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Civilization in the West, Volume B (from 1350 to 1850)

ISBN: 9780321236227 | 032123622X
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life. The authors tell a compelling story of Western Civilization that is enhanced by an image-based approach. The Visual Record chapter openers draw students in by using illustrations that underscore a dominant theme of the chapter. The dramatic, changing contours of the West are explored through standard maps, Map Discovery features, and Geographical Tours of Europe.
Documentsxvii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figuresxvii
Maps
xviii
Prefacexix
About the Authorsxxxii... MORE
The Italian Renaissance
321(32)
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice
322(3)
Renaissance Society
324(1)
The Urban Environment
324(1)
Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500
325(16)
Production and Consumption
326(1)
The Experience of Life
327(2)
The Quality of Life
329(1)
Renaissance Art
330(1)
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter
331(2)
Renaissance Style
333(1)
Michelangelo
334(2)
Renaissance Ideals
336(1)
Humanists and the Liberal Arts
337(2)
Renaissance Science
339(1)
Machiavelli and Politics
339(2)
Map Discovery: Italy, 1494
341(7)
The Politics of the Italian City-States
341(1)
The Five Powers
342(1)
Venice: A Seaborne Empire
342(1)
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold
343(2)
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450--1527
345(3)
A Closer Look The Fall of Constantinople
348(5)
On the Family
328(9)
The Renaissance Man
337(3)
The Lion and the Fox
340(7)
The Siege of Constantinople
347(6)
The European Empires
353(34)
The Visual Record: Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies
354(3)
European Encounters
356(1)
Africa and a Passage to India
356(1)
Map Discovery: Portuguese Explorations
357(7)
Mundus Novus
358(1)
The Spanish Conquests
359(5)
Map Discovery: Claims of Spain and Portugal to Overseas Empires
364(13)
The Legacy of the Encounters
364(3)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies
367(1)
Boundaries of Eastern Europe
367(1)
Central Europe
368(1)
Western Europe
369(1)
The Formation of States
370(1)
Eastern Configurations
371(2)
The Western Powers
373(4)
Map Discovery: The Unification of France
377
The Dynastic Struggles
379(1)
Power and Glory
380(1)
The Italian Wars
380
A Closer Look Isabella of Castile
360(27)
A Momentous Discovery
359(4)
The Halls of Montezuma
363(11)
Last Words
374(2)
The Kingdom of France
376(11)
The Reform of Religion
387(32)
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation
388(3)
The Intellectual Reformation
390(1)
The Print Revolution
390(1)
Map Discovery: The Spread of Printing
391(11)
Christian Humanism
392(1)
The Humanist Movement
392(1)
The Wit of Erasmus
392(4)
The Lutheran Reformation
396(1)
The Spark of Reform
396(2)
Martin Luther's Faith
398(1)
Lutheranism
399(2)
The Spread of Lutheranism
401(1)
Map Discovery: The Spread of Lutheranism
402(13)
The Protestant Reformation
403(1)
Geneva and Calvin
403(2)
The English Reformation
405(3)
The Reformation of the Radicals
408(1)
The Catholic Reformation
409(1)
The Spiritual Revival
410(2)
Loyola's Pilgrimage
412(1)
The Counter-Reformation
413(2)
Map Discovery: The Religious Divisions of Europe, ca. 1555
415
The Empire Strikes Back
416
A Closer Look Utopia
394(25)
A Dutch Wit
393(7)
Luther on Marriage
400(5)
The Eternal Decree
405(6)
Heavenly Vision
411(8)
Europe at War, 1555--1648
419(30)
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society
420(3)
The Crises of the Western States
422(1)
The French Wars of Religion
422(1)
Map Discovery: Religious Divisions in France During the Wars of Religion
423(8)
One King, Two Faiths
426(3)
The World of Philip II
429(2)
Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V
431(13)
The Burgundian Inheritance
431(1)
The Revolt of the Netherlands
432(3)
The Struggles in Eastern Europe
435(1)
Kings and Diets in Poland
435(2)
Muscovy's Time of Troubles
437(1)
The Rise of Sweden
437(2)
The Thirty Years' War, 1618--1648
439(1)
Bohemia Revolts
440(2)
The War Widens
442(2)
Map Discovery: Population Loss in Germany During the Thirty Years' War
444
The Long Quest for Peace
444
A Closer Look The Monstrous Regiment of Women
424(25)
Catholics and Huguenots
428(5)
Cannibals
433(8)
War Is Hell
441(2)
Fire and Sword
443(6)
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1650
449(34)
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community
450(7)
Economic Life
452(1)
Rural Life
452(3)
Town Life
455(2)
Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe
457(1)
Economic Change
457(1)
Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600
458(18)
Social Life
460(1)
Social Constructs
460(2)
Social Structure
462(2)
Social Change
464(2)
Peasant Revolts
466(2)
Private and Community Life
468(1)
The Family
468(4)
Communities
472(2)
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches
474(2)
A Closer Look Sex and the Married Man
476(7)
Living by One's Wits
454(13)
The Peasants' Revolt
467(3)
A Feminine Perspective
470(5)
The Devil's Due
475(8)
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
483(30)
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy
484(14)
The Rise of the Royal State
486(1)
Divine Kings
486(2)
The Court and the Courtiers
488(2)
The Drive to Centralize Government
490(1)
The Taxing Demands of War
491(1)
The Crises of the Royal State
492(1)
The Need to Resist
493(1)
The Right to Resist
494(2)
The English Civil War
496(2)
Map Discovery: English Civil War
498(8)
The English Revolutions
499(3)
The Zenith of the Royal State
502(1)
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy
