West, The: Encounters and Transformations, Volume 1, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2017

  • Brian Levack University of Texas at Austin
  • Edward Muir Northwestern University
  • Meredith Veldman Louisiana State University

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ISBN-13: 9780137500659 (2021 update)
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The West: Encounters and Transformations examines the changing nature of Western civilization, helping you understand how the definition of the West has both evolved and been transformed throughout history. Focusing on the central theme of cultural encounters, authors Brian Levack, Edward Muir and Meredith Veldman explain how the West originated and developed through a continuous process of inclusion and exclusion resulting from a series of encounters among and within different groups.

The 5th Edition offers coverage of Putin's Russia as well as expanded discussions of both the Islamist challenge to the West and the implications of the European debt crisis for the EU. New chronologies listing the events relating to particular topics are helpful for purposes of review.

1. The Beginnings of Civilization, 10,000-1150 B.C.E.
2. The Age of Empires: The International Bronze Age and Its Aftermath, ca. 1500-550 B.C.E.
3. Greek Civilization
4. Hellenistic Civilization
5. The Roman Republic
6. Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors, 31 B.C.E.-235 C.E.
7. Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600
8. Medieval Empires and Borderlands: Byzantium and Islam
9. Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
10. Medieval Civilization: The Rise of Western Europe
11. The Medieval West in Crisis
12. The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture
13. The West and the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650
14. The Reformations of Religion
15. The Age of Confessional Division
16. Absolutism and State Building, 1618-1715
17. The Scientific Revolution

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