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The Mainstream of Civilization Since 1500

by: Chodorow, Stanley; Knox, MacGregor; Schirokauer, Conrad

The Mainstream of Civilization Since 1500

by: Chodorow, Stanley; Knox, MacGregor; Schirokauer, Conrad

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9780155011991
ISBN 10:
0155011995
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/02/1994
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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Preface

iii

List of Maps

Introduction

xiii

Prologue

xix

The Revival of Europe

403

(22)

The Background of the Renaissance

404

(1)

The City-States of Northern Italy

405

(3)

Italian Urban Civilization

408

(2)

Family Life

410

(1)

The Renaissance

411

(4)

Economic Growth in Northern Europe

415

(1)

Political Consolidation and Centralization

416

(9)

Religious Reform and Revolution in Western Christendom

425

(24)

Efforts to Reform the Church

426

(1)

The Papacy's Triumph over the conciliar Movement

427

(2)

The Problems of the Renaissance Church

429

(1)

Responses to Corruption

430

(2)

Luther's Revolt

432

(4)

The Spread of Lutheranism

436

(1)

Other Protestant Movements

437

(3)

The Radicals

440

(1)

Anglicanism

441

(1)

The Catholic Reformation and the Counter Reformation

442

(7)

The Age of Discovery

449

(26)

The Emergence of Oceanic Trade

449

(3)

The First Explorations

452

(3)

The Spanish Empire in the Americas

455

(2)

Imperial Spain: The Reign of Philip II

457

(3)

The Revolt of the Netherlands

460

(2)

Elizabethan England

462

(2)

The French Wars of Religion

464

(3)

The European World in the Late Sixteenth Century

467

(2)

Art, Literature, and Science

469

(6)

Political And Economic Crises: The Seventeenth Century

475

(30)

France's Search for Order and Authority, 1598--1661

476

(4)

England: In Search of Civil and Religious Liberty, 1603--60

480

(7)

Germany: Disintegration and Disaster, 1618--48

487

(5)

Dutch Unrest and Spanish Decline

492

(1)

Europe's Population and Economy in Crisis

493

(4)

The European Empires

497

(8)

Absolutism And Constitutionalism, 1660--1715

505

(26)

The France of Louis XIV

506

(7)

England: the Emergence of Parliamentary Monarchy

513

(7)

Central and Eastern Europe, 1648--1712

520

(9)

Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Balance of Power

529

(2)

The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment

531

(26)

The Scientific Revolution

531

(8)

The Culture of the Baroque

539

(2)

Origins of the Enlightenment: Seventeenth-Century Thought about Humanity

541

(2)

The Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment

543

(8)

Arts and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

551

(2)

The Limits of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Literature

553

(4)

The Twilight of the Old Regime, 1715--1789

557

(26)

The State System

558

(2)

Peace and Prosperity, 1715--40

560

(6)

The World Wars of Mid-Century, 1740-63

566

(5)

Enlightened Absolutism, 1763--89

571

(6)

Britain, France, and the American Revolution, 1763--89

577

(6)

The French Revolution and Europe, 1789--1815

583

(28)

The Origins of the Revolution

583

(2)

The Revolutionary Breakthrough, 1788--89

585

(5)

The Failure of Constitutional Monarchy, 1789--91

590

(1)

War, Terror, and Dictatorship, 1792--94

591

(6)

France from the Convention to the Directory, 1794--99

597

(1)

Son of the Revolution: Bonaparte, 1799--1815

598

(13)

The Demographic and Industrial Revolutions, 1750--1914

611

(24)

The Starting Point: The Biological and Economic ``Old Regime''

612

(4)

The Industrial Revolution: Causes

616

(3)

The First Industrial Revolution, 1750--1850

619

(3)

The Second Industrial Revolution: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth

622

(5)

The Industrial Revolution: Human and Social Consequences

627

(8)

The Nineteenth-Century Revolution of Ideas

635

(22)

The Force of Ideas

636

(14)

Ideas and Social Reality: The State, Workers, and Women

650

(7)

The Breakthrough of The Nation-State, 1815--1871

657

(26)

Under the Shadow of Revolution: The Congress of Vienna and After, 1814--48

658

(6)

The End of Revolution in Western Europe, 1848--50

664

(6)

The Making of Italy and Germany, 1851--71

670

(13)

Europe and the World In The Nineteenth Century

683

(28)

The British World Empire

684

(9)

Britain's Rivals: France, Germany, Italy, Russia

693

(2)

Britain's Legacy in North America: The Expansion of the United States

695

(8)

The Non-Western world: Resistance and Emulation, Failure and success

703

(8)

Europe in The Long Peace, 1871--1914

711

(28)

European Politics and Society

712

(15)

Battles for Women's Rights

727

(2)

Rise and Fall of the cult of Science

729

(4)

Art in an Age of Science

733

(6)

European From Balance to Breakdown, 1871--1914

739

(30)

The Forces behind Diplomacy

740

(4)

Bismarck the Conservative, 1871--90

744

(5)

The Breakthrough to World Politics, 1890--1904

749

(8)

Germany on the Loose, 1905--14

757

(7)

From Balkan Crisis to German War: July 1914

764

(5)

War and Revolution, 1914--1929

769

(30)

The War of Movement, 1914

769

(3)

The Indusrial and Geographic Balance

772

(2)

Politics, Society, and the ``Home Front''

774

(2)

Attrition, 1915--16

776

(3)

The War in the Balance, 1917

779

(6)

Germany's Last Throw, 1918

785

(3)

Treaties without Peace, 1919--22

788

(5)

Wars after the War, 1919--23

793

(2)

The Illusions of Locarno, 1925--29

795

(4)

The World Between The Wars, 1919--1989

799

(28)

The Twenties: A Golden Age?

799

(6)

The Great Depression

805

(2)

The West and the Wider World, 1919--39

807

(6)

The Thirties: The Democracies Falter

813

(3)

The Age of Uncertainty: Science, Society, and Culture between Two Wars

816

(11)

The Totalitarian States

827

(30)

Russia: From Revolution to Genocide

828

(5)

Italy: From Dictatorship to Expansion, 1922--40

833

(5)

Germany: From War to War

838

(6)

The Road to War, 1936--39

844

(13)

From Second World War to Cold War, 1939--49

857

(34)

The New Warfare

858

(2)

From European to Global War, 1939--41

860

(8)

The ``Final Solution''

868

(2)

The Home Front: Bureaucracy, Propaganda, Terror, Death

870

(1)

Global War, 1941--45

871

(11)

The Cold War

882

(9)

The Age of Containment, 1949--75

891

(32)

Confrontation in Europe and Asia, 1949--53

892

(5)

The Adventures of Nikita Sergeyvich Khrushchev, 1953--64

897

(6)

Peace and War in the Shadow of the Cold War

903

(6)

The Agony of Containment: America in Vietnam

909

(7)

Mass Culture and ``Counterculture''

916

(7)

The Non-Western World from the Forties to the Nineties

923

(26)

Decolonization: Ideological Winds of Change

923

(2)

Decolonization: Birth of the New Nations

925

(7)

After Independence: The ``Third World'' Divided

932

(17)

The End of the Cold War Era

949

(1)

The Soviet Empire from Expansion to Collapse, 1975--91

950

(7)

War and Peace in Asia

957

(2)

Western Europe in Search of Itself

959

(4)

War and Peace in the Middle East, 1975--93

963

(3)

New World Disorder

970

(4)

Toward the Twenty-First Century

974

(4)

The Widening of Narrowing of the West

978

Illustration Credits

C-1

Index

I-1

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