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Bookstore link: https://bookstore.nscc.ca/Item?item=9...
Read Online link: https://pressbooks.nscc.ca/worldhistory/
Title: Western Civilization: A Concise History
Author: Christopher Brooks
Publisher: NSCC Pressbooks
Publication date: 2020-12-01
Format: eBook
Page count: 869 (estimated)
Description:
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Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8000 BCE to the recent past.
Originally published as three volumes and now combined for publishing, Western Civilization covers the following time periods and topics:
Volume I: From the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1000 CE, Volume I covers topics including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.
Volume II: From the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE, Volume II covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
Volume III: From the Napoleonic era to the recent past, Volume III covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.
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Cover link from Publisher's site: https://pressbooks.nscc.ca/app/upload...
This book contains three volumes and should be listed as one book with three volumes, not as individual volumes.
There currently exists a GR entry for the first volume: Western Civilization: A Concise History, Vol 1
The author of the existing book appears to be incorrectly linked with a different Christopher Brooks: Christopher Brooks
For completeness, here is a link to the author's page which has the original documents for each volume: https://www.pcc.edu/staff/christopher...