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ISBN-10: 0321198336
ISBN-13: 9780321198334
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth; 1104 pp
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The West: Encounters and Transformations takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization.
Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West—how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this new text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West, with special attention given to Eastern Europe and the Muslim world, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
- Three themes inform the narrative—
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The West as a Geographic and Cultural Realm: Treats the West as a cultural realm extending beyond the geographical and political boundaries of Western Europe to include Eastern Europe, Australia, the U.S., and parts of the Muslim world.
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Cultural Encounters: Explores the changing identity of the West as a product of a series of cultural encounters among peoples, ideas, and beliefs outside the West and within it.
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The West and the World: Addresses the sometimes violent, sometimes peaceful, but most often reciprocal exchanges between Western and non-Western cultures.
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- “Justice in History”—Appearing in each chapter, these feature essays present historically significant trials or episodes in which different notions of justice were debated and resolved. These essays illustrate the way basic religious, philosophical, or political values of the West have evolved through attempts to solve disputes, contention, and conflict. Each essay ends with “Questions of Justice” that stimulate class discussion or student essay topics and a list of further readings. Example: “Justice in History: The Trial of Joan of Arc” (Ch. 10). See Table of Contents for a list of “Justice in History” features.
- “The Human Body in History”— These feature essays help students understand the cultural, religious, and political history of the body. Each reveals the ways in which the body has been represented in art and literature, responded to disease and trauma, and been clothed. Each essay ends with “For Discussion” questions that direct the student back to the broader chapter issues. Example: “The Human Body in History: Shellshock—From Woman's Malady to Soldier's Affliction” (Ch. 24). See Table of Contents for a list of “The Human Body in History” features.
- “Places of Encounter”—These four pictorial essays help students appreciate that cultural exchanges often occurred in specific places between different groups of people. Each essay ends with “For Discussion” questions that direct the student back to the broader chapter issues. Example: “Places of Encounter: The Colosseum” (Ch. 5). See Table of Contents for a list of “Places of Encounter” features.
- Primary Source Documents— Primary Sources included in each chapter reinforce or expand upon broader points made in the text narrative and introduce students to the basic materials of historical research. See Table of Contents for a list of Primary Source Documents.
- A flexible organization— Adhering to a manageable 29-chapter organization, the limited number of chapters makes the book more compatible with the traditional semester length course.
- Unique Content—
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What Is the West? appearing before the first chapter, guides students through the text by providing a one-of-a-kind framework that looks at the changing definition of the West. Structured around the five questions of What, When, Where, How and Why, this framework gets students to think about their understanding of Western civilization.
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On Chapter 2, which covers the period from ca. 1600 to 550 B.C.E., is first in a Western civilization textbook to address the International Bronze Age, a period important in its own right because it saw the creation of expansionist, multi-ethnic empires linked by trade and diplomacy.
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Chapter 27, “The Holocaust, the Bomb, and the Legacy of Mass Killing,” is a unique chapter in Western civilization textbooks that explores the moral fissure in the history of the West created by World War II. This thematic chapter provides an in-depth examination of an age of mass destruction that was inaugurated by the Holocaust and by the use of the atomic bomb.
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Chapter 19, “The West and the World: Empire, Trade, and War in the Eighteenth Century,” is a unique chapter covering the second period of European expansion, from 1650-1850. This thematic chapter examines the growth of European empires, the beginning of global warfare, and the encounters between Europeans and the peoples of Asia and Africa.
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Volume I includes Chapters 1-16, Volume II includes Chapters 16-29, Volume A includes Chapters 1-11, Volume B includes Chapters 10-18, and Volume C includes Chapters 18-29.
“What Is the West?”
1. The Beginnings of Civilizations, 10,000-2000 BCE.
2. The International Bronze Age and its Aftermath: Trade, Empire, and Diplomacy, 1600-550 BCE.
3. Building the Classical World: Hebrews, Persians, and Greeks, 1100-338 BCE.
4. The Hellenistic Age, 334-31 BCE.
5. Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors: 31 BCE-235 CE.
6. Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600 CE.
7. Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West: The Foundations of Medieval Europe, 550-750.
