Western Civilization in World History.
Western Civilization in World History takes up the recent debates between the well-established 'Western Civ' approach and the newer field of world history. Stearns reviews and analyzes key aspects of Western civilization in a global context.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2003
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| Series: | Themes in world history.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Western civ?
- Part I: The Western civ tradition
- Chapter 2 Why Western civ courses: The constraints of success
- Chapter 3 The fall of Western civ, and why it still stands
- Part II: Getting Western civilization started
- Chapter 4 Defining civilizations
- Chapter 5 When in the world is Western civilization?
- Chapter 6 The West in the world
- Part III: The rise of the West, 1450-1850
- Chapter 7 Causes of a new global role
- Chapter 8 Transformations of the West
- Chapter 9 Where in the world was Western civilization?
- Part IV: The West in the contemporary world
- Chapter 10 Western civilization and the industrial revolution
- Chapter 11 Disruptions of the twentieth century
- Chapter 12 The West in a globalized world
- Epilogue: Western civilization and Western civ
- Index.
