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Western Civilization A Brief History (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

by: Spielvogel, Jackson J.

Western Civilization A Brief History (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

by: Spielvogel, Jackson J.

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9780534627218
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0534627218
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/19/2004
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This brief, best-selling Western civilization text has helped thousands of students learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. Each chapter offers a substantial introduction and conclusion that sparks students' imaginations by giving them a context within which to understand these disparate themes. And while the single-author narrative makes it easy for students to follow the story of Western civilization, Spielvogel has included dozens of maps and primary sources--including official documents, poems, and songs--that enliven the past while introducing students to the challenges involved in interpreting history. This edition includes substantial new material on world history to show students the impact of other parts of the world on Western civilization and is now the BRIEFEST of the leading brief Western civilization texts.Available in the following split options:WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Third Edition (Chapters 1-29), ISBN: 0-534-62721-8; WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Volume I: To 1715, Third Edition (Chapters 1-16), ISBN: 0-534-62722-6; WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Volume II: Since 1500, Third Edition (Chapters 13-29), ISBN: 0-534-62723-4.

Documents

Maps

Chronologies

xxii

Preface

xxiii

Introduction to Students of Western Civilization

xxix

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

(21)

The First Humans

(3)

The Hunter-Gatherers of the Old Stone Age

(1)

The Agricultural Revolution, c. 10,000--4000 B.C.

(2)

The Emergence of Civilization

(1)

Civilization in Mesopotamia

(6)

The City-States of Ancient Mesopotamia

(2)

Empires in Ancient Mesopotamia

(2)

The Culture of Mesopotamia

(2)

Egyptian Civilization: ``The Gift of the Nile''

(10)

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

(1)

Society and Economy in Ancient Egypt

(1)

The Culture of Egypt

(3)

Chaos and a New Order: The New Kingdom

(1)

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Family and Marriage

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(1)

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

(16)

On the Fringes of Civilization

(1)

The Impact of the Indo-Europeans

(1)

The Hebrews: ``The Children of Israel''

(5)

The United Kingdom

(1)

The Divided Kingdom

(1)

The Spiritual Dimensions of Israel

(2)

The Neighbors of the Israelites

(1)

The Assyrian Empire

(3)

Assyrian Society and Culture

(1)

The Persian Empire

(6)

Governing the Empire

(1)

Persian Religion

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(1)

The Civilization of the Greeks

(20)

Early Greece

(2)

Minoan Crete

(1)

The First Greek State: The Mycenaeans

(1)

The Greeks in a Dark Age (c. 1100--c. 750 B.C.)

Homer

(2)

The World of the Greek City-States (c. 750--c. 500 B.C.)

(4)

The Polis

(1)

Colonization and the Rise of Tyrants

(1)

Sparta

(2)

Athens

(1)

The High Point of Greek Civilization: Classical Greece

(11)

The Challenge of Persia

(1)

The Growth of an Athenian Empire in the Age of Pericles

(2)

The Great Peloponnesian War and the Decline of the Greek States

(1)

The Culture of Classical Greece

(4)

Greek Religion

(1)

Daily Life in Classical Athens

(3)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

The Hellenistic World

(15)

The Rise of Macedonia and the Conquests of Alexander

(3)

Alexander the Great

(3)

The World of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

(4)

Hellenistic Cities

(1)

Economic and Social Trends in the Hellenistic World

(2)

Culture in the Hellenistic World

(7)

New Directions in Literature and Art

(1)

A Golden Age of Science

(1)

Philosophy: New Schools of Thought

(1)

Religion in the Hellenistic World

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

The Roman Republic

(20)

The Emergence of Rome

(1)

The Greeks and Etruscans

(1)

Early Rome

(1)

The Roman Republic (c. 509--264 B.C.)

(4)

The Roman State

(1)

The Roman Conquest of Italy

(2)

The Roman Conquest of the Mediterranean (264--133 B.C.)

(2)

The Struggle with Carthage

(1)

The Eastern Mediterranean

(1)

The Nature of Roman Imperialism

(1)

Society and Culture in the Roman World

(5)

Roman Religion

(1)

The Growth of Slavery

(1)

The Roman Family

(1)

The Evolution of Roman Law

(1)

The Development of Literature and Art

(1)

Values and Attitudes

(1)

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic (133--31 B.C.)

