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

by: Kishlansky, Mark; Geary, Patrick; O'Brien, Patricia

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

by: Kishlansky, Mark; Geary, Patrick; O'Brien, Patricia

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9780321416926
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0321416929
Edition: 6th
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Copyright: 01/01/2006
Publisher: Longman
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With 20 additional primary source documents, Volume II of Civilization in the West, Sixth Edition, Primary Source Edition, has everything students need to succeed in the course-a highly readable survey text that examines all aspects of Western civilization plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive. In addition, "Document Analysis" questions encourage students to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time. Book jacket.

Documents	p. xvii
Maps	p. xviii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures	p. xx
Preface	p. xxi
About the Authors	p. xxxiv
Europe at War, 1555-1648	p. 419
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society	p. 420
The Crises of the Western States	p. 422
The French Wars of Religion	p. 422
Map Discovery: Religious Divisions in France During the Wars of Religion	p. 423
One King, Two Faiths	p. 426
The World of Philip II	p. 429
Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V	p. 431
The Burgundian Inheritance	p. 431
The Revolt of the Netherlands	p. 432
The Struggles in Eastern Europe	p. 435
Kings and Diets in Poland	p. 435
Muscovy's Time of Troubles	p. 437
The Rise of Sweden	p. 437
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648	p. 439
Bohemia Revolts	p. 440
The War Widens	p. 442
Map Discovery: Population Loss in Germany During the Thirty Years' War	p. 444
The Long Quest for Peace	p. 444
A Closer Look: The Monstrous Regiment of Women	p. 424
Documents
Catholics and Huguenots	p. 428
Cannibals	p. 433
War Is Hell	p. 441
Fire and Sword	p. 443
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650	p. 449
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community	p. 450
Economic Life	p. 452
Rural Life	p. 452
Town Life	p. 455
Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe	p. 457
Economic Change	p. 457
Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600	p. 458
Social Life	p. 460
Social Constructs	p. 460
Social Structure	p. 462
Social Change	p. 464
Peasant Revolts	p. 466
Private and Community Life	p. 468
The Family	p. 468
Communities	p. 472
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches	p. 474
A Closer Look: Sex and Married Man	p. 476
Documents
Living by One's Wits	p. 454
The Peasants' Revolt	p. 467
A Feminine Perspective	p. 470
The Devil's Due	p. 475
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century	p. 483
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy	p. 484
The Rise of the Royal State	p. 486
Divine Kings	p. 486
The Court and the Courtiers	p. 488
The Drive to Centralize Government	p. 490
The Taxing Demands of War	p. 491
The Crises of the Royal State	p. 492
The Need to Resist	p. 493
The Right to Resist	p. 494
The English Civil War	p. 496
Map Discovery: English Civil War	p. 498
The English Revolutions	p. 499
The Zenith of the Royal State	p. 502
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy	p. 502
Absolutism in the East	p. 504
The Origins of French Absolutism	p. 506
Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great	p. 506
Louis le Grand	p. 507
Documents
A Glimpse of a King	p. 487
A Short, Sharp Shock	p. 497
The Nature of Man	p. 503
A Close Shave	p. 505
Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe	p. 513
The Visual Record: Rembrandt's Lessons: Anatomy and the New Science	p. 514
The New Science	p. 516
Heavenly Revolutions	p. 516
The Natural World	p. 519
Science Enthroned	p. 523
Empires of Goods	p. 525
The Marketplace of the World	p. 525
Map Discovery: Dutch Trade Routes, ca. 1650	p. 526
Consumption Choices	p. 527
Dutch Masters	p. 530
Mercantile Organization	p. 534
The Wars of Commerce	p. 536
The Mercantile Wars	p. 536
The Wars of Louis XIV	p. 540
Map Discovery: The Treaty of Utrecht	p. 543
The Colonial Wars	p. 543
Map Discovery: The Seven Years' War	p. 544
A Closer Look: The Dutch Tulip Mania of the Seventeenth Century	p. 532
The West and the Wider World The Nutmeg Wars	p. 538
Documents
