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Volume 1
Donald Kagan, Steven E. Ozment, Frank M. Turner
ISBN: 9780205705153
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Pearson Education (US)
Edition: 10th Revised edition
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Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western history. Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural, and political history, the presentation reflects a flexible chronological organization. The Tenth Edition provides updated scholarship, expanded coverage of European imperialism prior to World War I, streamlined coverage of the period between the two World Wars, and a brand new feature…
Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western history. Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural, and political history, the presentation reflects a flexible chronological organization. The Tenth Edition provides updated scholarship, expanded coverage of European imperialism prior to World War I, streamlined coverage of the period between the two World Wars, and a brand new feature--Compare & Connect--which presents students with two or more documents that reflect opposing viewpoints on a topic and engages them to become part of the historical discourse.
| ISBN | 0205705154 | | Pages | 576 | | ISBN13 | 9780205705153
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Weight (grammes) | 898 | | Imprint | Pearson | | Published in | Upper Saddle River | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780131828568 | | Publication date | 24 Jun 2009 | | Height (mm) | 273 | | Library of Congress | 2009012769 | | Width (mm) | 229 | | DEWEY | 909.09821 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | What Is the Western Heritage? | | | | PART 3 | | Europe in Transition, 1300-1750 | | | | 13 | | European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | | 371 | | | | The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline | | 372 | | | | Urban Prosperity | | 372 | | | | Economic Decline | | 373 | | | | Two Models of European Political Development | | 374 | | | | Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England | | 374 | | | | James I | | 374 | | | | Charles I | | 377 | | | | The Long Parliament and Civil War | | 377 | | | | Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Republic | | 378 | | | | Charles II and the Restoration of the Monarchy | | 378 | | | | The "Glorious Revolution" | | 379 | | | | The Age of Walpole | | 380 | | | | Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV | | 381 | | | | Years of Personal Rule | | 381 | | | | Versailles | | 382 | | | | King by Divine Right | | 382 | | | | Louis's Early Wars | | 384 | | | | Louis's Repressive Religious Policies | | 384 | | | | Louis's Later Wars | | 388 | | | | France after Louis XIV | | 391 | | | | Central and Eastern Europe | | 392 | | | | Poland: Absence of Strong Central Authority | | 392 | | | | The Habsburg Empire and the Pragmatic Sanction | | 393 | | | | Prussia and the Hohenzollerns | | 395 | | | | Russia Enters the European Political Arena | | 397 | | | More... | | |
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