- ISBN: 9780073385655 | 0073385654
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/18/2010
The West in the World relates the story of how the west has transformed - and been transformed by - the rest of the world. The authors examine the Wests contributions to the world and how the west has changed and embraced new ideas through contact with the people outside its center. Using a political - cultural framework the text weaves a strong thread of social history into the narrative by showing how civilizations grow and are shaped through the decisions and actions of real people.
| Preface | |
| The Roots of Western Civilization: The Ancient Middle East to the Sixth Century B.C.E. | |
| Before Western Civilization | |
| Struggling with the Forces of Nature: Mesopotamia, 3000-ca. 1000 B.C.E. | |
| Rule of the God-King: Ancient Egypt, ca. 3100-1000 B.C.E. | |
| Merchants and Monotheists: Peoples of the Mediterranean Coast, ca. 1300-500 B.C.E | |
| Terror and Benevolence: The Growth of Empires, 1200-500 B.C.E. | |
| Looking Ahead to the Ancient World: 700 B.C.E. to 400 C.E. | |
| The Contest for Excellence: Greece, 2000-338 B.C.E. | |
| Timeline: The Big Picture | |
| The Rise and Fall of Ancient Heroes, 000-800 B.C.E. | |
| Emerging from the Dark: Archaic Age, ca. 750-479 B.C.E. 00 | |
| Life in the Greek Poleis | |
| Greece Enters Its Classical Age, 479-336 B.C.E. | |
| Destruction, Disillusion, and a Search for Meaning | |
| The Poleis Become Cosmopolitan: The Hellenistic World, 336-150 B.C.E. | |
| The Conquest of the Poleis | |
| The Successor Kingdoms, 323-ca. 100 B.C.E. | |
| East Meets West in the Successor Kingdoms | |
| The Search for Truth: Hellenistic Thought, Religion, and Science | |
| Pride in Family and City: Rome from Its Origins Through the Republic, 753-44 B.C.E. | |
| The Rise of Rome, 753-265 B.C.E. | |
| Family Life and City Life | |
| Expansion and Transformation, 265-133 B.C.E. | |
| The Hellenizing of the Republic | |
| The Twilight of the Republic, 133-44 B.C.E. | |
| Territorial and Christian Empires: The Roman Empire, 31 B.C.E. to 410 C.E. | |
| The Pax Romana-27 B.C.E. to 192 C.E. | |
| Life During the Peace of Rome | |
| Crisis and Transformation, 192-ca. 400 C.E. | |
| The Longing for Religious Fulfillment | |
| From Christian Persecution to the City of God, 64-410 C.E. | |
| The Holy Life | |
| Looking Ahead to the Middle Ages: 400-1400 | |
| A World Divided: Western Kingdoms, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, ca. 376-1000 | |
| The Making of the Western Kingdoms, ca. 376-750 | |
| The Byzantine Empire, ca. 400-1000 | |
| Islam, 600-1000 | |
| The Struggle to Bring Order: The Early Middle Ages, ca. 750-1000 | |
| Bringing Order with Laws and Leadership | |
| Anglo-Saxon England: Forwarding Learning and Law | |
| Charlemagne and the Carolingians: A New European Empire | |
| Order Interrupted: Vikings and Other Invaders | |
| Manors and Feudal Ties: Order Emerging from Chaos | |
| Order Restored: The High Middle Ages, 1000-1300 | |
| Those Who Work: Agricultural Labor | |
| Those Outside the Order: Town Life | |
| Those Who Fight: Nobles and Knights | |
| The Rise of Centralized Monarchies | |
| Those Who Pray: Imperial Popes and Expanding Christendom | |
| The West Struggles and Eastern Empires Flourish: The Late Middle Ages, ca. 1300-1500 | |
| Economic and Social Misery | |
| Imperial Papacy Besieged | |
| More Destruction: The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 | |
| Responses to the Disruption of Medieval Order | |
| Empires in the East | |
| A New Spirit in the West: The Renaissance,ca. 1300-1640 | |
| A New Spirit Emerges: Individualism, Realism, and Activism | |
| The Politics of Individual Effort | |
| Individualism as Self-Interest: Life During the Renaissance | |
| An Age of Talent and Beauty: Renaissance Culture and Science | |
| Renaissance of the "New Monarchies" of the North: 1453-1640 | |
| "Alone Before God": Religious Reform and Warfare 1500-1648 | |
| The Clash of Dynasties, 1515-1555 | |
| A Tide of Religious Reform | |
| The Catholic Reformation | |
| Europe Erupts Again: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559-1648 | |
| Life After the Reformation | |
| Faith, Fortune, and Fame: European Expansion, 1450-1700 | |
| The World Imagined | |
| The World Discovered | |
| Confrontation of Cultures | |
| The World Market and Commercial Revolution | |
