The Making of the West, Value Edition, Volume 2 Peoples and Cultures 7th Edition

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Value Edition — Volume II: Since 1500, Seventh Edition by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, and Bonnie G. Smith — Published by Macmillan Learning / Bedford St. Martin's

Students of Western civilization need more than facts. They need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history; to be able to draw connections between the social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual happenings in a given era; and to see the West not as a fixed region, but a living, evolving construct. These needs have long been central to The Making of the West. The book's chronological narrative emphasizes the wide variety of peoples and cultures that created Western civilization and places them together in a common context, enabling students to witness the unfolding of Western history, understand change over time, and recognize fundamental relationships.

Volume II covers the sweep of history from 1500 to the present, spanning the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the age of absolutism and empire, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the World Wars, the Cold War, and into the modern era — tracing how political power, religious conflict, global trade, and social change continuously reshaped the Western world and its relationship with the rest of the globe.

The four authors bring exceptional scholarly credentials to this work. Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA and a leading authority on modern European history. Thomas R. Martin is Jeremiah O'Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. Barbara H. Rosenwein is professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago with visiting appointments at Oxford, Utrecht, and Gothenburg. Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. Together, they have created one of the most trusted and widely adopted Western civilization textbooks in use today.