This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our
common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and
interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical
information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms
"supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and
creativity throughout history. "Supremacies" centers on the use of
power to dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies.
Supremacy, Pavlac shows, seeks stability, order, and incorporation.
"Diversities" encompasses the creative impulse that produces new
ideas, as well as efforts of groups of people to define themselves
as "different." Diversity creates change, opportunity, and
individuality. These concepts of historical tension and change,
whether applied to political, economic, technological, social, or
cultural trends, offer a cohesive explanatory organization. The
text is also informed by five other topical themes: technological
innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic
decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning
of life. The third edition has added new primary source projects,
improved maps and illustrations to enhance the visual dimension,
Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable
text provides all the essentials for a course on Western
civilization. Conceived as a seamless, affordable overview, not
artificially boiled down from a lengthier text, it can be used as a
standalone for a one-term course or combined with Volume 1 for
two-term course.
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