The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

About the Authors

DENNIS SHERMAN is Professor of History at John Jay College, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978–1979, 1985). He received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship (1968–1969, 1969–1970), a fellowship from the Council for Research on Economic History (1971–1972), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1973–1976). His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, Eighth Edition(coauthor), Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Seventh Edition, World History: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Fourth Edition, a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace, several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and several short stories in literary reviews. He is the recipient of John Jay College’s “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” award.

JOYCE SALISBURY is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, where she taught history to undergraduates for more than twenty years. She received a Ph.D. in medieval history from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a respected historian who has published many articles and has written or edited more than ten books, including the critically acclaimed Perpetua’s Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman, The Blood of Martyrs: Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence, The Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World, and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, which won many awards for its creative organization and timely presentation of the material. In 2010, Salisbury published a second edition of her classic work on the history of attitudes toward animals: The Beast Within: Humans and Animals in the Middle Ages. Salisbury is an award-winning teacher who was named “Professor of the Year for Wisconsin in 1991” by CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education), a prestigious national organization. Since retiring from the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Salisbury has taught twice on Semester at Sea, a program sponsored by the University of Virginia that teaches students as they circumnavigate the world. Salisbury brought a global perspective to the history of Western civilization while teaching abroad, and this edition of the book has benefited from her interaction with students as they make sense of our twenty-first-century global civilization.