(7)

A New Role for the Roman Army: Marius and Sulla

(1)

The Collapse of the Republic

(3)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

The Roman Empire

(20)

The Age of Augustus (31 B.C.--A.D. 14)

(2)

The New Order

(2)

Augustan Society

(1)

The Early Empire (14--180)

(4)

The Five ``Good Emperors'' (96--180)

(1)

The Roman Empire at Its Height: Frontiers and Provinces

(1)

Prosperity in the Early Empire

(2)

Roman Culture and Society in the Early Empire

100

(4)

The Golden Age of Latin Literature

100

(2)

The Silver Age of Latin Literature

102

(1)

Roman Law

102

(1)

The Upper-Class Roman Family

102

(1)

Imperial Rome

102

(1)

The Gladiatorial Shows

103

(1)

Crisis and the Late Empire

104

(3)

The Terrible Third Century

104

(1)

The Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine

105

(2)

Transformation of the Roman World: The Development of Christianity

107

(6)

The Religious World of the Roman Empire

107

(1)

The Jewish Background

107

(1)

The Rise of Christianity

107

(2)

The Growth of Christianity

109

(2)

Conclusion

111

(1)

Notes

111

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

111

(2)

The Passing of the Roman World and the Emergence of Medieval Civilization

113

(21)

Transformation of the Roman World: The Role of the Germanic Peoples

114

(5)

End of the Western Empire

114

(1)

The New Kingdoms

114

(3)

The Society of the Germanic Peoples

117

(2)

The Role and Development of the Christian Church

119

(6)

Organization and Religious Disputes

119

(1)

The Power of the Pope

119

(1)

The Monks and Their Missions

119

(5)

Christianity and Intellectual Life

124

(1)

The Byzantine Empire

125

(3)

The Reign of Justinian (527--565)

125

(2)

From Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire

127

(1)

The Rise of Islam

128

(6)

Muhammad and Islam

128

(1)

The Expansion of Islam

129

(3)

Conclusion

132

(1)

Notes

132

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

132

(2)

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750--1000

134

(19)

The World of the Carolingians

135

(5)

Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire (768--814)

135

(2)

The Carolingian Intellectual Renewal

137

(1)

Life in the Carolingian World

138

(2)

Disintegration of the Carolingian Empire

140

(2)

Invasions of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

141

(1)

The Emerging World of Lords and Vassals

142

(3)

The Manorial System

144

(1)

The Zenith of Byzantine Civilization

145

(2)

The Slavic Peoples of Central and Eastern Europe

147

(1)

The World of Islam

148

(5)

Islamic Civilization

150

(1)

Conclusion

151

(1)

Notes

151

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

151

(2)

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

153

(17)

Land and People in the High Middle Ages

154

(5)

The New Agriculture

154

(2)

Daily Life of the Peasantry

156

(1)

The Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages

157

(2)

The New World of Trade and Cities

159

(3)

The Revival of Trade

159

(1)

The Growth of Cities

160

(1)

Life in the Medieval City

161

(1)

Industry in Medieval Cities

162

(1)

The Intellectual and Artistic World of the High Middle Ages

162

(8)

The Rise of Universities

163

(1)

A Revival of Classical Antiquity

164

(1)

The Development of Scholasticism

165

(1)

Literature in the High Middle Ages

166

(1)

Romanesque Architecture: ``A White Mantle of Churches''

166

(1)

The Gothic Cathedral

167

(1)

Conclusion

168

(1)

Notes

168

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

168

(2)

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

170

(21)

The Emergence and Growth of European Kingdoms, 1000--1300

171

(7)

England in the High Middle Ages

171

(1)

The Growth of the French Kingdom

171

(2)

Christian Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms

173

(1)

The Lands of the Holy Roman Empire: Germany and Italy

174

(2)

New Kingdoms in Eastern Europe

176

(1)

The Mongol Empire

177

(1)

The Development of Russia

177

(1)

The Recovery and Reform of the Catholic Church

178

(1)

The Problems of Decline

178

(1)

The Cluniac Reform Movement

178

(1)

Reform of the Papacy

179

(1)

Christianity and Medieval Civilization

179

(5)

Growth of the Papal Monarchy

179

(1)

New Religious Orders and Spiritual Ideals

180

(1)

Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages

181

(1)

Voices of Protest and Intolerance

182

(2)

The Crusades

184

(7)

Background to the Crusades

184

(1)

The Early Crusades

185

(2)

The Crusades of the Thirteenth Century

187

(1)

Effects of the Crusades

187

(2)

Conclusion

189

(1)

Notes

189

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

190

(1)

The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

191

(18)

A Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis

192

(4)

The Black Death

192

(3)

Economic Dislocation and Social Upheaval

195

(1)

War and Political Instability

196

(5)

The Hundred Years' War

196

(2)

Political Instability

198

(1)

Western Europe: England and France

199

(1)

The German Monarchy

200

(1)

The States of Italy

201

(1)

The Decline of the Church

201

(3)

Boniface VIII and the Conflict with the State

201

(1)

The Papacy at Avignon (1305--1378)

202

(1)

The Great Schism

203

(1)

Culture and Society in an Age of Adversity

204

(5)

The Development of Vernacular Literature

204

(1)

Art and the Black Death

205

(1)

Changes in Urban Life

206

(1)

Inventions and New Patterns

206

(1)

Conclusion

207

(1)

Notes

207

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

207

(2)

Recovery and Rebirth: The Renaissance

209

(22)

Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance

210

(1)

The Making of Renaissance Society

210

(5)

Economic Recovery

211

(1)

Social Changes in the Renaissance

212

(1)

Family and Marriage in Renaissance Italy

213

(2)

The Italian States in the Renaissance

215

(2)

Machiavelli and the New Statecraft

216

(1)

The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy

217

(3)

Italian Renaissance Humanism

217

(1)

Education in the Renaissance

218

(1)

The Impact of Printing

219

(1)

The Artistic Renaissance

220

(4)

The Northern Artistic Renaissance

223

(1)

The European State in the Renaissance

224

(3)

The Renaissance State in Western Europe

224

(2)

Central Europe: The Holy Roman Empire

226

(1)

The Struggle for Strong Monarchy in Eastern Europe

226

(1)

The Ottoman Turks and the End of the Byzantine Empire

227

(1)

The Church in the Renaissance

227

(4)

The Problems of Heresy and Reform

227

(1)

The Renaissance Papacy

227

(2)

Conclusion

229

(1)

Notes

229

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

229

(2)

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

231

(19)

Prelude to Reformation

232

(1)

Christian or Northern Renaissance Humanism

232

(1)

Church and Religion on the Eve of the Reformation

233

(1)

Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany

233

(4)

The Early Luther

233

(2)

The Development of Lutheranism

235

(1)

Germany and the Reformation: Religion and Politics

236

(1)

The Spread of the Protestant Reformation

237

(4)

The Zwinglian Reformation

237

(1)

The Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists

238

(2)

The Reformation in England

240

(1)

John Calvin and the Development of Calvinism

240

(1)

The Social Impact of the Protestant Reformation

241

(1)

The Family

241

(1)

Religious Practices and Popular Culture

242

(1)

The Catholic Reformation

242

(3)

The Society of Jesus

243

(1)

A Revived Papacy

244

(1)

The Council of Trent

244

(1)

Politics and the Wars of Religion in the Sixteenth Century

245

(5)

The French Wars of Religion (1562--1598)

245

(1)

Philip II and the Cause of Militant Catholicism

245

(1)

The Revolt of the Netherlands

246

(1)

The England of Elizabeth

246

(2)

Conclusion

248

(1)

Notes

248

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

249

(1)

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500--1800

250

(21)

On the Brink of a New World

251

(1)

Motives and Means

252

(1)

New Horizons: The Portuguese and Spanish Empires

252

(5)

The Development of a Portuguese Maritime Empire

252

(1)

Voyages to the New World

253

(1)

The Spanish Empire in the New World

254

(3)

New Rivals on the World Stage

257

(7)

Africa: The Slave Trade

257

(1)

The West in Southeast Asia

258

(1)

The French and British in India

259

(2)

China

261

(2)

Japan

263

(1)

The Americas

263

(1)

Toward a World Economy

264

(2)

Economic Conditions in the Sixteenth Century

264

(1)

The Growth of Commercial Capitalism

265

(1)

Mercantilism

265

(1)

Overseas Trade and Colonies: Movement Toward Globalization

265

(1)

