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Civilization in the West, Single Volume Edition

ISBN: 9780321236128 | 0321236122
Edition: 7th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008

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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.
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Documentsxxv
Maps
xxvii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figuresxxxi
Prefacexxxiii
About the Authorsxlvii
Introduction The Idea of Western Civilization1(2)
The First Civilizations
3(32)
The Visual Record: Otzi's Last Meal: Tradition and Innovation in Prehistoric Europe
4(2)
Before Civilization
6(3)
The Dominance of Culture
7(1)
Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion
8(1)
Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers
9(1)
Map Discovery: The Ancient World
10(7)
The Ramparts of Uruk
10(2)
Tools: Technology and Writing
12(1)
Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia
13(1)
Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion
14(1)
Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire
15(2)
The Gift of the Nile
17(5)
Tending the Cattle of God
17(2)
Democratization of the Afterlife
19(2)
The Egyptian Empire
21(1)
Map Discovery: The Egyptian Empire
22(1)
Religious and Royal Consolidation Under Akhenaten
22(1)
Between Two Worlds
23(6)
The Hebrew Alternative
23(4)
A King Like All the Nations
27(1)
Exile
27(2)
Nineveh and Babylon
29
The Assyrian Empire
30(1)
The New Babylonian Empire
31(1)
Persian Expansion
31
A Closer Look Discovering the Pharaohs
24(11)
Early Greece, 2500--500 B.C.E.
35(30)
The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization
36(2)
Greece in the Bronze Age to 800 B.C.E.
38(1)
Islands of Peace
38(1)
Map Discovery: Greece in the Bronze Age
39(6)
Mainland of War
41(1)
The Dark Age
41(4)
Archaic Greece, 800--500 B.C.E.
45(1)
Ethnos and Polis
45(1)
Map Discovery: Greek Cities and Colonies of the Archaic Age
46(9)
Technology of Writing and Warfare
46(1)
Colonists and Tyrants
47(1)
Gender and Power
48(1)
Gods and Mortals
49(3)
Myth and Reason
52(1)
Investigation and Speculation
53(1)
Art and the Individual
53(2)
A Tale of Three Cities
55(6)
Wealthy Corinth
55(1)
Martial Sparta
56(3)
Democratic Athens
59(2)
The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age
61(1)
Map Discovery: The Persian Empire, ca. 500 B.C.E.
61
A Closer Look The Agony of Athletics
50(15)
Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500--100 B.C.E.
65(36)
The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus: The Spread of Greek Civilization
66(2)
War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E.
68(8)
The Persian Wars
68(1)
Thermopylae and Salamis
69(2)
The Athenian Empire
71(1)
Private and Public Life in Athens
71(3)
Pericles and Athens
74(1)
The Peloponnesian War
75(1)
Map Discovery: The Delian League and the Peloponnesian War
76(1)
Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age
77(5)
The Examined Life
77(1)
Understanding the Past
78(1)
Athenian Drama
79(2)
Art and the Human Image
81(1)
From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404--323 B.C.E.
82(5)
Politics After the Peloponnesian War
82(2)
Philosophy and the Polis
84(1)
The Rise of Macedon
85(2)
Map Discovery: The Empire of Alexander the Great
87(2)
The Empire of Alexander the Great
87(2)
The Hellenistic World
89(1)
Map Discovery: The Hellenistic Kingdoms
89(7)
Urban Life and Culture
92(1)
Women in Public Life
92(1)
Alexandria
93(1)
Hellenistic Literature
93(1)
Architecture and Art
94(1)
Hellenistic Philosophy
95(3)
Mathematics and Science
98(1)
Cultural Resistance
98
A Closer Look Technology and Innovation
96
The West and the Wider World Representing the Buddha: From Apollo to Christian Saint
90(11)
Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800--146 B.C.E.
101(28)
The Visual Record: Eternal Rome: From Village to Empire
102(2)
The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E.
104(2)
Merchants of Baal
104(1)
The Western Greeks
105(1)
Map Discovery: Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade
106(3)
Italy's First Civilization
107(2)
From City to Empire, 509--146 B.C.E.
109(10)
Latin Rome
109(1)
Etruscan Rome
110(1)
Rome and Italy
111(3)
Rome and the Mediterranean
114(5)
Map Discovery: The Punic Wars
119(1)
Republican Civilization
120(5)
Farmers and Soldiers
120(1)
The Roman Family
121(1)
Social Effects of Expansion
121(1)
Roman Religion
122(2)
Republican Letters
124(1)
The Crisis of Roman Virtue
125
A Closer Look Hannibal's Elephants
116(13)
Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.--192 C.E.
