval Civilizations, 600-900
The Islamic East
The Byzantine Empire
Catholic Kingdoms in the West
The Carolingian Empire
Early Medieval Economies and Societies
The Visual Record: Icons
9. The Expansion of Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900-1300
Economic Expansion
The Heirs of the Carolingian Empire: Germany, Italy, and France
The British Isles
The Growth of New States
The Crusades
The Visual Record: The Medieval Castle
10. Medieval Civilization at Its Height, 900-1300
The Traditional Orders of Society
Social and Religious Movements, ca. 1100-1300
Latin Culture: From Schools to Universities
The Vernacular Achievement
The Visual Record: Stained Glass
11. Crisis and Recovery in Late Medieval Europe, 1300-1500
The Crisis of the Western Christian Church
War and the Struggle over Political Power, 1300-1450
Crisis in Economy and Society
The Consolidation of Political Power, 1450-1500
The Visual Record: A Painting of the Plague
12. The Renaissance
Humanism and Culture in Italy, 1300-1500
Painting and the Arts, 1250-1550
The Spread of the Renaissance, 1350-1536
The Renaissance and Court Society
The Visual Record: Renaissance Marriage Chests
13. European Overseas Expansion to 1600
The European Background, 1250-1492
Portuguese Voyages of Exploration, 1350-1515
Spanish Voyages of Exploration, 1492-1522
Spain's Colonial Empire, 1492-1600
The Columbian Exchange
The Visual Record: "The Mulattos of Esmeraldas
14. The Age of the Reformation
The Reformation Movements, ca. 1517-1545
The Empire of Charles V (r. 1519-1556)
The English Reformation, 1520-1603
France, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, 1523-1560
The Late Reformation, ca. 1545-1600
The Visual Record: A Reformation Woodcut
15. Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560-1648
Imperial Spain and the Limits of Royal Power
Religious and Political Conflict in France and England
Religious and Political Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe
Economic Change and Social Tensions
Writing, Drama, and Art in an Age of Upheaval
The Visual Record: Baroque Art
16. Europe in the Age of Louis XIV, ca. 1640-1715
France in the Age of Absolutism
The English Civil War and Its Aftermath
New Powers in Central and Eastern Europe
The Expansion of Overseas Trade and Settlement
The Visual Record: Table Manners
17. A Revolution in World-View
The Revolution in Astronomy, 1543-1632
The Scientific Revolution Expands, ca. 1600-1700
The New Science in Context: Society, Politics, and Religion
The Visual Record: Modern Maps
18. Europe on the Threshold of Modernity, ca. 1715-1789
The Enlightenment
European States in the Age of Enlightenment
The Widening World of Commerce and Warfare
Economic Expansion and Social Change
The Visual Record: Gardens
19. An Age of Revolution 1789-1815
The Beginnings of Revolution, 1775-1789
The Phases of the Revolution, 1789-1799
The Napoleonic Era and the Legacy of Revolution, 1799-1815
The Visual Record: Political Symbols
20. The Industrial Transformation of Europe, 1750-1850
Preconditions for Industrialization
New Modes of Production
Social, Cultural, and Environmental Impacts
Responses to Industrialization
The Visual Record: Union Membership Certificates
21. Restoration, Reform, and Revolution, 1814-1848
The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815
Ideological Confrontations
Restoration, Reform, and Reaction
The Revolutions of 1848
The Visual Record: Raft of the 'Medusa'
22. Nationalism and Political Reform, 1850-1880
The Changing Nature of International Relations
Italian Unification, 1859-1870
German Unification, 1850-1871
Precarious Empires
The Emergence of New Political Forms in the United States and Canada, 1840-1880
The Development of Western Democracies
The Visual Record: An Engraving of the British Royal Family
23. The Age of Optimism, 1850-1880
Industrial Growth and Acceleration
Social Impacts of Economic Growth
Urban Problems and Solutions
Social and Political Initiatives
Culture in an Age of Optimism
The Visual Record: An Engraving of the British Royal Family
24. Escalating Tensions 1880-1914
The New Imperialism and the Spread of Europe's Population
From Optimism to Anxiety: Politics and Culture
Vulnerable Democracies
Autocracies in Crisis
The Coming War
The Visual Record: Empire and Advertising
25. War and Revolution, 1914-1919
The Unforeseen Stalemate, 1914-1917
The Experience of Total War
The Two Russian Revolutions of 1917
The New War and the Allied Victory, 1917-1918
The Outcome and the Impact
The Visual Record: Max Beckmann's The Night
26. The Illusion of Stability, 1919-1930
The West and the World After the Great War
Communism, Fascism, and the New Political Spectrum
Toward Mass Society
Weimar Germany and the Trials of the New Democracies
The Search for Meaning in a Disordered World
The Visual Record: Advertising
27. The Tortured Decade 1930-1939
The Great Depression
The Stalinist Revolution in the Soviet Union
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
Fascist Challenge and Antifascist Response, 1934-1939
The Coming of World War II, 1935-1939
The Visual Record: Film as Propaganda
28. The Era of the Second World War, 1939-1949
The Victory of Nazi Germany, 1939-1941
The Assault on the Soviet Union and the Nazi New Order
A Global War, 1941-1944
The Shape of the Allied Victory, 1944-1945
Into the Postwar World
The Visual Record: Holocaust Snapshots
29. An Anxious Stability: The Age of the Cold War, 1949-1989
The Search for Cultural Bearings
Prosperity and Democracy in Western Europe
The Communist Bloc: From Consolidation to Stagnation
Europe, the West, and the World
The Collapse of the Soviet System, 1975-1991
The Visual Record: Pop Art
30. A Continuing Experiment: The West and the World Since 1989
The Uncertain International Framework After the Cold War
The Continuing Experiment with Democratic Capitalism
Lifestyles and Identities
The West in a Global Age
Questioning the Meaning of the West
The Visual Record: Postmodern Architecture
New! To promote active reading and comprehension, Focus Questions open each chapter and appear as section heads. These questions are answered in the chapter summary.
New! Each chapter opens with a set of Key Terms, which appear in boldface along with definitions in the margins. These terms appear again at the end of the chapter with page references.
New! Key information and events appear in bulleted Section Summaries for quick and clear presentation.
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