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Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500, 8th Edition

Jackson Spielvogel

Copyright 2012
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Best-selling author Jackson Spielvogel helped over one million students learn about the present by exploring the past. Spielvogel’s engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. WESTERN CIVILIZATION, VOLUME II includes 88 maps and excerpts of over 132 primary sources that enliven the past while introducing students to the source material of historical scholarship. Additionally, the text is lushly illustrated with 267 photographs that add visual context. A variety of pedagogical tools, including features on relevant films and new end-of-chapter study aids, make this edition accessible to any learning style.

Available in the following split options: WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Eighth Edition (Chapters 1-30), ISBN: 978-0-495-91324-5; Volume I: To 1715 (Chapters 1-16), ISBN: 978-1-111-34212-8; Volume II: Since 1500 (Chapters 13-30), ISBN: 978-1-111-34213-5; Volume A: To 1500 (Chapters 1-12), ISBN: 978-1-111-34214-2; Volume B: 1300 to 1815 (Chapters 11-19), ISBN: 978-1-111-34215-9; Volume C: Since 1789 (Chapters 19-30), ISBN: 978-1-111-34216-6; Title: Alternate Volume: Since 1300 (Chapters 11-30), ISBN: 978-1-111-34219-7.

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Jackson Spielvogel

Jackson J. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation History under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Moreana, Journal of General Education, Catholic Historical Review, Archiv Für Reformationsgeschichte and America Historical Review. He also has contributed chapters or articles to THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF REFORMATION, THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A DICTIONARY HANDBOOK, THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER ANNUAL OF HOLOCAUST STUDIES and UTOPIAN STUDIES. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western Civilization course as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. His book, HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY, was first published in 1987 (8th Edition, 2020). In addition, he is the author of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, first published in 1991 (11th Edition, 2021) and co-author (with William Duiker) of WORLD HISTORY, first published in 1994 (9th Edition, 2019). Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. During the 1988–1989 year, he held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award. He won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty member in 1996 and received the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000.

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Expanded “Opposing Viewpoints.“ This feature, which presents a comparison of two or three primary sources in order to facilitate student analysis of historical documents, has been expanded and now appears in every chapter. New topics include “Industrial Attitudes of the Middle Class in Britain and Japan“ (Chapter 20), and “Czechoslovakia, 1968: Two Faces of Communism“ (Chapter 28). Assignable questions at the end of each feature allow for individual or collaborative study.
Expanded “Images of Everyday Life.“ This feature, which combines two or more illustrations with a lengthy caption to provide insight into different aspects of social life, can now be found in more chapters and includes new topics such as “The Role of Spices in World Trade“ (Chapter 14) and “The Rise of the Supermarket“ (Chapter 28).
Expanded “Film and History.“ This feature, which presents a brief analysis of a film’s plot as well as the historical significance, value, and accuracy, can now be found in eighteen chapters, including such additions as AMADEUS and THE YOUNG VICTORIA.
New end-of-chapter review material includes a Summary illustrated with thumbnail images, a Chapter Timeline, and a new Chapter Review that assists students in the study of the chapter. This review consists of “Upon Reflection“ essay questions and Key Terms lists from the chapter.
New Primary Source Icons in the margin indicate related primary source documents available on the Companion Website. The Pronunciation Guide is now incorporated into the text to make it easier for students to immediately learn how to pronounce unfamiliar or difficult terms.
In response to peer-reviewer suggestions, this edition adds increased attention to global perspectives including the following new sections: Images of Everyday Life feature on Role of Spices in World Trade (Ch. 14); and Opposing Viewpoints on Industrial Attitudes of the Middle Class in Britain and Japan, which contrasts a Western emphasis on independence and competition with Eastern objection to concepts of individuality and egoism (Ch.20).
New coverage of gender history includes women’s role in the Chartist movement (Ch. 20); effects of British rule on Indian women’s legal status (Ch. 24); and gender issues for Muslim immigrants in France (Ch. 30).

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Spielvogel provides a focused, consistent narrative throughout. The author is an award-winning teacher and scholar whose clear, lively, and informative writing style has made this up-to-date text so successful with students. Numerous testimonials state that a primary reason professors use this text is because their students can read and understand it at schools that range from Ivy League universities to two-year technical colleges.
Documents. Volume II includes more than 132 primary documents: letters, memoirs, song lyrics, official documents, diary entries, menus, poetry, plays, and more--giving students access to the kinds of materials historians use to create their interpretations of the past. Students will encounter a first-hand account of Catherine the Great’s childhood based on her memoirs, and even the lyrics to the groundbreaking hip-hop song “The Message“ by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Maps. Additional four-color maps, for a total of 88 in Volume II, are interspersed throughout the text including an average of three “spot maps“ in each chapter. These resources provide critical details on smaller areas not apparent in the larger maps. All maps include expanded map captions to encourage readers to make connections across chapters, regions, and concepts. In addition, a pull-out map, along with a walkthrough entitled “How to Read a Map,“ is included at the front of the text.

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13. Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.
14. Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800.
15. State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.
16. Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.
17. The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.
18. The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.
19. A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
20. The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.
21. Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850.
22. An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871.
23. Mass Society in an “Age of Progress“, 1871-1894.
24. An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914.
25. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.
26. The Futile Search for a New Stability: Europe between the Wars, 1919-1939.
27. The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.
28. Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965.
29. Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965-1985.
30. After The Fall: The Western World In A Global Age (Since 1985).