TY - BOOK AU - Burns, Edward McNall AU - Lerner, Robert E AU - Meacham, Standish TI - Western civilizations: their history and their culture SN - 393953238 AV - CB 245 .B87 1984 PY - 1984/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. KW - CIVILIZATION, WESTERN N1 - Includes index; Part Five. The french and industrial revolutions and their consequences -- Part Six. The west at the world's center -- Part Seven. The emergence of world civilization N2 - Western Civilizations--written by two expert teachers--is the most pedagogically innovative text for the survey course. A carefully crafted text and media program empower students to master core content, engage in historical analysis, and think critically, and the Brief Fourth Edition has been substantially updated with the latest scholarship that connects the West to global contexts, as well as new "Past and Present" features that connect historical themes to contemporary topics ER -