This lively text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage after Europe expanded into the rest of the world during the Renaissance, then through revolutions that have created today's technological global society. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian A. 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. Supremacies centers on the use of power to dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies. Supremacy seeks stability, order, and incorporation. Diversities encompasses the creative impulse that produces new ideas, as well as the efforts of groups of people to define themselves as different. Diversity creates change, opportunity, and individuality. These themes of historical tension and change-whether applied to political, economic, technological, social, or cultural trends-offer a bridging explanatory organization. The text is also informed by five topical themes: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. Throughout, judicious basic principles present summaries of historical realities and primary source projects offer students the chance to evaluate differing points of view about the past. Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for courses on Western Civilization.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9781442237728
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209017378
Product Key Features
Author
Brian A. Pavlac
Publication Name
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities Throughout History
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
358 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
262mm
Item Width
184mm
Item Weight
930g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Brian A. Pavlac
Series Title
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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