The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-17.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.
NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps and Figures
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1. Early Western Civilization, 400,000–1000 B.C.E.
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From the Stone Age to Mesopotamian Civilization, 400,000-1000 B.C.E.
Life and Change in the Stone Age
The Emergence of Cities in Mesopotamia, 4000–2350 B.C.E.
Metals and Empire Making: The Akkadians and the Ur III Dynasty, c. 2350–c. 2000 B.C.E.
The Achievements of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Canaanites, 2000–1000 B.C.E.
Egypt, the First Unified Nation, 3050–1000 B.C.E.
From the Unification of Egypt to the Old Kingdom, 3050–2190 B.C.E.
The Middle and New Kingdoms in Egypt, 2061–1081 B.C.E.
The Hittites, the Minoans, and the Mycenaeans, 2200–1000 B.C.E.
The Hittites, 1750–1200 B.C.E.
The Minoans, 2200–1400 B.C.E.
The Mycenaeans, 1800–1000 B.C.E.
The Violent End to Early Western Civilization, 1200–1000 B.C.E.
Mapping the West: The Violent End to Early Western Civilization, 1200–1000 B.C.E.?
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Conclusion
Chapter 1 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Hammurabi’s Laws for Physicians
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Contrasting Views: The Gains and the Losses of Life in Civilization vs. Life in Nature
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Terms of History: Civilization
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Document 1.1 Defining Humanity: Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.E.)
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Document 1.2 Establishing Law and Justice: King Hammurabi, The Code of Hammurabi (Early Eighteenth Century B.C.E.)
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Document 1.3 Praising the One God: Hymn to the Aten (Fourteenth Century B.C.E.)
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Document 1.4 Sources in Conversation: Writing in Life and the Afterlife: Agricultural scenes, Tomb of Nakhut, (c. 1400-1390 B.C.E.) and Egyptian Scribal Exercise Book (Twelfth Century B.C.E.)
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Document 1.5 Allying for Peace: The "Eternal Treaty" between the Egyptians and Hittites (c. 1259 B.C.E.)
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Chapter 2. Near East Empires and the Reemergence of Civilization in Greece, 1000–500 B.C.E.
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From Dark Age to Empire in the Near East, 1000–500 B.C.E.
The New Empire of Assyria, 900–600 B.C.E.
The Neo-Babylonian Empire, 600–539 B.C.E.
The Persian Empire, 557–500 B.C.E.
The Israelites, Origins to 539 B.C.E.
The Reemergence of Greek Civilization, 1000–750 B.C.E.
The Greek Dark Age
The Values of the Olympic Games
Homer, Hesiod, and Divine Justice in Greek Myth
The Creation of the Greek City-State, 750–500 B.C.E.
The Physical Environment of the Greek City-State
Trade and "Colonization," 800–580 B.C.E.
Citizenship and Freedom in the Greek City-State
New Directions for the Greek City-State, 750–500 B.C.E.
Oligarchy in the City-State of Sparta, 700–500 B.C.E.
Tyranny in the City-State of Corinth, 657–585 B.C.E.
Democracy in the City-State of Athens, 632–500 B.C.E.
New Ways of Thought and Expression in Greece, 630–500 B.C.E.
Mapping the West: Mediterranean Civilizations, c. 500 B.C.E.
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Conclusion
Chapter 2 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Zaleucus’s Law Code for a Greek City-State in Seventh-Century B.C.E. Italy
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Contrasting Views: Persians Debate The Best Form of Government
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Terms of History: The State
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Document 2.1 Empires and Divine Right: Inscription Honoring Cyrus, King of Persia (r. c. 557–530 B.C.E.)
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Document 2.2 Monotheism and Mosaic Law: The Book of Exodus, Chapters 19–20 (c. Tenth–Sixth Centuries B.C.E.)
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Document 2.3 Concepts of Civilization: Homer, The Odyssey (Eighth Century B.C.E.)
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Document 2.4 Sources in Conversation: Two Visions of the City-State: Tyrtaeus of Sparta and Solon of Athens, Poems (Seventh–Sixth Centuries B.C.E.)
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Document 2.5 Representations of Difference: Greek Janiform Flask (c. 520-510 B.C.E.)
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Document 2.6 Economics and the Expansion of Slavery: Xenophon, Revenues (Fourth Century B.C.E.)
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Chapter 3. The Greek Golden Age, c. 500–c. 400 B.C.E.
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Wars between Persia and Greece, 499–479 B.C.E.
From the Ionian Revolt to the Battle of Marathon, 499–490 B.C.E.
The Great Persian Invasion, 480–479 B.C.E.
Athenian Confidence in the Golden Age, 478–431 B.C.E.
The Establishment of the Athenian Empire
Radical Democracy and Pericles’ Leadership, 461–431 B.C.E.
The Urban Landscape in Athens
Tradition and Innovation in Athens’s Golden Age
Religious Tradition in a Period of Change
Women, Slaves, and Metics
Innovative Ideas in Education, Philosophy, History, and Medicine
The Development of Greek Tragedy
The Development of Greek Comedy
The End of Athens’s Golden Age, 431–403 B.C.E.
The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 B.C.E.
Athens Defeated: Tyranny and Civil War, 404–403 B.C.E.
Mapping the West: Greece, Europe, and the Mediterranean, 400 B.C.E.?
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Conclusion
Chapter 3 Review
Primary Source Analysis: How to Argue Both Sides of a Case
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Contrasting Views: The Nature of Women and Marriage
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Terms of History: Democracy
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Document 3.1 The Golden Age of Athens: Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles (429 B.C.E.)
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Document 3.2 Sources in Conversation: Movement in Stone: Myron of Eleutherai, Discus Thrower (c. 450 B.C.E.) and Atalanta (c. 300-200 B.C.E.)
