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This book gives a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. It covers the minimum historical information that educated adults should know within a tightly-focused narrative and interpretive structure. The joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity. "Supremacies" centers on the use of power to dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies. Supremacy seeks stability, order, and incorporation. "Diversities" encompasses the creative impulse that produces new ideas, as well as people's efforts to define themselves as "different." Diversity creates change, opportunity, and individuality. These themes of historical tension and change, whether applied to political, economic, technological, social and cultural trends, offer a bridging explanatory organization. Five other topical themes regularly inform the text: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. Various "Basic Principles" present summaries of historical realities. Primary Source Projects and Sources on Families offer students the chance to evaluate differing points of view about the past. This text is less expensive, less formal, has more attitude, yet still provides all the essentials for a course on Western Civilization.
Contents
List of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Primary Source Projects, Sources on Families, Tables, and Timelines
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
1. History's Story
2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 BC
3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 BC to AD 135
4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 BC to AD 146
5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 BC to AD 300
6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 BC to AD 1453
7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, AD 500 to 1000
8. The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to1648
10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
12. The Westerner's Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
13. Rejections of Democracy: The Interwar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
14. A World Divided: The Cold War, 1945 to 1993
15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1993 to the Present
Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?
Timelines
Common Abbreviations
Glossary
Index
About the Author
