This four volume set includes 70,000 events and constitutes the most complete and current chronology of world history ever created.

Intended for courses in Western Humanities, this best-selling text chronologically explores the major styles as they appear in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from antiquity to present. Using lively anecdotes, Fleming shows how the styles are linked together by common purposes, themes, and ideas.

Each volume in this series has chapters on geography; the arts; communication, transportation and exploration; social class system and the economy; politics, law, and the military; leisure, recreation and daily life; family and social trends; religion and philosophy; and science, technology and health. Each chapter includes listings of primary sources (some are excerpted within the chapter) and secondary sources.

Vol. 1: European renaissance and reformation, 1350-1600

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas.

Volume 1: Plays focuses on 600 of the world's most significant plays, with an authoritative essay on each play and more than 300 photographs. Volume 2: Playwrights contains biographical and bibliographical information and essays on 485 playwrights. Volume 3: Actors, Directors and Designers, features a capsule biography, descriptions: of roles and theatre productions and bibliographic information on 300 entrants.

Description: 1. Letter from a journey in Spain -- 2. The conception of life -- 3. Madrid, the court and the town -- 4. Seville, the mirror of the Indies of Castille -- 5. Urban and rural life -- 6. The church and religious life -- 7. Public life, festivals, and popular entertainments -- 8. Domestic life, woman and the home -- 9. University life and the world of letters -- 10. Military life -- 11. The picaresque life.

Description: Early modern Spain -- Political setting -- Social setting -- The church -- The inquisition -- Jews and conversos -- Muslims and Moriscos -- The court -- Urban life -- Rural life -- Family life -- Clothes and fashions -- Food -- Arts and entertainment -- Military life -- Education -- Health and medicine.

The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David E. Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make engrossing reading and bring the era clearly into focus.

We build our lives on essential but seemingly mundane things: Food, Shelter, Families, Neighbors, Work, and Play. The unremembered details of people's everyday struggles and successes have shaped history and continue to drive the world we know. Organized by time frame (each volume covers a finite period) and then by topic (Historical Overview, then Domestic, Economic, Intellectual, Material, Political, Recreational, and Religious Life, followed by primary sources).

The Encyclopedia of European Social History covers all aspects of European social history from the Renaissance to the present. This six-volume reference includes more than 230 articles, ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 words, on everything from serfdom and the economy, to witchcraft and public health. This reference provides a survey of hundreds of topics. Included are more than 700 photographs, drawings and maps. The sixth volume also includes biographies of prominent European figures and a comprehensive index.

1. Castile, Spain and the empire -- 2. The dynasty -- 3. The instruments of empire -- 4. Charles V -- 5. The zenith of empire : Philip II -- 6. The precarious equilibrium : 1598-1634 -- 7. Years of disaster : 1635-59 -- 8. The privileged estates : nobles and clergy -- 9. Towns and the urban population -- 10. The rural world and the seignerurial regime -- 11. Social outcasts -- 12. The economy of Hapsburg Spain : I. The structures -- 13. The economy of Habsburg Spain : II. The trends -- 14. Religious life : I. Orthodoxy -- 15. Religious life : II. The inquisition and heterodoxy -- 16. Learning and science -- 17. Literature -- 18. Architecture, painting and sculpture -- 19. The political empire overseas -- 20. The economic empire -- 21. A spiritual empire.