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Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout.

With over 200 written and visual primary sources included in the document features "Evaluating the Evidence" and "Thinking like a Historian," students connect to the past through an array of evidence.

The book can be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. LaunchPad comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared.

Volume 1.2 includes chapters 11-30

A History of Western Society Volume 1.2, Since 1300

11. The Later Middle Ages 1300-1450. - 12. European Society in the Age of the Renaissance 1350-1550. - 13. Reformations and Religious Wars 1500-1600. - 14. European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650. - 15. Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725. - 16. Toward a New Worldview 1540-1789. - 17. The Expansion of Europe 1650-1800. - 18. Life in the Era of Expansion 1650-1800. - 19. Revolutions in Politics 1775-1815. - 20. The Revolution in Energy and Industry ca. 1780-1850. - 21. Ideologies and Upheavals 1815-1850. - 22. Life in the Emerging Urban Society 1840-1914. - 23. The Age of Nationalism 1850-1914. - 24. The West and the World 1815-1914. - 25. War and Revolution 1914-1919. - 26.The Age of Anxiety 1880-1940. - 27. Dictatorships and the Second World War 1919-1945. - 28. Cold War Conflict and Consensus 1945-1965. - 29. Challenging the Postwar Order 1960-1991. - 30. Life in an Age of Globalization 1990 to the Present