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Spielvogel's WESTERN CIVILIZATION, 12th Edition, has helped over 1 million students learn about the present by exploring the past. The engaging narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural and military aspects of history into a memorable and instructive story. Updates reflect scholarships, teaching trends, a focus on global implications of topics and themes and explores diversity, including race and gender history. The text features excerpts of over 250 primary sources that enliven the past while introducing students to the source material of historical scholarship. Maps and vivid photographs bring chapter concepts to life. The text includes focus and critical thinking questions, primary source features with assignable questions and end-of-chapter study aids. MindTap digital learning solution equips students with a wealth of on-the-go study tools.
- "The Historical Voices" feature now offers primary sources highlighting the voices of women in 29 chapters.
- Nearly every chapter includes a "Global Perspectives" feature, which explores the global implications of specific topics and themes of western civilization. "Global Perspectives" features reinforce the relationship between the West and other parts of the world by examining paired images or documents. This feature includes such topics as The Stele in the Ancient World; Women in the Roman and Han Empires; Medieval Monastic Life in West and East; Revolution and Revolt in France and China; West and East: Textile Factory Work and The New Global Economy: Fast Fashion.
- "The Everyday Life" feature is praised by students for making western civilization easier to explore by focusing on events and activities of every day people in the past, highlighting the diversity of those people.
- Providing a focused, consistent and engaging narrative throughout the text, Spielvogel is an award-winning teacher and scholar whose clear, lively and informative writing style has made this text a favorite among students. Numerous testimonials from professors ranging from Ivy League universities to two-year technical colleges give the same primary reason for using this text -- because their students can read and understand it.
- Included in most chapters, "Opposing Viewpoints" presents a comparison of two or three primary sources in order to facilitate student analysis of historical documents. Topics include The Great Flood: Two Versions; Women in Athens and Sparta; Causes of the Black Death; Women in the Age of the Enlightenment: Rousseau and Wollstonecraft; White Man’s Burden Versus Black Man’s Burden and Who Started the Cold War: American and Soviet Perspectives. Assignable questions at the end of each feature aid individual and collaborative study.
- Combining two or more illustrations with a lengthy caption, the "Images of Everyday Life" feature gives readers insight into various aspects of social life throughout history as it spotlights such topics as "Children in the Roman World," "Family and Marriage in Renaissance Italy," "Women in the Enlightenment Salon" and "Youth Culture in the 1960s."
- "Historians Debate" features highlight brief explanations about varying views on historical interpretation to remind students that history isn't always as simple as black and white. Examples include "Was There a United Kingdom of Israel?"; "Was There a Renaissance for Women?"; "Was There an Agricultural Revolution?"; "The Retreat from Democracy: Did Europe Have Totalitarian States?" and "Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?"
- An abbreviated format for "Film & History" features gives readers a snippet of information about films related to chapter material and includes a question appropriate for class discussion or individual assignments after viewing the film.
- Helping ensure students have a thorough understanding of chapter concepts, end-of-chapter review material includes an illustrated Chapter Summary, a Chapter Timeline and a Chapter Review that includes "Upon Reflection" essay questions and Key Terms from the chapter.
2. The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.
3. The Civilization of the Greeks.
4. The Hellenistic World.
5. The Roman Republic.
6. The Roman Empire.
7. Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.
8. European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.
9. The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.
10. The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.
11. The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.
12. Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.
13. Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.
14. Europe and The World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.
15. State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.
16. Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.
17. The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.
18. The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.
19. A Revolution in Politics: The Era of The French Revolution and Napoleon.
20. The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.
21. Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.
22. An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.
23. Mass Society in an "Age of Progress", 1871–1894.
24. An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.
25. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.
26. The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.
27. The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.
28. Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.
29. Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.
30. After The Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985).
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