Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture (Brief Edition)

by Joshua Cole, Carol Symes

The most pedagogically innovative brief text―now connecting western civilizations to broader global contexts and students’ own experiences. Western Civilizations ―written by two expert teachers―is the most pedagogically innovative text for the survey course. A carefully crafted text and media program empower students to master core content, engage in historical analysis, and think critically, and the Brief Fourth Edition has been substantially updated with the latest scholarship that connects the West to global contexts, as well as new “Past and Present” features that connect historical themes to contemporary topics.

928 pages, Paperback

Published June 22, 2016

About the author

Joshua Cole is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has been teaching since 2004. His research and teaching deal primarily with the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany.

Reviews

[Juan]

A brief in length but deep in details study book on the development of modern civilizations up to modern day.

[Sarah]

Eh, I'd give this a 2.5 and cut the rating right down the middle. It was required reading for a history course. It was better than many other textbooks I've had to read, more concise and straight-forward with the information than others I've been assigned (which I would think fulfills the requirements of a "brief" edition).

Would I have chosen to read this? No.
But it served its purpose and I got an A in the course.