Making of the West Volume I: To 1750: Peoples and Cultures

About this book

Students of Western civilization need more than facts. They need to understand the cross-cultural global exchanges that shaped Western history; to be able to draw connections between the social cultural political economic and intellectual happenings in a given era; and to see the West not as a fixed region but a living evolving construct. These needs have long been central to The Making of the West. The books chronological narrative emphasizes the wide variety of peoples and cultures that created Western civilization and places them together in a common context enabling students to witness the unfolding of Western history understand change over time and recognize fundamental relationships.