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This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms supremacies and diversities develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. The text is also informed by five other topical themes technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for a course on Western civilization.
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Part 1 History's Story Chapter 2 There's Method Chapter 3 What Is Truth? Part 4 Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C. Chapter 5 The Apes' Cousins Chapter 6 Bound to the Soil Chapter 7 The Price of Civilization Chapter 8 The Rise and Fall of Practically All Middle Eastern Empires Part 9 The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135 Chapter 10 An Obscure History Chapter 11 The Tie That Binds Part 12 Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146 Chapter 13 To the Sea Chapter 14 The Political Animal Chapter 15 Metamorphosis Chapter 16 The Cultural Conquest Part 17 Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300 Chapter 18 World Conquest in Self-Defense Chapter 19 The Price of Power Chapter 20 The Absolutist Solution Chapter 21 The Roads to Knowledge Part 22 The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453 Chapter 23 The Son of Man Chapter 24 The Cultural War Chapter 25 Roma Delenda Est Chapter 26 Struggle for the Realm of Submission Part 27 From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000 Chapter 28 Goths in the Garden Chapter 29 Charles in Charge Chapter 30 The Cavalry to the Rescue Part 31 The Medieval Melee: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500 Chapter 32 Return of the Kings Chapter 33 Discipline and Domination Chapter 34 Plenty of Papal Power Chapter 35 The Age of Faith and Reason Chapter 36 A New Estate Chapter 37 Not the End of the World Part 38 Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648 Chapter 39 The Purse of Princes Chapter 40 Man as the Measure Chapter 41 Heaven Knows Chapter 42 Fatal Beliefs Chapter 43 God, Greed, and Glory Part 44 Epilogue: Why Western Civilization? Part 45 Glossary
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Brian A. Pavlac is the Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of History at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