8. Empires and Borderlands: The Early Middle Ages, 750-1050.
9. The West Asserts Itself: The High Middle Ages, 1050-1300.
10. The West in Crisis: The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450.
11. The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture, 1350-1550.
12. The West in the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650.
13. The Reformation of Religion, 1500-1560.
14. The Age of Confessional Division, 1550-1618.
15. Absolutism and State-Building in Europe, 1618-1715.
16. The Scientific Revolution.
17. Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture.
18. The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815.
19. The West and the World: Empire, Trade and War in the Eighteenth Century.
20. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850.
21. Ideological Conflicts and National Unification, 1815-1871.
22. The Coming of Mass Politics: Industrialization, Emancipation, and Instability, 1870-1914.
23. The West and the World: Cultural Crisis and New Imperialism, 1870-1914.
24. The First World War.
25. Reconstruction, Reaction, and Continuing Revolution—The 1920s and 1930s.
26. World War and Its Aftermath, 1931-1949.
27. The Holocaust, the Bomb, and the Legacy of Mass Killing.
28. Redefining the West After World War.
29. The Contemporary Era, 1973 to the Present.
Glossary.
Index.
West, The: Encounters & Transformations, Atlas Edition, Combined Volume, 2/E
Levack, Muir, Veldman & Maas
© 2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1136 pages | Estimated Availability: 01/09/2009
ISBN-10: 0205556973 | ISBN-13: 9780205556977
Brief Description
West, The: Encounters & Transformations, Combined Volume, 2/E
Levack, Muir, Maas & Veldman
© 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1104 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 032136404X | ISBN-13: 9780321364043
Brief Description
The West: Encounters & Transformations takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West–how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West.
With 56 additional maps, The West: Encounters and Transformations, Second Edition, Atlas Edition, helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of Western Civilization courses for many. Four-color and outline maps accompanied by review questions call on students to identify important geographical areas and think critically about the connection between geography and historical events. The maps are on perforated pages and are organized by chapter so that they can be easily assigned and collected. Other than the additional perforated maps, the Atlas Edition of The West, 2/e, is identical to The West, 2/e.
The West: Encounters & Transformations takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization.
Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West–how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West.
"I enjoyed every page and could hardly put it down."
—Patricia Ali, Morris College
"I am impressed by the cultural encounters approach that this textbook uses. Showing the various forces of history [will] help students understand how everything in history meshes together into a giant story, instead of just being a jumble of facts."
—Leonard Curtis, Mississippi College
"The authors are absolutely right-on when they argue that the west is an idea shaped by cultural encounters...this is the only way that western civilization courses can be taught in the 21st century."
—Bryan Ganaway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The author(s) have done an outstanding job of writing a text that is...lucid...and comprehensive."
—Sharon L. Arnoult, Midwestern State University
"Too many texts are afraid to be interesting, engaging or to tell a good story...this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of events and also tells some good stories, nice to see that this can be done in a textbook today. This is the kind of textbook that helps make a course interesting, helping professors who have trouble being lively and supporting those who try to engage students with good stories based in different methods, countries, and areas of interest."
—Patrick Holt, Fordham University
"The writing style is friendly, warm, and persuasive. Students will want to read these chapters and continue reading them."
—Theodore M. Kluz, Troy State University
"Finally, a textbook for Western civilization courses that uses modern, clear language without distorting the record of the past, that combines forceful interpretation with the 'facts' and that marries brevity to faithfulness to history! The 'encounters' theme is a most effective pedagogical method, and is in keeping with the approach of the West being a cultural construct. This is an innovative approach, appropriate for today's students living in our global world."
—Arthur H. Auten, University of Hartford
Brian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. From his father, a professor of French history, he acquired a love for studying the past, and he knew from an early age that he too would become a historian. He received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1970. In graduate school he became fascinated by the history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, interests that he has maintained throughout his career. In 1969 he joined the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is now the John Green Regents Professor in History. The winner of several teaching awards, Levack teaches a wide variety of courses on British and European history, legal history, and the history of witchcraft. For eight years he served as the chair of his department, a rewarding but challenging assignment that made it difficult for him to devote as much time as he wished to his teaching and scholarship. His books include The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641: A Political Study (1973), The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707 (1987), and The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1987 and 1995), which has been translated into eight languages.
