- ISBN: 9780073376622 | 0073376620
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/22/2010
Chronologically organized, The Western Humanities presents the cultural achievements of western civilizationart, music, history, literature, theater, film and the other artswithin their historical context.
By examining the historical and material conditions that influenced the form and content of the arts and literature, the authors provide students a deeper understanding of the meaning of cultural works and a broader basis for appreciating the humanities.
Hundreds of illustrations appear throughout the text, "Slices of Life" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultural legacy of the era discussed.
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Why Study Cultural History? | |
| A Humanities Primer: How to Understand the Arts | |
| Prehistory and Near Eastern Civilizations | |
| Prehistory and Early Cultures | |
| Paleolithic Period | |
| The Neolithic Revolution | |
| The Age of Metals, | |
| The Rise of Civilization: Mesopotamia | |
| The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Kingdoms | |
| The Cradle of Civilization | |
| Writing | |
| Religion | |
| Encounter: The Phoenicians and the Alphabet | |
| Literature | |
| Law | |
| Science, Mathematics, and Medicine | |
| Slice of Life:"A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son" Anonymous, from clay tablets | |
| Art and Architecture | |
| The Civilization of the Nile Rover Valley: Egypt | |
| Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years | |
| A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values | |
| Religion | |
| Writing and Literature | |
| Science and Medicine | |
| Architecture | |
| Slice of Life: Life's Instruction Book for Egyptians , Anonymous, from A Papyrus Text | |
| Sculpture, Painting, and Minor Arts | |
| Heirs to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian Empires | |
| The Assyrians | |
| The Neo-Babylonians | |
| The Medes and the Persians | |
| The Legacy of Early Near Eastern Civilizations | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Aegean Civilizations: the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age | |
| Prelude: Minoan Civilization, 3000-1100 B.C.E. | |
| Beginnings: Mycenaean Civilization, 1900-1100 B.C.E. | |
| The Greek Dark Ages, 1100-800 B.C.E | |
| Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae | |
| The Archaic Age, 800-479 B.C.E. | |
| Political, Economic, and Social Structures | |
| The Greek Polis: Sparta and Athens | |
| Technology in Archaic Greece | |
| The Emergence of Greek Genius: The Mastery of Form | |
| Religion | |
| Literature | |
| Epic Poetry | |
| Lyric Poetry | |
| Interpreting Art: Red Figure Ware: Achilles Killing the Amazon Queen Penthesilea | |
| Encounter Near Eastern Art and Greek Pottery | |
| Philosophy and Science | |
| Natural Philosophy | |
| Slice of Life The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient | |
| Greece Sappho | |
| "He Seems to Be a God " and Alcaeus | |
| "Longing for Home" | |
| Architecture | |
| Sculpture | |
| The Legacy of Archaic Greek Civilization | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenic Age | |
| Domestic and Foreign Affairs: War, Peace, and the Triumph of Macedonia | |
| Political Phases of the Hellenic Age | |
| The Arts of Hellenic Greece: The Quest for Perfection | |
| Encounter: The Representation of Blacks in Greek Art | |
| Theater | |
| Tragedy | |
| Comedy | |
| History, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | |
| History | |
| Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | |
| The Pre-Socratics | |
| The Sophists | |
| The Socratic Revolution | |
| Plato | |
| Aristotle | |
| Medicine | |
| The Visual Arts | |
| Architecture | |
| Slice of Life Xenophon, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage in Ancient Greece", from Oeconomicus | |
| Sculpture | |
| Painting | |
| The Legacy of Hellenic Civilization | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Hellenistic Civilization and the Rise of Rome | |
| The Changing Framework of Politics | |
| The Hellenistic Monarchies | |
| The Rise of Rome | |
| The Nature of Government | |
| The Tenor of Life | |