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Document 3.3 The Emergence of Philosophy: Plato, The Apology of Socrates (399 B.C.E.)
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Document 3.4 The Advance of Science: Hippocrates of Cos, On the Sacred Disease (400 B.C.E.)
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Document 3.5 Human Commodities: Auction of confiscated slaves (c. 414 B.C.E.)
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Document 3.6 Domestic Boundaries: Euphiletus, A Husband Speaks in His Own Defense (c. 400 B.C.E.) and Overhead Views of a House on the North Slope of the Areopagus (Fifth Century B.C.E.)
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Document 3.7 Protesting War, Performing Satire: Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)
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Chapter 4. From the Classical to the Hellenistic World, 400–30 B.C.E.
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Classical Greece after the Peloponnesian War, 400–350 B.C.E.
Athens’s Recovery after the Peloponnesian War
The Execution of Socrates, 399 B.C.E.
The Philosophy of Plato
Aristotle, Scientist and Philosopher
Greek Political Disunity
The Rise of Macedonia, 359–323 B.C.E.
Macedonian Power and Philip II, 359–336 B.C.E.
The Rule of Alexander the Great, 336–323 B.C.E.
The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 323–30 B.C.E.
Creating New Kingdoms
The Layers of Hellenistic Society
The End of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Hellenistic Culture
The Arts under Royal Support
Philosophy for a New Age
Scientific Innovation
Cultural and Religious Transformations
Mapping the West: Roman Takeover of the Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E.
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Conclusion
Chapter 4 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Epigrams by Women Poets
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Contrasting Views: Roman Attitudes Toward Cleopatra VII, The Last Hellenistic Queen
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Terms of History: Hellenistic
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Document 4.1 The Conquest of New Lands: Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander the Great (Fourth Century B.C.E.)
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Document 4.2 Imperial Bureaucracy: Zeno, Egyptian Official, Records (259–250 B.C.E.)
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Document 4.3 Everyday Life: Funerary Inscriptions and Epitaphs (Fifth–First Centuries B.C.E.)
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Document 4.4 Sources in Conversation: Modelling Femininity: Terracotta figurines (Second to Third Century B.C.E.)
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Document 4.5 In Pursuit of Happiness: Epicurus, Letter to a Friend (Late Third Century B.C.E.)
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Document 4.6 Exacting Science: Archimedes, Letter to Eratosthenes (Third Century B.C.E.) and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Archimedes’ "Eureka!" Moment (c. 30–20 B.C.E.)
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Chapter 5. The Rise of Rome and Its Republic, 753–44 B.C.E.
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Roman Social and Religious Traditions
Roman Moral Values
The Patron-Client System
The Roman Family
Education for Public Life
Public and Private Religion
From Monarchy to Republic
Roman Society under the Kings, 753–509 B.C.E.
The Early Roman Republic, 509–287 B.C.E.
Roman Imperialism and Its Consequences
Expansion in Italy, 500–220 B.C.E.
Wars with Carthage and in the East, 264–121 B.C.E.
Greek Influence on Roman Literature and the Arts
Stresses on Society from Imperialism
Civil War and the Destruction of the Republic
The Gracchus Brothers and Violence in Politics, 133–121 B.C.E.
Marius and the Origin of Client Armies, 107–100 B.C.E.
Sulla and Civil War, 91–78 B.C.E.
Julius Caesar and the Collapse of the Republic, 83–44 B.C.E.
Mapping the West: The Roman World at the End of the Republic, 44 B.C.E.
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Conclusion
Chapter 5 Review
Primary Source Analysis: The Rape and Suicide of Lucretia
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Contrasting Views: What Was Julius Caesar Like?
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Terms of History: Republic
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Document 5.1 Formalizing Roman Law: The Twelve Tables (451–449 B.C.E.)
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Document 5.2 Sources in Conversation: Artistic Influences: Etruscan Statuette of a Rider (c. 434–400 B.C.E.) and Roman Bust of Lucius Junius Brutus (c. 300 B.C.E.)
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Document 5.3 Status and Discrimination: Roman Women Demonstrate against the Oppian Law (195 B.C.E.)
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Document 5.4 "Cultivating Humanity": Cicero, In Defense of Archias ?(62 B.C.E.)
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Document 5.5 Failure and Factionalism: The Gracchan Reforms (133 B.C.E.)
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Document 5.6 Toward Empire: Julius Caesar, The Gallic War (52 B.C.E.)
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Chapter 6. The Creation of the Roman Empire, 44 B.C.E.–284 C.E.
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From Republic to Empire, 44 B.C.E.–14 C.E.
Civil War, 44–27 B.C.E.
The Creation of the Principate, 27 B.C.E.–14 C.E.
Daily Life in the Rome of Augustus
Changes in Education, Literature, and Art in Augustus’s Rome
Politics and Society in the Early Roman Empire
The Perpetuation of the Principate after Augustus, 14–180 C.E.
Life in the Roman Golden Age, 96–180 C.E.
The Emergence of Christianity in the Early Roman Empire
Jesus and His Teachings
Growth of a New Religion
Competing Religious Beliefs
From Stability to Crisis in the Third Century C.E.
Threats to the Northern and Eastern Frontiers of the Early Roman Empire
Uncontrolled Spending, Natural Disasters, and Political Crisis, 193–284 C.E.
Mapping the West: The Roman Empire in Crisis, 284 C.E.?
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Conclusion
Chapter 6 Review
Primary Source Analysis: A Roman Stoic Philosopher on the Capabilities of Women
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Contrasting Views: Christians in the Empire: Conspirators or Faithful Subjects?
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Terms of History: Empire
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Document 6.1 An Empire Foretold: Virgil, The Aeneid (First Century B.C.E.)
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Document 6.2 An Urban Empire: Notices and Graffiti Describe Life in Pompeii (First Century C.E.)
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Document 6.3 New Influences to the North: Tacitus, Germania (c. 98 C.E.)
