Sources of The Making of the West, Volume I: To 1750: Peoples and Cultures / Edition 4

by Katharine J. Lualdi

Overview

Sources of The Making of the West provides written and visual documents closely aligned with each chapter of The Making of the West. This two-volume collection reinforces the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the textbook by allowing students to engage directly with the voices of those who experienced them. Over thirty new documents and visual sources highlight the diversity of historical voices — including both notable figures and ordinary individuals — that shaped each period. To aid students in approaching and interpreting documents, each chapter contains an introduction, document headnotes, and questions for discussion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312576110
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	01/12/2012
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Katharine J. Lualdi (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is coeditor of Penitence in the Age of Reformations (Ashgate, 2000) and Handbook for Curates: A Late Medieval Manual of Pastoral Care (The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming). She has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on sixteenth-century French Catholicism. She teaches history and religion at the University of Southern Maine.

Table of Contents

Revised for accessibility and teachability. To maximize students’ understanding of the sources, the fourth edition includes carefully revised introductions, headnotes, and questions, and more glossed terms. New documents were selected and edited with student accessibility in mind, and additional canonical works throughout make the reader even more useful for instructors.
 
Over 30 new documents and visual sources. This edition provides students with an even broader range of perspectives and sources that add texture to the larger themes of the main text.