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| Documents | |
| Maps | |
| Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures | |
| Preface | |
| Supplements0 | |
| About the Authors | |
| Introduction | |
| The Idea of Western Civilization | p. 1 |
| The Italian Renaissance | |
| The Visual Record: A Dining Al Fresco | |
| Renaissance Society | |
| The Urban Environment | ... MORE|
| Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500 | |
| 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 | |
| Renaissance Science | |
| Machiavelli and Politics | |
| The Politics of the Italian City-States | |
| Map Discovery: Italy, 1494 | |
| The Five Powers | |
| Venice: A Seaborne Empire | |
| Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold | |
| The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450-1527 | |
| A Closer Look | |
| The Fall of Constantinople | |
| Documents | |
| On the Family | |
| The Renaissance Man | |
| The Lion and the Fox | |
| The Siege of Constantinople | |
| The European Empires | |
| The Visual Record: Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies | |
| European Encounters | |
| Africa and a Passage to India | |
| Map Discovery: Portuguese Explorations | |
| Mundus Novus | |
| The Spanish Conquests | |
| The Legacy of the Encounters | |
| Map Discovery: Claims of Spain and Portugal to Overseas Empires | |
| Image Discovery | |
| Small box | |
| 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 | |
| Map Discovery: The Unification of France | |
| The Dynastic Struggles | |
| Power and Glory | |
| The Italian Wars | |
| Documents | |
| A Momentous Discovery | |
| The Halls of Montezuma | |
| Last Words | |
| The Kingdom of France | |
| The West and the Wider World | |
| The Columbian Exchange | |
| The Reform of Religion | |
| The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation | |
| The Intellectual Reformation | |
| The Print Revolution | |
| Map Discovery: The Spread of Printing | |
| 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 | |
| Map Discovery: The Spread of Lutheranism | |
| The Protestant Reformation | |
| Geneva and Calvin | |
| The English Reformation | |
| The Reformation of the Radicals | |
| The Catholic Reformation | |
| The Spiritual Revival | |
| Image Discovery | |
| Fishing for Souls | |
| Loyola's Pilgrimage | |
| The Counter-Reformation | |
| Map Discovery: The Religious Divisions of Europe | |
| The Empire Strikes Back | |
| A Closer Look | |
| Utopia | |
| Documents | |
| A Dutch Wit | |
| Luther on Marriage | |
| The Eternal Decree | |
| Heavenly Vision | |
| Europe at War, 1555-1648 | |
| The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society | |
| The Crises of the Western States | |
| The French Wars of Religion | |
| Map Discovery: Religious Divisions in France During the Wars of Religion | |
| One King, Two Faiths | |
| The World of Philip II | |
| The Burgundian Inheritance | |
| Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V | |
| The Revolt of the Netherlands | |
| The Struggles in Eastern Europe | |
| Kings and Diets in Poland | |
| Image Discovery | |
| Muscovy's Time of Troubles | |
| The Rise of Sweden | |
| The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 | |
| Bohemia Revolts | |
| The War Widens | |
| Map Discovery: Population Loss in Germany During the Thirty Years' War | |
| The Long Quest for Peace | |
| A Closer Look | |
| The Monstrous Regiment of Women | |
| Documents | |
| The Heart and Stomach of a King | |
| Cannibals | |
| War Is Hell | |
| Fire and Sword | |
| The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650 | |
| The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community | |
| Economic Life | |
| Rural Life | |
| Image Discovery | |
| Town Life | |
| Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe | |
| Economic Change | |
| Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600 | |
| Social Life | |
| Social Constructs | |
| Social Structure | |
| Social Change | |
| Peasant Revolts | |
| Private and Community Life | |
| The Family | |
| Communities | |
| Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches | |
| A Closer Look | |
| Sex and the Married Man | |
| Documents | |
| Living by One's Wits | |
| The Peasants' Revolt | |
| The Devil's Due | |
| The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century | |
| The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy | |
| The Rise of the Royal State | |
| Divine Kings | |
| The Court and the Courtiers | |
| The Taxing Demands of War | |
| The Crises of the Royal State | |
| The Need to Resist | |
| The Right to Resist | |
| The English Civil War | |
| Image Discovery | |
| Map Discovery: English Civil War | |
| The English Revolutions | |
| The Zenith of the Royal State | |
| The Nature of Absolute Monarchy | |
| Absolutism in the East | |
| Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great | |
