The shaping of western civilization from antiquity to the Enlightenment / Michael Burger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burger, Michael, 1962- author.

Contributor:

University of Toronto. Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western--History--Textbooks.

Civilization, Western.

Genre:

History.

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Summary:

This book "is a short, interpretive, and coherent overview of the history of Western civilization from antiquity to late eighteenth-century Europe and America." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Preface

Figures

Maps

Notes on references, further reading, and dates

Foundations: The ancient Near East

The Greeks: Archaic, classical, and hellenistic

Rome: From Republic to Empire

Rome's fall? Late antiquity and the Middle ages

The high and late Middle Ages

The earl modern West I: The reformation, the great consolidation, and the end of Christendom

The early modern West II: Science, society and the state

Conclusion: The shaping of Western civilization

Epilogue

Index

Sources.

Notes:

"First published by Broadview Press 2008. Reprinted 2009 by University of Toronto Press"--Verso of title leaf.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1551114321

9781551114323

OCLC:

1377498486