Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume I: To 1789

by Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, James Jacob

WESTERN IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh Edition, maintains a firm grounding in political history, while covering intellectual history (particularly the significance of ideas and contributions) to greater and deeper extent than any other text for the course. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content-including material on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the eleventh edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source excerpts in each chapter.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

480 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Marvin Perry was a professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Reviews

[Ava Merrifield · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for a summer class.

I think it gave information in a good, organized way. I liked the chronology section at the beginning of a new time period; it helped give me an overview of what was to come as well as showed me how everything fit together.

This book was a bit odd because, while it's obvious the authors are writing from a Christian standpoint, they write as if they are unbiased and just happen to be focusing more on Christianity than any other religion. It was a slightly strange style that left me unsure of that authors' worldview for a little bit. Because the authors sort of "veiled" which worldview they were writing from, it made reading this book a bit more difficult because I struggled to figure out what context to put their information into.

[J.J. Richardson · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an average college history book. It was okay.

[Kaylee Dawson · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is informative and stuff but I hated this class.

[Derek · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book isn’t going to win any multicultural awards but it first convinced me of the value of teaching European history with a strong emphasis on primary sources.