Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture

by Joshua Cole

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. Please note that this version of the ebook does not include access to any media or print supplements that are sold packaged with the printed book.

544 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

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.