| The Experiences of Women | |
| Urban Life | |
| Roman Values | |
| Hellenistic Cultures | |
| Slice of Life: Street Scene in Hellenistic Egypt | |
| Theocritus, from Idylls | |
| Drama and Literature | |
| Philosophy and Religion | |
| Cynicism | |
| Skepticism | |
| Epicureanism | |
| Stoicism | |
| Religion | |
| Science and Technology | |
| Architecture | |
| Encounter: The Invention of Parchment and the Birth of the Secular Library | |
| Sculpture | |
| Interpreting Art: Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros | |
| The Laocoon Group | |
| The Legacy of Hellenistic Civilization and the Rise of Rome | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Judaism and the Rise Christianity | |
| Judaism | |
| The People and Their Religion | |
| Egypt, Exodus, and Moses | |
| The Kingdom of Israel | |
| The Babylonian Captivity and the Postexilic Period | |
| The Hellenistic and Roman Periods | |
| Societal and Family Relationships | |
| The Bible | |
| Slice of Life A Jewish Eyewitness to the Destruction of the Second Temple, Flavius Josephus, from History of the Jewish War (75-59 C.E.) | |
| Early Jewish Art and Architecture | |
| Encounter: Baal, a Rival to the Israelites' God | |
| Christianity | |
| The Life of Jesus Christ and the New Testament | |
| Christians and Jews | |
| Christianity and Greco-Roman Religions and Philosophies | |
| Christians in the Roman Empire | |
| Early Christian Literature | |
| Slice of Life: A Christian Mother Faces Death from Roman Authorities, Vibia Perpetua, A Martyr in the Early Christian Church | |
| The Legacy of Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Roman Imperial Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity | |
| The Augustan Principate | |
| The Principate | |
| The Pax Romana | |
| Encounter: Roman Conquests and Romance Languages | |
| The Crisis of the Third Century | |
| The Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine | |
| The Later Roman Empire in West and East | |
| The End of the Western Empire | |
| Slice of Life A Roman Delegate at a Barbarian Banquet, Priscus | |
| The Eastern Empire | |
| The Triumph of Christianity | |
| The Growth of the Catholic Church | |
| Christian Monasticism | |
| Christianity and the Roman State | |
| Roman Imperial Civilization | |
| Secular Latin Literature | |
| Philosophy | |
| Science and Medicine | |
| Law | |
| From the Secular to the Spiritual: Christian Literature | |
| The Fathers of the Church | |
| Church History | |
| Poetry | |
| The Visual Arts | |
| Architecture | |
| Sculpture | |
| Interpreting Art: The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus | |
| Painting and Mosaics | |
| Music | |
| The Legacy of Roman Imperial Civilization | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Heirs of the Roman Empire: Byzantium and the West in the Early Middle Ages | |
| The Byzantine World | |
| The Birth of Byzantium: War and Government | |
| The Birth of Byzantium: Culture and Religion | |
| The early Medieval West | |
| The World of Charlemagne | |
| The Reign of Charlemagne | |
| The Carolingian Renaissance | |
| The Post-Carolingian World | |
| Encounter: Globalization: The Silk Road | |
| The Literary Arts in the Early Middle Ages | |
| Byzantine Writers | |
| The Latin West | |
| Slice of Life: Marriage Diplomacy Nets a Diplomatic Insult | |
| The Vernacular Achievement | |
| The Visual Arts in the Early Middle Ages | |
| Byzantine Art | |
| Byzantine Architecture | |
| Western Art | |
| Western Architecture | |
| Technology | |
| Military Technology: Byzantine | |
| Military Technology: Western European | |
| Agriculture | |
| Music | |
| The Legacy of the Early Middle Ages | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The World of Islam, 630-1517 | |
| Muhammad, The Prophet | |
| Imperial Islam | |
| The Post-Muhammad Years | |
| The Umayyad Dynasty | |
| The Abbasid Dynasty | |
| The Fragmentation of the Caliphate | |
| Islam as Religion | |
| Medieval Islamic Culture | |
| Medicine | |
| Philosophy and History | |
| Philosophy | |
| History | |
| Technology | |
| Papermaking | |
| Hydraulic | |
| Mechanical Engineering | |
| Literature | |
| Poetry | |
| Prose | |
| Art and Architecture | |