| The World Transformed | |
| The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty: Europe's Social and Political Order, 1600-1715 | |
| Stresses in Traditional Society | |
| Royal Absolutism in France | |
| The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern Europe | |
| The Triumph of Constitutionalism | |
| A New World of Reason and Reform: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800 | |
| Questioning Truth and Authority | |
| Developing a Modern Scientific View | |
| Supporting and Spreading Science | |
| Laying the Foundations for the Enlightenment | |
| The Enlightenment in Full Stride | |
| Competing for Power and Wealth: The Old Regime, 1715-1789 | |
| Statebuilding and War | |
| The Twilight of Monarchies? The Question of Enlightened Absolutism | |
| Changes in Country and City Life | |
| The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New | |
| Culture for the Lower Classes | |
| Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution | |
| Moving into the Modern World | |
| Overturning the Political and Social Order: The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 | |
| "A Great Ferment": Trouble Brewing in France | |
| The Constitutional Monarchy: Establishing a New Order | |
| To the Radical Republic and Back | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850 | |
| The Industrial Revolution Begins | |
| New Markets, Machines, and Power | |
| Industrialization Spreads to the Continent | |
| Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Industrialization | |
| Life in the Growing Cities | |
| Public Health and Medicine in the Industrial Age | |
| Family Ideals and Realities | |
| Coping with Change: Ideology, Politics, and Revolution, 1815-1850 | |
| The Congress of Vienna: A Gathering of Victors | |
| Ideologies: How the World Should Be | |
| Restoration and Repression | |
| A Wave of Revolution and Reform | |
| The Dam Bursts: 1848 | |
| Nationalism and Statebuilding: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870 | |
| Building Unified Nation-States | |
| The Drive for Italian Unification | |
| Germany "By Blood and Iron" | |
| The Fight for National Unity in North America | |
| Divided Authority in the Austrian and Ottoman Empires | |
| Using Nationalism in France and Russia | |
| Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 | |
| Demands for Democracy | |
| Insiders and Outsiders: Politics of the Extremes | |
| Emigration: Overseas and Across Continents | |
| The New Imperialism: The Race for Africa and Asia | |
| Modern Life and the Culture of Progress: Western Society, 1850-1914 | |
| The Second Industrial Revolution | |
| The New Urban Landscape | |
| City People | |
| Sports and Leisure in the Cities | |
| Private Life: Together and Alone at Home | |
| Science in an Age of Optimism | |
| Culture: Accepting the Modern World | |
| From Optimism to Uncertainty | |
| Descending Into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution, 1914-1920 | |
| On the Path to Total War | |
| The Front Lines | |
| War on the Home Front | |
| To the Bitter End | |
| Assessing the Losses | |
| The Peace Settlement | |
| Revolutions in Russia | |
| Darkening Decades: Recovery, Dictators, and Depression, 1920-1939 00 | |
| Trying to Recover from the Great War, 1919-1929 | |
| Turning Away From Democracy: Dictatorships and Fascism, 1919-1929 | |
| Transforming the Soviet Union: 1920-1939 | |
| The Great Depression: 1929-1939 | |
| Nazism in Germany | |
| Into the Fire Again: World War II, 1939-1945 | |
| The Road to War: 1931-1939 | |
| Axis Victories, 1939-1942 | |
| Struggle and Horror Behind the Front Lines | |
| Turning the Tide of War, 1942-1945 | |
| Peace and the Legacy of War | |
| Forming the Present | |
| Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: The Cold War,1945-1980s | |
| Origins of the Cold War | |
| East and West: Two Paths to Recovery in Europe | |
| The Twilight of Colonialism | |
| A Sense of Relativity in Thought and Culture | |
| Protests, Problems, and New Politics: The 1960s to the 1980s | |
| Postindustrial Society | |
| Breakthroughs in Science | |
| Into the Twenty-First Century: The Present in Perspective | |
| The Collapse of Communism | |
| Repercussion and Realignments in the West | |
| The World and the West from a Global Perspective | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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