The Impact of European Expansion

266

(5)

The Conquered

266

(1)

The Conquerors

267

(2)

Conclusion

269

(1)

Notes

269

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

270

(1)

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

271

(21)

Social Crises, War, and Rebellions

272

(3)

The Witchcraft Craze

272

(2)

The Thirty Years' War (1618--1648)

274

(1)

Rebellions

274

(1)

The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe

275

(3)

France and Absolute Monarchy

275

(3)

The Decline of Spain

278

(1)

Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe

278

(4)

The German States

278

(1)

The Emergence of Austria

279

(1)

Russia: From Fledgling Principality to Major Power

279

(2)

The Ottoman Empire

281

(1)

The Limits of Absolutism

282

(1)

Limited Monarchy: The Dutch Republic and England

282

(4)

The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

283

(1)

England and the Emergence of the Constitutional Monarchy

283

(3)

The Flourishing of European Culture

286

(6)

The Changing Faces of Art

286

(2)

A Wondrous Age of Theater

288

(2)

Conclusion

290

(1)

Notes

290

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

290

(2)

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

292

(15)

Background to the Scientific Revolution

293

(1)

Toward a New Heaven: A Revolution in Astronomy

294

(4)

Copernicus

295

(1)

Kepler

295

(1)

Galileo

296

(1)

Newton

297

(1)

Advances in Medicine

298

(1)

Women in the Origins of Modern Science

299

(2)

Toward a New Earth: Descartes, Rationalism, and a New View of Humankind

301

(1)

Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century

302

(1)

The Spread of Scientific Knowledge

303

(4)

The Scientific Method

303

(1)

The Scientific Societies

304

(1)

Science and Society

305

(1)

Conclusion

305

(1)

Notes

306

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

306

(1)

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment

307

(16)

The Enlightenment

308

(7)

The Paths to Enlightenment

308

(1)

The Philosophes and Their Ideas

309

(5)

The Social Environment of the Philosophes

314

(1)

Culture and Society in the Age of Enlightenment

315

(4)

Innovations in Art, Music, and Literature

315

(2)

The High Culture of the Eighteenth Century

317

(1)

Popular Culture

318

(1)

Crime and Punishment

319

(1)

Religion and the Churches

319

(4)

Toleration and Religious Minorities

320

(1)

Popular Religion in the Eighteenth Century

321

(1)

Conclusion

321

(1)

Notes

322

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

322

(1)

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

323

(17)

The European States

324

(6)

Enlightened Absolutism?

324

(1)

The Atlantic Seaboard States

325

(2)

Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe

327

(3)

Enlightened Absolutism Revisited

330

(1)

Wars and Diplomacy

330

(2)

The Seven Years' War (1756--1763)

330

(2)

Economic Expansion and Social Change

332

(3)

Population and Food

332

(1)

Family, Marriage, and Birthrate Patterns

333

(1)

New Methods of Finance and Industry

334

(1)

The Social Order of the Eighteenth Century

335

(5)

The Peasants

335

(1)

The Nobility

336

(1)

The Inhabitants of Towns and Cities

336

(2)

Conclusion

338

(1)

Notes

338

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

338

(2)

Revolutionary Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

340

(19)

Start of a Revolutionary Era: The American Revolution

341

(1)

Forming a New Nation

342

(1)

The French Revolution

342

(10)

Background to the French Revolution

342

(2)

Destruction of the Old Regime

344

(3)

The Radical Revolution

347

(5)

Reaction and the Directory

352

(1)

The Age of Napoleon

352

(7)

The Rise of Napoleon

353

(1)

The Domestic Policies of Emperor Napoleon

353

(2)

Napoleon's Empire and the European Response

355

(2)

Conclusion

357

(1)

Notes

358

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

358

(1)

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

359

(17)

The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain

360

(4)

Origins of the Industrial Revolution

360

(1)

Technological Changes and New Forms of Industrial Organization

361

(2)

The Great Exhibition: Britain in 1851

363

(1)

The Spread of Industrialization

364

(4)

Industrialization on the Continent

364

(2)

The Industrial Revolution in the United States

366

(2)

Limiting the Spread of Industrialization to the Nonindustrialized World

368

(1)

The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

368

(8)

Population Growth

368

(1)

The Growth of Cities

369

(1)

