Western Society: A Brief History, Volume 1: From Antiquity to Enlightenment 1st Edition by John P. McKay (PDF)

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Based on the highly acclaimed A History of Western Society, this Brief Edition offers a welcome new approach for today’s classrooms. A full-color design, extensive learning aids, rich illustration program, and affordable price combine with lively, descriptive writing and compelling first-hand accounts to provide the most vivid account available in a concise edition of what life was like for peoples of the past.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author John P. McKay, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from the University of Columbia, Berkeley in 1968. Author of three books, he won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award from the American Historical Association with his Pioneers for Profit. He is a Senior Fulbright Fellow and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bennett D. Hill (deceased), a former Chairman and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963. He taught at the University of Maryland and was most recently a visiting professor at Georgetown University. He published two books and many journal articles. John Buckler, a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1973. He has published numerous journal articles and written a monograph, The Theban Hegemony, published by Harvard University Press. Clare H. Crowston, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned her B.A. in 1985 from McGill University and her Ph.D. in 1996 from Cornell University. The author of many articles, she has also written Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (Duke University Press, 2001), which won two awards, the Berkshire Prize and the Hagley Prize. She is a past-President of the Society for French Historical Studies and a former chair of the Pinkney Prize Committee. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, UWM Distinguished Professor at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, earned her B.A. from Grinnell College in 1973 and her Ph.D. in 1979 at University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of nineteen books and many articles that have appeared in many languages. She is currently the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

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⭐Just as my son needed for his college classes, and therefore filled our needs and expectations.Decent quality, but as all textbook materials, Far-too-expensive for what you get!

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⭐It is well written.

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⭐Need this book for college book didn’t get sent like a week later but it works for me. Inside of it looks like new even though it was used.

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⭐Reporter: Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?Mahatma Gandhi: I think it would be an excellent idea!Despite Gandhi’s ironic humor, studying Western Civ is still quite valuable, not least because it’s now shorn of most ethnocentric biases. The 2009/10 incarnation of McKay’s standard text is not only a sound teaching tool, judicious pruning has reduced both length and especially cost. (Overpricing is a major drawback of earlier editions and almost all college survey texts.) The “Brief History” has a further improved organization, probably the best available for such texts. Each chapter has previews of main themes; key questions highlighting subsections; and closes with a summary review segment. This structure helps readers to grasp the most significant developments through an unavoidable cascade of detail. Along with well-chosen illustrations and superior maps, perhaps the best feature is the primary source excerpt at each chapter’s end. This alerts students to the fundamental importance, and fascination, of original evidence in writing history. It’s like having a source reader inside: 2 books (almost) in 1. The writing is consistently clear, sometimes pithy by survey-text standards. I will use it again because it works for students, whose opinion matters the most.(Adapted from my Nov 2005 Amazon review of McKay, History of Western Society from Antiquity to 1500, ISBN 0618522697.)

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