The Western Experience, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb - Brossura

Mortimer Chambers is a Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a Rhodes scholar from 1949 to 1952 and received an M.A. from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1955 after obtaining his doctorate from Harvard University in 1954. He has taught at Harvard University (1954-1955) and the University of Chicago (1955-1958). He was visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1958, the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971, The University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1974 and Vassar College in 1988. A specialist in Greek and Roman history, he is a co-author of Aristotles History of Athenian Democracy (1962), editor of a series of essays entitled The Fall of Rome (1963), and author of Georg Busolt: His Career in His Letters (1990) and of Staat der Athener, a German translation and commentary to Aristotles Constitution of the Athenians (1990). He has edited Greek texts of the latter work (1986) and of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (1993). He has contributed articles to the American Historical Review and Classical Philology as well as other journals, both in America and in Europe.

Preface
Chapter 1 The First Civilizations
Chapter 2 The Forming of Greek Civilizations
Chapter 3 Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Chapter 4 The Roman Republic
Chapter 5 The Empire and Christianity
Chapter 6 The Making of Western Europe
Chapter 7 The Empires of the Early Middle Ages (800-1000): Creation and Erosion
Chapter 8 Restoration of an Ordered Society
Chapter 9 The Flowering of Medieval Civilization
Chapter 10 The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of States
Chapter 11 Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague
Chapter 12 Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300-1500
Chapter 13 Reformations in Religion
Chapter 14 Economic Expansion and a New Politics
Chapter 15 War and Crisis
Chapter 16 Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Chapter 17 The Emergence of the European State System