Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture Volume 2,9780393977721

Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture Volume 2

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Edition: 14th
ISBN13: 9780393977721
ISBN10: 0393977722
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): W W NORTON & CO INC
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Table of Contents

Maps
xxi
Chronologies xxiii
Documents xxv
Preface xxvii
Part IV From Medieval to Modern
Commerce, Conquest, and Colonization, 1300-1600
426(26)
The Mongols
428(4)
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
432(6)
Mediterranean Colonialism
438(7)
Europe Encounters a New World
445(4)
Conclusion
449(3)
The Civilization of the Renaissance, c. 1350--1550
452(34)
The Renaissance and the Middle Ages
454(1)
The Renaissance in Italy
455(9)
The Italian Renaissance: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
464(9)
The Waning of the Italian Renaissance
473(2)
The Renaissance in the North
475(8)
Conclusion
483(3)
The Protestant Reformation
486(32)
The Lutheran Upheaval
488(10)
The Spread of Protestantism
498(10)
The Domestication of the Reformation, 1525--1560
508(2)
Catholicism Transformed
510(5)
Conclusion: The Heritage of the Reformation
515(3)
Religious Wars and State Building, 1540--1660
518(38)
Economic, Religious, and Political Tests
520(2)
A Century of Religious Wars
522(14)
The Problem of Doubt and the Quest for Certainty
536(6)
Literature and the Arts
542(7)
Conclusion
549(7)
Part V Early Modern Europe
The Economy and Society of Early Modern Europe
556(36)
Life and Death: Patterns of Population
558(3)
The Dynamics of Agriculture and Industry
561(6)
The Commercial Revolution
567(5)
Colonization and Overseas Trade
572(8)
Life Within a Society of Orders
580(10)
Conclusion
590(2)
The Age of Absolutism, 1660--1789
592(36)
The Appeal and Justification of Absolutism
594(1)
The Absolutism of Louis XIV
595(5)
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1660--1720
600(3)
Autocracy in Russia
603(4)
Alternatives to Absolutism
607(5)
International Relations and the Emergence of a European State System
612(3)
Enlightened Absolutism and Limited Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century
615(8)
War and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century
623(3)
Conclusion
626(2)
The Scientific Revolution
628(20)
The Intellectual Roots of the Scientific Revolution
630(2)
A Revolution in Astronomy
632(5)
Methods for a New Philosophy: Bacon and Descartes
637(3)
The Power of Method and the Force of Curiosity: Seventeeth-Century Experimenters
640(6)
Conclusion
646(2)
The Enlightenment
648(34)
The Foundations of the Enlightenment
650(1)
The World of the Philosophes
651(4)
Internationalization of Enlightenment Themes
655(3)
Empire and Enlightenment
658(4)
Nature, Gender, and Enlightenment Radicalism: Rousseau and Wollstonecraft
662(6)
The Enlightenment and Eighteenth-Century Culture
668(8)
Conclusion
676(6)
Part VI The French and Industrial Revolutions and Their Consequences
The French Revolution
682(40)
The French Revolution: An Overview
684(1)
The Coming of the Revolution
684(5)
The Destruction of the Old Regime
689(9)
A New Stage: Popular Revolution
698(9)
From the Terror to Bonaparte: The Directory
707(3)
Napoleon and Imperial France
710(6)
The REturn to War and Napoleon's Defeat: 1806--1815
716(4)
Conclusion
720(2)
The Industrial Revolution
722(22)
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
724(10)
The Industrial Revolution on the Continent
734(3)
The Coming of Railways
737(2)
Industrialization after 1850
739(2)
Industry and Empire
741(1)
Conclusion
741(3)
Consequences of Industrialization: Urbanization and Class Consciousness, 1800-1850
744(28)
The Countryside
746(4)
The Urban Landscape
750(4)
The Life of the Urban Middle Class
754(6)
The Life of the Urban Working Class
760(4)
The Middle-Class World View: Political Economy
764(3)
Early Critics of the Middle-Class World View
767(4)
Conclusion
771(1)
Revolution and Liberal Reform, 1815--1870
