The Western Experience

by Mortimer Chambers, David Herlihy, Raymond Grew

This book is part of a set that integrates social, economic, cultural and political elements of Western civilization. Each chapter is written as a complete unit - exploring historical themes, causes and processes, rather than simply stating names, dates and events. Volume I covers Western civilization to 1715 and volume II covers western civilization from 1600. Extensive coverage is given to Russia and Eastern Europe, there are "cultural" maps to allow students to see where cultural movements took place. Parallel chronologies events of political, economic, diplomatic and cultural history allow students to see at a glance how events are related.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, School, Textbooks, World History, Reference

736 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Gabby · Rating 5 out of 5]

college textbook, seventh edition, 2001

[Amalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great textbook for anyone interested in the Western history/ European history. There was even a quite a large focus on Eastern European and even the Ottoman Empire's influence on western European history as well.

There are many colorful maps and images, which add to the narrative, perhaps many past events are in summary-type versions, but I'm a reader not a historian so it didn't bother me.

This is divided into 17 sections:

The First Civilizations
The Forming of Greek Civilization
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
The Roman Republic
The Empire and Christianity
The Making of Western Europe
The Early Medieval East
Two Centuries of Creativity
The Summer of the Middle Ages
The Crusades and Eastern Europe
The Western in Transition: Economy
The Western in Transition: Society and Culture
Reformations of Religions
Economic Expansion and a New Politics
Was and Crisis
Society and Culture in the age of the Scientific Revolution
The Emergence of European State System

[Faith]

asdfghj this took me forever to finish

[Kenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview of western history. No PC BS.