502(2)
Absolutism in the East
504(2)
The Origins of French Absolutism
506(1)
Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great
506(7)
Louis le Grand
507
A Glimpse of a King
487(10)
A Short, Sharp Shock
497(6)
The Nature of Man
503(2)
A Close Shave
505(8)
Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
513(34)
The Visual Record: Rembrandt's Lessons: Anatomy and the New Science
514(12)
The New Science
516(1)
Heavenly Revolutions
516(3)
The Natural World
519(4)
Science Enthroned
523(2)
Empires of Goods
525(1)
The Marketplace of the World
525(1)
Map Discovery: Dutch Trade Routes, ca. 1650
526(17)
Consumption Choices
527(3)
Dutch Masters
530(4)
Mercantile Organization
534(2)
The Wars of Commerce
536(1)
The Mercantile Wars
536(4)
The Wars of Louis XIV
540(3)
Map Discovery: The Treaty of Utrecht
543(1)
The Colonial Wars
543(1)
Map Discovery: The Seven Years' War
544
A Closer Look The Dutch Tulip Mania of the Seventeenth Century
532(6)
The West and the Wider World The Nutmeg Wars
538(9)
Stargazing
518(2)
The Telescope
520(4)
Descartes Experiments
524(13)
Defining Commerce
537(10)
The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe
547(30)
The Visual Record: A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism
548(13)
Geographical Tour: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714
550(1)
Expansion of Western Europe
551(3)
Realignment in Eastern Europe
554(1)
The Rise of Russia
555(1)
The Reforms of Peter the Great
556(2)
Life in Rural Russia
558(1)
The Enlightened Empress Catherine
558(2)
The Two Germanies
560(1)
The Rise of Prussia
560(1)
Map Discovery: The Expansion of Prussia
561(7)
Austria Survives
563(2)
The Politics of Power
565(2)
The Greatness of Great Britain
567(1)
The British Constitution
568(1)
Map Discovery: The Partitions of Poland
568(2)
Parties and Ministers
569(3)
America Revolts
572
The West and the Wider World The British Raj in India
570(7)
Captain Cook Encounters the Tahitians
555(8)
A King's-Eye View
563(1)
Military Discipline
564(10)
Unalienable Rights
574(3)
Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
577(30)
The Visual Record: Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution
578(20)
Eighteenth-Century Culture
580(1)
The Enlightenment
580(2)
The Spirit of the Enlightenment
582(3)
The Impact of the Enlightenment
585(2)
Eighteenth-Century Society
587(1)
The Nobility
587(2)
The Bourgeoisie
589(6)
The Masses
595(3)
A Closer Look Giving Birth in the Eighteenth Century
598(2)
Map Discovery: Cereal Crops in Europe
600(7)
The All-Knowing
581(1)
The Human Condition
582(4)
The Good of All
586(8)
Love and Marriage
594(13)
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789--1815
607(28)
The Visual Record: Eighteenth-Century Revolution
608(7)
The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy
610(1)
The Political and Fiscal Crisis of Eighteenth-Century France
610(1)
Convening the Estates-General
611(2)
The Outbreak of Revolutionary Action in 1789
613(2)
Map Discovery: Revolutionary France
615(13)
Declaring Political Rights
617(3)
The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy
620(1)
Experimenting with Democracy, 1792--1799
621(1)
The Revolution of the People
621(3)
``Terror Is the Order of the Day''
624(1)
The End of the Revolution
625(1)
The Reign of Napoleon, 1799--1815
626(1)
Bonaparte Seizes Power
626(1)
Napoleon at War with the European Powers
627(1)
The First Empire and Domestic Reforms
628(1)
Map Discovery: Napoleon's Empire
628
Decline and Fall
630
A Closer Look The Guillotine and Revolutionary Justice
622(13)
``What Is the Third Estate?''
613(5)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
618(1)
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
619(10)
The Civil Code of the Code Napoleon (1804)
629(6)
Industrial Europe
635(36)
The Visual Record: An Iron Forge: Machinery and Industrialization
636(3)
The Traditional Economy
638(1)
Farming Families
638(1)
Rural Manufacture
639(1)
Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800--1850
639(6)
The Agricultural Revolution
641(2)
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
643(1)
Britain First
644(1)
Map Discovery: Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources
645(16)
Minerals and Metals
645(2)
Cotton Is King
647(3)
The Iron Horse
650(2)
Entrepreneurs and Managers
652(2)
The Wages of Progress
654(6)
The Industrialization of the Continent
660(1)
France: Industrialization Without Revolution
661(1)
Map Discovery: Industrial Revolution on the Continent
661
Germany: Industrialization and Union
663(2)
The Lands That Time Forgot
665
A Closer Look Industry and the Environment
656(15)
The Wealth of Britain
650(5)
The Sin of Wages
655(4)
Exploiting the Young
659(6)
The Slavery of Labor
665(6)
Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815--1850
671
The Visual Record: Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies
672(21)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815
674(1)
The Congress of Vienna
674(4)
The Alliance System
678(1)
The New Ideologies
679(1)
The New Politics of Preserving Order
679(2)
Romanticism and Change
681(3)
Reshaping State and Society
684(4)
Protest and Revolution
688(1)
Causes of Social Instability
688(1)
The Revolutions of 1830
689(4)
Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action
693(5)
Reform in Great Britain
692(2)
Workers Unite
694(2)
Revolutions Across Europe, 1848--1850
696(2)
Map Discovery: The Revolutions of 1848
698
A Closer Look The Birth of the Prison
682
Young Italy (1832)
685(1)
The Communist Manifesto
686(9)
Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women
695
Glossary1(1)
Credits1(1)
Index1

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