Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History: Volume I: To 1740

by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, R. Po-chia Hsia

Sources of the Making of the West, A Concise History , Second Edition offers more options for working with sources. Each chapter now includes five sources that are tightly integrated with the text and that echo the narrative's balance of people and places. With 35% more documents, including new visual images, the companion reader offers instructors maximum flexibility for document-based teaching. New comparative questions help students draw connections across documents. Free when packaged with the text.

Genres: History, World History, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published July 26, 2006

About the author

Lynn Avery Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European cultural history on such topics as gender. Her 2007 work, Inventing Human Rights, has been heralded as the most comprehensive analysis of the history of human rights. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.

Reviews

[Tyler · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had some really interesting primary source documents, mostly relating to religion and social history. This was a supplementary book for an Ancient Western Civilizations class I took fall semester 2013.

[Bayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great insight into real writings from important historical periods.