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Civilization in the West, Volume II (since 1555) (Book Alone)

ISBN: 9780321236258 | 0321236254
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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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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Documentsxvi
Maps
xvii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figuresxix
Prefacexxi
About the Authorsxxxiv
Europe at War, 1555--1648
419(30)
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society
420(3)
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(13)
The Burgundian Inheritance
431(1)
The Revolt of the Netherlands
432(3)
The Struggles in Eastern Europe
435(1)
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(1)
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)
Catholics and Huguenots
428(5)
Cannibals
433(8)
War Is Hell
441(2)
Fire and Sword
443(6)
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1650
449(34)
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community
450(7)
Economic Life
452(1)
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(18)
Social Life
460(1)
Social Constructs
460(2)
Social Structure
462(2)
Social Change
464(2)
Peasant Revolts
466(2)
Private and Community Life
468(1)
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)
Living by One's Wits
454(13)
The Peasants' Revolt
467(3)
A Feminine Perspective
470(5)
The Devil's Due
475(8)
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
483(30)
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy
484(14)
The Rise of the Royal State
486(1)
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(1)
The Need to Resist
493(1)
The Right to Resist
494(2)
The English Civil War
496(2)
Map Discovery: English Civil War
498(8)
The English Revolutions
499(3)
The Zenith of the Royal State
502(1)
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
A Glimpse of a King
487(10)
A Short, Sharp Shock
497(6)
The Nature of Man
503(2)
A Close Shave
505(8)
Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
513(34)
The Visual Record: Rembrandt's Lessons: Anatomy and the New Science
514(12)
The New Science
516(1)
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(17)
Consumption Choices
527(3)
Dutch Masters
530(4)
Mercantile Organization
534(2)
The Wars of Commerce
536(1)
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)
Stargazing
518(2)
The Telescope
520(4)
Descartes Experiments
524(13)
Defining Commerce
537(10)
The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe
547(30)
The Visual Record: A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism
548(13)
Geographical Tour: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714
550(1)
Expansion of Western Europe
551(3)
Realignment in Eastern Europe
554(1)
The Rise of Russia
555(1)
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(7)
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)
Captain Cook Encounters the Tahitians
555(8)
A King's-Eye View
563(1)
Military Discipline
564(10)
Unalienable Rights
574(3)
Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
577(30)
The Visual Record: Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution
578(20)
Eighteenth-Century Culture
580(1)
The Enlightenment
580(2)
The Spirit of the Enlightenment
582(3)
The Impact of the Enlightenment
585(2)
Eighteenth-Century Society
587(1)
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 All-Knowing
581(1)
The Human Condition
582(4)
The Good of All
586(8)
Love and Marriage
594(13)
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789--1815
607(28)
The Visual Record: Eighteenth-Century Revolution
608(7)
The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy
610(1)
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(13)
Declaring Political Rights
617(3)
The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy
620(1)
Experimenting with Democracy, 1792--1799
621(1)
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(1)
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)
``What Is the Third Estate?''
613(5)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
618(1)
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
619(10)
The Civil Code of the Code Napoleon (1804)
629(6)
Industrial Europe
635(36)
The Visual Record: An Iron Forge: Machinery and Industrialization
636(3)
The Traditional Economy
638(1)
Farming Families
638(1)
Rural Manufacture
639(1)
Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800--1850
639(6)
The Agricultural Revolution
641(2)
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
643(1)
Britain First
644(1)
Map Discovery: Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources
645(16)
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)
The Wealth of Britain
650(5)
The Sin of Wages
655(4)
Exploiting the Young
659(6)
The Slavery of Labor
665(6)
Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815--1850
671(32)
The Visual Record: Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies
672(21)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815
674(1)
The Congress of Vienna
674(4)
The Alliance System
678(1)
The New Ideologies
679(1)
The New Politics of Preserving Order
679(2)
Romanticism and Change
681(3)
Reshaping State and Society
684(4)
Protest and Revolution
688(1)
Causes of Social Instability
688(1)
The Revolutions of 1830
689(4)
Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers 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)
Young Italy (1832)
685(1)
The Communist Manifesto
686(9)
Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women
695(8)
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(3)
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
The United States: Civil War and Reunification
714(1)
Nationalism and Force
714(1)
Reforming European Society
715(1)
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(1)
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 Russian Emancipation Proclamation, 1861
721(4)
Mistress of the House
725(5)
On the Origin of Species, 1859
730(7)
The Crisis of European Culture, 1871--1914
737(34)
The Visual Record: Speeding to the Future: Mass Society and the Rejection of Tradition
738(14)
European Economy and the Politics of Mass Society
740(1)
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(1)
Feminists and Politics
748(3)
The Jewish Question and Zionism
751(1)
Map Discovery: Jewish Migration
752(6)
Workers and Minorities on the Margins
754(1)
Shaping the New Consciousness
755(1)
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)
``J' Accuse''
746(5)
Constance Lytton
751(10)
``Angel'' or Woman?
