World Civilization
A Brief History
2nd Edition
Published on 1. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
575 pages
978-0-939693-28-3 (ISBN)
Description
Robin W. Winks placed particular emphasis on those developments that most directly explain the nature of the modern world: social diffusion, group and national consciousness, technological change, religious identities-those aspects of intellectual history that have contributed most to our current dilemmas. In turn this means that there is more in World Civilization: A Brief History about nationalism, imperialism, or ethnic identities than there is about monarchies, feudalism, or diplomacy. The result of the strategic and intellectual decisions made with respect to this textbook is that its proportions are not the customary ones. Particular emphasis is placed on the early origins of civilizations, on Greece and Rome, and on the period of the so-called barbarian invasions, because it is by studying these periods that students may best learn how societies are formed. Particular emphasis is also placed on the period from the French Revolution on, for it is the events of the last two hundred years that have most closely shaped our present condition. This book can be read, straight through and in its entirety, as an interpretive statement about Western history written by a person who knew a good bit about non-Western history and who could thus throw into perspective the unusual, the commonplace, and the comparable in that sector of history conventionally labeled 'Western'. The text draws on over thirty-five years of discovering, in the classroom, what students themselves wish to ask about the past rather than what a body of scholars may have concluded they should wish to ask. Though this book is largely about Western civilization, it is also about world civilizations, for from the eighteenth century forward-and in many aspects of life, much earlier-the non-West has interacted with the West in such a way as to make it virtually impossible to separate one from the other when dealing at this level of generalization. As a teacher of the history of exploration and discovery, of imperialism and decolonizati
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Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
943 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-939693-28-3 (9780939693283)
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Person
Robin W. Winks was the Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History at Yale University. Professor Winks was a noted scholar in a wide range of subjects, including British imperial history, Canadian-American relations, comparative American history, conservation history and the theory and development of espionage. He chaired the Department of History at Yale 1996-1999 and was master of Berkeley College 1977-1991.
Content
Part 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction: The Relevance of History Part 3 Part One: Human Societies and Civilizations: Beginnings Chapter 4 An Overview: Beginnings Chapter 5 Recoverable History Begins: People of River and Plain Chapter 6 On the Edge of the Earliest Civilizations: The Spread of Influences Chapter 7 Desert, Mountain, and Forest: Civilization and Barbarism in the Second Millennium B.C. Chapter 8 An Age of Heroes: The Beginnings of Mediterranean Antiquity Part 9 Part Two: Mediterranean Antiquity: 500 B.C.-A.D. 750 Chapter 10 An Overview: Our Graeco-Roman World Chapter 11 Greek Society and the Origins of Hellenistic Culture Chapter 12 The Golden Age of Greece Chapter 13 From thePolis to the World: Hellenistic Civilization in the Mediterranean and Near East Chapter 14 A World Expands: The Rise of Rome Chapter 15 The Crisis of Late Antiquity: Transformation of the Mediterranean World Part 16 Part Three: Traditional Europe: A.D. 750-1789 Chapter 17 An Overview: The Part We Call 'the Middle' Chapter 18 Regional Resources and Universal Ambitions Chapter 19 The Making of Europe: 950-1300 Chapter 20 Crisis and Recovery in Traditional Europe: 1300-1715 Chapter 21 A New World in the Making: Modern Europe Chapter 22 The Modern Revolution in the West Chapter 23 Restructuring Power and Society: 1715-1815 Part 24 Part Four: No Break with the Past: The Nineteenth Century in Perspective Chapter 25 An Overview: The Age of the Democratic Revolution Chapter 26 From Revolution to Revolution: 1789-1848 Chapter 27 The Enduring Ideas: Finding Theoretical Bases for Security Chapter 28 Surge of Nationalism: Postponement Chapter 29 Secular Attempts to Control Human Destiny Chapter 30 Darwin and Darwinism: Salvation Through Science Chapter 31 Europe's New Nations: Nationalism Triumphant, 1848-1914 Part 32 Part Five: New Wine in Old Bottles: Today Enters the Fron Door, 1848-1919 Chapter 33 An Overview: An Age of Insecurity Chapter 34 The Politics of Europe's Traditional Powers, 1848-1914 Chapter 35 A Century in Search of Security: Society and Growth Chapter 36 The First World War: Causes, Conduct, Consequences Part 37 Part Six: The Years that Became Ours: 1919-to the 1990s Chapter 38 An Overview: The Search for Normalcy Chapter 39 The Hidden Political Collapse of Europe Chapter 40 The Second World War: An Era of Continuous War for Continuous Peace Chapter 41 The West Since 1945 Part 42 Epilogue Part 43 When You Want to Read More Part 44 Index