Civilization In The West, Penguin Academic Edition, Combined Volume

Civilization in the West, Penguin Academic Edition, Combined Volume

An incomparable narrative in a compact format at an affordable price, embellished with detailed maps and illustrations and intriguing captions, the Penguin Academic Civilizations in the West is the right choice for students today.From the Back CoverAn incomparable narrative in a compact format at an affordable price, embellished with detailed maps and illustrations and intriguing captions, the Penguin Academic Civilizations in the West is the right choice for students today.About the AuthorMark Kishlansky is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of English and European History and has served as the Associate Dean of the Faculty at Harvard University. He was educated at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he first studied history, and at Brown University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1977. For 16 years, he taught at the University of Chicago and was a member of the staff that taught Western Civilization. Currently, he lectures on the History of Western Civilization at Harvard. Professor Kishlansky is a specialist on seventeenth-century English political history and has written, among other works, A Monarchy Transformed, The Rise of the New Model Army, and Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England. From 1984 to 1991, he was editor of the Journal of British Studies as well as from 2003-2009, the general editor of History Compass, the first on-line history journal. He is also the general editor for Pearson Custom Publishing