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Civilization in the West, Volume I (Chapters 1-16)

ISBN: 9780321105028 | 0321105028
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. Pictorial chapter openers draw students in by illustrating a dominant theme of the chapter and exploring the dramatic impression each image makes in reinforcing that theme. the presentation of geography guides students around the changing contours of the West through both standard maps and Geographic Tours of Europe. Discovering Western Civilization Online end-of-chapter website URLs make this the first Western Civilization book to date to include these resources.
Documentsxiii
Maps and Geographical Tours
xv
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figuresxvii
Prefacexix
Supplements... MORE
About the Authorsxxxi
Introduction The Idea of Western Civilization1(2)
The First Civilizations
3(34)
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(9)
The Ramparts of Uruk
10(2)
Tools: Technology and Writing
12(1)
Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia
13(1)
Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion
14(2)
Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire
16(2)
The Gift of the Nile
18(6)
Tending the Cattle of God
18(2)
Democratization of the Afterlife
20(1)
The Egyptian Empire
21(2)
Religious and Royal Consolidation under Akhenaten
23(1)
Between Two Worlds
24(6)
The Hebrew Alternative
24(4)
A King Like All the Nations
28(1)
Exile
28(2)
Nineveh and Babylon
30(7)
The Assyrian Empire
31(1)
The New Babylonian Empire
32(1)
Persian Expansion
32(2)
Questions for Review
34(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
34(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
35
A Closer Look
Discovering the Pharaohs
26
Documents
The Code of Hammurabi
17(3)
A Homesick Egyptian
20(9)
The Kingdom of Israel
29(8)
Early Greece, 2500--500 B.C.E.
37(32)
The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization
38(2)
Greece in the Bronze Age to 700 B.C.E.
40(7)
Islands of Peace
40(2)
Mainland of War
42(1)
The Dark Age
43(4)
Archaic Greece, 700--500 B.C.E.
47(11)
Ethnos and Polis
48(1)
Technology of Writing and Warfare
49(1)
Colonists and Tyrants
50(1)
Gender and Power
51(1)
Gods and Mortals
51(2)
Myth and Reason
53(1)
Investigation and Speculation
54(1)
Art and the Individual
54(4)
A Tale of Three Cities
58(7)
Wealthy Corinth
59(1)
Martial Sparta
60(3)
Democratic Athens
63(2)
The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age
65(4)
Questions for Review
66(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
66(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
67
A Closer Look
The Agony of Athletics
56
Documents
The Race of Iron
45(1)
Hector and Andromache
46(14)
Two Faces of Tyranny
60(9)
Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500--100 B.C.E.
69(36)
The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus: The Spread of Greek Civilization
70(2)
War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E.
72(9)
The Persian Wars
72(1)
Thermopylae and Salamis
73(1)
The Athenian Empire
74(2)
Private and Public Life in Athens
76(3)
Pericles and Athens
79(1)
The Peloponnesian War
79(2)
Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age
81(5)
The Examined Life
81(1)
Understanding the Past
82(1)
Athenian Drama
83(2)
The Human Image
85(1)
From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404--323 B.C.E.
86(7)
Politics after the Peloponnesian War
86(1)
Philosophy and the Polis
87(2)
The Rise of Macedon
89(1)
The Empire of Alexander the Great
90(3)
The Hellenistic World
93(12)
Urban Life and Culture
93(1)
Women in Public Life
94(1)
Alexandria
95(1)
Hellenistic Literature
96(1)
Art and Architecture
96(1)
Hellenistic Philosophy
97(3)
Mathematics and Science
100(1)
Questions for Review
101(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
101(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
102
A Closer Look
Technology and Innovation
98
Documents
The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy
75(7)
Socrates the Gadfly
82(6)
Greeks and Barbarians
88(3)
Alexander Calls a Halt
91(14)
Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800--146 B.C.E.
105(30)
The Visual Record: Eternal Rome: From Village to Empire
106(2)
The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E.
