A History of Western Society Since 1300

John P. McKay; Clare Haru Crowston; Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks; Joe Perry

Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout.

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11. The Later Middle Ages 1300-1450. - 12. European Society in the Age of the Renaissance 1350-1550. - 13. Reformations and Religious Wars 1500-1600. - 14. European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650. - 15. Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725. - 16. Toward a New Worldview 1540-1789. - 17. The Expansion of Europe 1650-1800. - 18. Life in the Era of Expansion 1650-1800. - 19. Revolutions in Politics 1775-1815. - 20. The Revolution in Energy and Industry ca. 1780-1850. - 21. Ideologies and Upheavals 1815-1850. - 22. Life in the Emerging Urban Society 1840-1914. - 23. The Age of Nationalism 1850-1914. - 24. The West and the World 1815-1914. - 25. War and Revolution 1914-1919. - 26.The Age of Anxiety 1880-1940. - 27. Dictatorships and the Second World War 1919-1945. - 28. Cold War Conflict and Consensus 1945-1965. - 29. Challenging the Postwar Order 1960-1991. - 30. Life in an Age of Globalization 1990 to the Present