TY - BOOK AU - Pavlac, Brian Alexander TI - A concise survey of western civilization : supremacies and diversities throughout history SN - 9781442205550 U1 - 909.09821 PY - 2011/// CY - Lanham, Md. : PB - Rowman & Littlefield, KW - Civilization, Western KW - History KW - World N1 - Includes index; 1. History's Story -- 2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 b.c. -- 3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 b.c. to a.d. 135 -- 4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 b.c. to a.d. 146 -- 5. Imperium Romanum-. The Romans, 753 b.c. to a.d. 300 -- 6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453 -- 7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, a.d. 500 to 1000 -- 8. The Medieval Melee: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500 -- 9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648 -- 10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815 -- 11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914 -- 12. The Westerner's Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918 -- 13. Rejections of Democracy: The Interwar Years and World War II, 1918 to 1945 -- 14. A World Divided: The Early Cold War, 1945 to 1980 -- 15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1980 to the Present -- Epilogue: Why Western Civilization? ER -