| The Origins of French Absolutism | |
| Louis le Grand | |
| Documents | |
| The Divinity That Doth Hedge a King | |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | |
| The Nature of Man | |
| A Close Shave | |
| The West and the Wider World | |
| The Siege of Vienna | |
| Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe | |
| The Visual Record: 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 | |
| Map Discovery: Dutch Trade Routes, ca. 1650 | |
| Consumption Choices | |
| Image Discovery: The Symbols of Trade | |
| Dutch Masters | |
| Mercantile Organization | |
| The Wars of Commerce | |
| The Mercantile Wars | |
| The Wars of Louis XIV | |
| Map Discovery: The Treaty of Utrecht | |
| The Colonial Wars | |
| Map Discovery: The Seven Years' War | |
| The West and the Wider World | |
| The Nutmeg Wars | |
| Documents | |
| Stargazing | |
| The Telescope | |
| Descartes Experiments | |
| Defining Commerce | |
| The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe | |
| The Visual Record: A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism | |
| Geographical Tour: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714 | |
| Expansion of Western Europe | |
| Realignment in Eastern Europe | |
| 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 | |
| Map Discovery: The Expansion of Prussia | |
| Austria Survives | |
| The Politics of Power | |
| Map Discovery: The Partitions of Poland | |
| The Greatness of Great Britain | |
| The British Constitution | |
| Parties and Ministers | |
| America Revolts | |
| Image Discovery: The West and the Wider World | |
| The British Raj in India | |
| Documents | |
| Captain Cook Encounters the Tahitians | |
| A King's-Eye View | |
| Military Discipline | |
| Unalienable Rights | |
| Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe | |
| The Visual Record: Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution | |
| Eighteenth-Century Culture | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| The Spirit of the Enlightenment | |
| Image Discovery: The Impact of the Enlightenment | |
| Eighteenth-Century Society | |
| The Nobility | |
| The Bourgeoisie | |
| The Masses | |
| Map Discovery: Cereal Crops in Europe | |
| A Closer Look | |
| Giving Birth in the Eighteenth Century | |
| Documents | |
| The All-Knowing | |
| Candide | |
| The Good of All | |
| Love and Marriage | |
| The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815 | |
| The Visual Record: The Tennis Court Oath: The Beginning of the French Revolution | |
| The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy | |
| The Political and Fiscal Crisis of Eighteenth-Century France | |
| Convening the Estates-General | |
| The Outbreak of Revolutionary Action in 1789 | |
| Map Discovery: Revolutionary France | |
| Declaring Political Rights | |
| The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy | |
| Experimenting with Democracy, 1792-1799 | |
| 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 Reforms | |
| Map Discovery: Napoleon's Empire | |
| Decline and Fall | |
| A Closer Look | |
| The Guillotine: Revolutionary Justice | |
| Documents | |
| "What Is the Third Estate?" | |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | |
| Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen | |
| The Civil Code of the Code Napoléon (1804) | |
| Industrial Europe | |
| The Visual Record: Portrait of an Age: The Railroad | |
| The Traditional Economy | |
| Farming Families | |
| Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800-1850 | |
| Rural Manufacture | |
| The Agricultural Revolution | |
| Image Discovery: The Industrial Revolution in Britain | |
| Britain First | |
| Map Discovery: Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources | |
| Minerals and Metals | |
| Cotton Is King | |
| The Iron Horse | |
| Entrepreneurs and Managers | |
| The Wages of Progress | |
| The Industrialization of the Continent | |
| Map Discovery: Industrial Revolution on the Continent | |
| France: Industrialization Without Revolution | |
| Germany: 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 | |
| Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850 | |
| The Visual Record: 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 New Politics of Preserving Order | |
| Romanticism and Change | |
| Reshaping State and Society | |
| Protest and Revolution | |
| Causes of Social Instability | |
| The Revolutions of 1830 | |
| Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action | |
| Reform in Great Britain | |
| Image Discovery: Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action | |
| Workers Unite | |
| Revolutions Across Europe, 1848-1850 | |
| Map Discovery: The Revolutions of 1848 | |
| A Closer Look | |
| The Birth of the Prison | |
| Documents | |
| Young Italy (1832) | |
| The Communist Manifesto | |
| Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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