New Social Classes: The Industrial Middle Class

370

(1)

New Social Classes: Workers in the Industrial Age

371

(2)

Efforts at Change: The Workers

373

(1)

Efforts at Change: Reformers and Government

373

(1)

Conclusion

374

(1)

Notes

374

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

374

(2)

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815--1850

376

(18)

The Conservative Order, 1815--1830

377

(5)

The Conservative Domination: The Concert of Europe

377

(3)

The Conservative Domination: The European States

380

(2)

The Ideologies of Change

382

(2)

Liberalism

382

(1)

Nationalism

382

(1)

Early Socialism

383

(1)

Revolution and Reform, 1830--1850

384

(5)

The Revolutions of 1830

385

(1)

The Revolutions of 1848

385

(3)

The Growth of the United States

388

(1)

Culture in an Age of Reaction and Revolution: The Mood of Romanticism

389

(5)

The Characteristics of Romanticism

389

(1)

Romantic Poets and the Love of Nature

389

(1)

Romanticism in Art and Music

390

(2)

Conclusion

392

(1)

Notes

392

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

392

(2)

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850--1871

394

(18)

The France of Napoleon III

395

(2)

Louis Napoleon and the Second Napoleonic Empire

395

(1)

Foreign Policy: The Crimean War

396

(1)

National Unification: Italy and Germany

397

(3)

The Unification of Italy

397

(1)

The Unification of Germany

398

(2)

Nation Building and Reform: The National State in Mid-Century

400

(5)

The Austrian Empire: Toward a Dual Monarchy

400

(2)

Imperial Russia

402

(1)

Great Britain: The Victorian Age

403

(1)

The United States: Civil War and Reunion

404

(1)

The Emergence of a Canadian Nation

405

(1)

Industrialization and the Marxist Response

405

(2)

Marx and Marxism

405

(2)

Science and Culture in an Age of Realism

407

(5)

A New Age of Science

407

(1)

Charles Darwin and the Theory of Organic Evolution

407

(2)

Realism in Literature and Art

409

(1)

Conclusion

410

(1)

Notes

411

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

411

(1)

Mass Society in an ``Age of Progress,'' 1871--1894

412

(19)

The Spread of Industrial Prosperity

413

(5)

New Products and New Markets

413

(1)

New Patterns in an Industrial Economy

414

(2)

Women and Work: New Job Opportunities

416

(1)

Organizing the Working Classes

417

(1)

The Emergence of Mass Society

418

(8)

Population Growth

418

(1)

Transformation of the Urban Environment

418

(2)

The Social Structure of Mass Society

420

(2)

The ``Woman Question'': The Role of Women

422

(2)

Education and Leisure in the Mass Society

424

(2)

The National State

426

(5)

Western Europe: The Growth of Political Democracy

428

(1)

Central and Eastern Europe: Persistence of the Old Order

428

(1)

Conclusion

429

(1)

Notes

430

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

430

(1)

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894--1914

431

(21)

Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments

432

(5)

Developments in the Sciences: A New Physics

432

(1)

Toward a New Understanding of the Irrational: Nietzsche

433

(1)

Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

433

(1)

The Impact of Darwin: Social Darwinism and Racism

434

(1)

The Culture of Modernity

435

(2)

Politics: New Directions and New Uncertainties

437

(5)

The Movement for Women's Rights

437

(2)

Jews in the European Nation-State

439

(1)

The Transformation of Liberalism: Great Britain

440

(1)

Growing Tensions in Germany

440

(1)

Industrialization and Revolution in Imperial Russia

440

(1)

The Rise of the United States

441

(1)

The Growth of Canada

441

(1)

The New Imperialism

442

(6)

The Creation of Empires

442

(3)

Responses to Imperialism

445

(3)

International Rivalry and the Coming of War

448

(4)

New Directions and New Crises

448

(1)

Crises in the Balkans, 1908--1913

448

(2)

Conclusion

450

(1)

Notes

451

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

451

(1)

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

452

(19)

The Road to World War I

453

(2)

Nationalism and Internal Dissent

453

(1)

Militarism

453

(1)

The Outbreak of War: The Summer of 1914

454

(1)

The War

455

(7)

1914--1915: Illusions and Stalemate

455

(2)

1916--1917: The Great Slaughter

457

(1)

