This economically priced version of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Ninth Edition offers you the complete narrative with fewer maps, photos, and boxed features. Best-selling author Jackson Spielvogel helps readers learn about the present by exploring the past. Spielvogel’s engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: WESTERN CIVILIZATION includes 99 maps and excerpts of over 70 primary sources that enliven the past while introducing you to the source material of historical scholarship.