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Document 6.4 Sources in Conversation: The Making of a New Religion: The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount (28 C.E.) and Paul of Tarsus, Letter to the Galatians (c. 50-60 C.E.)
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Document 6.5 Deadly Beliefs: The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas (203 C.E.)
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Document 6.6 Private Piety: Household shrine, Pompeii (first century C.E.)
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Chapter 7. The Transformation of the Roman Empire, 284–600 C.E.
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From Principate to Dominate in the Late Roman Empire, 284–395
The Political Transformation and Division of the Roman Empire
The Social Consequences of Financial Pressures
From the Great Persecution to Religious Freedom
The Official Christianization of the Empire, 312–c. 540
Polytheism and Christianity in Competition
The Struggle for Clarification in Christian Belief
The Emergence of Christian Monks
Non-Roman Kingdoms in the Western Roman Empire, c. 370–550s
Non-Roman Migrations into the Western Roman Empire
Social and Cultural Transformation in the Western Roman Empire
The Roman Empire in the East, c. 500–565
Imperial Society in the Eastern Roman Empire
The Reign of Emperor Justinian, 527–565
The Preservation of Classical Traditions in the Late Roman Empire
Mapping the West: Western Europe and the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, c. 600?
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Conclusion
Chapter 7 Review
Primary Source Analysis: The Edict of Milan on Religious Freedom
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Contrasting Views: Debate: Did Romans or Huns Better Protect Life, Law, and Freedom?
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Terms of History: Barbarian
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Document 7.1 Sources in Conversation: The Establishment of Roman Christian Doctrine: Arius, Letter to Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria (c. 320 C.E.) and The Nicene Creed (325 C.E.)
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Document 7.2 The Struggle of Conversion: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (c. 397)
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Document 7.3 The Development of Monasticism: Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict (c. 540)
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Document 7.4 Community Worship: The Torah niche, Dura-Europos synagogue (c. 244-245 C.E.)
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Document 7.5 Germanic Law in the Roman Empire: The Burgundian Code (c. 475–525 C.E.)
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Document 7.6 Emergence of Byzantium: Procopius, Secret History (550 C.E.)
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Chapter 8. The Heirs of Rome: Islam, Byzantium, and Europe, 600–750
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Islam: A New Religion and a New Empire
Nomads and City Dwellers
The Prophet Muhammad and the Faith of Islam
Growth of Islam, c. 610–632
The Caliphs, Muhammad’s Successors, 632–750
Peace and Prosperity in Islamic Lands
Byzantium Besieged
Wars on the Frontiers, c. 570–750
From an Urban to a Rural Way of Life
New Military and Cultural Forms
Religion, Politics, and Iconoclasm
Western Europe: A Medley of Kingdoms
Frankish Kingdoms with Roman Roots
Economic Activity in a Peasant Society
The Powerful in Merovingian Society
Christianity and Classical Culture in the British Isles
Unity in Spain, Division in Italy
Political Tensions and the Power of the Pope
Mapping the West: Rome’s Heirs, c. 750
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Conclusion
Chapter 8 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Praising a Merovingian Queen
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Contrasting Views: Icons: Idols or Aids to Worship
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Terms of History: Medieval
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Document 8.1 The Foundations of Islam: Qur’an, Suras 1, 53, 98 (c. 610–632)
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Document 8.2 Jihad and Jizya: Islamic Terms of Peace (633–643)
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Document 8.3 Byzantine Life: The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon (Early Seventh Century)
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Document 8.4 A Noblewoman’s Life: The Life of Lady Balthild, Queen of the Franks (Late Seventh Century)
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Document 8.5 Roman Christian Missions: Pope Gregory the Great, Letters (598–601)
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Document 8.6 Sources in Conversation: Warrior Kings: Helmet fragment from Sutton Hoo, (Early seventh century C.E.) and Beowulf (c. mid-seventh-late tenth century)
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Chapter 9. From Centralization to Fragmentation, 750–1050
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The Byzantine Emperor and Local Elites
Imperial Power
The Macedonian Renaissance, c. 870–c. 1025
The Dynatoi: A New Landowning Elite
The Formation of Eastern Europe and Kievan Rus
The Rise and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate, 750–936
Regional Diversity in Islamic Lands
Unity of Commerce and Language
The Islamic Renaissance, c. 790–c. 1050
The Carolingian Empire
The Rise of the Carolingians
Charlemagne and His Kingdom, 768–814
The Carolingian Renaissance, c. 790–c. 900
Charlemagne’s Successors, 814–911
Land and Power
Viking, Muslim, and Magyar Invasions, c. 790–955
After the Carolingians: The Emergence of Local Rule
Public Power and Private Relationships
Warriors and Warfare
Efforts to Contain Violence
Political Communities in Italy, England, and France
Emperors and Kings in Central and Eastern Europe
Mapping the West: Europe and the Mediterranean, c. 1050
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Conclusion
Chapter 9 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi Celebrates a Military Campaign in Verse
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Contrasting Views: Charlemagne: Roman Emperor, Father of Europe, or the Chief Bishop?
