Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Volume 2

by Joshua Cole (Editor), Steven Epstein (Contributor)

The breadth and depth of this reader remain unmatched, and the readings have been reorganized to mirror the chapter structure of Western Civilizations. Several documents related to the new theme of Empire and topics like gender and Islam are included with this revision.

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First published February 8, 2005

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.