Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture (Brief Third Edition)

by Joshua Cole, Carol Symes, Judith G. Coffin

The best western civilizations text for emphasizing critical thinking, now in a brief edition. Master teachers and scholars, new co-authors Joshua Cole and Carol Symes integrate new and innovative pedagogical tools based on their own teaching experiences into this best-selling brief text to help students think critically, retain key information, and make connections.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

832 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2011

About the author

Joshua Cole is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has been teaching since 2004. His research and teaching deal primarily with the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany.

Reviews

[Adam Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great textbook for Western Civilization history classes. The authors wrote it in a way that reads more like a historical narrative than a textbook, which keeps you interested throughout.

[Nell]

my western civ textbook for freshman year of college

[Holley Julnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I really liked about this text were the videos created by the authors that accompanied it. Such a great companion piece to the text!