Review
"I enjoyed every page and could hardly put it down."—Patricia Ali, Morris College
"I am impressed by the cultural encounters approach that this textbook uses. Showing the various forces of history will help students understand how everything in history meshes together into a giant story, instead of just being a jumble of facts."—Leonard Curtis, Mississippi College
"The authors are absolutely right-on when they argue that the west is an idea shaped by cultural encounters...this is the only way that western civilization courses can be taught in the 21st century."—Bryan Ganaway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The author(s) have done an outstanding job of writing a text that is...lucid...and comprehensive."—Sharon L. Arnoult, Midwestern State University
"Too many texts are afraid to be interesting, engaging or to tell a good story...this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of events and also tells some good stories, nice to see that this can be done in a textbook today. This is the kind of textbook that helps make a course interesting, helping professors who have trouble being lively and supporting those who try to engage students with good stories based in different methods, countries, and areas of interest."—Patrick Holt, Fordham University
"The writing style is friendly, warm, and persuasive. Students will want to read these chapters and continue reading them." —Theodore M. Kluz, Troy State University
"Finally, a textbook for Western civilization courses that uses modern, clear language without distorting the record of the past, that combines forceful interpretation with the 'facts' and that marries brevity to faithfulness to history! The 'encounters' theme is a most effective pedagogical method, and is in keeping with the approach of the West being a cultural construct. This is an innovative approach, appropriate for today's students living in our global world."—Arthur H. Auten, University of Hartford
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From the Back Cover
- NEW FEATURE! “Difference Voices”: This feature pairs two documents that present different and often opposing views on a topic discussed in the chapter. Each feature includes an introduction that provides the background for the documents and a set of questions for discussion.
- Coverage of ancient Egypt is now consolidated in Chapter 1.
- Coverage of the ancient Hebrews in Chapter 2 has been expanded.
- The third edition features separate chapters on Hellenistic Civilization and the Roman Republic; the second edition combined coverage of these topics in a single chapter.
- Improved Pedagogy: Each chapter concludes with two sets of review questions. The first set repeats the questions asked at the beginning of each section of the chapter, while the second, titled “Taking It Further,” pushes students to think more analytically and comparatively. The Chapter Review lists all of the key terms highlighted and discussed throughout the chapter and defined in the glossary.
- Streamlined coverage throughout makes the third edition more manageable for students: The text has been streamlined through careful editing by the authors, leading to a 25 percent length reduction in the third edition without loss of coverage.
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