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A social history within a political and cultural framework, The West in the World looks at the development of western civilization within the context of the rest of the world. Rather than treating the evolution of western civilization as an isolated event, Sherman and Salisbury examine how the west evolved in time with--and often, as a response to--the events that shaped civilizations around the globe. In addition to setting the history of western civilization in context, this groundbreaking new text distinguishes itself from standard survey texts by being the first to fully integrate visual history with traditional narrative style. Readers glimpse the true craft of the historian through integrated discussions of the visual program in the book; throughout the text, the authors address how the paintings, sculpture, and other art of the times serve as primary sources in informing the reader about that period in history. In addition to drawing the art program into the text, The West in the World includes visual learning tools such as Thinking about Geography maps with guiding questions, and timelines at the beginning and end of each chapter. The West in the World also offers complete coverage of western civilization in a “midsize” book—this unique length provides more detailed and comprehensive coverage than brief books, but is not as exhaustive and unmanageable as larger survey texts.

Table of Contents:
List of Maps Preface CHAPTER 1TheRoots of Western Civilization: The Ancient Middle East to 500 B.C. Before Western Civilization Struggling with the Forces of Nature: Mesopotamia, 3000-ca. 1000 B.C. Rule of the God-King: Ancient Egypt, ca. 3100-1000 B.C. Biography Hatshepsut (1504?-1482 B.C.) and Thutmose Merchants and Monotheists: People of the Mediterranean Coast, ca. 1300-500B.C. Terror and Benevolence: The Growth of Empires, 1200-500 B.C. Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 2TheContest for Excellence: Greece 2000-338 B.C. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Heroes Life in the Greek Poleis, 700-489 B.C. Imperial Athens, 489-431 B.C. Destruction, Disillusion, and a Search for Meaning Biography Alcibiades (ca. 450-404 B.C.) Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the ClassroomCHAPTER 3ThePoleis Become Cosmopolitan: The Hellenistic World 323-150 B.C. The Conquest of the Poleis The Successor Kingdoms, 323-ca. 100 B.C. East Meets West in the Successor Kingdoms The Search for Truth: Hellenistic Thought, Religion, and Science Biography Arsinoi II Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 4Pride in Family and City: Rome from ItsOrigins Through the Republic, 753-44 B.C. The Rise of Rome , 753-265 B.C. Expansion and Transformation, 265-133 B.C. Biography Publius Terentius Afer (ca. 190-159 B.C.) The Hellenizing of the Republic The Twilight of the Republic Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 5Territorial and Christian Empires: The Roman Empire, 31B.C. to A.D. 410 The Pax Romana- 27 B.C. to A.D. 192 Life During the Peace of Rome Crisis and Transformation, A.D. 192-ca. 400 The Longing for Religious Fulfillment From Christian Persecution to the City of God, A.D. 64-410 The Holy Life Biography Melanie the Younger (385-439?) Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 6A World Divided: Western Kingdoms,Byzantium, and the Islamic World ca. 376-1000 The Making of the Western Kingdoms, ca. 376-750 The Byzantine Empire, ca. 400-1000 Islam, 600-1000 Islam and the West Biography Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 7The Struggle to Restore Order: The Middle Ages, ca.750-1000 Bringing Order with Laws and Leadership Anglo-Saxon England: Forwarding Learning and Law Charlemagne and the Carolingians: A New European Empire Struggle for Order in the Church Order Interrupted: Vikings and Other Invaders Biography Dhuoda, Bernard, and William, ca. 840 Manors and Feudal Ties: Order Emerging from Chaos Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the ClassroomCHAPTER 8Order Perfected: The High Middle Ages, 1000-1300 Those Who Work: Agricultural Labor Those Outside the Order: Town Life Biography Ramon Lull (1232?-1316) Those Who Fight: Nobles and Kings The Rise of Centralized Monarchies Those Who Pray: Imperial Popes and Expanding Christendom Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the ClassroomCHAPTER 9Despair in the West, Empires in the East: The Last MiddleAges, ca. 1300-1500 Economic and Social Misery Imperial Papacy Besieged More Destruction: The Hundred Year’ War Biography Edward: The Black Prince, 1330-1376 Responses to Disaster and Despair Empires in the East Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 10A New Spirit in the West: The Renaissance, ca. 1300-1640 A New Spirit Emerges: Individualism, Realism, and Activism Biography Isabella d’Este (1474-1539) The Politics of Individual Effort Individualism as Self-Interest: Life During the Renaissance An Age of Talent and Beauty: Renaissance Culture and Science Renaissance of the “New Monarchies” of the North Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 11“Alone Before God”: Religious Reform and Warfare1500-1648 The Clash of Dynasties Biography Martin Guerre (1524-1594) A Tide of Religious Reform The Catholic Reformation Europe Erupts Again: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559-1648 Life After the Reformation Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the ClassroomCHAPTER 12Faith, Fortune, and Fame: European Expansion, 1450-1700 The World Imagined The World Discovered Confrontation of Cultures The World Market and the Commercial Revolution The World Transformed Biography Maria Sibylla Mertan (1647-1717) Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 13The Struggle for Survival andSovereignty: Europe’s Social and Political Order 1600-1715 Stresses in Traditional Society Royal Absolutism in France The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern Europe The Triumph of Constitutionalism Biography Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 14A New World of Reason and Reform: TheScientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800 Questioning Truth and Authority Developing a Modern Scientific View Supporting and Spreading Science Laying the Foundations for the Enlightenment The Enlightenment in Full Stride Biography Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 15Competing for Power and Wealth: The Old