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European History is Filled with Great Stories; So is Our AP® Euro Textbook
A History of Western Society, now in its 14th edition, provides AP® European History students and teachers with a multitude of primary sources for analysis, engaging stories that include everyday life, as well as loads of opportunities to practice skills and content knowledge to prepare for the AP® Euro Exam.
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The AP® Historical Thinking Skills Primer explains each of the Historical Thinking Skills and Reasoning Processes in the AP® European History Course and Exam Description and provides strategies for applying these skills to open-ended questions on the exam.
AP® Period Openers organize the book according to the AP® Course Framework and introduce important AP® topics that are covered in each period. The "Understanding AP® Themes" section poses questions that get students thinking about the AP® themes as they read the chapters.
AP® Exam Practice questions provide AP®-style Multiple-Choice and Short-Answer questions at the end of each chapter, as well as Document-Based and Long Essay questions at the end of each period.
A full-length AP® Practice Exam at the back of the book provides even more AP®-style questions that can be assigned as homework or timed in class.
A favorite feature of students and teachers alike, the books balanced social history integrates the lives of ordinary people with important historical events and developments.
In-chapter features such as "AP Claims and Evidence in Visual Sources", "AP Claims and Evidence in Written Sources", "AP Thinking Like a Historian", and more build skills in analyzing primary sources, historical reasoning and argumentation.
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A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course
Fourteenth Edition| ©2024
Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay
Achieve is a comprehensive set of interconnected teaching and assessment tools that incorporate the most effective elements from Macmillan Learning's market leading solutions in a single, easy-to-use platform.
A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course
Fourteenth Edition| 2024
Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay
Period 1 From Renaissance to Early Modern, ca. 1450-1648
Chapter 1 The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450
Chapter 2 European Society in the Renaissance, 1350–1550
Chapter 3 European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650 [swap]
Chapter 4 Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500–1600 [swap]
Period 1 AP Exam Practice
Period 2 Early Modern Transformations, ca. 1648–1815
Chapter 5 Absolutism and Constitutionalism, 1589–1725
Chapter 6 Toward a New Worldview, 1540–1789
Chapter 7 The Expansion of Europe, 1650–1800
Chapter 8 Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650–1800
Chapter 9 Revolutions in Politics, 1775–1815
Period 2 AP Exam Practice
Period 3 The Long Nineteenth Century, ca. 1815–1914
Chapter 10 The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1780–1850
Chapter 11 Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815–1850
Chapter 12 Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840–1914
Chapter 13 The Age of Nationalism, 1850–1914
Chapter 14 The West and the World, 1815–1914
Period 3 AP Exam Practice
Period 4 The Twentieth Century and Beyond, ca. 1914 to the Present
Chapter 15 War and Revolution, 1914–1919
Chapter 16 Opportunity and Crisis in the Age of Modernity, 1880–1940
Chapter 17 Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919–1945
Chapter 18 Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965
Chapter 19 Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991
Chapter 20 Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the present
Period 4 AP Exam Practice
AP Practice Exam
Glossary/Glosario
Index
Timeline
A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course
Fourteenth Edition| 2024
Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay
A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course
Fourteenth Edition| 2024
Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay
Joe Perry talks about “Thinking like a Historian”
Making History Real and Relevant: A Talk with the Authors of A History of Western Society
A History of Western Society for the AP® European History Course
Fourteenth Edition| 2024
Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Clare Crowston; Joe Perry; John McKay
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