Western Civilizations, Brief, Volume 2

by Joshua Cole, Carol Symes

The most pedagogically innovative brief text—now connecting western civilizations to broader global contexts and students’ own experiences.

Western Civilizations—written by two expert teachers—is the most pedagogically innovative text for the survey course. A carefully crafted text and media program empower students to master core content, engage in historical analysis, and think critically, and the Brief Fourth Edition has been substantially updated with the latest scholarship that connects the West to global contexts, as well as new “Past and Present” features that connect historical themes to contemporary topics.

880 pages, Paperback

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.