129(32)
The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace: The Making of the Roman Empire
130(2)
The Price of Empire, 146--121 B.C.E.
132(3)
Winners and Losers
132(1)
Optimates and Populares
133(2)
The End of the Republic
135(3)
The Crisis of Government
135(3)
Map Discovery: The Career of Julius Caesar
138(3)
A Life Worth Leading
139(2)
The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana
141(6)
The Empire Renewed
141(5)
Augustus's Successors
146(1)
Map Discovery: The Roman Empire, 14 and 117 C.E.
147(2)
Religions from the East
149(4)
Jewish Resistance
149(1)
The Origins of Christianity
150(3)
Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire
153(4)
The Western Provinces
154(1)
The Eastern Provinces
155(2)
The Culture of Antonine Rome
157
A Closer Look A Day in the Pax Romana
144(17)
The Transformation of the Classical World
161(26)
The Visual Record: A Bride's Trousseau: The Synthesis of Christianity and the Classical Tradition
162(2)
The Crisis of the Third Century
164(5)
Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest
164(1)
An Empire on the Defensive
165(1)
The Barbarian Menace
166(1)
Roman Influence in the Barbarian World
167(2)
The Empire Restored
169(1)
Diocletian, the God-Emperor
169(1)
Map Discovery: The Empire Under Diocletian
170(3)
Constantine, the Emperor of God
171(1)
The Triumph of Christianity
172(1)
Imperial Christianity
173(1)
Map Discovery: The Spread of Christianity
174(5)
Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation
174(2)
The Call of the Desert
176(1)
Monastic Communities
177(1)
Solitaries and Hermits
178(1)
A Parting of the Ways
179(4)
The Barbarization of the West
179(3)
The New Barbarian Kingdoms
182(1)
Map Discovery: Barbarian Migrations and Invasions
183
The Hellenization of the East
184
A Closer Look The Stainless Star of Wisdom's Discipline
180(7)
The Classical Legacy in The East: Byzantium and Islam
187(32)
The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque: The Continuity of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean
188(2)
The Byzantines
190(3)
Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State
190(2)
Emperors and Individuals
192(1)
Map Discovery: Byzantine Empire Under Justinian
193(6)
Families and Villages
194(1)
A Foretaste of Heaven
195(3)
Iconoclasm
198(1)
The Rise of Islam
199(6)
Arabia Before the Prophet
200(1)
Muhammad, Prophet of God
201(1)
The Triumph of Islam
202(2)
The Spread of Islam
204(1)
Map Discovery: The Spread of Islam
205(5)
Authority and Government in Islam
206(1)
Umayyad and 'Abbasid Caliphates
207(1)
Islamic Civilization
208(2)
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000--1453
210
The Disintegration of the Empire
212(1)
The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad
213
The West and the Wider World Industrial Espionage in the Sixth Century
196(23)
The West in the Early Middle Ages. 500--900
219(34)
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters: The Western Empire Reborn
220(2)
The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500--750
222(1)
Italy: From Ostrogoths to Lombards
222(1)
Map Discovery: The Barbarian Kingdoms, ca. 526
223(7)
Visigothic Spain: Intolerance and Destruction
224(1)
The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries
225(4)
The Franks: An Enduring Legacy
229(1)
Living in the New Europe
230(5)
Creating the European Peasantry
231(1)
Rural Households
231(1)
Creating the European Aristocracy
232(1)
Aristocratic Lifestyle
233(1)
Governing Europe
234(1)
The Carolingian Achievement
235(2)
Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West
236(1)
The Carolingian Renaissance
236(1)
Map Discovery: Charlemagne's Empire, 814
237(4)
Carolingian Government
238(2)
Carolingian Art
240(1)
Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century
241(6)
England
241(1)
Scandinavia
242(3)
The Slavic World
245(1)
Muslim Spain
245(2)
After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships
247(1)
Map Discovery: The Division of Charlemagne's Empire
247
Disintegration of the Empire
247(1)
Emergence of France and Germany
248(1)
Cluny
248
A Closer Look The Jews in the Early Middle Ages
226(27)
The High Middle Ages
253(38)
The Visual Record: From the Syrian Desert to the Welsh Marshes: A Kings and His Castles
254(2)
The Countryside
256(12)
The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen
256(2)
The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses
258(2)
The Church: Saints and Monks
260(6)
Crusaders: Soldiers of God
266(2)
Map Discovery: The Crusades
268(2)
Medieval Towns
270(2)
Italian Cities
270(2)
Map Discovery: Medieval Trade Networks
272(7)
Northern Towns
273(2)
The Fairs of Champagne
275(1)
Urban Intellectuals
275(4)
The Invention of the State
279(5)
The Universal States: Empire and Papacy
