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Discovering the western past : a look at the evidence, volume I / Merry E. Wiesner, Andrew Evans, William Bruce Wheeler.

By: Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, ©2015Edition: 7th editionDescription: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781111837167 (volume 1)
  • 9781111837174 (volume 11).
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 909.09821/W63
Other classification:
  • CAS
Contents:
v. 1. To 1789 -- v. 2. Since 1500. Volume I: 1. The Need for Water in Ancient Societies -- 2. The Ideal and the Reality of Classical Athens --3. Health and Disease in the Greek World -- 4. The Achievements of Augustus -- 5. Invading Barbarians -- 6. The Development of the Medieval State -- 7. Life at a Medieval University -- 8. Infidels and Heretics: Crusades of the High Middle Ages -- 9. Social and Economic Conflicts in the Late Medieval Cloth Trade -- 10. The Renaissance Man and Woman -- 11. Pagans, Muslims, and Christians in the Mental World of Columbus -- 12. The Spread of the Reformation -- 13. Royal Power and Overseas Expansion, 1450-1540. Volume II: 1. The Spread of the Reformation -- 2. Royal Power and Overseas Expansion, 1450-1540 -- 3. Staging Absolutism -- 4. The Mind of an Age: Science and Religion Confront Eighteenth-Century Natural Disaster -- 5. A Day in the French Revolution: July 14, 1789 -- 6. Labor Old and New: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution -- 7. Two Programs for Social and Political Change: Liberalism and Socialism -- 8. Vienna and Paris, 1850-1930: The Development of the Modern City -- 9. Expansion and Public Opinion: The Debate over the "New Imperialism" -- 10. Motherhood, Nationalism, and Women's Political Role, 1848-1940 -- 11. World War I: Total War -- 12. Selling a Totalitarian System -- 13. Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life" in East and West -- 14. Europe and the Iraq War.
Volume ! - Discovering the Western past : A look at the evidence Volume 1 : To 1789 Volume 11 : Discovering the Western past : A look at the evidence Volume 11 : since 1500.
Summary: Includes The Problem, Sources and Method, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue and Evaluation sections in each chapter. This title emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data, with actual documents and artifacts from which students develop answers to historical questions-and learn to think like historians.
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v. 1. To 1789 -- v. 2. Since 1500. Volume I: 1. The Need for Water in Ancient Societies -- 2. The Ideal and the Reality of Classical Athens --3. Health and Disease in the Greek World -- 4. The Achievements of Augustus -- 5. Invading Barbarians -- 6. The Development of the Medieval State -- 7. Life at a Medieval University -- 8. Infidels and Heretics: Crusades of the High Middle Ages -- 9. Social and Economic Conflicts in the Late Medieval Cloth Trade -- 10. The Renaissance Man and Woman -- 11. Pagans, Muslims, and Christians in the Mental World of Columbus -- 12. The Spread of the Reformation -- 13. Royal Power and Overseas Expansion, 1450-1540. Volume II: 1. The Spread of the Reformation -- 2. Royal Power and Overseas Expansion, 1450-1540 -- 3. Staging Absolutism -- 4. The Mind of an Age: Science and Religion Confront Eighteenth-Century Natural Disaster -- 5. A Day in the French Revolution: July 14, 1789 -- 6. Labor Old and New: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution -- 7. Two Programs for Social and Political Change: Liberalism and Socialism -- 8. Vienna and Paris, 1850-1930: The Development of the Modern City -- 9. Expansion and Public Opinion: The Debate over the "New Imperialism" -- 10. Motherhood, Nationalism, and Women's Political Role, 1848-1940 -- 11. World War I: Total War -- 12. Selling a Totalitarian System -- 13. Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life" in East and West -- 14. Europe and the Iraq War.

Volume ! - Discovering the Western past : A look at the evidence Volume 1 : To 1789 Volume 11 : Discovering the Western past : A look at the evidence Volume 11 : since 1500.

Includes The Problem, Sources and Method, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue and Evaluation sections in each chapter. This title emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data, with actual documents and artifacts from which students develop answers to historical questions-and learn to think like historians.

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