Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture Volume 2

, by Coffin, Judith G; Stacey, Robert C; Lerner, Robert E; Meacham, Standish;

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ISBN: 9780393977721 | 0393977722
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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

(6)

Text Credits

(2)

Illustration Credits

(3)

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