The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections

by Arthur Haberman, Adrian Shubert, Sydney Eisen (Editor)

This visually engaging senior text tells the story of the emergence and consolidation of Europe and the West as the most powerful part of the world from 1500. It deals with the extension of the West geographically and with the westernization of the globe into the 21st century. Key

500 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Arthur Haberman is University Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at York University. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Age, and the co-author of Private Lives/Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections. He is also the editor and senior author of Civilizations: A Cultural Atlas and the editor or co-editor of three anthologies. Most recently, he is the author of 1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast, published in September 2018.

Arthur Haberman has done extensive work for the National Humanities Faculty in the United States and for the Advanced Placement Program in European History. He is the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including from York University, the Ontario Confederation of University Teaching Associations, and the 3M Award from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Canada. In 1998 Now Magazine designated him the Best Professor in Toronto.

In retirement, in addition to continuing his scholarly work, Arthur Haberman began writing mysteries set in contemporary Toronto. The first, Wild Justice, was published in 2018. A sequel, Social Justice,
will be published in March, 2019.

Reviews

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Content-wise, I much prefer this text book to the one I use with my grade 12 history students (the time lines are particularly well done)...although the visual layout tends to be a bit dull-ish.