108(5)
Merchants of Baal
108(2)
The Western Greeks
110(1)
Italy's First Civilization
111(2)
From City to Empire, 509--146 B.C.E.
113(11)
Latin Rome
113(1)
Etruscan Rome
114(1)
Rome and Italy
115(4)
Rome and the Mediterranean
119(5)
Republican Civilization
124(5)
Farmers and Soldiers
124(2)
The Roman Family
126(1)
Social Effects of Expansion
126(1)
Roman Religion
127(1)
Republican Letters
128(1)
The Crisis of Roman Virtue
129(6)
Questions for Review
132(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
132(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
133
A Closer Look
Hannibal's Elephants
120
Documents
The Twelve Tables
117(6)
Polybius Describes the Sack of New Carthage
123(7)
Cato's Slaves
130(5)
Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.--192 C.E.
135(34)
The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace: The Making of the Roman Empire
136(2)
The Price of Empire, 146--121 B.C.E.
138(3)
Winners and Losers
138(1)
Optimates and Populares
139(2)
The End of the Republic
141(6)
The Crisis of Government
142(4)
A Life Worth Leading
146(1)
The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana
147(10)
The Empire Renewed
148(6)
Augustus's Successors
154(3)
Religions from the East
157(4)
Jewish Resistance
157(1)
The Origins of Christianity
158(3)
Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire
161(8)
The Western Provinces
162(1)
The Eastern Provinces
163(2)
The Culture of Antonine Rome
165(1)
Questions for Review
166(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
167(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
168
A Closer Look
A Day in the Pax Romana
150
Documents
The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus
141(1)
Cicero on Justice and Reason
142(18)
Peter Announces the Good News
160(9)
The Transformation of the Classical World
169(28)
The Visual Record: A Bride's Trousseau: The Synthesis of Christianity and the Classical Tradition
170(2)
The Crisis of the Third Century
172(5)
Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest
172(1)
An Empire on the Defensive
173(1)
The Barbarian Menace
174(2)
Roman Influence in the Barbarian World
176(1)
The Empire Restored
177(4)
Diocletian, the God-Emperor
177(2)
Constantine, the Emperor of God
179(1)
The Triumph of Christianity
180(1)
Imperial Christianity
181(6)
Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation
182(2)
The Call of the Desert
184(1)
Monastic Communities
185(1)
Solitaries and Hermits
186(1)
A Parting of the Ways
187(10)
The Barbarization of the West
187(5)
The New Barbarian Kingdoms
192(1)
The Hellenization of the East
193(1)
Questions for Review
194(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
194(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
195
A Closer Look
The Stainless Star of Wisdom's Discipline
188
Documents
Tacitus on the Germans
175(6)
Religious Toleration and Persecution
181(4)
Love in the Two Cities
185(12)
The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam
197(32)
The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque: The Continuity of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean
198(2)
The Byzantines
200(9)
Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State
200(2)
Emperors and Individuals
202(3)
Families and Villages
205(1)
A Foretaste of Heaven
206(1)
Iconoclasm
207(2)
The Rise of Islam
209(11)
Arabia before the Prophet
209(1)
Muhammad, Prophet of God
210(2)
The Triumph of Islam
212(1)
The Spread of Islam
213(2)
Authority and Government in Islam
215(1)
Umayyad and `Abbasid Caliphates
216(2)
Islamic Civilization
218(2)
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000-1453
220(9)
The Disintegration of the Empire
221(3)
The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad
224(2)
Questions for Review
226(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
226(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
227
A Closer Look
Harems and Gynaiconites
222
Documents
The Justinian Code
202(9)
The Qur'an
211(8)
An Arab's View of Western Medicine
219(10)
The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500--900
229(34)
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters: The Western Empire Reborn
230(2)
The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500--750
