Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture Vol. 2

714 Pages·2011·41.24 MB·English

by  Judith Coffin

This registration code provides access to
documents and other sources available at the
Western Civilizations, 17th Edition StudySpace site:
wwnorton.com/studyspace
LDES-RUIP

This page intentionally left blank
Western
Civilizations
Their History &
Their Culture
i
Judith Coffin
Robert Stacey
Joshua Cole
Carol Symes
Western
Civilizations
Their History & Their Culture
SEVENTEENTH EDITION
VOLUME 2
B
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY ■ NEW YORK ■ LONDON
To our families:
Willy, Zoe, and Aaron Forbath
Robin, Will, and Anna Stacey
Kate Tremel, Lucas and Ruby Cole
Tom, Erin, and Connor Wilson
with love and gratitude for their support.
And to all our students, who have also
been our teachers.
Copyright © 2011, 2008, 2005, 2002, 1998, 1993, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1973, 1968, 1963, 1958, 1954,
1949, 1947, 1941 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Editor: Jon Durbin
Project editor: Kathleen Feighery
Managing editor, College: Marian Johnson
Copyeditors: Candace Levy and Michael Fleming
E-media editor: Steve Hoge
Ancillary editor: Lorraine Klimowich
Editorial assistant: Jason Spears
Photo editor: Junenoire Mitchell
Photo research: Donna Ranieri
Senior production manager, College: Benjamin Reynolds
Design director: Rubina Yeh
Book designer: Judith Abbate / Abbate Design
Composition: TexTech, Inc.—Brattleboro, VT
Cartographers: Mapping Specialists—Madison, WI
Manufacturing: R. R. Donnelley & Sons—Jefferson City, MO
The Library of Congress has Cataloged the one-volume edition as follows:
Coffi n, Judith G., 1952–
Western civilizations : their history & their culture / Judith G. Coffi n . . . [et al.]. — Seventeenth ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-393-93481-6 (hardcover)
1. Civilization, Western—Textbooks. 2. Europe—Civilization—Textbooks. I. Title.
CB245.C65 2011
909'.09821—dc22
2010038141
This edition: ISBN: 978-0-393-93483-0 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0-393-11996-1 (pdf ebook)
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10110
wwnorton.com
W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
About the Authors
JUDITH COFFIN (Ph.D. Yale University) is an associate professor at the University
of Texas, Austin, where she won University of Texas President’s Associates’ Award for
Teaching Excellence. Previously, she taught at Harvard University and the University
of California, Riverside. Her research interests are the social and cultural history of
gender, mass culture, slavery, race relations, and colonialism. She is the author of The
Politics of Women’s Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750–1915.
ROBERT STACEY (Ph.D. Yale University) is professor of history, Dean of the
Humanities, and a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at the University of
Washington, Seattle. A long-time teacher of Western civilization and medieval
European history, he has received Distinguished Teaching Awards from both the
University of Washington and Yale University, where he taught from 1984 to 1988.
He has authored and coauthored four books, including a textbook, The Making of
England to 1399. He holds an M.A. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Yale.
JOSHUA COLE (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of
History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His publications include work on
gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics
of memory in 19th and 20th century France, Germany, and Algeria. His fi rst book
was The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics and Gender in Nineteenth-Century
France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).
CAROL SYMES (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Associate Professor of history and
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the history department at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she has won the top teaching award in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her main areas of study include medieval Europe, the
history of information media and communication technologies, and the history of
theatre. Her fi rst book was A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).
v