Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume 1 [Paperback]

The seventh edition of Aspects of Western Civilization maintains balanced coverage of historical periods while restructuring several chapters and enhancing coverage in particular areas.  It also offers additional pedagogical resources for the instructor and additional guidance for students. 

•   Structural Changes: There are two new chapters in Volume 2 designed to help students better understand the development of nationalism and subsequent political unification movements during the nineteenth century (Paths of Glory: Napoleon and the Romantic Movement and Fatherland: The Power of Nationalism).   Chapter 10 (Fin de Si?cle: The Birth of the Modern Era) has been restructured for greater continuity.  There are also two new chapters added at the end of Volume 2 (The Era of the Superpowers: Cold War Confrontation and The Dynamics of Change in the Contemporary World) in order to expand coverage of the Cold War from 1945 to 1990 and to focus in greater detail on events in the contemporary world from 1990-2010.
• Enhanced Coverage: Beyond the additional coverage from 1945 to 2010, several chapters in both volumes have been expanded to enhance the study of important topics: Hebrew prophets (Amos and Isaiah), early Greek literature (Sappho, Pindar, and Hesiod), values in the early and middle Roman Republic (Livy), and visions of the New World (Thomas More and Michel de Montaigne) in Volume 1.  Enhanced coverage in Volume 2 includes the American Declaration of Independence; Romantic poetry of Schiller, Goethe, and Byron; pelS.