Western Civilizations (Brief Fifth Edition) (Vol. Combined Volume)

THIS BRIEF FIFTH EDITION of Western Civilizations is a landmark in a
long and continuing journey. Since the original publication of the Full
Edition in 1941, this book has been assiduously updated by succeeding
generations of historians who have kept it at the forefront of the field in
both scholarship and pedagogical innovation. Our newest edition carries
this legacy forward, further honing the tools we have developed to
empower students—our own and yours—to engage effectively with the
themes, sources, and challenges of history. It presents a clear and concise
narrative of events that unfolded over many thousands of years,
supplemented by a compelling selection of primary sources and striking
images. At the same time, it features a unified program of pedagogical
elements that guide students from understanding core content to reading
and analyzing historical sources and, finally, to developing a sophisticated
sense of the ways that historians reconstruct the past on the basis of those
sources. This framework, and a brand-new set of activities built around
select sources from each chapter, helps students to read and interpret
historical evidence on their own, encouraging them to become active
participants in the learning process and helping them to think historically.