280(3)
The Nation-States: France and England
283(1)
Map Discovery: The Consolidation of France Under the Capetians
284
A Closer Look Cathedrals of Light
262(29)
The Later Middle Ages, 1300--1500
291(30)
The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood: European Civilization at the End of the Middle Ages
292(2)
Politics as a Family Affair
294(1)
The Struggle for Central Europe
294(1)
Map Discovery: Central and Eastern Europe, ca. 1378
295(6)
A Hundred Years of War
297(4)
Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages
301(3)
Dancing with Death
301(3)
The Plague of Insurrection
304(1)
Map Discovery: Spread of the Black Death and Peasant Revolts
304(4)
Living and Dying in Medieval Towns
306(2)
The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages
308(1)
The Crisis of the Papacy
308(1)
Map Discovery: The Great Schism
309(12)
Discerning the Spirit of God
310(2)
Heresy and Revolt
312(1)
Religious Persecution in Spain
313(1)
William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth
314(1)
Vernacular Literature and the Individual
315(6)
The Italian Renaissance
321(32)
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice
322(2)
Renaissance Society
324(1)
The Urban Environment
324(1)
Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500
325(5)
Production and Consumption
326(1)
The Experience of Life
327(2)
The Quality of Life
329(1)
Renaissance Art
330(6)
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter
331(2)
Renaissance Style
333(1)
Michelangelo
334(2)
Renaissance Ideals
336(5)
Humanists and the Liberal Arts
337(2)
Renaissance Science
339(1)
Machiavelli and Politics
339(2)
Map Discovery: Italy, 1494
341(1)
The Politics of the Italian City-States
341(7)
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)
The European Empires
353(34)
The Visual Record: Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies
354(2)
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(3)
The Legacy of the Encounters
364(3)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies
367(3)
Boundaries of Eastern Europe
367(1)
Central Europe
368(1)
Western Europe
369(1)
The Formation of States
370(7)
Eastern Configurations
371(2)
The Western Powers
373(4)
Map Discovery: The Unification of France
377(2)
The Dynastic Struggles
379
Power and Glory
380(1)
The Italian Wars
380
A Closer Look Isabella of Castile
360(27)
The Reform of Religion
387(32)
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation
388(2)
The Intellectual Reformation
390(1)
The Print Revolution
390(1)
Map Discovery: The Spread of Printing
391(5)
Christian Humanism
392(1)
The Humanist Movement
392(1)
The Wit of Erasmus
392(4)
The Lutheran Reformation
396(6)
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(1)
The Protestant Reformation
403(6)
Geneva and Calvin
403(2)
The English Reformation
405(3)
The Reformation of the Radicals
408(1)
The Catholic Reformation
409(6)
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)
Europe At War, 1555--1648
419(30)
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society
420(2)
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(4)
The Burgundian Inheritance
431(1)
The Revolt of the Netherlands
432(3)
The Struggles in Eastern Europe
435(4)
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(5)
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)
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1650
449(34)
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community
450(2)
Economic Life
452(5)
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(2)
Social Life
460(8)
Social Constructs
460(2)
Social Structure
462(2)
Social Change
464(2)
Peasant Revolts
466(2)
Private and Community Life
468(8)
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)
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
483(30)
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy
484(2)
The Rise of the Royal State
486(6)
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(6)
The Need to Resist
493(1)
The Right to Resist
494(2)
The English Civil War
496(2)
Map Discovery: English Civil War
498(4)
The English Revolutions
499(3)
The Zenith of the Royal State
502(4)
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(6)
Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
513(34)
The Visual Record: Rembrandt's Lessons: Anatomy and the New Science
514(2)
The New Science
516(9)
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(10)
Consumption Choices
527(3)
Dutch Masters
530(4)
Mercantile Organization
534(2)
The Wars of Commerce
536(7)
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)
The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe
547(30)
The Visual Record: A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism
548(2)
Geographical Tour: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714