761(10)
Europe and the World, 1870--1914
771(28)
The Visual Record: The Politics of Mapmaking: The First Standardized Map of the World
772(14)
The European Balance of Power, 1870--1914
774(1)
Upsetting the European Balance of Power
774(1)
The Instability of the Alliance System
775(2)
The New Imperialism
777(1)
The Technology of Empire
777(1)
Motives for Empire
778(4)
The Search for Territory and Markets
782(1)
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
Map Discovery: World Colonial Holdings
791(8)
Race and Culture
792(1)
Women and Imperialism
793(1)
Ecology and Imperialism
793(2)
Critiquing Capitalism
795
Leopold II of Belgium, Speech to an International Conference of Geographers, 12 September 1876
780(3)
Joseph Chamberlain's Speech to the Birmingham Relief Association
783(11)
Karl Pearson and the Defense of Eugenics
794(5)
War and Revolution, 1914--1920
799(32)
The Visual Record: Selling the Great War
800(4)
The War Europe Expected
802(1)
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(6)
A New Kind of Warfare
806(1)
Technology and the Trenches
806(2)
The German Offensive
808(2)
War on the Eastern Front
810(1)
Map Discovery: World War I
810(10)
War on the Western Front
811(2)
War on the Periphery
813(1)
Adjusting to the Unexpected: Total War
814(1)
Mobilizing the Home Front
815(1)
Silencing Dissent
816(1)
The Russian Revolution and Allied Victory
817(1)
Revolution in Russia
817(6)
The United States Enters the Great War
823(2)
Settling the Peace
825(1)
Wilson's Fourteen Points
826(1)
Treaties and Territories
827
A Closer Look The Women Who Started the Russian Revolution
820(11)
All Quiet on the Western Front
807(2)
``Dulce Et Decorum Est''
809(6)
War at Home
815(7)
War Communism
822(9)
The European Search for Stability, 1920--1939
831(36)
The Visual Record: The Hard Lessons of Inflation
832(26)
Geographical Tour: Europe After 1918
834(1)
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(1)
International Loans and Trade Barriers
838(2)
The Great Depression
840(2)
The Soviet Union's Separate Path
842(1)
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(1)
Mussolini's Italy
850(1)
Mussolini's Plans for Empire
851(1)
Hitler and the Third Reich
852(1)
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)
The Depression for Women
841(3)
The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
844(4)
The Law on the Abolition of Legal Abortion, 1936
848(8)
Adolf Hitler on ``Racial Purity''
856(11)
Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939--1945
867(30)
The Visual Record: Precursor of War: The Annexation of Austria
868(4)
Aggression and Conquest
870(1)
Hitler's Foreign Policy and Appeasement
870(1)
Hitler's War, 1939--1941
871(1)
Map Discovery: World War II in Europe
872(17)
Collaboration and Resistance
874(1)
Racism and Destruction
875(1)
Enforcing Nazi Racial Policies
875(1)
The Destruction of Europe's Jews
876(5)
Allied Victory
881(1)
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)
Manifesto of the Jewish Resistance in Vilna, September 1943
880(4)
President Franklin Roosevelt's Request for a Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941
884(1)
Japan's Declaration of War on the United States and Great Britain, 8 December 1941
885(5)
``Glittering Fragments''
890(7)
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(10)
The Nuclear Club
904(1)
Decolonization and the Cold War
905(2)
Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union
907(1)
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(1)
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 Iron Curtain
901(8)
The Marshall Plan
909(5)
Report to the Twentieth Party Congress
914(6)
The Second Sex
920(3)
``Subterranean Homesick Blues''
923(6)
The End of the Cold War and New Global Challenges, 1970 to the Present
929
The Visual Record: The Berlin Wall Comes Down
930(13)
The End of the Cold War and the Emergence of a New Europe
932(1)
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
Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism
944(1)
The Chechen Challenge
944(3)
War in the Balkans
947(2)
The West in the Global Community
949(1)
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
Career Advancement, Communist-Style
940(6)
A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya
946(8)
The Return of Fascism?
954
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Credits1(1)
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