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MindTap History, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Kidner/Bucur/Mathisen/Mckee/Weeks' The Global West: Connections & Identities, 3rd Edition

Frank L. Kidner, Maria Bucur, Ralph Mathisen, Sally McKee, Theodore R. Weeks

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MindTap History, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Kidner/Bucur/Mathisen/Mckee/Weeks' The Global West: Connections & Identities 3rd Edition by Frank L. Kidner/Maria Bucur/Ralph Mathisen/Sally McKee/Theodore R. Weeks
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Frank L. Kidner

Frank L. Kidner is Professor of History Emeritus at San Francisco State University, where he taught from 1968 until his retirement in 2006. He has also taught in the Western Civilization program at Stanford University and at Amherst College. His courses include Western Civilization, undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Modern Europe, and the history of the Christian Church as well as a graduate course in historical methodology. He has authored articles on topics in Late Antiquity and co-edited TRAVEL, COMMUNICATION, AND GEOGRAPHY IN LATE ANTIQUITY.

Maria Bucur

Maria Bucur is John V. Hill Professor in Eastern European History and Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, where she has taught an undergraduate course on “The Idea of Europe” and other topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century eastern Europe. Her research focus is on social and cultural developments in eastern Europe, with a special interest in Romania (geographically) and gender (thematically). Her publications include EUGENICS AND MODERNIZATION IN INTERWAR ROMANIA and HEROES AND VICTIMS: REMEMBERING WAR IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ROMANIA. When not writing and reading history or administrative memos, Bucur is following her dream of being in a band (violin and bass) with her husband and children.

Ralph Mathisen

Ralph Mathisen is Professor of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a specialist in the ancient world with a particular interest in the society, culture, and religion of Late Antiquity. His teaching experience includes Western Civilization and topics in the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, coinage, and Roman law. He has written more than seventy scholarly articles and has written or edited 10 books, the most recent of which is PEOPLE, PERSONAL EXPRESSION, AND SOCIAL RELATIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY. He is also the editor of the JOURNAL OF LATE ANTIQUITY and OXFORD STUDIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY. He enjoys traveling, running, and ballroom dancing.

Sally McKee

Sally McKee is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis, where she teaches courses on Western Civilization and medieval history. Her research focus has been Venice and its colonies and Mediterranean slavery, but her new project centers on nineteenth-century France and Italy. She is the author of articles that have won prizes and been anthologized, and she has also published a three-volume edition of Venetian-Cretan wills and a monograph, UNCOMMON DOMINION: VENETIAN CRETE AND THE MYTH OF ETHNIC PURITY. When she is not teaching, she travels the world in search of archives, modern art museums, and great street food.

Theodore R. Weeks

Theodore R. Weeks is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he teaches Western Civilization and world and European history. His research centers on nationality, inter-ethnic relations, and antisemitism in eastern Europe. He is the author of NATION AND STATE IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA and FROM ASSIMILIATION TO ANTISEMITISM: THE “JEWISH QUESTION” IN POLAND, 1850-1914, and his articles have appeared in several languages, including Estonian and Hebrew.

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  • SPARK CRITICAL THINKING. CONNECT CONCEPTS ACROSS HISTORY. MindTap content is organized into multi-chapter units. Each unit includes a brief set of higher-stakes assignable activities, designed to assess students on their writing and critical thinking skills and their ability to engage larger themes, concepts and material across multiple chapters. New interactive timelines in MindTap expand on chapter chronologies, using supporting text and images to engage students and to provide connection points for students among key events across time and geographies. New essay assignments provide opportunities for primary source evaluation and comparative analysis. Each essay includes a grading rubric that measures successful application of career-based skills as well as content-based learning outcomes.
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Table of Contents

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1. The Origins of the West in the Ancient Near East, 3000–1200 B.C.E.
2. Iron Age Civilizations, 1200–500 B.C.E.
3. The Rise of Greek Civilization, 1100–387 B.C.E.
4. From Polis to Cosmopolis: The Hellenistic World, 387-30 B.C.E.
5. The Rise of Rome, 753–27 B.C.E.
6. The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E.–284 C.E.
7. Late Antiquity, 284–527.
8. The Eastern Mediterranean, 500–1000.
9. The Kingdoms of Western Europe, 500–1000.
10. The High Middle Ages, 1000–1300.
11. Reversals and Disasters, 1300–1450.
12. The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe, 1350–1550.
13. Europe's Age of Expansion, 1450–1550.
14. Reform in the Western Church, 1490–1570.
15. A Century of Crisis, 1550–1650.
16. State Building and the European State System 1648–1789.
17. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1550–1790.
18. Trade and Empire, 1700–1800.
19. Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Europe, 1775–1815.
20. Restoration and Reform: Conservative and Liberal Europe, 1814–1847.
21. Industrialization and Society, 1800–1850.
22. The Triumph of the Nation-State, 1848–1900.
23. The Culture of Industrial Europe, 1850–1914.
24. The Age of Imperialism, 1870–1914.
25. War and Revolution, 1900–1918.
26. A Decade of Revolutionary Experiments, 1918–1929.
27. Democracy Under Siege, 1929–1945.
28. Europe Divided, 1945–1968.
29. Lifting the Iron Curtain, 1969–1991.
30. Europe in a Globalizing World, 1991 to the Present.

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The Global West: Connections & Identities

ISBN: 9781337401371
THE GLOBAL WEST: CONNECTIONS AND IDENTITIES (formerly MAKING EUROPE) isn't a traditional Western civ textbook--instead, it paints a globally connected portrait of the West through the lenses of politics, religion, social history, biography and cultural identity. Developed by authors who've spent years making history accessible to a diverse range of students, the book excels at teaching students the who, what and how of the subject: how to read primary documents, compare and contrast Western and non-Western sources and draw connections across time and geographic regions. Western civilization is the most difficult history course for many students. With a clear message that helps them grasp the origins of today's interconnected world, THE GLOBAL WEST aims to change that. Available in split options: THE GLOBAL WEST, 3rd Edition Complete; Since 1300; Volume 1: To 1790; Volume 2: Since 1550.