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Unlike many of its longer and more expensive competitors, The Shaping of Western Civilization is a short and coherent overview of the history of Western civilization from the ancient Near East to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. Michael Burger's skills as both writer and synthesizer enable students to see connections across time and to witness how the West's past moulds its present. Michael Burger's goal is to "put readers in a position to ask fruitful questions of primary sources." To achieve this goal, The Shaping of Western Civilization is shorter than most overview texts to give students more time to engage with the sources. By obtaining a sound background from the textbook, students can ask meaningful questions of the primary sources, especially those collected in the overview's counterpart, Sources for the History of Western Civilization: Volume I. Maps, timelines, black and white illustrations, notes on references, and a section on further reading are all included.Special Combined Price: The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment may be ordered together with Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I at a special discounted price. In order to secure the package price, the following ISBN must be used when ordering: 978-1-55402-605-0.
Contents
Preface Figures and maps Notes on references, further reading, and dates Chapter 1: Foundations: The Ancient Near East 1.1 Prehistory and the origins of civilization 1.2 Egypt and Mesopotamia: government and culture 1.3 Polytheism and monotheism 1.4 Problems of government 1.5 The Near East and the Greeks Chapter 2: The Greeks: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic 2.1 Fundamentals: an agonistic culture 2.2 The early polis 2.3 Polis or Hellas? 2.4 Changes in the polis: Archaic and Classical 2.5 Athens: Archaic and Classical 2.6 Sparta: Archaic and Classical 2.7 Philosophers and sophists 2.8 Plato's Republic 2.9 The end of Classical Greece, and the Hellenistic world Chapter 3: Rome: From Republic to Empire 3.1 Foundations: Rome's early history, pietas, and the mos maiorum 3.2 The Republic: structure and function 3.3 Consequences of Empire I: constituencies for change 3.4 Consequences of Empire II: the emergence of Graeco-Roman civilization 3.5 Consequences of Empire III: the Republic unravels 3.6 Principate and empire 3.7 Rome and its empire Chapter 4: Rome's Fall? Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 4.1 The problem of the fall of Rome 4.2 The crisis of the third century and its resolution 4.3 Christians and Romans 4.4 Barbarians and Romans 4.5 The Franks 4.6 Islam and the West 4.7 The Carolingian empire 4.8 The collapse of the Carolingian empire and its aftermath 4.9 A Feudal Society? The West ca. 850-1050 Chapter 5: The High and Late Middle Ages 5.1 Christendom, economic growth, and a society of orders, estates, and corporations 5.2 Christendom: expansion and reform 5.3 The rise of government 5.4 Church versus Crown in the High Middle Ages 5.5 Limiting government 5.6 Reason, nature, and the self 5.7 The Late Middle Ages: demographic shock and its impact 5.8 A Renaissance? Chapter 6: The Early Modern West I 6.1 Fundamentals: Protestant doctrine and the Middle Ages 6.2 A Catholic Reformation? 6.3 The sexes and the family 6.4 Fragmentation and further reform 6.5 Complications: political and social 6.6 Political results: the consolidation of royal authority 6.7 A crisis of authority and the end of Christendom Chapter 7: The Early Modern West II: Science, Society, and the State 7.1 Fundamentals I: a society of orders, estates, and corporations 7.2 Fundamentals II: the universe ca. 1600 7.3 Absolutism I: motives, means, and implications 7.4 Absolutism II: successes and failures 7.5 The Scientific Revolution I: nature 7.6 Empiricism 7.7 The Scientific Revolution II: society 7.8 The Enlightenment 7.9 Labor Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Shaping of Western Civilization Epilogue
