A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1253-3 (ISBN)
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This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities” develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. “Supremacies” centers on the use of power to dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies. Supremacy, Pavlac shows, seeks stability, order, and incorporation. “Diversities” encompasses the creative impulse that produces new ideas, as well as efforts of groups of people to define themselves as “different.” Diversity creates change, opportunity, and individuality.
These concepts of historical tension and change, whether applied to political, economic, technological, social, or cultural trends, offer a cohesive explanatory organization. The text is also informed by five other topical themes: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. The third edition has added new primary source projects, improved maps and illustrations to enhance the visual dimension,
Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for a course on Western civilization. Conceived as a seamless, affordable overview, not artificially boiled down from a lengthier text, it can be used as a standalone for a one-term course or combined with Volume 2 for two-term course.
Brian A. Pavlac is professor of history at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he has served as chair of the department and a Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor. He is the author of Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition to the Salem Trials; coauthor with Elizabeth S. Lott of The Holy Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia; translator of A Warrior Bishop of the 12th Century: The Deeds of Albero of Trier, by Balderich; and editor of Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood.
List of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Primary Source Projects, Sources on Families, Tables, and Timelines
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
1. History’s Story
There’s Method
What Is Truth?
Primary Source Project 1: Thucydides versus von Ranke about the Aim of History
2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 BC
The Apes’ Cousins
Bound to the Soil
The Price of Civilization
Sources on Families: Law Code of Hammurabi
The Rise and Fall of Practically All Middle Eastern Empires
Primary Source Project 2: Xenophon versus Herodotus about Reputation
3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 BC to AD 135
Between and under Empires
Primary Source Project 3: Sennacherib’s Annalist versus Chronicles Writer about Divine Favor
Bound by Law
Sources on Family: Deuteronomy
4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 BC to AD 146
To the Sea
The Political Animal
Metamorphosis
Primary Source Project 4: Athenians versus Melians about the Rules of War
The Cultural Conquest
Sources on Families: Plato, The Republic
5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 BC to AD 300
World Conquest in Self-Defense
The Price of Power
The Absolutist Solution
Primary Source Project 5: Galgacus versus Agricola about Motivations for Battle
The Roads to Knowledge
Sources on Families: Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Augustus
6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 BC to AD 1453
The Son of Man
Sources on Families: Paul, First Epistle to Timothy
The Cultural War
Primary Source Project 6: Paul versus Pliny and Trajan about the Value of Christianity
Roma Delenda Est
Struggle for the Realm of Submission
7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, AD 500 to 1000
Goths in the Garden
Primary Source Project 7: Bad Bishops versus Benedict about Moral Rules
Sources on Families: Tacitus, Germania
Charles in Charge
The Cavalry to the Rescue
8. The Medieval Meˆle´e: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
Return of the Kings
Discipline and Domination
Sources on Families: Jacobus de Voragine, “The Life of Saint Elizabeth”
Plenty of Papal Power
Primary Source Project 8: Gregory VII versus Henry IV about Church versus State
The Age of Faith and Reason
A New Estate
Not the End of the World
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
The Purse of Princes
Man as the Measure
Primary Source Project 9: Witch Hunter versus Confessor about Belief in Witches
Heaven Knows
Sources on Families: Martin Luther, Table Talk
Fatal Beliefs
God, Greed, and Glory
Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?
Timelines
Common Abbreviations
Glossary
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.04.2019 |
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| Reihe/Serie | A Concise Survey of Western Civilization |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, unspecified; 14 Charts; 10 Maps; 31 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 179 x 256 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-1253-1 / 1538112531 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-1253-3 / 9781538112533 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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