The Widening of the War

458

(2)

The Home Front: The Impact of Total War

460

(2)

War and Revolution

462

(4)

The Russian Revolution

462

(3)

The Last Year of the War

465

(1)

The Peace Settlement

466

(5)

The Treaty of Versailles

467

(1)

The Other Peace Treaties

468

(1)

Conclusion

469

(1)

Notes

470

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

470

(1)

The Futile Search for a New Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919--1939

471

(18)

An Uncertain Peace: The Search for Security

472

(2)

The Great Depression

473

(1)

The Democratic States

474

(1)

Retreat from Democracy: The Authoritarian and Totalitarian States

475

(8)

Fascist Italy

475

(2)

Hitler and Nazi Germany

477

(3)

Soviet Russia

480

(2)

Authoritarian States

482

(1)

The Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure

483

(1)

Radio and Movies

484

(1)

Mass Leisure

484

(1)

Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years

484

(5)

Nightmares and New Visions: Art and Music

485

(1)

The Search for the Unconscious

486

(1)

The ``Heroic Age of Physics''

486

(1)

Conclusion

487

(1)

Notes

488

(1)

Suggestions for Further Readings

488

(1)

The Deepening European Crisis: World War II

489

(20)

Prelude to War

490

(2)

The ``Diplomatic Revolution,'' 1933--1937

490

(1)

The Path to War, 1938--1939

490

(2)

The Course of World War II

492

(6)

Victory and Stalemate

492

(2)

The War in Asia

494

(1)

The Turning Point of the War, 1942--1943

495

(2)

The Last Years of the War

497

(1)

The Nazi New Order

498

(3)

The Nazi Empire

498

(1)

The Holocaust

499

(2)

The Home Front

501

(4)

The Mobilization of Peoples: Three Examples

501

(2)

Civilians on the Front Line: The Bombing of Cities

503

(2)

Aftermath: Cold War

505

(4)

The Conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam

505

(2)

Conclusion

507

(1)

Notes

507

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

508

(1)

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945--1970

509

(22)

Development of the Cold War

510

(4)

Confrontation of the Superpowers

510

(2)

New Sources of Contention

512

(1)

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Move Toward Detente

513

(1)

The End of European Colonies

514

(4)

Africa: The Struggle for Independence

514

(1)

Conflict in the Middle East

515

(1)

Asia: Nationalism and Communism

516

(2)

Recovery and Renewal in Europe

518

(5)

The Soviet Union: From Stalin to Khrushchev

518

(1)

Eastern Europe: Behind the Iron Curtain

519

(2)

Western Europe: The Revival of Democracy and the Economy

521

(2)

Western Europe: The Move Toward Unity

523

(1)

The United States and Canada: A New Era

523

(2)

American Politics and Society in the 1950s

523

(1)

An Age of Upheaval: America in the 1960s

524

(1)

The Development of Canada

524

(1)

The Emergence of a New Society

525

(6)

The Structure of European Society

525

(1)

Patterns New and Old: Women in the Postwar Western World

525

(2)

The Permissive Society

527

(1)

Education and Student Revolt

527

(2)

Conclusion

529

(1)

Notes

529

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

529

(2)

The Contemporary Western World (Since 1970)

531

(22)

Moving Beyond the Cold War: A New World Order?

532

(1)

The End of the Cold War

532

(1)

Toward a New Western Order

533

(11)

The Revolutionary Era in the Soviet Union

533

(3)

Eastern Europe: The Collapse of the Communist Order

536

(2)

The Reunification of Germany

538

(1)

The Disintegration of Yugoslavia

539

(1)

Western Europe: The Winds of Change

540

(2)

The United States: The American Domestic Scene

542

(2)

Contemporary Canada

544

(1)

New Directions and New Problems in Western Society

544

(2)

Transformation in Women's Lives

544

(1)

The Growth of Terrorism

545

(1)

The Environment and the Green Movements

545

(1)

The World of Western Culture

546

(4)

Trends in Art and Literature

546

(1)

The Revival of Religion

547

(1)

The New World of Science and Technology

548

(1)

The Explosion of Popular Culture

548

(2)

Toward a Global Civilization?

550

(3)

Notes

551

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

551

(2)

Glossary

553

(10)

Pronunciation Guide

563

(8)

Credits

571

(4)

Index

575

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