Discovering the Western Past

Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979. She has published WORKING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE GERMANY (Rutgers, 1986) as well as numerous articles on women and the Reformation and urban social history. She is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008), DISCOVERING THE MEDIEVAL PAST (2003), DISCOVERING THE ANCIENT PAST (2005), DISCOVERING THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD (2005), and BECOMING VISIBLE: WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1998). She is also the General Editor of the PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION series. Andrew D. Evans (Chair, Department of History, State University of New York at New Paltz) received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2002. He is the author of ANTHROPOLOGY AT WAR: WORLD WAR I AND THE SCIENCE OF RACE IN GERMANY (Chicago, 2010), and co-author of DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2015). William Bruce Wheeler received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1967. He is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE AMERICAN PAST (2012), and DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008). He has also written books on Tennessee history and the Tellico Dam. Julius Ruff (Marquette University) received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina 1979. He is the author of Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France (Croom Helm, 1984) in addition to many articles and book reviews.

• 1. The Spread of the Reformation. 2. Royal Power and Overseas Expansion, 1450–1540.3. Staging Absolutism. 4. The Mind of an Age: Science and Religion Confront Eighteenth-Century Natural Disaster. 5. A Day in the French Revolution: July 14, 1789. 6. Labor Old and New: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution. 7. Two Programs for Social and Political Change: Liberalism and Socialism. 8. Vienna and Paris, 1850–1930: The Development of the Modern City. 9. Expansion and Public Opinion: The Debate over the “New Imperialism.” 10. Motherhood, Nationalism, and Women's Political Role, 1848–1940. 11. World War I: Total War. 12. Selling a Totalitarian System. 13. Cold War Cultures: Visions of the “Good Life” in East and West. 14. Europe and the Iraq War.