THE WEST

Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the center of the Western Civilizations course

This beautifully written history recenters the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society, and culture, driven by internal tensions and global influences. They deliver the past not as a path to the present but as it was lived at the time, grounded in a balanced, comprehensive, chronological narrative. Combined with rich digital resources to instill practical history skills, The West establishes a dynamic NEW foundation for teaching the Western Civilizations course. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton and the author of many acclaimed books on European cultural history. David Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton and a specialist on modern Europe. His most recent book is The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare As We Know It.