A History of Civilization: Prehistory to the Present

For freshman/junior-level, quarter/semester/ full-year courses in History of Western Civilization and European Civilizations. *Extensively illustrated and exceptionally appealing in its narrative style, this best-selling, classic survey of the history of Western civilization - with emphasis on Western European societies - offers a short, crisp, and balanced presentation of traditional and "new" subjects, approaches, and controversies, and shows throughout how the historian goes about the craft of research, interpretation, and writing. *The text is available in a variety of volume splits to accommodate different course lengths.