The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. 1: To 1740

by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein

Praised for its highly readable narrative and unmatched integration of political, social and cultural history, The Making of the West: A Concise History captures the spirit of each age as it situates Europe within a global context. The rich narrative pays sustained attention to important topics and developments over time and reveals the cross-cultural interactions that have shaped today's world, presenting the history of the West as an ongoing process. The text's hallmark global perspective, broad geographic coverage, new student study aids, and handy format are combined with the best full-color art and map programs of any brief text.

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

607 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 2000

About the author

Lynn Avery Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European cultural history on such topics as gender. Her 2007 work, Inventing Human Rights, has been heralded as the most comprehensive analysis of the history of human rights. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.

Reviews

[Elliott]

From this textbook I expected a lot of condensed information, but I didn’t expect it to remove almost all of history outside of the Eurocentric view, which means that anything that the europeans did not evolve into or were involved in was removed completely. It also seems to have a very narrow and opinionated view. Overall this book seems to be an sloppily done outline, or I maybe just being critical since this is being used in my world history course while the book seems to focus heavily on European history.

[Kay]

I honestly just read this for a Western Civ class. It was a standard textbook that could only be as in depth as 101 level class could be.

[James Gashi]

meh

[Katie E]

i didn’t have fun.

[Tyler]

A textbook for Ancient Western Civilizations class that I took Fall 2013. It had good pictures and maps and was fairly readable. Gives a fairly decent sketch of the basic outline of the history of western civilization.

[columbialion]

Textbook for Western Civ

[J.R. Ortiz]

great