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Western Civilization : Ideas, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9780618613007 | 0618613005
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 10/20/2006
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This survey text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Known for its accessible writing style, "Western Civilization" appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content. New technology resources--including Houghton Mifflin's Eduspace course management system--make learning more engaging and instruction more efficient.In the Eighth Edition, several new pedagogical features support students throughout the term. Chapter-opening focus questions direct ... MORE
| The Ancient World: Foundation of the West to A.D. 500 | |
| The Ancient Near East | |
| The First Civilizations | |
| The Rise to Civilization | |
| Mesopotamian Civilization | |
| Egyptian Civilization | |
| Empire Builders | |
| The Religious Orientation of the Near East | |
| The Hebrews | |
| A New View of God and the Individual | |
| Outline of Hebrew History | |
| God: One, Sovereign, Transcendent, Good | |
| The Individual and Moral Autonomy | |
| The Covenant and the Law | |
| The Hebrew Idea of History | |
| The Prophets | |
| The Legacy of the Ancient Jews | |
| The Greek City-State: Democratic Politics | |
| Early Aegean Civilizations | |
| The Rise of Hellenic Civilization | |
| Evolution of the City-State Athenian Greatness | |
| The Decline of the City-States | |
| The Dilemma of Greek Politics | |
| Greek Thought | |
| From Myth to Reason Philosophy | |
| Art Poetry and Drama History | |
| The Greek Achievement: Reason, Freedom, Humanism | |
| The Hellenistic Age Cultural | |
| Diffusion Alexander the Great Hellenistic Society Hellenistic Culture | |
| The Roman Republic | |
| City-State to World Empire Evolution of the Roman | |
| Constitution Roman Expansion to 146 B.C. | |
| Culture in the Republic | |
| The Collapse of the Republic | |
| The Roman Empire | |
| A World-State Augustus and the Foundations of the Roman Empire | |
| The Pax Romana Signs of Trouble | |
| The Decline of Rome | |
| The Roman Legacy | |
| Early Christianity | |
| A World Religion Origins of Christianity | |
| Spread and Triumph of Christianity | |
| Growth of Christian Organization, Doctrine, and Attitudes | |
| Saint Augustine: The Christian World-View | |
| Christianity and Classical | |
| Humanism: Alternative World-Views | |
| The Middle Ages | |
| The Christian Centuries, 500–1400 | |
| The Heirs of Rome | |
| Byzantium, Islam, and Latin Christendom | |
| Byzantine Civilization | |
| The Medieval Christian East Islamic | |
| Civilization: Its Development and Dissemination Latin | |
| Christendom: The Rise of Europe | |
| The Church: Shaper of Medieval Civilization | |
| The Kingdom of the Franks Medieval Society | |
| Art Essay: The Art of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages | |
| The High Middle Ages | |
| Vitality and Renewal Economic Expansion | |
| The Rise of States | |
| The Growth of Papal Power Christians and Jews | |
| The Flowering of Medieval Culture | |
| The Christian Synthesis Revival of Learning | |
| The Medieval World-View Philosophy-Theology Science | |
| The Recovery of Roman Law Literature Architecture | |
| The Late Middle Ages | |
| Crisis and Dissolution An Age of Adversity | |
| The Decline of the Papacy Breakup of the Thomistic Synthesis | |
| The Middle Ages and the Modern World | |
| Continuity and Discontinuity | |
| Early Modern | |
| Europe: From Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1350–1789 | |
| The Renaissance | |
| Transition to the Modern Age Italy | |
| Birthplace of the Renaissance | |
| The Renaissance Outlook | |
| Humanism and Secular Politics Renaissance Art | |
| The Spread of the Renaissance | |
| The Renaissance and the Modern Age | |
| Art Essay: The Renaissance | |
| The Reformation | |
| Shattering of Christendom Background to the Reformation | |
| The Medieval Church in Crisis | |
| The Lutheran Revolt | |
| Art Essay: The Renaissance | |
| The Spread of the Reformation | |
| The Catholic Response | |
| The Reformation and the Modern Age | |
| European Expansion | |
| Economic and Social Transformations | |
| European Expansion | |
| The Price Revolution | |
| The Expansion of Agriculture | |
| The Expansion of Trade and Industry | |
| The Growth of Capitalism Seventeenth-Century Decline and Renewal | |
| The Elite and the People Economic and Social Transformations | |
