From that experience he decided to write this textbook, which employs trials as a central feature. Ed lives beside Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois. His twin passions are skiing in the Rocky Mountains and rooting for the Chicago Cubs, who manage every summer to demonstrate that winning isn't everything. Michael Maas was born in the Ohio River Valley, a community that had been a frontier outpost during the late eighteenth century. He grew up reading the stories of the early settlers and their struggles with the native peoples, and seeing in the urban fabric how the city had subsequently developed into a prosperous coal and steel town, with immigrants from all over the world.
As a boy he developed a lifetime interest in the archaeology and history of the ancient Mediterranean world and began to study Latin. At Cornell University he combined his interests in cultural history and the Classical world by majoring in Classics and Anthropology. He has traveled widely in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and participated in several archaeological excavations, including an underwater dig in Greece.
Since he has taught ancient history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he founded and directs the interdisciplinary B.
Program in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. He has won several teaching awards. Maas' special area of research is Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the Classical to the Medieval worlds, which saw the collapse of the Roman Empire in western Europe and the development of the Byzantine state in the east. His other books include John Lydus and the Roman Past. Maas has always been interested in interdisciplinary teaching and the encounters among different cultures.
He sees The West: Encounters and Transformations as an opportunity to explain how the modern civilization that we call "the West" had its origins in the diverse interactions among many different peoples of antiquity. Meredith Veldman grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago, in a close-knit, closed-in Dutch Calvinist community. In this immigrant society, history mattered: the "Reformed tradition" structured not only religious beliefs but also social identity and political practice.
This influence certainly played some role in shaping Veldman's early fascination with history. But probably just as important were the countless World War II re-enactment games she played with her five older brothers. As Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University, Veldman teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history and twentieth-century Europe, as well as the second half of "Western Civ.
She wanted a text that would convey to beginning students at least some of the complexities and ambiguities of historical interpretation, introduce them to the exciting work being done now in cultural history, and, most importantly, tell a good story. The search for this textbook led her to accept the offer made by Levack, Maas, and Muir to join them in writing The West: Encounters and Transformations. The author of Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, , Veldman is also the wife of a Methodist minister and the mother of two young sons.
They reside in Baton Rouge, where Veldman finds coping with the steamy climate a constant challenge. She and her family recently returned from Manchester, England, where they lived for three years and astonished the natives by their enthusiastic appreciation of English weather.
Convert currency. Add to Basket. Civilization of the Nile: The Egyptian Empire. Persia: An Empire on Three Continents. Hebrew Civilization and Religions.
Greece Rebuilds, BCE. Conclusions: Classical Foundations of the West. The Warlike Kingdom of Macedon. Hellenistic Society and Culture. Rome's Rise to Power. Beginnings of the Roman Revolution. Conclusion: Defining the West in the Hellenistic Age. The Imperial Center. The Frontier and Beyond. Society and Culture in an Imperial Age. Conclusion: Rome Shapes the West. Crisis and Recovery in the Third Century. Christianizing the Empire. New Christian Communities and Identities.
The Break-Up of the Roman Empire. Conclusion: The Age of New Boundaries. Medieval Empires and Borderlands: Byzantium and Islam. Byzantium: The Survival of the Roman Empire. The New World of Islam. Conclusion: Three Cultural Realms. The Birth of Latin Christendom. The Carolingians. Invasions and Recovery in the Latin West. The West in the East: The Crusades. Encounters and Transformations: Roland the El Cid.
Two Worlds: Manors and Cities. The Consolidation of Roman Catholicism. Strengthening the Center of the West. Medieval Culture: The Search for Understanding. Conclusion: Asserting Western Culture.
The Medieval West in Crisis. A Time of Death. A Cold Wind from the East. Economic Depression and Social Turmoil. An Age of Warfare. Sort order.
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