The West and the World: A History of Civilization from 1400 to the Present - Softcover

Reilly, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558761535 ISBN 13: 9781558761537

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

This text engages students and provokes discussion by presenting the past through the prism of current and perennial issues. Interpretive chapters on such topics as gender, religion, war, ecology, and nationalism create both thematic narratives and the strands of a larger chronological account. The book makes great ideas accessible, explores major historical turning points, and reveals the dynamic of increasing global interactions (trade, migrations, etc.). It also compares cultures and civilizations while giving voice to individual lives. Economics and ecology, racism and nationalism, individuality and mass culture are explored.

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin Reilly, Raritan Valley Community College, is co-founder and first president of the World History Association. He is editor of several books and book series, including Readings in World Civilization. He has taught at Columbia, Rutgers, and Princeton Universities.

Review:

"Reilly's text is the most teachable . . . one of the best conceived chronological narratives of world history . " --Lynda Schaffer (Tufts University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1558761535
• ISBN 13: 9781558761537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 408