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Terms of History: Feudalism
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Document 9.1 The Rule of Charlemagne: General Capitulary for the Missi (802)
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Document 9.2 Sources in Conversation: Conflicting Views of Byzantium: The Paris Psalter (c. 950) and Liutprand of Cremona, Report to Otto I (968)
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Document 9.3 A New Islamic Dynasty: Ahmad al-Ya‘q?b?, Kit?b al-buld?n (Ninth Century)
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Document 9.4 Advances in Medicine: Ab? Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakar?y? Al-r?z?, A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles (c. 910)
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Document 9.5 The Faithful Vassal: Fulbert of Chartres, Letter to William of Aquitaine (1020)
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Chapter 10. Commercial Quickening and Religious Reform, 1050–1150
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The Commercial Revolution
Fairs, Towns, and Cities
Organizing Crafts and Commerce
Communes: Self-Government for the Towns
The Commercial Revolution in the Countryside
Church Reform
Beginnings of Reform
The Gregorian Reform and the Investiture Conflict, 1075–1122
The Sweep of Reform
New Monastic Orders of Poverty
The Crusades
Calling the Crusade
The First Crusade
The Crusader States
The Disastrous Second Crusade
The Long-Term Impact of the Crusades
The Revival of Monarchies
Reconstructing the Empire at Byzantium
England under Norman Rule
Praising the King of France
Surviving as Emperor
Mapping the West: Europe and the Mediterranean, c. 1150
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: The First Crusade from the Muslim Point of View
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Contrasting Views: Henry IV
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Terms of History: The Commercial Revolution
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Document 10.1 Medieval Business: Commenda Contracts (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries)
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Document 10.2 Sources in Conversation: Sources of the Investiture Conflict: Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII, Letter and Excommunication (1076)
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Document 10.3 Calling the First Crusade: Fulcher of Chartres, Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont (1095)
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Document 10.4 Arab Response to the First Crusade: Ibn al-Ath?r, A Muslim Perspective (1097–1099)
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Document 10.5 The Power of William I: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1085–1086) and Domesday Book (1086–1087)
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Document 10.6 Living Close to the Land: Labors of the Month, Zodiac Column, Souvigny Priory, mid twelfth century
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Chapter 11. The Flowering of the Middle Ages, 1150–1215
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New Schools and Churches
The New Learning and the Rise of the University
Architectural Style: From Romanesque to Gothic
Governments as Institutions
England: Unity through Common Law
France: Consolidation and Conquest
Germany: The Revived Monarchy of Frederick Barbarossa
Eastern Europe and Byzantium: Fragmenting Realms
The Growth of a Vernacular High Culture
The Troubadours: Poets of Love and Play
The Birth of Epic and Romance Literature
Religious Fervor and Crusade
New Religious Orders in the Cities
Disastrous Crusades to the Holy Land
Victorious Crusades in Europe and on Its Frontiers
Mapping the West: Europe and Byzantium, c. 1215
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Conclusion
Chapter 11 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Two Letters from Two Lovers
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Contrasting Views: Magna Carta
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Terms of History: Gothic
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Document 11.1 New Learning: Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes (c. 1132)
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Document 11.2 Scholarly Pursuits and Youthful Frolics: Royal Decrees of Special Privileges for Students and Student Letters (Twelfth–Early Thirteenth Centuries)
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Document 11.3 Courtly Love: Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart (c. 1170s)
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Document 11.4 Early Bankers: Money Changers Window Panel, Chartres Cathedral (early thirteenth century)
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Document 11.5 Franciscan Piety: St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, Selected Writings (Thirteenth Century)
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Document 11.6 The Sack of Constantinople: Annals of Niketas Choniat?s (1204)
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Chapter 12. The Medieval Synthesis—and Its Cracks, 1215–1340
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The Church’s Mission
Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council
Inquisition
Lay Piety
Jews as Outcasts
Reconciling This World and the Next
The Achievements and Failures of Scholasticism
New Syntheses in Writing and Music
Gothic Art
The Politics of Control
The Weakening of the Empire
Louis IX and a New Ideal of Kingship
The Birth of Representative Institutions
The Weakening of the Papacy
The Rise of the Signori
The Mongol Takeover
The Great Famine
Mapping the West: Europe, c. 1340?
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Conclusion
Chapter 12 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Thomas Aquinas Writes about Sex
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Contrasting Views: The Mongols: Instruments of God or Cruel Invaders?
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Terms of History: Inquisition
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Document 12.1 Reconciling Faith and Reason: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (1273)
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Document 12.2 A Female Mystic: Hadewijch of Brabant, Letters and Poems (1220–1240)
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Document 12.3 Defining Outsiders: Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Martyrdom of St. William of Norwich (c. 1173)
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Document 12.4 Imagining Hell: Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (1313–1321)
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Document 12.5 Sources in Conversation: The New Power of Medieval States: Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam (1302) and King Philip IV of France, General Assembly of Paris (1303)
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Document 12.6 Centering the World: Hereford World Map (c. 1290-1300)
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Chapter 13. Crisis and Renaissance, 1340–1492
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Crisis: Disease, War, and Schism
The Black Death, 1347–1352
The Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453
The Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople, 1453
The Great Schism, 1378–1417
The Renaissance: New Forms of Thought and Expression
Renaissance Humanism
The Arts
Consolidating Power
New Political Formations in Eastern Europe
Powerful States in Western Europe
Power in the Republics
The Tools of Power
Mapping the West: Europe, c. 1492?
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Conclusion
Chapter 13 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (1381)
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Contrasting Views: Joan of Arc: Who Was "the Maid"?
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Terms of History: Renaissance
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Document 13.1 Demographic Catastrophe: The Black Death (Fourteenth Century)
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Document 13.2 Crisis and Change: Jean Froissart on the Jacquerie (1358)
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Document 13.3 Satirizing the Church: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Prologue (1387–1400)
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Document 13.4 Preaching Reform: Jan Hus, Letters (1408–1415)
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Document 13.5 Extolling Humanism: Giovanni Rucellai and Leonardo Bruni, Florence in the Quattrocento (1427 and 1457)
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Document 13.6 Women’s Place in Renaissance Italy: Alessandra, Letters from a Widow and Matriarch of a Great Family (1450–1465)
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Document 13.7 Sources in Conversation: Artistic Innovation: Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Double Portrait (1434) and Bartolommeo Fazio, On Famous Men (1456)
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Chapter 14. Global Encounters and the Shock of the Reformation, 1492–1560
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The Discovery of New Worlds
Portuguese Explorations
The Voyages of Columbus
A New Era in Slavery
Conquering the New World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Reformation
The Invention of Printing
Popular Piety and Christian Humanism
Martin Luther’s Challenge
Protestantism Spreads and Divides
The Contested Church of England
Reshaping Society through Religion
Protestant Challenges to the Social Order
New Forms of Discipline
Catholic Renewal
Striving for Mastery
Courtiers and Princes
Dynastic Wars
Financing War
Divided Realms
Mapping the West: Reformation Europe, c. 1560
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Chapter 14 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493)
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Contrasting Views: Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic?