| Encounter: An International Community of Scholars | |
| Architecture | |
| Painting 0 | |
| Slice of Life: Fears of Assimilation in a Multicultural Society, Paul Albar | |
| Interpreting Art: The Night Journey of Muhammad | |
| Music | |
| The Legacy of Medieval Islam | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The High Middle Ages: The Christian Centuries | |
| Politics and Society | |
| Lords and Vassals: Those Who Fight | |
| Those Who Work: Peasants | |
| The Rise of Towns (and the Rest of Those Who Work) | |
| Medieval Government | |
| The French Monarchy | |
| The English Monarchy | |
| The German Empire | |
| The Papal Monarchy | |
| Medieval Christianity and the Church | |
| Christian Beliefs and Practices | |
| Encounter: Pagan Vikings Versus Christian Europeans | |
| Religious Orders and Lay Piety | |
| The Crusades | |
| The Age of Synthesis: Equilibrium between the Spiritual and the Secular | |
| Theology and Learning | |
| Slice of Life: When Love Knows No Boundaries, | |
| Heloise, from a letter | |
| The Development of Scholasticism | |
| Peter Abelard | |
| The Rise of the Universities | |
| Intellectual Controversy and Thomas Aquinas | |
| Science and Medicine | |
| Science | |
| Medicine | |
| Literature | |
| Courtly Writing | |
| Dante | |
| Architecture and Art | |
| Romanesque Churches and Related Arts | |
| Gothic | |
| Churches and Related Arts | |
| Music | |
| Technology | |
| The Legacy of the Christian Centuries | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500 | |
| Hard Times Come to Europe | |
| Ordeal by Plague, Famine, and War | |
| The Secular Monarchies | |
| The Papal Monarchy | |
| Technology | |
| The Rise of Industries | |
| The Printing Press | |
| The Cultural Flowering of the Late Middle Ages | |
| Religion | |
| Theology and Philosophy | |
| The Via Antiqua Versus the Via Moderna | |
| Duns Scotus and William of Ockham 0 | |
| Slice of Life: A Gossip Columnist of the Late Middle Ages, Henry Knighton, from his Chronicle | |
| Science | |
| Literature | |
| Northern Italian Literature: Petrarch and Boccaccio | |
| Encounter A New Look at the Spread of Byzantine Scholarship in the West | |
| English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| French Literature: Christine de Pizan | |
| Art and Architecture | |
| Late Gothic Architecture | |
| Late Gothic Sculpture | |
| Late Gothic Painting and the Rise of New Trends | |
| New Trends in Italy: Giotto | |
| Flemish Painting: Jan van Eyck and hans Memling | |
| Interpreting Art: Jan van Eyck | |
| Arnolfini Wedding or Arnolfini Double Portrait | |
| Music | |
| The Legacy of the Late Middle Ages | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Early Renaissance: Return to Classical Roots, 1400-1494 | |
| The Early Renaissance: Schools of Interpretation | |
| Early Renaissance History and Institutions | |
| Italian City-States during the Early Renaissance | |
| Florence, the Center of the Renaissance | |
| The Resurgent Papacy, 1450-1500 | |
| International Developments | |
| The Spirit and Style of the Early Renaissance | |
| Slice of Life: Battle of the Sexes, Fifteenth-Century Style, Laura Cereta, from a letter | |
| Humanism, Scholarship, and Schooling | |
| Thought and Philosophy | |
| Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting | |
| Artistic Ideals and Innovations | |
| Architecture | |
| Sculpture | |
| Painting | |
| Encounter The Influence of Islam on the European Renaissance | |
| Music | |
| The Legacy of the Early Renaissance | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The High Renaissance and Early Mannerism, 1494-1564 | |
| The Rise of the Modern Sovereign State | |
| The Struggle for Italy, 1494-1529 | |
| Economic Expansion and Social Developments | |
| Demographics, Prosperity, and the Beginning of a Global World | |
| Technology | |
| Sailing | |
| Warfare | |
| Science and Medicine | |
| From High Renaissance to Early Mannerism | |
| Literature | |
| Encounter Portuguese Exploration Sets the Stage for a New World 360 | |
| Castiglione | |
| Machiavelli | |
| Painting | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | |
| Michelangelo | |
| Interpreting Art: Michelangelo | |
| The Libyan Sibyl | |
