Western Civilization, Volume I, To 1715: A Brief History - Softcover

Spielvogel, Jackson J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534560628 ISBN 13: 9780534560621

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

This brief version of WESTERN CIVILIZATION retains all of the best selling features of the larger book in a condensed manner. Chapters 1-17 of the comprehensive volume are included.

About this title

About the Author:

Jackson J. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Moreana, Journal of General Education, Catholic Historical Review, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, and American Historical Review. He also has contributed chapters or articles to The Social History of Reformation, THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A DICTIONARY HANDBOOK, the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies, and Utopian Studies. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western Civilization course, as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. His book HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY was published in 1987 (7th Edition, 2013). He is also the author of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, first published in 1991 (9th Edition, 2015). Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. During the year 1988?1989, he held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award. In 1996, he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty member, and in 2000 received the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0534560628
• ISBN 13: 9780534560621
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400