A History of Western Society, Combined Volume Volume 1

Now from Bedford/St. Martin's, __A History of Western Society__ is one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past and ties social history to the broad sweep of politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen the text's readability, heighten its attention to daily life, and incorporate the insights of new scholarship, including an enhanced treatment of European exploration and a thoroughly revised post-1945 section. With a dynamic new design, new special features, and a completely revised and robust companion reader, this major revision makes the past memorable and accessible for a new generation of students and instructors. Long praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the eleventh edition of A History of Western Society includes even more built-in tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a brand-new, comprehensive primary source program in-text and online, expanded chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. Enhanced with a wealth of digital contentincluding carefully developed online document assignments for each chapter with auto-graded exercisesthe eleventh edition provides easily assignable options for instructors and novel ways for students to master the content. Now integrated with LearningCurve, an adaptive online resource that helps students retain the material and come to class prepared. To see an example of the new Online Document Assignment from Chapter 14, click here. The crisis of the later Middle Ages, 1300-1450 -- European society in the age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550 -- Reformations and religious wars, 1500-1600 -- European exploration and conquest, 1450-1650 -- Absolutism and constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725 -- Toward a new worldview, 1540-1789 -- The expansion of Europe, 1650-1800 -- The changing life of the people, 1700-1800 -- The revolution in politics, 1775-1815 -- The revolution in energy and industry, ca. 1780-1850 -- Ideologies and upheavals, 1815-1850 -- Life in the emerging urban society, 1840-1900 -- The age of nationalism, 1850-1914 -- The west and the world, 1815-1914 -- War and revolution, 1914-1919 -- The age of anxiety, ca. 1900-1940 -- Dictatorships and the second world war, 1919-1945 -- Cold war conflict and consensus, 1945-1965 -- Challenging the postwar order, 1960-1991 -- Europe in an age of globalization, 1990 to the present

Now from Bedford/St. Martin's, A History of Western Society is one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past and ties social history to the broad sweep of politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen the text's readability, heighten its attention to daily life, and incorporate the insights of new scholarship, including an enhanced treatment of European exploration and a thoroughly revised post-1945 section. With a dynamic new design, new special features, and a completely revised and robust companion reader, this major revision makes the past memorable and accessible for a new generation of students and instructors.

A History of Western Society is one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past, tying social history to politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen readability and the attention to daily life, and incorporate new scholarship. Content: v. 1. From antiquity to the enlightenment -- v. 2. From the age of exploration to the present.