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Terms of History: Protestant Reformation
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Document 14.1 Worlds Collide: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1567)
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Document 14.2 Illustrating a Native Perspective: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (c. 1560)
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Document 14.3 Defending Native Humanity: Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (c. 1548–1550)
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Document 14.4 Scripture and Salvation: Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)
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Document 14.5 Sources in Conversation: Reforming Christianity: John Calvin, Ordinances for the Regulation of Churches (1547), and Registers of Constitory of Geneva (1542–1543)
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Document 14.6 Responding to Reformation: St. Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553)
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Chapter 15: Wars of Religion and the Clash of Worldviews, 1560–1648
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Religious Conflicts Threaten State Power, 1560–1618
French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598
Dutch Revolt against Spain
Elizabeth I’s Defense of English Protestantism
The Clash of Faiths and Empires in Eastern Europe
The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648
Origins and Course of the War
The Effects of Constant Fighting
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
Economic Crisis and Realignment
From Growth to Recession
Consequences for Daily Life
The Economic Balance of Power
The Rise of Science and a Scientific Worldview
The Scientific Revolution
The Natural Laws of Politics
The Arts in an Age of Crisis
Magic and Witchcraft
Mapping the West: The Religious Divisions of Europe, c. 1648?
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Conclusion
Chapter 15 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Sentence Pronounced against Galileo (1633)
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Contrasting Views: Political Authority and Religion: What Happened When Subjects Held Different Beliefs?
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Terms of History: The Scientific Revolution
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Document 15.1 Legislating Tolerance: Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)
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Document 15.2 Barbarians All: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580s)
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Document 15.3 Defending Religious Liberty: Apology of the Bohemian Estates (May 25, 1618)
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Document 15.4 Codifying Poverty: City of Norwich Poor Rolls (1570)
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Document 15.5 The Scientific Challenge: Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
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Document 15.6 Sources in Conversation: The Persecution of Witches: The Witch of Newbury (1643) and The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652)
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Chapter 16. Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Search for Order, 1640–1700
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Louis XIV: Absolutism and Its Limits
The Fronde, 1648–1653
Court Culture as an Element of Absolutism
Enforcing Religious Orthodoxy
Extending State Authority at Home and Abroad
Constitutionalism in England
England Turned Upside Down, 1642–1660
Restoration and Revolution Again
Social Contract Theory: Hobbes and Locke
Outposts of Constitutionalism
The Dutch Republic
Freedom and Slavery in the New World
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe
Poland-Lithuania Overwhelmed
Brandenburg-Prussia: Militaristic Absolutism
An Uneasy Balance: Austrian Habsburgs and Ottoman Turks
Russia: Setting the Foundations of Bureaucratic Absolutism
The Search for Order in Elite and Popular Culture
Freedom and Constraint in the Arts and Sciences
Women and Manners
Reforming Popular Culture
Mapping the West: Europe at the End of the Seventeenth Century
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Primary Source Analysis: Marie de Sévigné, Letter Describing the French Court (1675)
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Contrasting Views: The English Civil War
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Terms of History: Absolutism
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Document 16.1 The Sun King: Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694–1723)
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Document 16.2 Sources in Conversation: Regime Change: The Trial of Charles I and The Confession of Richard Brandon the Hangman (1649)
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Document 16.3 Civil War and Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
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Document 16.4 The Consent of the Governed: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (1690)
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Document 16.5 Opposing Serfdom: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670)
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Document 16.6 Genre Painting: Pieter Bruegel the Younger, A Village Kermis (1628)
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Chapter 17. The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1700–1750
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The Atlantic System and the World Economy
Slavery and the Atlantic System
World Trade and Settlement
The Birth of Consumer Society
New Social and Cultural Patterns
Agricultural Revolution
Social Life in the Cities
New Tastes in the Arts
Religious Revivals
Consolidation of the European State System
A New Power Alignment
British Rise and Dutch Decline
Russia’s Emergence as a European Power
Continuing Dynastic Struggles
The Power of Diplomacy and the Importance of Population
The Birth of the Enlightenment
Popularization of Science and Challenges to Religion
Travel Literature and the Challenge to Custom and Tradition
Raising the Woman Question
Mapping the West: Europe in 1750?
