Making of the West 3e V1 & Sources of The Making of the West 3e V1 & West in the Wider World V1

by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein

A team of renowned scholar-teachers created The Making of the West to address three of the biggest challenges teachers of western civilization face — demonstrating how the West has been an evolving entity shaped by global influences; conveying the dynamic interaction of social, political, cultural, and economic history in shaping events over time; and revealing the historical roots of developments in today’s world. Through a ground-breaking chronological synthesis, the narrative deftly weaves together the main events, people, and themes of a specific time, thus providing a balanced, easy-to-follow story line. New aids to guide student reading and enhancements to the book’s organization bring the essence of western history to the fore in the most accessible edition yet.

Genres: History

Hardcover

Published July 1, 2008

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

[Danielle. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected nothing more than a condensed textbook on the history of the development of Western civilization; as a History major, this was a required textbook for one of the History courses I was taking. Some chapters were just an absolute snooze fest; their understanding on religion is greatly flawed and tries to push the students to believe their narrative--especially on Judaism and Christianity (the historians' incorrect narratives on these main religions saddened me; they've left out SO much, explained so little and used superficial similarities to 'prove' their case on different religions which, frankly, proved nothing but lack of poor scholarship). One thing I absolutely enjoyed reading about, however, was Ancient Greece, the Republic of Rome, the Roman Empire, and the Medieval Ages. Afterwards, the rest of the chapters seemed rushed. I did not read the last two chapters of the textbook seeing as it was about the establishment of slavery in the Americas, a course of which I took.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice well written school book. Well laid out and organized. Recommended

[Deborah · Rating 3 out of 5]

very basic and general overview of western civilization.