| Raphael | |
| The Venetian School: Giorgione and Titian | |
| The School of Parma: Parmigianino | |
| Sculpture | |
| Slice of Life: Artists and Their Critics: Michelangelo's Strategy, Giorgio Vasari, from Life of Michelangelo | |
| Architecture | |
| Music | |
| Choral Music | |
| Other Developments | |
| The Legacy of the High Renaissance and Early Mannerism | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, and Late Mannerism, 1500-1603 | |
| Northern Humanism | |
| The Northern Renaissance | |
| Northern Renaissance Thought and Science | |
| Jean Bodin | |
| Andreas Vesalius | |
| Northern Renaissance Literature | |
| Michel de Montaigne | |
| William Shakespeare | |
| Northern Renaissance Painting | |
| Albrecht Durer | |
| Matthias Grunewald | |
| Hieronymus Bosch | |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | |
| The Breakup of Christendom: Causes of the Religious Reformations | |
| The Protestant Order | |
| Luther's Revolt | |
| Encounter: Indigenous Peoples and New Spain | |
| Luther's Beliefs | |
| Social and Political Implications of Luther's Revolt | |
| Slice of Life: The Conscience of Sixteenth-Century Christian Europe, Bartolome de las Casas from A ShortAccount of the Destruction of the Indies | |
| The Reforms of John Calvin | |
| The Reform of the English Church | |
| The Counter-Reformation | |
| The Revitalized Papacy | |
| New Monastic Orders | |
| The Council of Trent | |
| Warfare as a Response to Religious Dissent, 1520-1603 | |
| Late Mannerism | |
| Spanish Painting | |
| Spanish Literature | |
| Late Mannerist Painting in Italy: Tintoretto | |
| Music in Late-Sixteenth-Century Italy and England | |
| The Legacy of Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, and Late Mannerism | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Baroque Age I: Glamour and Grandiosity, 1600-1715 | |
| Absolutism, Monarchy, and the Balance of Power | |
| France: The Supreme Example of Absolutism | |
| England: From Monarchy to Republic to Limited Monarchy | |
| Warfare in the Baroque Period: Maintaining the Balance of Power | |
| The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 | |
| The Wars of Louis XIV, 1665-1713 | |
| Slice of Life: Two Views of Power: Master (Louis XIV) and Servant (Duke of Saint-Simon) | |
| Technology | |
| Warfare Technology | |
| Household Technology | |
| The Baroque: Variations on an International Style | |
| The Florid Baroque | |
| Architecture | |
| Encounter: Japan Closes Its Door, Nearly | |
| Sculpture | |
| Painting | |
| The Classical Baroque | |
| Architecture | |
| Painting | |
| The Restrained Baroque | |
| Painting | |
| Architecture | |
| Literature | |
| Interpreting Art: Christopher Wren, St. Paul's Cathedral | |
| Baroque Literature in France | |
| Baroque Literature in England | |
| Music | |
| Opera | |
| Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi | |
| The Legacy of the Baroque Age | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Baroque Age II: Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought, 1600-1715 | |
| Theories of the Universe before the Scientific Revolution | |
| The Magical and the Practical in the Scientific Revolution | |
| Astronomy and Physics: From Copernicus to Newton | |
| Nicolas Copernicus | |
| Johannes Kepler | |
| Galileo Galilei | |
| Isaac Newton | |
| Medicine and Chemistry | |
| Technology | |
| The Impact of Science on Philosophy | |
| Francis Bacon | |
| Rene Descartes | |
| Blaise Pascal | |
| Ironies and Contradictions of the Scientific Revolution | |
| The Revolution in Political Philosophy | |
| Natural Law and Divine Right: Grotius and Bossuet | |
| Absolutism and Liberalism: Hobbes and Locke | |
| Slice of Life: Innocent or Guilty? A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial, Suzanne Gaudry: Trial Court Records, June, 1652 | |
| European Exploration and Expansion | |
| Responses to the Revolutions in Thought | |
| The Spread of Ideas | |
| Encounter: The Sinews of Trade | |
| Impact on the Arts | |
| The Legacy of the Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Age of Reason, 1700-1789 | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| The Philosophes and Their Program | |
| Religion | |
