{"product_id":"a-concise-survey-of-western-civilization-supremacies-and-diversities-throughout-history-9781538112526","title":"A Concise Survey of Western Civilization:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities” develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. “Supremacies” centers on the use of power to dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies. Supremacy, Pavlac shows, seeks stability, order, and incorporation. “Diversities” encompasses the creative impulse that produces new ideas, as well as efforts of groups of people to define themselves as “different.” Diversity creates change, opportunity, and individuality.   These concepts of historical tension and change, whether applied to political, economic, technological, social, or cultural trends, offer a cohesive explanatory organization. The text is also informed by five other topical themes: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. The third edition has added new primary source projects, improved maps and illustrations to enhance the visual dimension,   Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for a course on Western civilization. Conceived as a seamless, affordable overview, not artificially boiled down from a lengthier text, it can be used as a standalone for a one-term course or combined with Volume 2 for two-term course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Primary Source Projects, Sources on Families, Tables, and Timelines   Acknowledgments   How to Use This Book   1. History’s Story  There’s Method  What Is Truth?  Primary Source Project 1: Thucydides versus von Ranke about the Aim of History   2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 BC The Apes’ Cousins  Bound to the Soil  The Price of Civilization  Sources on Families: Law Code of Hammurabi The Rise and Fall of Practically All Middle Eastern Empires Primary Source Project 2: Xenophon versus Herodotus about Reputation   3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 BC to AD 135  Between and under Empires  Primary Source Project 3: Sennacherib’s Annalist versus Chronicles Writer about Divine Favor  Bound by Law  Sources on Family: Deuteronomy   4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 BC to AD 146  To the Sea  The Political Animal  Metamorphosis  Primary Source Project 4: Athenians versus Melians about the Rules of War  The Cultural Conquest  Sources on Families: Plato, The Republic   5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 BC to AD 300  World Conquest in Self-Defense  The Price of Power  The Absolutist Solution  Primary Source Project 5: Galgacus versus Agricola about Motivations for Battle  The Roads to Knowledge  Sources on Families: Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Augustus   6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 BC to AD 1453  The Son of Man  Sources on Families: Paul, First Epistle to Timothy  The Cultural War  Primary Source Project 6: Paul versus Pliny and Trajan about the Value of Christianity  Roma Delenda Est  Struggle for the Realm of Submission   7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, AD 500 to 1000  Goths in the Garden  Primary Source Project 7: Bad Bishops versus Benedict about Moral Rules  Sources on Families: Tacitus, Germania  Charles in Charge  The Cavalry to the Rescue   8. The Medieval Meˆle'e: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500  Return of the Kings  Discipline and Domination  Sources on Families: Jacobus de Voragine, “The Life of Saint Elizabeth”  Plenty of Papal Power  Primary Source Project 8: Gregory VII versus Henry IV about Church versus State  The Age of Faith and Reason  A New Estate  Not the End of the World   9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648  The Purse of Princes  Man as the Measure  Primary Source Project 9: Witch Hunter versus Confessor about Belief in Witches  Heaven Knows  Sources on Families: Martin Luther, Table Talk  Fatal Beliefs  God, Greed, and Glory   Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?   Timelines   Common Abbreviations   Glossary   Index   About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041120518487,"sku":"9781538112526","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538112526.jpg?v=1750949018","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-concise-survey-of-western-civilization-supremacies-and-diversities-throughout-history-9781538112526","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}