Regime, 1715-1789 Statebuilding and War GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Western Africa, Brazil, and the Atlantic Slave Trade The Twilight of Monarchies? The Question of Enlightened Absolutism Changes in Country and City Life The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New Biography Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Culture for the Lower Classes Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 16Overturning the Political and SocialOrder: The French Revolution and Napoleon 1789-1815 “A Great Ferment”: Trouble Brewing in France The Constitutional Monarchy: Establishing a New Order To the Radical republic and Back Biography Manon Roland (1754-1793) Napoleon Bonaparte Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 17Factories, Cities, and Families in theIndustrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850 The Industrial Revolution Begins GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings: China and Great Britain New Markets, Machines, and Power Industrialization Spreads to the Continent Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Industrialization Life in the Growing Cities Public Health and Medicine in the Industrial Age Family Ideals and Realities Biography The Cadburys Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 18Coping with Change: Ideology, Politics, and Revolution,1815-1850 The Congress of Vienna: A Gathering of Victors Ideologies: How the World Should Be Biography John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and Harriet Taylor (1807-1858) Restoration and Repression A Wave of Revolution and Reform The Dam Burst Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 19Nationalism and Statebuilding: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870 Building Unified Nation-States The Drive for Italian Unification Germany “By Blood and Iron” The Fight for National Unity in North America GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Japan Opens to the West Divide Authority in the Austrian and Ottoman Empires Using Nationalism in France and Russia Biography Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 20Mass Politics and Imperial Domination:Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 Demands for Democracy Insiders and Outsiders: Politics of the Extremes Biography Jean Jaures (1859-1914) Emigration: Overseas and Across Continents The New Imperialism: The Race for Africa and Asia Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 21Modern Life and the Culture of Progress: Western Society,1850-1914 The Second Industrial Revolution The New Urban Landscape City People Sports and Leisure in the Cities Private Life: Together and Alone at Home Science in an Age of Optimism Culture: Accepting the Modern World From Optimism to Uncertainty Biography Claude Monet (1840-1926) Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 22Descending Into the Twentieth Century:World War and Revolution 1914-1920 On the Path to Total War The Front Lines War on the Home Front Biography Kathe Kolwitz To the Bitter End Assessing the Costs of the War The Peace Settlement Revolution in Russia Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 23Darkening Decades: Dictators, Depression, and World War II,1920-1945 Trying to Recover from the Great War, 1919-1929 Turning Away From Democracy: Dictatorships and Fascism, 1919-1929 Transforming the Soviet Union: 1920-1939 The Great Depression: 1929-1939 Nazism in Germany The Road to War: 1931-1939 World War II, 1939-1945 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Rise of Japanese Ultranationalism Josip Broz (Tito) (1892-1980) Summary Timeline: A Closer Look Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 24Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: The ColdWar 1945-1980s From Peace to Cold War East and West: Two Paths to Recovery in Europe The Twilight of Colonialism GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Apartheid in South Africa A Sense of Relativity in Thought and Culture Protests, Problems, and New Politics: The 1960s to the 1980s Biography Simone de Beauvoir Postindustrial Society Breakthroughs in Science Timeline: A Closer Look Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Beyond the Classroom CHAPTER 25Into the Twenty-First Century: The Present in Perspective The Collapse of Communism Biography Vaclav Havel (1936- ) Repercussion and Realignments in the West The World and the West from a Global Perspective Summary Review, Analyze, and Anticipate Timeline: A Closer Look Beyond the Classroom Glossary Credits Index

About the Author :
Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan . . He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978-79; 1985). He has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace; several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and short stories on literary reviews. Joyce Salisbury is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she taught history of undergraduates for more than twenty years. She received a Ph.D in medieval history from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a respected historian who has published many articles and has written or edited more than ten books, including the critically acclaimed Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman, The Blood of Martyrs: Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence, The Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World, and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, which won many awards for its creative organization and timely presentation of the material. In 2010, Salisbury published a second edition of her classic work on the history of attitudes towards animals: The Beast Within: Humans and Animals in the Middle Ages. Salisbury is an award-winning teacher, who was named "Professor of the Year for Wisconsin in 1991" by CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education), a prestigious national organization. Since retiring from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Salisbury has taught twice on Semester at Sea, a program sponsored by the University of Virginia that teaches students as they circumnavigate the world. Salisbury brought a global perspective to the history of Western Civilization while teaching abroad, and the fourth edition of The West in the World has benefitted from her interaction with students as they make sense of our twenty-first century global civilization.