| Deism | |
| Popular Religion | |
| The Encyclopedie | |
| The Physiocrats | |
| The Great Powers During the Age of Reason | |
| Society: Continuity and Change Absolutism, Limited Monarchy, and Enlightened Despotism | |
| France: The Successors to the Sun King | |
| Great Britain and the Hanoverian Kings | |
| Enlightened Despotism in Central and Eastern Europe | |
| Cultural Trends in the Eighteenth Century: From Rococo to Neoclassical | |
| The Rococo Style in the Arts | |
| Rococo Painting | |
| Rococo Interiors | |
| The English Response | |
| The Challenge of Neoclassicism | |
| Neoclassical Painting | |
| Interpreting Art: Jacques-Louis David | |
| The Oath of the Horatii | |
| Encounter: Chinoiserie: Fantasy of the East | |
| The Print | |
| Neoclassical Architecture | |
| Philosophy | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| David Hume | |
| Literature | |
| French Writers: The Development of New Forms | |
| Neoclassicism in English Literature | |
| The Rise of the Novel | |
| Music | |
| Slice of Life: "How to Manipulate the System: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," Letter, March 25, 1744 | |
| The Legacy of the Age of Reason | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Revolution, Reaction, and Cultural Response, 1760-1830 | |
| The Industrial Revolution | |
| Industrialization in England | |
| Classical Economics: The Rationale for Industrialization | |
| Slice of Life: Life Inside a "Satanic Mill" in 1815: Elizabeth Bentley, Report of Parliamentary Committee on the Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children in Mills and Factories, 1832 | |
| Political Revolutions, 1760-1815 | |
| The American Revolution | |
| The French Revolution | |
| Technology | |
| Changes in Military Weaponry | |
| Composition of Armies | |
| Changes to Naval Warfare | |
| Reaction, 1815-1830 519 | |
| Encounter: Slavery and the French Revolution | |
| Revolutions in Art and Ideas: From Neoclassicism and Romanticism | |
| Neoclassicism in Literature after 1789 | |
| Neoclassical Painting and Architecture after 1789 | |
| Romanticism: Its Spirit and Expression | |
| The Romantic Movement in Literature | |
| Romantic Painting | |
| England | |
| Germany | |
| Spain | |
| France | |
| Science and Philosophy | |
| Science | |
| Philosophy | |
| The Birth of Romantic Music | |
| The Legacy of the Age of Revolution and Reaction | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie, 1830-1871 | |
| The Political and Economic Scene: Liberalism and Nationalism | |
| The Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 | |
| European Affairs in the Grip of Realpolitik | |
| Limited Reform in France and Great Britain | |
| Wars and Unification in Central Europe | |
| Civil War in the United States | |
| Industrialism, Technology, and Warfare | |
| Industrialism: The Shrinking Globe | |
| New Technologies | |
| The Spread of Industrialism | |
| Symbols of the Bourgeois Age: The Crystal Palace and the Suez Canal | |
| Nineteenth-Century Thought: Philosophy, Religion, and Science | |
| Liberalism Redefined | |
| Socialism | |
| Encounter: The Tragedy of the Cherokee Nation | |
| Religion and the Challenge of Science | |
| Cultural Trends: From Romanticism to Realism | |
| Literature | |
| Slice of Life: Observing Human Behavior: The Classes and the Masses, Charlotte Bronte, The First World's Fair, 1851; Hippolyte Taine, A Day at the Races, 28 May 1861 | |
| The Height of French Romanticism | |
| Romanticism in the English Novel | |
| Interpreting Art: Edouard Manet | |
| A Bar at the Folies-Bergere | |
| Romanticism in American Literature | |
| Realism in French and English Novels | |
| The Russian Realists | |
| Realism among African American Writers | |
| Art and Architecture | |
| Neoclassicism and Romanticism after 1830 | |
| The Rise of Realism in Art | |
| Photography | |
| Music | |
| The Legacy of the Bourgeois Age | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Age of Early Modernism, 1871-1914 | |
| Europe's Rise to World Leadership | |
| The Second Industrial Revolution, New Technologies, and the Making of Modern Life | |
| Response to Industrialism: Politics and Crisis | |
| Domestic Policies in the Heavily Industrialized West | |