550(5)
Expansion of Western Europe
551(3)
Realignment in Eastern Europe
554(1)
The Rise of Russia
555(5)
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(6)
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)
Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
577(30)
The Visual Record: Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution
578(2)
Eighteenth-Century Culture
580(7)
The Enlightenment
580(2)
The Spirit of the Enlightenment
582(3)
The Impact of the Enlightenment
585(2)
Eighteenth-Century Society
587(11)
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 French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789--1815
607(28)
The Visual Record: Eighteenth-Century Revolution
608(2)
The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy
610(5)
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(6)
Declaring Political Rights
617(3)
The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy
620(1)
Experimenting with Democracy, 1792--1799
621(5)
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(2)
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)
Industrial Europe
635(36)
The Visual Record: An Iron Forge: Machinery and Industrialization
636(2)
The Traditional Economy
638(1)
Farming Families
638(1)
Rural Manufacture
639(1)
Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800--1850
639(4)
The Agricultural Revolution
641(2)
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
643(2)
Britain First
644(1)
Map Discovery: Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources
645(15)
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)
Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815--1850
671(32)
The Visual Record: Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies
672(2)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815
674(5)
The Congress of Vienna
674(4)
The Alliance System
678(1)
The New Ideologies
679(9)
The New Politics of Preserving Order
679(2)
Romanticism and Change
681(3)
Reshaping State and Society
684(4)
Protest and Revolution
688(5)
Causes of Social Instability
688(1)
The Revolutions of 1830
689(4)
Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Center 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(21)
State Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850--1871
703(34)
The Visual Record: The Birth of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck's Role
704(2)
Building Nations: The Politics of Unification
706(1)
The Crimean War
706(1)
Unifying Italy
707(1)
Map Discovery: The Crimean War
707(6)
Unifying Germany
712(1)
Map Discovery: The Unification of Germany
713(2)
The United States: Civil War and Reunification
714(1)
Nationalism and Force
714(1)
Reforming European Society
715(8)
The Second Empire in France, 1852--1870
715(2)
Victorian Political Reforms
717(3)
Reforming Russia
720(3)
The Politics of Leadership
723(1)
Changing Values and the Force of New Ideas
723
The Politics of Homemaking
724(2)
Realism in the Arts
726(2)
Charles Darwin and the New Science
728(1)
Karl Marx and the Science of Society
728(2)
A New Revolution?
730
A Closer Look A Working Woman
708(29)
The Crisis of European Culture, 1871--1914
737(34)
The Visual Record: Speeding to the Future: Mass Society and the Rejection of Tradition
738(2)
European Economy and the Politics of Mass Society
740(8)
Regulating Boom and Bust
740(2)
Challenging Liberal England
742(1)
Political Struggles in Germany
743(1)
Political Scandals and Mass Politics in France
744(3)
Defeating Liberalism in Austria
747(1)
Outsiders in Mass Politics
748(4)
Feminists and Politics
748(3)
The Jewish Question and Zionism
751(1)
Map Discovery: Jewish Migration
752(3)
Workers and Minorities on the Margins
754(1)
Shaping the New Consciousness
755(3)
The Authority of Science
755(1)
Establishing the Social Sciences
756(4)
The ``New Woman'' and the New Consciousness
760(2)
Art and the New Age
762(1)
The New Consumption
763
A Closer Look Sigmund Freud, Explorer of Dreams
758(6)
The West and the Wider World African Art and European Artists
764(7)
Europe and The World, 1870--1914
771(28)
The Visual Record: The Politics of Mapmaking: The First Standardized Map of the World
772(2)
The European Balance of Power, 1870--1914
774(3)
Upsetting the European Balance of Power
774(1)
The Instability of the Alliance System
775(2)
The New Imperialism
777(5)
The Technology of Empire
777(1)
Motives for Empire
778(4)
The Search for Territory and Markets
782(4)
The Scramble for Africa: Diplomacy and Conflict
782(3)
Gold, Empire Building, and the Boer War
785(1)
Map Discovery: Africa, 1914
786(5)
Imperialism in Asia
787(3)
The Imperialism of the United States
790(1)
Results of a European-Dominated World
791(1)
A World Economy
792(7)
Map Discovery: World Colonial Holdings
