Western Civilizations [Reading +29ea]

Their History & Their Culture  1, 2

The most pedagogically innovative brief text―now connecting western civilizations to broader global contexts and students’ own experiences.

Western Civilizations―written by two expert teachers―is the most pedagogically innovative text for the survey course. A carefully crafted text and media program empower students to master core content, engage in historical analysis, and think critically, and the Brief Fourth Edition has been substantially updated with the latest scholarship that connects the West to global contexts, as well as new “Past and Present” features that connect historical themes to contemporary topics.

 

JOSHUA COLE (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the former director, Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan. His publications include work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, Germany, and Algeria. His fi rst book was The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).

 

CAROL SYMES (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of history and former director of undergraduate studies in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she has won the top teaching award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her main areas of study include medieval Europe, the history of information media and communication technologies, and the history of theater. Her fi rst book was A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007). She is the founding editor of The Medieval Globe, the fi rst academic journal to promote a global approach to medieval studies.