Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500

by Jackson J. Spielvogel

Book Overview

Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534646042
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Awesome Book

Very easy explanation in book.........dont try to read whole book otherwise you will get sleep

Great for CLEP resource

Got this book as well as Volume I and used them as my resources for taking the Western Civ I and II CLEPS. Perfect for the job, and helped me get a very good grade, highly recommend for anyone looking to use for that purpose.

A Must If You Take AP European History

This book is one of the best 30 dollars that I have ever spent. It is full of chapter outlines, timeslines, multiple choice, matching, and fill-in-the-blank review questions. Also has chronology tests and primary source analysis questions. The book follows Spielvogel's Western Civilization, and complements it perfectly. Many of the questions that I have seen on the tests at school are very similar to those in this book. This is THE BEST review tool for AP Euro history!

A bit too much info for Intro to Western Civ, sadly

I am not joking. I wish it were realistic to use this textbook in an intro to western civ class for students with no previous knowledge, but it's too complicated. It's also hard to lecture with it as it jumps around between national histories (keep having to say, "when last we left English history...". I would like to use a text like this one but am convinced that it is simply too much for our average students.

J. Spielvogel's Western Civ from 1500 (3rd edition)

I'm a teacher and educated general reader who ordered this book after learning of Spielvogel's popularity and brilliance as a professor at our mutual alma mater: Penn State. It arrived just today. Already, from reading the "intro to students," I've learned what the enigmatic B.C.E. means but that the author chooses to use B.C. (as in A.D.) The voice that wrote that introduction is the voice of the entire text. I am delighted with the heft of the book, the maps and illustrations, and the prospects ahead.