Coauthors Joshua Cole and Carol Symes make millennia of European history accessible and relevant to students today through their well-balanced narrative approach that interweaves social, political, and cultural history and places the West in a global context.

Cole and Syme’s years of classroom experience are on full display with their robust, scaffolded suite of highly teachable primary source offerings. These sources are supported by unmatched reading pedagogy and courseware tools that give students guided practice working with different kinds of primary material and a new primary source collection.

No other European history survey book is as up-to-date with trends in scholarship and delivers such enriching pedagogy, making Western Civilizations the trusted market leading book.

Highlights of this edition:

• Refreshed coverage incorporating recent research expands the book’s cross-cultural emphasis. Found throughout the book, these connections between the West and the wider world allow students to understand both the internal and external forces that have shaped Europe.
  
  
• A new “Making the Most of Your Textbook" introductory activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook models for students how to successfully use the ebook’s features and pedagogy to support their learning.
  
  
• A new History Skills Tutorial on AI Literacy helps students develop a basic understanding of how generative AI works, the technology’s limitations in historical work, and how to think critically about the output AI creates. The activity gives instructors an easy-to-assign resource for cultivating student critical thinking.
  
  
• A new primary source collection for Western Civilizations and world history provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton ebook reader, equipped with highlighting, annotating, and instructor note tools to support students as they read.