Concise Survey of Western Civilization Supremacies and Diversities Throughout History, Prehistory to 1500

Name: Concise Survey of Western Civilization Supremacies and Diversities Throughout History, Prehistory to 1500
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ISBN: 9781442207820

ISBN-10: 1442207825

ISBN-13: 9781442207820

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brian A. Pavlac

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.10" wide x 10.06" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Brief Contents


List of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Tables, and Timelines


Acknowledgments


How to Use This Book



History's Story


There's Method


What Is Truth?



Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.


The Apes' Cousins


Bound to the Soil


The Price of Civilization


The Rise and Fall of Practically All Middle Eastern Empires



The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135


An Obscure History


The Tie That Binds



Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146


To the Sea


The Political Animal


Metamorphosis


The Cultural Conquest



Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300


World Conquest in Self-Defense


The Price of Power


The Absolutist Solution


The Roads to Knowledge



The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453


The Son of Man


The Cultural War


Roma Delenda Est


Struggle for the Realm of Submission



From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000


Goths in the Garden


Charles in Charge


The Cavalry to the Rescue



The Medieval Mï¿½lï¿½e: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500


Return of the Kings


Discipline and Domination


Plenty of Papal Power


The Age of Faith and Reason


A New Estate


Not the End of the World



Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648


The Purse of Princes


Man as the Measure


Heaven Knows


Fatal Beliefs


God, Greed, and Glory


Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?


Timelines


Common Abbreviations


Glossary


Suggested Readings


Index


About the Author