232(8)
Italy: From Ostrogoths to Lombards
232(2)
Visigothic Spain: Intolerance and Destruction
234(1)
The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries
235(4)
The Franks: An Enduring Legacy
239(1)
Living in the New Europe
240(6)
Creating the European Peasantry
240(1)
Rural Households
241(2)
Creating the European Aristocracy
243(1)
Aristocratic Lifestyle
243(1)
Governing Europe
244(2)
The Carolingian Achievement
246(5)
Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West
247(1)
The Carolingian Renaissance
248(1)
Carolingian Government
249(2)
Carolingian Art
251(1)
Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century
251(6)
England
252(1)
Scandinavia
253(2)
The Slavic World
255(1)
Muslim Spain
256(1)
After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships
257(6)
Disintegration of the Empire
257(1)
Emergence of France and Germany
258(1)
Cluny
258(2)
Questions for Review
260(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
260(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
261
A Closer Look
The Jews in the Early Middle Ages
236(2)
Documents
Two Missionaries
238(3)
From Slave to Queen
241(7)
Charlemagne and the Arts
248(15)
The High Middle Ages
263(40)
The Visual Record: The Royal Tombs at Fontevrault: A Queen and Her Kings
264(2)
The Countryside
266(14)
The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen
266(2)
The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses
268(3)
The Church: Saints and Monks
271(6)
Crusaders: Soldiers of God
277(3)
Medieval Towns
280(10)
Italian Cities
280(3)
Northern Towns
283(2)
The Fairs of Champagne
285(1)
Urban Intellectuals
285(5)
The Invention of the State
290(13)
The Universal States: Empire and Papacy
290(4)
The Nation-States: France and England
294(6)
Questions for Review
300(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
300(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
301
A Closer Look
Cathedrals of Light
274(2)
Documents
Visions Like a Flame
276(2)
Pope Urban II Summons a Crusade
278(11)
Saint Francis of Assisi on Humility and Poverty
289(9)
The Great Charter
298(5)
The Later Middle Ages, 1300--1500
303(32)
The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood: European Civilization at the End of the Middle Ages
304(2)
Politics as a Family Affair
306(8)
The Struggle for Central Europe
306(3)
A Hundred Years of War
309(5)
Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages
314(8)
Dancing with Death
314(3)
The Plague of Insurrection
317(3)
Living and Dying in Medieval Towns
320(2)
The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages
322(13)
The Crisis of the Papacy
322(2)
Discerning the Spirit of God
324(1)
Heresy and Revolt
325(2)
Religious Persecution in Spain
327(2)
William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth
329(1)
Vernacular Literature and the Individual
329(4)
Questions for Review
333(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
333(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
333
A Closer Look
A Room of One's Own
318
Documents
The Black Death in Florence
316(12)
Convivencia
328
A Woman Before the Inquisition
326(9)
The Italian Renaissance
335(32)
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice
336(2)
Renaissance Society
338(6)
The Environment
339(1)
Production and Consumption
340(1)
The Experience of Life
341(2)
The Quality of Life
343(1)
Renaissance Art
344(6)
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter
345(2)
Renaissance Style
347(1)
Michelangelo
348(2)
Renaissance Ideals
350(4)
Humanists and the Liberal Arts
351(2)
Machiavelli and Politics
353(1)
The Politics of the Italian City-States
354(13)
The Five Powers
355(1)
Venice: A Seaborne Empire
356(2)
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold
358(1)
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450--1527
359(5)
Questions for Review
364(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
364(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
365
A Closer Look
The Fall of Constantinople
362
Documents
On the Family
342(9)
The Renaissance Man
351(3)
The Lion and the Fox
354(7)
The Siege of Constantinople
361(6)
The European Empires
367(36)
The Visual Record: Ptolemy's World: The Age of Discovery
