A History of Western Society, Volume II: From the age of Exploration to the Present: From the A...
ISBN: 9780312640606 | 0312640609
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 10/13/2010
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| European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650 | |
| World Contacts Before Columbus | |
| The Trade World of the Indian Ocean | |
| The Trading States of Africa | |
| The Ottoman and Persian Empires | |
| Genoese and Venetian Middlemen | |
| The European Voyages of Discovery | |
| Causes of European Expansion | |
| Technology and the Rise of Exploration | |
| The Portuguese Overseas Empire | |
| The Problem of Christopher Columbus | |
| Later Explorers | |
| Spanish Conquest in the New World | |
| Early French and English Settlement in the New World | |
| The Impact of Conquest | |
| Colonial Administration | |
| Impact of European Settlement on the Lives of Indigenous Peoples | |
| Life in the Colonies | |
| The Columbian Exchange | |
| Europe and the World After Columbus | |
| Sugar and Slavery | |
| Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects | |
| The Birth of the Global Economy | |
| Changing Attitudes and Beliefs | |
| New Ideas About Race | |
| Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity | |
| William Shakespeare and His Influence | |
| Looking Back, Looking Ahead | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage | |
| Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange | |
| Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja | |
| Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725 | |
| Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding | |
| Peasant Life in the Midst of Economic Crisis | |
| The Return of Serfdom in the East | |
| The Thirty Years' War | |
| Achievements in State-Building | |
| Warfare and the Growth of Army Size | |
| Popular Political Action | |
| Absolutism in France and Spain | |
| The Foundations of Absolutism | |
| Louis XIV and Absolutism | |
| Life at Versailles | |
| French Financial Management Under Colbert | |
| Louis XIV's Wars | |
| The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century | |
| Absolutism in Austria and Prussia | |
| The Austrian Habsburgs | |
| Prussia in the Seventeenth Century | |
| The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism | |
| The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire | |
| The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow | |
| The Tsar and People | |
| The Reforms of Peter the Great | |
| The Growth of the Ottoman Empire | |
| Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic | |
| Absolutist Claims in England | |
| Religious Divides and the English Civil War | |
| Cromwell and Puritanical Absolutism in England | |
| The Restoration of the English Monarchy | |
| Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government | |
| The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century | |
| Baroque Art and Music | |
| Looking Back, Looking Ahead | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Living in the Past: The Absolutist Palace | |
| Listening to the Past: A German Account of Russian Life | |
| Individuals in Society: Glã¼ckel of Hameln | |
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