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Conclusion
Chapter 17 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)
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Contrasting Views: The Consumer Revolution
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Terms of History: Progress
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Document 17.1 Captivity and Enslavement: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789)
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Document 17.2 Sources in Conversation A "Sober and Wholesome Drink": A Brief Description of the Excellent Vertues of That Sober and Wholesome Drink, Called Coffee (1674) and The Coffee House Mob (1710)
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Document 17.3 A Domestic Drink: Richard Collins, "A Family at Tea" (c. 1726)
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Document 17.4 Westernizing Russian Culture: Peter I, Decrees and Statutes (1701–1723)
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Document 17.5 Early Enlightenment: Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation (1733)
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Document 17.6 Questioning Women’s Submission: Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706)
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Chapter 18. The Promise of Enlightenment, 1750–1789
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The Enlightenment at Its Height
Men and Women of the Republic of Letters
Conflicts with Church and State
The Individual and Society
Spreading the Enlightenment
The Limits of Reason: Roots of Romanticism and Religious Revival
Society and Culture in an Age of Enlightenment
The Nobility’s Reassertion of Privilege
The Middle Class and the Making of a New Elite
Life on the Margins
State Power in an Era of Reform
War and Diplomacy
State-Sponsored Reform
Limits of Reform
Rebellions against State Power
Food Riots and Peasant Uprisings
Public Opinion and Political Opposition
Revolution in North America
Mapping the West: Europe and the World, c. 1780
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Conclusion
Chapter 18 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia" (1755)
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Contrasting Views: Women and the Enlightenment
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Terms of History: Enlightenment
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Document 18.1 Rethinking Modern Civilization: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1753)
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Document 18.2 An Enlightened Worker: Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764–1802)
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Document 18.3 Reforming the Law: Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764)
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Document 18.4 Reforming Commerce: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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Document 18.5 Enlightened Monarchy: Frederick II, Political Testament (1752)
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Document 18.6 Sources in Conversation: Racism and the Enlightenment: David Hume, "Of National Characters" (1754), and Robert Hancock, "The Tea Party" (1756–1757)
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Chapter 19. The Cataclysm of Revolution, 1789–1799
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The Revolutionary Wave, 1787–1789
Protesters in the Low Countries and Poland
Origins of the French Revolution, 1787–1789
From Monarchy to Republic, 1789–1793
The Revolution of Rights and Reason
The End of Monarchy
Terror and Resistance
Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety
The Republic of Virtue, 1793–1794
Resisting the Revolution
The Fall of Robespierre and the End of the Terror
Revolution on the March
Arms and Conquests
Poland Extinguished, 1793–1795
Revolution in the Colonies
Worldwide Reactions to Revolutionary Change
Mapping the West: Europe in 1799
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: The Rights of Minorities (1789)
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Contrasting Views: Perspectives on the French Revolution
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Terms of History: Revolution
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Document 19.1 Defining the Nation: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)
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Document 19.2 The People under the Old Regime: Political Cartoon (1815)
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Document 19.3 Establishing Rights: National Assembly, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
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Document 19.4 Sources in Conversation: A Call for Women’s Inclusion: Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791), and Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
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Document 19.5 Defending Terror: Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality (1794)
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Document 19.6 Liberty for All?: Decree of General Liberty (August 29, 1793) and Bramante Lazzary, General Call to Local Insurgents (August 30, 1793)
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Chapter 20. Napoleon and the Revolutionary Legacy, 1800–1830
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The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
A General Takes Over
From Republic to Empire
The New Paternalism: The Civil Code
Patronage of Science and Intellectual Life
"Europe Was at My Feet": Napoleon’s Conquests
The Grand Army and Its Victories, 1800–1807
The Impact of French Victories
From Russian Winter to Final Defeat, 1812–1815
The "Restoration" of Europe
The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
The Emergence of Conservatism
The Revival of Religion
Challenges to the Conservative Order
Romanticism
Political Revolts in the 1820s
Revolution and Reform, 1830–1832
Mapping the West: Europe in 1830?
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: Wordsworth’s Poetry (1798)
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Contrasting Views: Napoleon: For and Against
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Terms of History: Romanticism
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Document 20.1 Napoleon in Egypt: The Chronicle of Abd al-Rahman al-Jabartî (1798)
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Document 20.2 Codifying French Law: Napoleon Bonaparte, The Civil Code (1804)
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Document 20.3 The Conservative Order: Prince Klemens von Metternich, Results of the Congress at Laybach (1821)
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Document 20.4 Challenge to Autocracy: Peter Kakhovsky, The Decembrist Insurrection in Russia (1825)
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Document 20.5 Sources in Conversation: The Romantic Imagination: Joseph M. W. Turner, Transept of Tintern Abbey (c. 1794), and Wordsworth, "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (1798)
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Document 20.6 Musical Romanticism: Reviews of Beethoven’s Works (1799, 1812)
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Chapter 21. Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1830–1850
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The Industrial Revolution
Roots of Industrialization
Engines of Change
Urbanization and Its Consequences
Agricultural Perils and Prosperity
Reforming the Social Order
Cultural Responses to the Social Question
The Varieties of Social Reform
Abuses and Reforms Overseas
Ideologies and Political Movements
The Spell of Nationalism
Liberalism in Economics and Politics
Socialism and the Early Labor Movement
The Revolutions of 1848
The Hungry Forties
Another French Revolution
Nationalist Revolution in Italy
Revolt and Reaction in Central Europe
Aftermath to 1848: Reimposing Authority
Mapping the West: Europe in 1850
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
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Contrasting Views: The Effects of Industrialization
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Terms of History: Socialism
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Document 21.1 Establishing New Work Habits: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)
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Document 21.2 New Rules for the Middle Class: Sarah Stickney Ellis, Characteristics of the Women of England (1839)
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Document 21.3 Sources in Conversation: The Division of Labor: Testimony Gathered by Ashley’s Mines Commission (1842) and Punch Magazine, "Capital and Labour" (1843)
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Document 21.4 What Is the Proletariat?: Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)
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Document 21.5 The Promise of Emigration: Gottfried Menzel, The United States of North America, With Special Reference to German Emigration (1853)
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Document 21.6 Demanding Political Freedom: Address by the Hungarian Parliament (March 14, 1848) and Demands of the Hungarian People (March 15, 1848)
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Document 21.7 Imperialism and Opium: Commissioner Lin, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
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Chapter 22. Politics and Culture of the Nation-State, 1850–1870
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The End of the Concert of Europe
Napoleon III and the Quest for French Glory
The Crimean War, 1853–1856: Turning Point in European Affairs
Reform in Russia
War and Nation Building
Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Process of Italian Unification
Bismarck and the Realpolitik of German Unification
Francis Joseph and the Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Political Stability through Gradual Reform in Great Britain
Nation Building in North America
Nation Building through Social Order
Bringing Order to the Cities
Expanding Government Bureaucracy
Schooling and Professionalizing Society
Spreading National Power and Order beyond the West
Contesting the Nation-State’s Order at Home
The Culture of Social Order
The Arts Confront Social Reality
Religion and National Order
From the Natural Sciences to Social Science
Mapping the West: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1871
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Conclusion
Chapter 22 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale
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Contrasting Views: The Nation-State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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Terms of History: Nationalism
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Document 22.1 Ending Serfdom in Russia: Peter Kropótkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1861)
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Document 22.2 Fighting for Italian Nationalism: Camillo di Cavour, Letter to King Victor Emmanuel (July 24, 1858)
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Document 22.3 Realpolitik and Otto von Bismarck: Rudolf von Ihering, Two Letters (1866)
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Document 22.4 Social Evolution: Herbert Spencer, Progress: Its Law and Cause (1857)
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Document 22.5 Sources in Conversation: The Science of Man: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871), and Figaro’s London Sketch Book of Celebrities (1874)
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Chapter 23: Empire, Industry, and Everyday Life, 1870–1890
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The New Imperialism
The Scramble for Africa — North and South
Acquiring Territory in Asia
Japan’s Imperial Agenda
The Paradoxes of Imperialism
The Industry of Empire
Industrial Innovation
Facing Economic Crisis
Revolution in Business Practices
Imperial Society and Culture
The "Best Circles" and the Expanding Middle Class
Working People’s Strategies
National Fitness: Reform, Sports, and Leisure
Artistic Responses to Empire and Industry
The Birth of Mass Politics
Workers, Politics, and Protest
Expanding Political Participation in Western Europe
Power Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Mapping the West: The West and the World, c. 1890?
