Cover: A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course, 14th Edition by Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay

A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course

Fourteenth  Edition©2024  Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay

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A History of Western Society, now in its 14th edition, provides AP® European History students and teachers with a multitude of primary sources for analysis, engaging stories that include everyday life, as well as loads of opportunities to practice skills and content knowledge to prepare for the AP® Euro Exam.

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Table of Contents

Period 1 From Renaissance to Early Modern, ca. 1450-1648
Chapter 1 The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450
Chapter 2 European Society in the Renaissance, 1350–1550
Chapter 3 European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650 [swap]
Chapter 4 Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500–1600 [swap]
Period 1 AP Exam Practice
Period 2 Early Modern Transformations, ca. 1648–1815
Chapter 5 Absolutism and Constitutionalism, 1589–1725
Chapter 6 Toward a New Worldview, 1540–1789
Chapter 7 The Expansion of Europe, 1650–1800
Chapter 8 Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650–1800
Chapter 9 Revolutions in Politics, 1775–1815
Period 2 AP Exam Practice
Period 3 The Long Nineteenth Century, ca. 1815–1914
Chapter 10 The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1780–1850
Chapter 11 Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815–1850
Chapter 12 Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840–1914
Chapter 13 The Age of Nationalism, 1850–1914
Chapter 14 The West and the World, 1815–1914
Period 3 AP Exam Practice
Period 4 The Twentieth Century and Beyond, ca. 1914 to the Present
Chapter 15 War and Revolution, 1914–1919
Chapter 16 Opportunity and Crisis in the Age of Modernity, 1880–1940
Chapter 17 Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919–1945
Chapter 18 Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965
Chapter 19 Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991
Chapter 20 Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the present
Period 4 AP Exam Practice
AP Practice Exam
Glossary/Glosario
Index
Timeline

 

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Distinguished Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Concise History of the World. From 2017 to 2019 she served as the president of the World History Association.

Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of history at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women’s History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Joe Perry

Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. His book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History appeared in 2010. He is currently writing a history of the Berlin Love Parade and the electronic dance music scene in Germany in the 1990s and 2000s.

John P. McKay

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.