 |  The Western Experience, 8/e Mortimer Chambers,
University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt,
Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb,
Princeton University
Isser Woloch,
Columbia University
Raymond Grew,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
FeaturesProven Features: - Sophisticated yet accessible approach of the authors
has been a hallmark of the book from its inception.
- Coverage of cultural history, with a careful balance between high culture and popular
culture, as well as intellectual history.
- Thematic coverage
provides a unique flexibility to instructors who wish to organize the material
in a different fashion than the authors have done.
- Interpretive Approach challenges students, spurs discussion and debate and employs the use
of critical thinking.
- Stellar art history and mapping program, with substantial explanatory captions, enforces the
emphasis on cultural history and geography.
- The lavish map and illustration program provides visual sources to aid students in
learning, and the carefully chosen art program with its long explanatory
captions provides a strong art history element to the text.
- Unique epilogue (revised for the 8th edition) invites students to learn more about the larger context of the study and methodology of history.
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