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Conclusion
Chapter 23 Review
Primary Source Analysis: An African King Describes His Government
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Contrasting Views: Experiences of Migration
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Terms of History: Home Rule
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Document 23.1 Defending Conquest: Jules Ferry, Speech before the French National Assembly (1883)
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Document 23.2 Subverting Empire: Imperial Federation Map of the World (1886)
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Document 23.3 Resisting Imperialism: Ndansi Kumalo, His Story (1890s)
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Document 23.4 Global Competition: Ernest Edwin Williams, Made in Germany (1896)
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Document 23.5 The Advance of Unionism: Margaret Bondfield, A Life’s Work (1948)
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Document 23.6 Sources in Conversation: Artistic Expression: Edgar Degas, Notebooks (1863–1884)
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Chapter 24. Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914
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Public Debate over Private Life
Population Pressure
Reforming Marriage
New Women, New Men, and the Politics of Sexual Identity
Sciences of the Modern Self
Modernity and the Revolt in Ideas
The Opposition to Positivism
The Revolution in Science
Modern Art
The Revolt in Music and Dance
Growing Tensions in Mass Politics
The Expanding Power of Labor
Rights for Women and the Battle for Suffrage
Liberalism Tested
Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and Zionism in Mass Politics
European Imperialism Challenged
The Trials of Empire
The Russian Empire Threatened
Growing Resistance to Colonial Domination
Roads to War
Competing Alliances and Clashing Ambitions
The Race to Arms
1914: War Erupts
Mapping the West: Europe at the Outbreak of World War I, August 1914
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: ""Going to Battle" (A Turkish Poem)
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Contrasting Views: Debating the Revolt in Art, Ideas, and Lifestyles
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Terms of History: Modern
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Document 24.1 The Idealized Family: Sir Francis Galton, "Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims" (1904), and International Eugenics Conference Poster (c. 1921)
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Document 24.2 Tapping the Human Psyche: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
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Document 24.3 The Dreyfus Affair: Émile Zola, "J’accuse!" (January 13, 1898)
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Document 24.4 Militant Suffrage: Emmeline Pankhurst, Speech from the Dock (1908)
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Document 24.5 Sources in Conversation: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden and Editorial from the San Francisco Call (1899)
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Document 24.6 Exalting War: Heinrich von Treitschke, Place of Warfare in the State (1897–1898), and Henri Massis and Alfred de Tarde, The Young People of Today (1912)
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Chapter 25. World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1929
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The Great War, 1914–1918
Blueprints for War
The Battlefronts
The Home Front
Protest, Revolution, and War’s End, 1917–1918
War Protest
Revolution in Russia
Ending the War, 1918
The Search for Peace in an Era of Revolution
Europe in Turmoil
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1920
Economic and Diplomatic Consequences of the Peace
A Decade of Recovery: Europe in the 1920s
Changes in the Political Landscape
Reconstructing the Economy
Restoring Society
Mass Culture and the Rise of Modern Dictators
Culture for the Masses
Cultural Debates over the Future
The Communist Utopia
Fascism on the March in Italy
Mapping the West: Europe and the World in 1929?
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: Memory and Battlefield Tourism
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Contrasting Views: The Middle East at the End of World War I: Freedom or Subjugation?
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Terms of History: Fascism
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Document 25.1 The Horrors of War: Fritz Franke and Siegfried Sassoon, Two Soldiers’ Views (1914–1918)
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Document 25.2 Mobilizing for Total War: L. Doriat, Women on the Home Front (1917)
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Document 25.3 Sources in Conversation: Revolutionary Marxism Defended: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917), and "He Who Does Not Work Does Not Eat" Plate (1921)
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Document 25.4 Establishing Fascism in Italy: Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)
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Document 25.5 A New Form of Anti-Semitism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
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Chapter 26. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945
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The Great Depression
Economic Disaster Strikes
Social Effects of the Depression
The Great Depression beyond the West
Totalitarian Triumph
The Rise of Stalinism
Hitler’s Rise to Power
The Nazification of German Politics
Nazi Racism
Democracies on the Defensive
Confronting the Economic Crisis
Cultural Visions in Hard Times
The Road to Global War
A Surge in Global Imperialism
The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Hitler’s Conquest of Central Europe, 1938–1939
World War II, 1939–1945
The German Onslaught
War Expands: The Pacific and Beyond
The War against Civilians
Societies at War
From Resistance to Allied Victory
An Uneasy Postwar Settlement
Mapping the West: Europe at War’s End, 1945?
