The Making of the West, Value Edition, Volume 1: Peoples and Cultures - Softcover

Hunt, Lynn; Martin, Thomas R.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.; Smith, Bonnie G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1319065597 ISBN 13: 9781319065591

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016

Synopsis

Focused on the cross-cultural exhanges shaping western history, Making of the West, Value Edition, Volume 1 provides a chronological presentation within a global context to connect you with this area's rich history.

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About the Author

Lynn Hunt (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Distinguished Research Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of nineteen books on human rights, the French Revolution, and historical methods more generally. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages. She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002 and has been awarded distinguished teaching awards by University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, and the American Historical Association.

Thomas R. Martin (PhD, Harvard University) is Jeremiah O Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece and Ancient Greece, and is one of the originators of Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (www.perseus.tufts.edu). He is currently conducting research on the career of Pericles as a political leader in classical Athens as well as on the text of Josephus' Jewish War.

Barbara H. Rosenwein (PhD, University of Chicago) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author or editor of several books, including A Short History of the Middle Ages and Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. She is currently working on a general history of the emotions in the West.

Bonnie G. Smith (PhD, University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books including Ladies of the Leisure Class; The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice; and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century."

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1319065597
• ISBN 13: 9781319065591
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 608