Making of the West: A Concise History, Combined Volume: Peoples and Cultures

Hunt, Lynn; Martin, Thomas R.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.; Smith, Bonnie G.

ISBN 10: 0312672721 / ISBN 13: 9780312672720

Editore: Bedford/St. Martin's (edition Fourth), 2013

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• Titolo: Making of the West: A Concise History, Combined Volume: Peoples and Cultures
• Editore: Bedford/St. Martin's (edition Fourth)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312672721
• ISBN 13: 9780312672720
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: Fourth.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

With a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context, The Making of the West: A Concise History tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped Western history. This author-abridged version of the parent text offers the flexibility of a brief book along with a full-color map and art program and comprehensive supplement options, including a free sourcebook. The result is a brief book that, in addition to being an excellent price, is an excellent value.

Informazioni sull?autore

LYNN HUNT (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Inventing Human Rights (2007) and Measuring Time, Making History (2008). She has in press a co-authored work on religious toleration in early eighteenth-century Europe.

THOMAS R. MARTIN (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece (1985) and Ancient Greece (1996, 2000) and is one of the originators of Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (www.perseus.tufts.edu). He is currently conducting research on the career of Pericles as a political leader in classical Athens as well as on the text of Josephus' Jewish War.

BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author or editor of several books including A Short History of the Middle Ages (2001; 2004; 2009) and Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006). She is currently working on a general history of the emotions in the West.

BONNIE G. SMITH (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books including Ladies of the Leisure Class (1981); The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice (1998); and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2007). Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century.