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Conclusion
Chapter 26 Review
Primary Source Analysis: A Family Copes with Unemployment
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Contrasting Views: Nazism and Hitler: For and Against
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Terms of History: Civil Disobedience
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Document 26.1 Collectivizing Farming: Antonina Solovieva, Sent by the Komsomol (1930s)
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Document 26.2 Socialist Nationalism: Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet (1930)
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Document 26.3 Sources in Conversation: The Spanish Civil War: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombing of Guernica and Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)
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Document 26.4 Seeking a Diplomatic Solution: Neville Chamberlain, Speech on the Munich Crisis (1938)
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Document 26.5 The Final Solution: Sam Bankhalter and Hinda Kibort, Memories of the Holocaust (1938–1945)
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Document 26.6 Atomic Catastrophe: Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary (August 7, 1945)
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Chapter 27. The Cold War and the Remaking of Europe, 1945–1960s
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World Politics Transformed
Chaos in Europe
New Superpowers: The United States and the Soviet Union
Origins of the Cold War
The Division of Germany
Political and Economic Recovery in Europe
Dealing with Nazism
Rebirth of the West
The Welfare State: Common Ground East and West
Recovery in the East
Decolonization in a Cold War Climate
The End of Empire in Asia
The Struggle for Identity in the Middle East
New Nations in Africa
Newcomers Arrive in Europe
Daily Life and Culture in the Shadow of Nuclear War
Restoring "Western" Values
Cold War Consumerism and Shifting Gender Norms
The Culture of Cold War
The Atomic Brink
Mapping the West: The Cold War World, c. 1960
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: Torture in Algeria
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Contrasting Views: Decolonization in Africa
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Terms of History: Welfare State
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Document 27.1 Stalin and the Western Threat: The Formation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) (1947)
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Document 27.2 Truman and the Soviet Threat: National Security Council, Paper Number 68 (1950)
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Document 27.3 Throwing Off Colonialism: Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam (1945)
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Document 27.4 The Psychology of Colonialism: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
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Document 27.5 Sources in Conversation: The Condition of Modern Women: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) and Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
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Document 27.6 Cold War Anxieties: "How You Can Survive Fallout": Life Magazine Cover and Letter from President John F. Kennedy (1961)
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Chapter 28. Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989
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The Revolution in Technology
The Information Age: Television and Computers
The Space Age
The Nuclear Age
Revolutions in Biology and Reproductive Technology
Postindustrial Society and Culture
Multinational Corporations
The New Worker
The Boom in Education and Research
Changing Family Life and the Generation Gap
Art, Ideas, and Religion in a Technocratic Society
Protesting Cold War Conditions
Cracks in the Cold War Order
The Growth of Citizen Activism
1968: Year of Crisis
The Testing of Superpower Domination and the End of the Cold War
A Changing Balance of World Power
The Western Bloc Meets Challenges with Reform
Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc
Mapping the West: The Collapse of Communism in Europe, 1989–1990?
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: A Citizen’s Experience of Gorbachev’s Reforms
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Contrasting Views: Feminist Debates
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Terms of History: Neo-liberalism
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Document 28.1 Prague Spring: Josef Smrkovský, What Lies Ahead (February 9, 1968)
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Document 28.2 A Revolutionary Time: Student Voices of Protest (1968)
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Document 28.3 Children Fleeing from a Napalm Attack in South Vietnam: Nick Ut, Photograph (June 8, 1972) and Vanity Fair Interview (2015)
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Document 28.4 The Rising Power of OPEC: U.S. Embassy, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Ban on Oil Shipments to the United States (October 23, 1973)
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Document 28.5 Facing Terrorism: Jacques Chirac, New French Antiterrorist Laws (September 14, 1986)
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Document 28.6 Sources in Conversation: Glasnost and the Soviet Press: Nina Andreyeva, Polemics, and Pravda Editorial, Principles of Perestroika (1988)
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Chapter 29: A New Globalism, 1989 to the Present
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Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath
The Breakup of Yugoslavia
The Soviet Union Comes Apart
Toward a Market Economy
International Politics and the New Russia
The Nation-State in a Global Age
Europe Looks beyond the Nation-State
Globalizing Cities and Fragmenting Nations
Global Organizations
An Interconnected World’s New Challenges
The Earth and Its People Threatened
Population, Health, and Disease
North versus South?
Radical Islam Meets the West
The Promise and Problems of a World Economy
Global Culture and Society in the Twenty-First Century
Redefining the West: The Impact of Global Migration
Global Networks and Social Change
A New Global Culture?
Mapping the West: The World’s Top Fifteen Economies as of 2017
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Conclusion
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Primary Source Analysis: Václav Havel, "Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe"
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Contrasting Views: The Dutch Debate Globalization, Muslim Immigrants, and Turkey’s Admission to the EU
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Terms of History: Globalization
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Document 29.1 Sources in Conversation: Ethnic Cleansing: The Diary of Zlata Filipovi? (March 5, 1992–June 29, 1992), and Aida Šehovi?, ŠTO TE NEMA (Why are you not here?) (2017)
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Document 29.2 An End to Apartheid: The African National Congress, Introductory Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 19, 1996)
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Document 29.3 Changing Global Economies: World Bank, World Development Indicators (2010)
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Document 29.4 Combating Climate Change: European Commission, "Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: The Road from Paris" (2016), and Reactions to the Paris Climate Agreement
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Document 29.5 Nationalism and the EU: Paresh Nath, European Nationalism Cartoon (2017)
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Document 29.6 Remembering European History: Tony Judt, "What Have We Learned, If Anything?" (2008)
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