Western Heritage, The, Combined Volume, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (January 2, 2019) © 2020

  • Donald M. Kagan Yale University
  • Steven Ozment Harvard University
  • Frank M. Turner Yale University
  • Gregory Francis Viggiano

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For courses in history of Western civilization.

An authoritative account of Western civilizations

The Western Heritage weaves social, cultural and political history into a clear narrative account of the central developments in Western history. Authors Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank Turner and Gregory Viggiano define how the West has interacted with other cultures, and show how the history of Western civilization can shed light on global challenges today.

The authors have updated the 12th Edition to reflect recent developments, in the West and beyond, that show how the legacy of Western civilization remains relevant today.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Compare and Connect features present 2 or more documents reflecting different viewpoints on a controversial topic and prompt students to make connections between the documents.
  • Encountering the Past essays focus on the popular culture of the West. Accompanying illustrations and discussion questions get students thinking critically.
  • Closer Look features provide commentary on visual sources in Western civilization. They encourage students to evaluate visuals as historical documents, not simply pictures to look at.
  • The West and the World essays compare key Western social or political developments with related developments in other cultures. They broaden students' perspectives and explore how the West influenced, and was influenced by, global society.

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: Thoroughly revised content provides up-to-date context for shifts in the evolving story of Western civilization. Highlights of new and updated topics include:
    • the rise of ISIS, as well as the Arab Spring protests
    • the papacy since the death of John Paul II
    • recent developments in the European Union, including the migration crisis and Brexit
  • UPDATED: Striking and informative images of historical figures, events, objects, sites, and period art and architecture bring the West to life. Over a third of the more than 400 images are new to this edition.
  • UPDATED: An expanded list of key terms and definitions at the end of each chapter facilitates comprehension and review.

Features of Revel for the 12th Edition

  • NEW: Artifacts as Evidence videos enable students to explore the connections between individual artifacts and historical developments. Created in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, these videos illuminate history through examination of a wide range of items from the historical record.
  • NEW: History 360 Experience simulations allow students to learn about history through the exploration of historical sites. Each immersive experience combines 360-degree photographs and videos with sound, images and text to help bring the past to life.
  • UPDATED: An end-of-chapter Source Collection includes a selection of documents that are relevant to the chapter content. Each document includes header notes, questions and audio. Students can highlight and make notes on the documents.
  • Custom-built interactive maps and diagrams enable students to engage deeply with visual content.
  • Browse the Media galleries present a carousel of images and videos from the chapter to reinforce comprehension and summarize the chapter's key people and events.
  • Learn the Key Terms sections, with more than 600 key terms, allow students to engage with the lexicon of history.

PART 1: The Foundations of Western Civilization in the Ancient World to 400 C.E.
1. The Birth of Civilization
2. The Rise of Greek Civilization
3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece
4. Rome: From Republic to Empire
5. The Roman Empire

PART 2: The Middle Ages, 476 C.E.-1300 C.E.
6. Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Creating a New European Society and Culture (476-1000)
7. The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States (1000-1300)
8. Medieval Society: Hierarchies, Towns, Universities, and Families (1000-1300)

PART 3: Europe in Transition, 1300-1750
9. The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300-1453)
10. Renaissance and Discovery
11. The Age of Reformation
12. The Age of Religious Wars
13. European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
14. New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
15. Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century
16. The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion

PART 4: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700-1850
17. The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
18. The French Revolution
19. The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism
20. The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832)
21. Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850)

PART 5: Toward the Modern World, 1850-1939
22. The Age of Nation-States
23. The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I
24. The Birth of Modern European Thought
25. The Age of Western Imperialism
26. Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace
27. The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression

PART 6: Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions, 1939 to Present
28. World War II
29. The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a New Europe
30. Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West through the Present

Volume I includes chapters 1-14; Volume II includes chapters 13-30.

About our authors

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received his A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, his M.A. in classics from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958 to 1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received 3 awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought, The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969); The Archidamian War (1974); The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981); The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); a biography of Pericles, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991); On the Origins of War (1995); and The Peloponnesian War (2003). He is the coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of While America Sleeps (2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor of Great Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004.

Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford and Harvard. He is the author of 12 books, including When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (1983). The Age of Reform, 1250–1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club: Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe (1986), Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany (1990), Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution (1992), The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town (1996), and Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001), A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2004), “Why We Study Western Civ,” The Public Interest, 158 (2005) and The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation (2011).

Frank M. Turner was John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974); The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award; Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (1993); and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion (2002). He also contributed numerous articles to journals and served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis and Victorian Studies. He edited The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman (1996), Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). He served as a Trustee of Connecticut College from 1996 to 2006. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Contributor Gregory F. Viggiano received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale University and is Associate Professor of History at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he teaches courses on ancient Greece and Rome and Western civilization. With Donald Kagan, he authored of Problems in the History of Ancient Greece (2009) and edited Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece (2013), which has been translated into Spanish (2017). He has published chapters and articles on ancient Greek history and is currently editing A Cultural History of War in Antiquity. He joined the authorship team of The Western Heritage during preparation of the 12th Edition for publication.

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