Sources of the Making of the West, Volume I: To 1740: Peoples and Cultures, a Concise History

by Tristram Hunt and Katharine J. Lualdi

Sources of the Making of the West, A Concise History, Second Edition offers more options for working with sources. Each chapter now includes five sources that are tightly integrated with the text and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312407181
• ISBN13: 9780312407186
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

gives depth to your appreciation of history

This little text is a good accompaniment to the main book, "Making of the West". Here, Lualdi takes the student in a tour of excerpts from original source documents. Translated where necessary from other languages. So you can see a lengthy essay written on the eve of the French Revolution. Asking, "What is the Third Estate?" This Estate was the impotent assembly that represented the French people, as contrasted to the other Estates that drew from the aristocracy. The essay neatly encapsulates the rising demands of the majority of the people; suggesting why the Revolution occurred. The book has many other examples. All fitting to give depth to your appreciation of modern history.