791(1)
Race and Culture
792(1)
Women and Imperialism
793(1)
Ecology and Imperialism
793(2)
Critiquing Capitalism
795(4)
War and Revolution, 1914--1920
799(32)
The Visual Record: Selling the Great War
800(2)
The War Europe Expected
802(2)
Separating Friends from Foes
803(1)
Military Timetables
803(1)
Assassination at Sarajevo
804(1)
Map Discovery: The Schlieffen Plan and France's Plan XVII
804(2)
A New Kind of Warfare
806(4)
Technology and the Trenches
806(2)
The German Offensive
808(2)
War on the Eastern Front
810(1)
Map Discovery: World War I
810(4)
War on the Western Front
811(2)
War on the Periphery
813(1)
Adjusting to the Unexpected: Total War
814(3)
Mobilizing the Home Front
815(1)
Silencing Dissent
816(1)
The Russian Revolution and Allied Victory
817(8)
Revolution in Russia
817(6)
The United States Enters the Great War
823(2)
Settling the Peace
825
Wilson's Fourteen Points
826(1)
Treaties and Territories
827
A Closer Look The Women Who Started the Russian Revolution
820(11)
The European Search for Stability, 1920--1939
831(36)
The Visual Record: The Hard Lessons of Inflation
832(2)
Geographical Tour: Europe After 1918
834(4)
New Nation-States, New Problems
834(2)
German Recovery
836(1)
France's Search for Security
837(1)
The United States in Europe
837(1)
Crisis and Collapse in a World Economy
838(4)
International Loans and Trade Barriers
838(2)
The Great Depression
840(2)
The Soviet Union's Separate Path
842(7)
The Soviet Regime at the End of the Civil War
842(1)
The New Economic Policy, 1921--1928
843(1)
Stalin's Rise to Power
844(1)
The First Five-Year Plan
845(1)
The Comintern, Economic Development, and the Purges
846(2)
Women and the Family in the New Soviet State
848(1)
The Rise of Fascist Dictatorship in Italy
849(3)
Mussolini's Italy
850(1)
Mussolini's Plans for Empire
851(1)
Hitler and the Third Reich
852(5)
Hitler's Rise to Power
852(1)
Nazi Goals
853(2)
Propaganda, Racism, and Culture
855(2)
Democracies in Crisis
857(1)
The Failure of the Left in France
857(1)
Map Discovery: Europe: Types of Government
858(2)
Muddling Through in Great Britain
859(3)
The Spanish Republic as Battleground
862
A Closer Look The Screams from Guernica
860(7)
Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939--1945
867(30)
The Visual Record: Precursor of War: The Annexation Austria
868(2)
Aggression and Conquest
870(2)
Hitler's Foreign Policy and Appeasement
870(1)
Hitler's War, 1939--1941
871(1)
Map Discovery: World War II in Europe
872(3)
Collaboration and Resistance
874(1)
Racism and Destruction
875(6)
Enforcing Nazi Racial Policies
875(1)
The Destruction of Europe's Jews
876(5)
Allied Victory
881(8)
The Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War
881(2)
The United States Enters the War
883(3)
Winning the War in Europe
886(1)
Japanese War Aims and Assumptions
887(1)
Winning the War in the Pacific
888(1)
Map Discovery: World War II in the Pacific, 1941--1945
889(3)
The Fate of Allied Cooperation: 1945
890(2)
A Closer Look The Atomic Wasteland
892(5)
The Cold War and Postwar Economic Recovery: 1945--1970
897(32)
The Visual Record: Europe in Ruins: Warsaw, 1946
898(2)
The Origins of the Cold War
900(1)
The World in Two Blocs
900(1)
Map Discovery: The Division of Germany
900(2)
Map Discovery: The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc
902(5)
The Nuclear Club
904(1)
Decolonization and the Cold War
905(2)
Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union
907(9)
The Economic Challenge
907(1)
The Economic Solution: The Marshall Plan
908(1)
Western European Economic Integration
908(3)
Japan's Recovery
911(1)
The Soviet Path to Economic Recovery
911(5)
The Welfare State and Social Transformation
916
Prosperity and Consumption in the West
917(1)
Family Strategies
918(3)
Youth Culture and Dissent
921
The West and the Wider World Made in Japan
912(17)
The End of The Cold War and New Global Challenges, 1970 to the Present
929
The Visual Record: The Berlin Wall Comes Down
930(2)
The End of the Cold War and the Emergence of a New Europe
932(11)
The Brezhnev Doctrine and Detente
932(1)
The New Direction in Soviet Politics
932(2)
Reform in Eastern Europe
934(3)
The Unification of Germany
937(3)
Russia and the New Republics
940(3)
Map Discovery: Republics of the Soviet Union
943(1)
Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism
944(5)
The Chechen Challenge
944(3)
War in the Balkans
947(2)
The West in the Global Community
949
European Union and the American Superpower
949(3)
A New Working Class: Foreign Workers
952(3)
Women's Changing Lives
955(2)
Terrorism: The ``New Kind of War''
957
A Closer Look Televisions, Computers, and the Media Revolution
938
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Credits1(1)
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