The Western Heritage Combined Edition Brief Sixth Edition 6th Edition Donald Kagan by Donald Kagan, Steven E. Ozment, Frank Miller Turner 9780205728916, 9780205728923, 9780205728930, 9780205732104, 020572891X, 0205728928, 0205728936, 0205732100 instant download after payment.

Students undertaking the study of the Western heritage on the threshold of the second decade of the
twenty-first century do so at a remarkable historical moment. In 2008, the United States elected its first African American president, a Democrat backed by larger Democratic congressional majorities pledged to undertaking major new policy directions at home and abroad.
Both the Western and non-Western worlds confront a changing global economy that gave birth to a financial crisis with the most serious implications for economic stability since the 1930s. The August 2008 invasion of Georgia by Russian Federation troops signaled the possibility of a move from a period of relative quietude to one of military resurgence that may bring into question numerous strategic military assumptions that prevailed for almost two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The United States and Western Europe, after several years of controversial military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, continue efforts to reshape foreign policy with an emphasis on diplomacy instead of preemptive warfare. Christians in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres continue to be sharply divided as they debate the character of their faith and its relationship to other faiths and the social questions of the day. A growing consensus of opinion recognizes the dangers posed by environmental change.
The authors of this volume continue to believe that the heritage of Western civilization remains a major
point of departure for understanding and defining the challenges of this no longer new century. The unprecedented globalization of daily life that is a hallmark of our era has occurred largely through the spread of Western influences. From the sixteenth century onward, the West has exerted vast influences throughout the globe for both good and ill, and today’s global citizens continue to live in the wake of that impact...