For freshman/junior-level, quarter/semester/ full-year courses in History of Western Civilization and European Civilizations.
Extensively illustrated and exceptionally appealing in its narrative style, this best-selling, classic survey of the history of Western civilization with emphasis on Western European societies offers a short, crisp, and balanced presentation of traditional and new subjects, approaches, and controversies, and shows throughout how the historian goes about the craft of research, interpretation, and writing. The text is available in a variety of volume splits to accommodate different course lengths.