| Slice of Life Winning the Right to Vote: Lady Constance Lytton, Notes from a diary | |
| Domestic Policies in Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe | |
| Imperialism and International Relations | |
| The Scramble for Colonies | |
| The Outbreak of World War I | |
| Early Modernism | |
| Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion | |
| Nietzsche | |
| Freud and Jung | |
| Religious Developments | |
| Literature | |
| Naturalistic Literature | |
| Decadence in Literature | |
| Expressionist Literature | |
| The Advance of Science | |
| The Modernist Revolution in Art | |
| Impressionism | |
| Post-Impressionism | |
| Encounter The French Impressionists Meet Ukiyo-e Art | |
| Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism | |
| New Directions in Sculpture and Architecture | |
| Music: From Impressionism to Jazz | |
| The Legacy of Early Modernism | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Age of the Masses and the Zenith of Modernism: 1914-1945 | |
| The Collapse of Old Certainties and the Search for New Values | |
| World War I and Its Aftermath | |
| The Great Depression of the 1930s | |
| Encounter: Civil Disobedience and the Campaign for Indian Independence | |
| The Rise of Totalitarianism | |
| Russian Communism | |
| European Fascism | |
| World War II: Origins and Outcome | |
| The Zenith of Modernism | |
| Mass Culture, Technology, and Warfare Mass Culture and New Technologies | |
| Warfare | |
| Experimentation in Literature | |
| The Novel | |
| Poetry | |
| Drama | |
| Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | |
| Philosophy | |
| Science | |
| Medicine | |
| Slice of Life: The Face of Evil: A Nazi Death Camp, Elie Wiesel, from Night | |
| Art, Architecture, Photography, and Film | |
| Painting | |
| Interpreting Art: Piet Mondrian | |
| Composition with Blue and Yellow | |
| Architecture | |
| Photography | |
| Film | |
| Music: Atonality, Neoclassicism, and an American Idiom | |
| The Legacy of the Age of the Masses and High Modernism | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism, 1945-1970 | |
| Transformations in the Postwar World | |
| The Era of the Superpowers, 1945-1970 | |
| Postwar Recovery and the New World Order | |
| The Cold War | |
| Emergence of the Third World | |
| Mass Culture | |
| The End of Modernism | |
| Philosophy and Religion | |
| Political and Social Movements | |
| Science and Technology | |
| Medicine | |
| Slice of Life: Humans in Space: "One Giant Leap for Mankind," Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, astronauts, voice transmittal from the Moon | |
| The Literature of Late Modernism: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama | |
| Fiction | |
| Poetry | |
| Drama | |
| Late Modernism and the Arts | |
| Painting | |
| Sculpture | |
| Architecture | |
| Happenings | |
| Late Modern Music | |
| Encounter: The Globalization of Popular Music | |
| Film | |
| The Legacy of the Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| The Contemporary World: Globalization, Terror, and Post-Modernism, 1970- | |
| Toward a New Global Order, 1970-2001 | |
| Economic, National, and International Developments | |
| The Fall of Communism | |
| The Post-Cold War World | |
| The Age of Terror, 2001- | |
| The Birth of Post-Modernism | |
| Medicine, Science, and Technology | |
| Medicine | |
| Science | |
| Technology | |
| Philosophy and Religion | |
| Philosophy | |
| Religion and Religious Thought | |
| The Literature of Post-Modernism | |
| Fiction | |
| Encounter: Continental Drift: Demography and Migration | |
| Poetry | |
| Drama | |
| Post-Modernism and the Arts | |
| Painting | |
| Interpreting Art: Anselm Kiefer | |
| Osiris and Isis | |
| Sculpture | |
| Installation Art | |
| Environmental Art | |
| Video Art | |
| Architecture | |
| Film | |
| Post-Modern Music | |
| Performance Art | |
| Mass Culture | |
| Summing Up | |
| Slice of Life "How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?" Amin Maalouf, from Origins | |
| The Legacy of the Contemporary World | |
| Key Cultural Terms | |
| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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