The Making of the West: A Concise History, Combined Version (Volumes I & II): Peoples and Cultures Paperback - 2010

LYNN HUNT (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently "Inventing Human Rights" (2007) and "Measuring Time, Making History" (2008). She has in press a co-authored work on religious toleration in early eighteenth-century Europe.
THOMAS R. MARTIN (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O'Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of "Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece" (1985) and "Ancient Greece" (1996, 2000) and is one of the originators of "Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece" (www.perseus.tufts.edu). He is currently conducting research on the career of Pericles as a political leader in classical Athens as well as on the text of Josephus' "Jewish War.
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BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author or editor of several books including "A Short History of the Middle Ages" (2001; 2004; 2009) and "Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages" (2006). She is currently working on a general history of the emotions in the West.
BONNIE G. SMITH (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books including "Ladies of the Leisure Class" (1981); "The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice" (1998); and" The""Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History" (2007). Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century.