Marvin Perry, now retired, taught history at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (senior author and general editor); WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY; the leading Western Civilization reader, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION; AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE; SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 (senior editor); HUMANITIES IN THE WESTERN TRADITION (senior author and general editor); and WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: A CONCISE HISTORY. His scholarly work includes ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE WESTERN TRADITION (1996); ANTISEMITISM: MYTH AND HATE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (coauthor, 2002); ANTISEMITIC MYTHS: A HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008); and THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008). Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on the history of ideas.

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• Part I: THE ANCIENT WORLD: FOUNDATION OF THE WEST TO A.D. 500.1. The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.2. The Hebrews: A New View of God and the Individual.3. The Greeks: From Myth to Reason.4. Rome: From City-State to World Empire.5. Early Christianity: A World Religion.Part II: THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES 500—1400.6. The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical, Christian, and Germanic Traditions.7. The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval Civilization.Part III: THE RISE OF MODERNITY: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT 1350—1789.8. Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation.9. Political and Economic Transformation: National States, Overseas Expansion, Commercial Revolution.10. Intellectual Transformation: The Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.Part IV: THE MODERN WEST: PROGRESS AND BREAKDOWN 1789—1914.11. The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality.12. The Industrial Revolution: The Transformation of Society.13. Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century.14. Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Unification.15. Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, Positivism, Darwinism, and Social Criticism.16. Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century: Modernization, Nationalism, Imperialism.17. Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts.Part V: WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN CRISIS: WORLD WARS AND TOTALITARIANISM 1914—1945.18. World War I: The West in Despair.19. An Era of Totalitarianism.20. World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance.Part VI: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.21. Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945—1989.22. The Troubled Present.

Marvin Perry, now retired, taught history at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (senior author and general editor); WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY; the leading Western Civilization reader, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION; AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE; SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 (senior editor); HUMANITIES IN THE WESTERN TRADITION (senior author and general editor); and WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: A CONCISE HISTORY. His scholarly work includes ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE WESTERN TRADITION (1996); ANTISEMITISM: MYTH AND HATE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (coauthor, 2002); ANTISEMITIC MYTHS: A HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008); and THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008). Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on the history of ideas.

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• Part I: THE ANCIENT WORLD: FOUNDATION OF THE WEST TO A.D. 500.1. The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.2. The Hebrews: A New View of God and the Individual.3. The Greeks: From Myth to Reason.4. Rome: From City-State to World Empire.5. Early Christianity: A World Religion.Part II: THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES 500—1400.6. The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical, Christian, and Germanic Traditions.7. The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval Civilization.Part III: THE RISE OF MODERNITY: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT 1350—1789.8. Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation.9. Political and Economic Transformation: National States, Overseas Expansion, Commercial Revolution.10. Intellectual Transformation: The Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.Part IV: THE MODERN WEST: PROGRESS AND BREAKDOWN 1789—1914.11. The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality.12. The Industrial Revolution: The Transformation of Society.13. Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century.14. Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Unification.15. Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, Positivism, Darwinism, and Social Criticism.16. Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century: Modernization, Nationalism, Imperialism.17. Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts.Part V: WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN CRISIS: WORLD WARS AND TOTALITARIANISM 1914—1945.18. World War I: The West in Despair.19. An Era of Totalitarianism.20. World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance.Part VI: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.21. Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945—1989.22. The Troubled Present.