His study of the development of beliefs about witchcraft in Europe over the course of many centuries gave him the idea of writing a textbook on Western civilization that would illustrate a broader set of encounters between different cultures, societies, and ideologies. While writing the book, Levack and his two sons built a house on property that he and his wife, Nancy, own in the Texas hill country. He found that the two projects presented similar challenges: it was easy to draw up the design, but far more difficult to execute it. When not teaching, writing, or doing carpentry work, Levack runs along the jogging trails of Austin, and he has recently discovered the pleasures of scuba diving.
Edward Muir grew up in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, close-by the Emigration Trail along which wagon trains of Mormon pioneers and California-bound settlers made their way westward. As a child he loved to explore the broken-down wagons and abandoned household goods left at the side of the trail and from that acquired a fascination with the past. Besides the material remains of the past, he grew up with stories of his Mormon pioneer ancestors and an appreciation for how the past continued to influence the present. During the turbulent 1960s, he became interested in Renaissance Italy as a period and a place that had been formative for Western civilization. His biggest challenge is finding the time to explore yet another new corner of Italy and its restaurants.
He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University where he specialized in the Italian Renaissance and did archival research in Venice and Florence, Italy. He is now the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University and former chair of the History Department. At Northwestern he has won several teaching awards. His books include, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton, 1981); Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy (Johns Hopkins, 1993 and 1998); and Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997).
Some years ago Ed began to experiment with the use of historical trials in teaching and discovered that students loved them. From that experience he decided to write this textbook, which employs trials as a central feature. Ed lives beside Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois. His twin passions are skiing in the Rocky Mountains and rooting for the Chicago Cubs, who manage every summer to demonstrate that winning isn't everything.
Michael Maas was born in the Ohio River Valley, a community that had been a frontier outpost during the late eighteenth century. He grew up reading the stories of the early settlers and their struggles with the native peoples, and seeing in the urban fabric how the city had subsequently developed into a prosperous coal and steel town, with immigrants from all over the world. As a boy he developed a lifetime interest in the archaeology and history of the ancient Mediterranean world and began to study Latin. At Cornell University he combined his interests in cultural history and the Classical world by majoring in Classics and Anthropology. A semester in Rome clinched his commitment to these fields — and to Italian cooking. Michael went on to get his PhD in the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at UC Berkeley.
He has traveled widely in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and participated in several archaeological excavations, including an underwater dig in Greece. Since 1985 he has taught ancient history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he founded and directs the interdisciplinary B.A. Program in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. He has won several teaching awards.
Maas' special area of research is Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the Classical to the Medieval worlds, which saw the collapse of the Roman Empire in western Europe and the development of the Byzantine state in the east. During his last sabbatical, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., where he worked on his current book The Conqueror's Gift. Ethnography, Identity, and Imperial Power at the End of Antiquity (forthcoming). His other books include John Lydus and the Roman Past. Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian (1992); Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000); and Exegesis and Empire in the Early Byzantium (2003).
Maas has always been interested in interdisciplinary teaching and the encounters among different cultures. He sees The West: Encounters and Transformations as an opportunity to explain how the modern civilization that we call "the West" had its origins in the diverse interactions among many different peoples of antiquity.
Meredith Veldman grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago, in a close-knit, closed-in Dutch Calvinist community. In this immigrant society, history mattered: the "Reformed tradition" structured not only religious beliefs but also social identity and political practice. This influence certainly played some role in shaping Veldman's early fascination with history. But probably just as important were the countless World War II re-enactment games she played with her five older brothers. Whatever the cause, Veldman majored in history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then earned a Ph.D. in modern European history, with a concentration in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, from Northwestern University in 1988.
As Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University, Veldman teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history and twentieth-century Europe, as well as the second half of "Western Civ." In her many semesters in the Western Civ classroom, Veldman tried a number of different textbooks but found herself increasingly dissatisfied. She wanted a text that would convey to beginning students at least some of the complexities and ambiguities of historical interpretation, introduce them to the exciting work being done now in cultural history, and, most importantly, tell a good story. The search for this textbook led her to accept the offer made by Levack, Maas, and Muir to join them in writing The West: Encounters and Transformations.
The author of Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980 (1984), Veldman is also the wife of a Methodist minister and the mother of two young sons. They reside in Baton Rouge, where Veldman finds coping with the steamy climate a constant challenge. She and her family recently returned from Manchester, England, where they lived for three years and astonished the natives by their enthusiastic appreciation of English weather.
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