Nicholas L Waddy

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Essential Guide offers a concise overview of European history developed to suit the undergraduate Western Civilization curriculum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781138710306
• ISBN-10: 113871030X
• Artikelnr.: 57055155

Autorenporträt

Nicholas L. Waddy is Associate Professor of History at Alfred State College in Alfred, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Value of European History Chapter 1: Early Humans and the Dawn of Civilization Chapter 2: Ancient Greece: Politics and War Chapter 3: Ancient Greece: Society
Culture
and Daily Life Chapter 4: Ancient Rome: Politics and War Chapter 5: Ancient Rome: Society
Culture and Daily Life Chapter 6: The Middle Ages: Politics and War
500-1300 Chapter 7: The Middle Ages: Society
Culture and Daily Life Chapter 8: The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Chapter 9: The Age of Discovery
the Protestant Reformation
and the Wars of Religion
1492-1648 Chapter 10: Politics
Colonialism
and War
1648-1789 Chapter 11: European Society during the Scientific
Agricultural
and Industrial Revolutions
1600-1800 Chapter 12: The Enlightenment
the French Revolution
and the Age of Napoleon
1700-1815 Chapter 13: Challenging the Conservative Order: Liberalism
Nationalism
and Socioeconomic Change
1815-50 Chapter 14: Middle Class Europe: The Triumph of Liberalism and Nationalism and the Rise of Socialism
1850-1914 Chapter 15: Industrialization
Imperialism
and Intellectual and Social Change
1850-1914 Chapter 16: World War I
1914-18 Chapter 17: Interwar Europe
1919-39 Chapter 18: World War II
1939-45 Chapter 19: The Cold War and the End of European Dominance
1945-present Epilogue: Europe
the United States
and the World in the 21st Century