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Civilization in the West, Volume B (Chapters 11-22)

ISBN: 9780321105042 | 0321105044
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003

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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 illustrating a dominant theme of the chapter and exploring the dramatic changing contours of the West through standard maps, Map Discovery features and Geographical Tours of Europe. Discovering Western Civilization Online end-of-chapter Web site URLs make this the fi... MORE

11. The Italian Renaissance.
A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice.
Renaissance Society.
The Environment.
Production and Consumption.
The Experience of Life.
The Quality of Life.
Renaissance Art.
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter.
Renaissance Style.
Michelangelo.
Renaissance Ideals.
Humanists and the Liberal Arts.
Machiavelli and Politics.
The Politics of the Italian City-States.
The Five Powers.
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12. The European Empires.
Ptolemy's World: The Age of Discovery.
European Encounters.
A Passage to India.
Mundus Novus.
The Spanish Conquests.
The Legacy of the Encounters.
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies.
Boundaries of Eastern Europe.
Central Europe.
Western Europe.
The Formation of States.
Eastern Configurations.
The Western Powers.
The Dynastic Struggles.
Power and Glory.
The Italian Wars.
A Closer Look: Isabella of Castile.
Documents:
A Momentous Discovery.
The Halls of Montezuma.
Last Words.
The Kingdom of France.

13. The Reform of Religion.
Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation.
The Intellectual Reformation.
The Print Revolution.
Christian Humanism.
The Humanist Movement.
The Wit of Erasmus.
The Lutheran Reformation.
The Spark of Reform.
Martin Luther's Faith.
Lutheranism.
The Spread of Lutheranism.
The Protestant Reformation.
Geneva and Calvin.
The English Reformation.
The Reformation of the Radicals.
The Catholic Reformation.
The Spiritual Revival.
Loyola's Pilgrimage.
The Counter-Reformation.
The Empire Strikes Back.
A Closer Look: Utopia.
Documents:
A Dutch Wit.
Luther on Marriage.
The Eternal Decree.
Heavenly Vision.

14. Europe at War, 1555-1648.
The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society.
The Crises of the Western States.
The French Wars of Religion.
One King, Two Faiths.
The World of Philip II.
The Burgundian Inheritance.
The Revolt of the Netherlands.
The Struggles in Eastern Europe.
Kings and Diets in Poland.
Muscovy's Time of Troubles.
The Rise of Sweden.
The Thirty Years' War 1618-48.
Bohemia Revolts.
The War Widens.
The Long Quest for Peace.
A Closer Look: The Monstrous Regiment of Women.
Documents:
Catholics and Huguenots.
Cannibals.
War Is Hell.
Fire and Sword.

15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650.
Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community.
Economic Life.
Rural Life.
Town Life.
Economic Change.
Social Life.
Social Constructs.
Social Structure.
Social Change.
Peasant Revolts.
Private Life.
The Family.
Communities.
Popular Beliefs.
A Closer Look: Sex and the Married Man.
Documents:
Living by One's Wits.
The Peasants' Revolt.
A Feminine Perspective.
The Devil's Due.

16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century.
Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy.
The Rise of the Royal State.
Divine Kings.
The Court and the Courtiers.
The Drive to Centralize Government.
The Taxing Demands of War.
The Crises of the Royal State.
The Need to Resist.
The Right to Resist.
The English Civil Wars.
The English Revolutions.
The Zenith of the Royal State.
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy.
Absolutism in the East.
The Origins of French Absolutism.
Louis le Grand.
A Closer Look: “King Charles's Head” .
Documents:
A Glimpse of a King.
A Short, Sharp Shock.
The Nature of Man.
A Close Shave.

17. Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe.
Rembrandt's Lessons: Anatomy and the New Science.
The New Science.
Heavenly Revolutions.
The Natural World.
Science Enthroned.
Empires of Goods.
The Marketplace of the World.
Consumption Choices.
Dutch Masters.
Mercantile Organization.
The Wars of Commerce.
The Mercantile Wars.
The Wars of Louis XIV.
The Colonial Wars.
A Closer Look: The Dutch Tulip Mania of the Seventeenth Century.
Documents:
Stargazing.
The Telescope.
Encountering Pirates.
Defining Commerce.

18. The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism.
Geographical Tours of Europe: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714.
Expansion in the West.
Realignment in the East.
The Rise of Russia.
The Reforms of Peter the Great.
Life in Rural Russia.
The Enlightened Empress Catherine.
The Two Germanies.
The Rise of Prussia.
Austria Survives.
The Politics of Power.
The Greatness of Britain.
The British Constitution.
Parties and Ministers.
America Revolts.
A Closer Look: Catherine Before She Was Great.
Documents:
Childhood Traumas.
A King's-Eye View.
Military Discipline.
Unalienable Rights.

19. Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution.
Eighteenth-Century Culture.
The Enlightenment.
The Spirit of the Enlightenment.
The Impact of the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Society.
The Nobility.
The Bourgeoisie.
The Masses.
A Closer Look: Giving Birth in the Eighteenth Century.
Documents:
The All-Knowing.
The Human Condition.
An Educated Woman.
The Good of All.

20. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815.
Eighteenth Century Revolution.
The Crisis of the Old Regime in France, 1715-88.
The Financial Crisis.
The Political Crisis.
Attempt at Reform.
The First Stage of the French Revolution, 1789-92.
Taking Politics to the People.
Convening the Estates-General.
The Storming of the Bastille.
The Revolution of the Peasantry.
Women on the March.
The Trails of Constitutional Monarchy.
Experimenting with Democracy: The Revolution's Second Stage, 1792-99.
Declaring Political Rights.
The Second Revolution: The Revolution of the People.
“Terror Is the Order of the Day” .
The End of the Revolution.
The Reign of Napoleon, 1799-1815.
Bonaparte Seizes Power.
Napoleon at War with the European Powers.
The First Empire and Domestic Refomrs.
Decline and Fall.
A Closer Look: The Guillotine and Revolutionary Justice.
Documents:
“What Is the Third Estate?”
On Revolutionary Government.
The Civil Code of the Code Napoleon (1804).

21. Industrial Europe.
An Iron Forge: Machinery and Industrialization
The Traditional Economy.
Farming Families.
Rural Manufacture.
The Agricultural Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution in Britain.
Britain First.
Minerals and Metals.
Cotton Is King.
The Iron Horse.
Entrepreneurs and Managers.
The Wages of Progress.
The Industrialization of the Continent.
Industrialization Without Revolution.
Industrialization and Union.
The Lands That Time Forgot.
A Closer Look: Industry and the Environment.
Documents:
The Wealth of Britain.
The Sin of Wages.
Exploiting the Young.
The Slavery of Labor.

22. Social Transformations and Political Upheavals, 1815-1850.
Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies.
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815.
The Congress of Vienna.
The Alliance System.
The New Ideologies.
The Politics of Preserving Order.
Romanticism and Change.
Reshaping State and Society.
Protest and Revolution.
Causes of Social Instability.
The Revolutions of 1830.
Reform in Great Britain.
Workers Unite.
Revolutions Across Europe, 1848-1850.
A Closer Look: The Birth of the Prison.
Documents:
Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women.
Young Italy.
The Communist Manifesto.

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