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Western Heritage, Volume II, The: Since 1648, Brief Edition

by: Kagan, Donald M.; Ozment, Steven; Turner, Frank M.; Frankforter, A. Daniel

ISBN: 9780130415776 | 0130415774

Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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Summary Table of Contents

For one-quarter/semester introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization; or a supplemental text in Art History or other basic cultural history surveys. This concise survey of Western civilization (based on the best-selling The Western Heritage, Seventh Edition), provides an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural development of Western civilizationits strengths and weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding it. This brief edition condenses the central narrativewithout compromising on vocabulary or conceptual levelto make it more fully accessible to today's students, and to allow instructors greater opportunity to supplement the course with extensive outside readings, if desired.

Part 1 The Foundations of Western Civilization in the Ancient World

The Birth of Civilization

(20)

The Rise of Greek Civilization

(18)

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Classical and Hellenistic Greece

(21)

Rome: From Republic to Empire

(20)

The Roman Empire

(26)

Part 2 The Middle Ages, 476--1300

The Early Middle Ages (476--1000): The Birth of Europe

106

(21)

The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States (1000--1300)

127

(18)

Medieval Society: Hierachies, Towns, Universities, and Families (1000--1300)

145

(20)

Part 3 Europe in Transition, 1300--1750

The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300--1527)

165

(16)

Renaissance and Discovery

181

(20)

The Age of Reformation

201

(23)

The Age of Religious Wars

224

(17)

Paths to Constitutionalism and Absolutism: England and France in the Seventeenth Century

241

(19)

New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

260

(14)

Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power (1686--1740)

274

(15)

Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century

289

(21)

The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion

310

(21)

Part 4 Enlightenment and Revolution

The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought

331

(19)

The French Revolution

350

(20)

The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism

370

(20)

The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815--1832)

390

(22)

Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830--1850)

412

(19)

Part 5 Toward the Modern World

The Age of Nation-States

431

(19)

The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I

450

(21)

The Birth of Modern European Thought

471

(17)

Imperialism, Alliances, and War

488

(29)

Political Experiments of the 1920s

517

(18)

Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s

535

(15)

Part 6 Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions

World War II

550

(22)

Faces of the Twentieth Century: European Social Experiences

572

(21)

The Cold War Era and the Emergence of the New Europe

593

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