368(2)
European Encounters
370(11)
A Passage to India
370(1)
Mundus Novus
371(2)
The Spanish Conquests
373(4)
The Legacy of the Encounters
377(4)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies
381(3)
Boundaries of Eastern Europe
382(1)
Central Europe
383(1)
Western Europe
383(1)
The Formation of States
384(11)
Eastern Configurations
385(2)
The Western Powers
387(8)
The Dynastic Struggles
395(8)
Power and Glory
395(1)
The Italian Wars
396(3)
Questions for Review
399(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
399(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
400
A Closer Look
Isabella of Castile
374
Documents
A Momentous Discovery
373(5)
The Halls of Montezuma
378(11)
Last Words
389(1)
The Kingdom of France
390(13)
The Reform of Religion
403(34)
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation
404(2)
The Intellectual Reformation
406(6)
The Print Revolution
406(1)
Christian Humanism
407(1)
The Humanist Movement
408(1)
The Wit of Erasmus
409(3)
The Lutheran Reformation
412(7)
The Spark of Reform
412(2)
Martin Luther's Faith
414(1)
Lutheranism
415(3)
The Spread of Lutheranism
418(1)
The Protestant Reformation
419(7)
Geneva and Calvin
420(2)
The English Reformation
422(2)
The Reformation of the Radicals
424(2)
The Catholic Reformation
426(11)
The Spiritual Revival
426(3)
Loyola's Pilgrimage
429(1)
The Counter-Reformation
430(2)
The Empire Strikes Back
432(2)
Questions for Review
434(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
434(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
434
A Closer Look
Utopia
410
Documents
A Dutch Wit
409(8)
Luther on Marriage
417(3)
The Eternal Decree
420(8)
Heavenly Vision
428(9)
Europe at War, 1555--1648
437(32)
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society
438(2)
The Crises of the Western States
440(13)
The French Wars of Religion
440(4)
One King, Two Faiths
444(3)
The World of Philip II
447(2)
The Burgundian Inheritance
449(1)
The Revolt of the Netherlands
450(3)
The Struggles in Eastern Europe
453(5)
Kings and Diets in Poland
454(1)
Muscovy's Time of Troubles
455(1)
The Rise of Sweden
456(2)
The Thirty Years' War, 1618--1648
458(11)
Bohemia Revolts
458(2)
The War Widens
460(3)
The Long Quest for Peace
463(2)
Questions for Review
465(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
465(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
466
A Closer Look
The Monstrous Regiment of Women
442(3)
Documents
Catholics and Huguenots
445(6)
Cannibals
451(9)
War Is Hell
460(2)
Fire and Sword
462(7)
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1650
469(36)
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community
470(2)
Economic Life
472(9)
Rural Life
472(3)
Town Life
475(2)
Economic Change
477(4)
Social Life
481(8)
Social Constructs
481(1)
Social Structure
482(3)
Social Change
485(1)
Peasant Revolts
486(3)
Private Life
489(16)
The Family
489(3)
Communities
492(3)
Popular Beliefs
495(5)
Questions for Review
500(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
501(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
501
A Closer Look
Sex and the Married Man
496
Documents
Living by One's Wits
474(14)
The Peasants' Revolt
488(2)
A Feminine Perspective
490(8)
The Devil's Due
498(7)
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
505(1)
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy
506(2)
The Rise of the Royal State
508(7)
Divine Kings
508(1)
The Court and the Courtiers
509(3)
The Drive to Centralize Government
512(1)
The Taxing Demands of War
513(2)
The Crises of the Royal State
515(11)
The Need to Resist
516(1)
The Right to Resist
517(2)
The English Civil War
519(2)
The English Revolutions
521(5)
The Zenith of the Royal State
526(1)
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy
527(1)
Absolutism in the East
528(3)
The Origins of French Absolutism
531(1)
Louis le Grand
532(3)
Questions for Review
535(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
535(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
536
A Closer Look
``King Charles's Head''
524
Documents
A Glimpse of a King
510(12)
A Short, Sharp Shock
522(6)
The Nature of Man
528(3)
A Close Shave
531
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