Western Civilizations

by Joshua Cole, Carol Symes

Overview

With new scholarship and learning tools, this #1 text is more innovative than ever

Used by more than a million students since its original publication, Western Civilizations became the leading text for the course by combining historical scholarship with classroom innovation. Master scholars/teachers Joshua Cole and Carol Symes enhance coverage of the West in a global context with a new focus on migration and nationalism. Dynamic digital resources, including award-winning InQuizitive activities and new History Skills Tutorials for every chapter, guide students from basic content understanding to analysis and interpretation. 



Volume C contains Chapters 17-29 of the Full Edition (Enlightenment to the Present).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781324042600
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2023
Edition description:	Twenty-First Full Edition
Pages:	864
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Joshua Cole (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research focuses on gender and the history of population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, Germany, and Algeria. His first book was The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).

Carol Symes is an Associate Professor of history and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she has won the top teaching award in the College of Liberal Arts and Science. Her main areas of study include medieval Europe, especially France and England; cultural history; history of information media and communication technologies; history of theatre. Her first book was A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (2007). (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).