Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.
Over the next few decades they convinced emperors to switch sides. They even succeeded in converting many Germans along and outside the borders of the Roman Empire to their version of the Christian faith. For a long time, ...
The text explores key events, figures, themes, and characteristics in the history of Western Civilization. Grouped into six parts, chapters include brief chronologies of events, maps, and illustrations.
"Offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac uses the joined terms "supremacies and diversities" to develop themes of conflict and creativity"--
Organized around eight major themes to provide direction and cohesion to the text while allowing for originality of thought in both written and oral analysis.
This is a comprehensive text for senior high school history and contemporary studies courses.
This book "is a short, interpretive, and coherent overview of the history of Western civilization from antiquity to late eighteenth-century Europe and America." -- Back cover.
What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic...
This volume shows that they can be successfully linked, providing a tool to see each subject in the context of the other, identifying influences and connections.
After challenging the multicultural effort to “provincialize” the history of Western civilization, this book argues that the roots of the West’s exceptional creativity should be traced back to the uniquely aristocratic warlike culture ...