| The Rise of Sovereignty | |
| Transition to the Modern State Monarchs and Elites as State Builders | |
| The Rise and Fall of Hapsburg Spain | |
| The Growth of French Power | |
| The Growth of Limited Monarchy and Constitutionalism in England | |
| The Netherlands: A Bourgeois Republic | |
| The Holy Roman Empire | |
| The Failure to Unify Germany | |
| The Emergence of Austria and Prussia Russia | |
| The State and Modern Political Development | |
| The Scientific Revolution | |
| The Mechanical Universe and Its Implications | |
| Medieval Cosmology A New View of Nature | |
| Art Essay: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
| The Newtonian Synthesis | |
| Experiment, Mathematics, and Theory Biology, Medicine, and Chemistry | |
| Prophets and Proponents of the New Science | |
| The Social Implications of the Scientific Revolution | |
| The Meaning of the Scientific Revolution | |
| The Age of Enlightenment | |
| Reason and Reform | |
| The Formation of a Public and Secular Culture | |
| The Science of Religion | |
| Political Thought | |
| Social Thought | |
| Economic Thought | |
| The High Enlightenment European | |
| Political and Diplomatic Developments | |
| The Enlightenment in Eastern Europe | |
| The American Revolution | |
| The Enlightenment and the Modern World | |
| An Age of Revolution | |
| Liberal, National, Industrial, 1789–1848 | |
| The French Revolution | |
| Affirmation of Liberty and Equality | |
| The Old Regime | |
| The Moderate Stage, 1789–91 | |
| The Radical Stage, 1792–94 | |
| The Meaning of the French Revolution | |
| Napoleon | |
| Subverter and Preserver of the Revolution | |
| Rise to Power Napoleon and France Napoleon and Europe | |
| The Fall of Napoleon | |
| The Legend and the Achievement | |
| The Industrial Revolution | |
| The Transformation of Society | |
| The Origins of the Industrial Age Society | |
| Transformed Relief and Reform | |
| Industrialism in Perspective | |
| Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
| Romanticism: A New Cultural Orientation German | |
| Idealism Conservatism: The Value of Tradition | |
| Liberalism: The Value of the Individual | |
| Radicalism and Democracy: The Expansion of Liberalism | |
| Early Socialism: New Possibilities for Society | |
| Nationalism: The Sacredness of the Nation | |
| Europe, 1815–1848 | |
| Revolution and Counterrevolution | |
| The Congress of Vienna, 1814–15 | |
| Revolutions, 1820–1829 | |
| Revolutions, 1830–1832 | |
| The Rise of Reform in Britain | |
| The Revolutions of 1848: France | |
| The Revolutions of 1848: Germany, Austria, and Italy | |
| The Revolutions of 1848: An Assessment | |
| An Age of Contradiction | |
| Progress and Breakdown, 1848–1914 | |
| Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
| Realism and Social Criticism | |
| Realism and Naturalism | |
| Positivism | |
| Darwinism | |
| Marxism | |
| Anarchism | |
| Liberalism in Transition | |
| Feminism: Extending the Principle of Equality | |
| The Surge of Nationalism | |
| From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism | |
| The Unification of Italy | |
| The Unification of Germany | |
| Nationality Problems in the Hapsburg Empire | |
| The Rise of Racial Nationalism | |
| The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization | |
| The Advance of Industry | |
| Art Essay: Art of the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | |
| Great Britain: An Industrial | |
| Model France: Democratic or Authoritarian? | |
| Germany: Welding an Empire | |
| Italy: Unfulfilled Expectations | |
| Russia: The Tsarist Empire | |
| The United States: Democratic | |
| Giant A Golden Age? | |
| Western Imperialism: Global Dominance | |
| Emergence of the New Imperialism | |
| European Domination of Asia | |
| The Scramble for Africa Latin America | |
| The Legacy of Imperialism | |
| Modern Consciousness | |
| New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts | |
| Irrationalism Freud: A New View of Human Nature | |
| Social Thought: Confronting the Irrational and the Complexities of Modern Society | |
| The Modernist Movement Modern Physics | |
| The Enlightenment Tradition in Disarray | |
| World Wars and Totalitarianism | |
| The West in Crisis, 1914–1945 | |
| World War I: The West in Despair | |
| Aggravated Nationalist Tensions in Austria-Hungary | |
| The German System of Alliances | |
| The Triple Entente | |
| The Drift Toward War War as Celebration | |
| Stalemate in the West Other Fronts | |
| The Collapse of the Cen | |
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