This title is being sold in the downloadable VitalBook™ format.
This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and 6,000 years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts’ full historical significance.
This title will only allow printing of 2 consecutive pages and copying of 2 consecutive pages at a time.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER 1 The Renaissance
- CHAPTER 2 The Reformation
- CHAPTER 3 Overseas Expansion and New Politics
- CHAPTER 4 War and Revolution: 1560–1660
- CHAPTER 5 Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER 6 The Scientific Revolution
- CHAPTER 7 Politics and Society in the Ancien Régime
- CHAPTER 8 The Enlightenment
- CHAPTER 9 The French Revolution
- CHAPTER 10 The Age of Napoleon
- CHAPTER 11 Industrialization and Social Change
- CHAPTER 12 Reaction, Reform, Revolution, Romanticism: 1815–1848
- CHAPTER 13 The National State,Nationalism, and Imperialism: 1850—1914
- CHAPTER 14 Culture, Thought, and Society: 1850–1914
- CHAPTER 15 War and Revolution:1914–1920
- CHAPTER 16 Democracy, Depression, and Instability: The 1920s and 1930s , 223
- CHAPTER 17 Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
- CHAPTER 18 World War II and the Postwar World
- CHAPTER 19 The Present in Perspective