772(34)
Conservative Reaction, 1815--1830
775(3)
Liberalism
778(1)
Romanticism
779(5)
Challenges to the Conservative Order in Southern and Eastern Europe
784(5)
France and Britain in the 1830s
789(4)
Liberalism in France and Britain: Contradiction and Conflict, 1830--1848
793(10)
Liberalism in France and Britain after 1850
803(2)
Conclusion
805(1)
Revolution, Nationalism, and Nation Building, 1815--1870
806(38)
Nationalism and National Identity
808(1)
Nationalism, Romanticism, and History
809(2)
Reform and Nation Building in Germany, 1800--1848
811(3)
Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire
814(2)
Nationalism in Italy and Ireland
816(1)
The Revolution of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
817(4)
Nation Building in the West, 1850--1870
821(17)
Conclusion
838(6)
Part VII The West at the World's Center
Imperialism and Colonialism (1870--1914)
844(32)
Imperialism
846(3)
Imperialism in South Asia
849(6)
Imperialism in China
855(5)
The French Empire and the Civilizing Mission
860(2)
The ``Scramble for Africa'' and the Congo
862(6)
Imperial Culture
868(4)
Crises of Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
872(3)
Conclusion
875(1)
The Challenge of the Modern West
876(44)
The Second Industrial Revolution: New Technologies
878(3)
Changes in Scope and Scale
881(2)
The Growth of Corporations
883(1)
International Economic Competition
884(1)
The Challenge of Socialism
885(3)
The Challenge of Women's Widening Sphere
888(3)
The Delicate Equilibrium of Politics
891(14)
The Challenge of Science and Philosophy
905(6)
The Challenge of Literature and the Arts
911(7)
Conclusion
918(2)
The First World War
920(34)
The July Crisis
922(5)
The Marne and its Consequences
927(3)
Stalemate, 1915
930(2)
Slaughter in the Trenches: The Great Battles, 1916--1917
932(2)
War of Empires
934(1)
The Home Front
935(7)
The Russian Revolution
942(4)
The Road to German Defeat, 1918
946(5)
Conclusion
951(3)
Turmoil Between the Wars
954(34)
The Soviet Union Under Lenin and Stalin
956(9)
The Emergence of Fascism in Italy
965(3)
Weimar Germany
968(2)
Hitler and the National Socialists
970(7)
The Great Depression in the Democracies
977(3)
Interwar Culture: Artists and Intellectuals
980(7)
Conclusion
987(1)
The Second World War
988(44)
The Causes of the War: Unsettled Quarrels, Economic Fallout, and Nationalism
990(1)
The 1930s: Challenges to the Peace, Appeasement, and the ``Dishonest Decade''
991(4)
The Outbreak of Hostilities and the Fall of France
995(2)
Not Alone: The Battle of Britain and the Beginnings of a Global War
997(5)
The Rise and Ruin of Nations: Germany's War in the East and the Occupation of Europe
1002(3)
Racial War, Ethic Cleansing, and the Holocaust
1005(9)
Total War: Home Fronts, the War of Production, Bombing and ``The Bomb''
1014(2)
Great Crusades: The Allied Counterattack and the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
1016(7)
The Peace Settlement and International Security
1023(3)
Conclusion
1026(6)
Part VIII The West and the World
Cold War Politics, Economic Boom, and Cultural Change
1032(24)
The Cold War and a Divided Continent
1034(12)
Economic Renaissance
1046(3)
The Politics of European Recovery
1049(1)
Intellectual and Cultural Activity
1050(5)
Conclusion
1055(1)
Fragmentation and Change in Contemporary Europe
1056(22)
Social Change and Cultural Change: 1945--1968
1058(1)
Social Movements during the 1960s
1059(8)
Economic Stagnation: The Price of Success
1067(2)
Europe Recast: The Collapse of Communism and the End of the Soviet Union
1069(8)
Conclusion
1077(1)
Decolonization and the Twenty-First-Century World
1078(2)
Global Decolonization and Postcolonial Relations in the British and French Empires
1080(8)
Anticolonial Movements in Asia: From the Chinese Revolution to the Vietnam War
1088(3)
A New World Order
1091(9)
Troubles and Transformations After the Turn of a Century
1100(5)
Conclusion
1105
Rulers of Principal States 1(6)
Text Credits 7(2)
Illustration Credits 9(3)
Index 12

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