Stargazing	p. 518
The Telescope	p. 520
Descartes Experiments	p. 524
Defining Commerce	p. 537
The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe	p. 547
The Visual Record: A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism	p. 548
Geographical Tour: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714	p. 550
Expansion of Western Europe	p. 551
Realignment in Eastern Europe	p. 554
The Rise of Russia	p. 555
The Reforms of Peter the Great	p. 556
Life in Rural Russia	p. 558
The Enlightened Empress Catherine	p. 558
The Two Germanies	p. 560
The Rise of Prussia	p. 560
Map Discovery: The Expansion of Prussia	p. 561
Austria Survives	p. 563
The Politics of Power	p. 565
The Greatness of Great Britain	p. 567
The British Constitution	p. 568
Map Discovery: The Partitions of Poland	p. 568
Parties and Ministers	p. 569
America Revolts	p. 572
The West and the Wider World The British Raj in India	p. 570
Documents
Captain Cook Encounters the Tahitians	p. 555
A King's-Eye View	p. 563
Military Discipline	p. 564
Unalienable Rights	p. 574
Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe	p. 577
The Visual Record: Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution	p. 578
Eighteenth-Century Culture	p. 580
The Enlightenment	p. 580
The Spirit of the Englightenment	p. 582
The Impact of the Englightenment	p. 585
Eighteenth-Century Society	p. 587
The Nobility	p. 587
The Bourgeoisie	p. 589
The Masses	p. 595
A Closer Look: Giving Birth in the Eighteenth Century	p. 598
Map Discovery: Cereal Crops in Europe	p. 600
Documents
The All-Knowing	p. 581
The Human Condition	p. 582
The Good of All	p. 586
Love and Marriage	p. 594
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815	p. 607
The Visual Record: Eighteenth-Century Revolution	p. 608
The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy	p. 610
The Political and Fiscal Crisis of Eighteenth-Century France	p. 610
Convening the Estates-General	p. 611
The Outbreak of Revolutionary Action in 1789	p. 613
Map Discovery: Revolutionary France	p. 615
Declaring Political Rights	p. 617
The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy	p. 620
Experimenting with Democracy, 1792-1799	p. 621
The Revolution of the People	p. 621
"Terror Is the Order of the Day"	p. 624
The End of the Revolution	p. 625
The Reign of Napoleon, 1799-1815	p. 626
Bonaparte Seizes Power	p. 626
Napoleon at War with the European Powers	p. 627
The First Empire and Domestic Reforms	p. 628
Map Discovery: Napoleon's Empire	p. 628
Decline and Fall	p. 630
A Closer Look: The Guillotine and Revolutionary Justice	p. 622
Documents
"What Is the Third Estate?"	p. 613
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	p. 618
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen	p. 619
The Civil Code of the Code Napoleon (1804)	p. 629
Industrial Europe	p. 635
The Visual Record: An Iron Forge: Machinery and Industrialization	p. 636
The Traditional Economy	p. 638
Farming Families	p. 638
Rural Manufacture	p. 639
Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800-1850	p. 639
The Agricultural Revolution	p. 641
The Industrial Revolution in Britain	p. 643
Britain First	p. 644
Map Discovery: Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources	p. 645
Minerals and Metals	p. 645
Cotton Is King	p. 647
The Iron Horse	p. 650
Entrepreneurs and Managers	p. 652
The Wages of Progress	p. 654
The Industrialization of the Continent	p. 660
France: Industrialization Without Revolution	p. 661
Map Discovery: Industrial Revolution on the Continent	p. 661
Germany: Industrialization and Union	p. 663
The Lands That Time Forgot	p. 665
A Closer Look: Industry and the Environment	p. 656
Document
The Wealth of Britain	p. 650
The Sin of Wages	p. 655
Exploiting the Young	p. 659
The Slavery of Labor	p. 665
Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850	p. 671
The Visual Record: Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies	p. 672
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815	p. 674
The Congress of Vienna	p. 674
The Alliance System	p. 678
The New Ideologies	p. 679
The New Politics of Preserving Order	p. 679
Romanticism and Change	p. 681
Reshaping State and Society	p. 684
Protest and Revolution	p. 688
Causes of Social Instability	p. 688
The Revolutions of 1830	p. 689
Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action	p. 693
Reform in Great Britain	p. 692
Workers Unite	p. 694
Revolutions Across Europe, 1848-1850	p. 696
Map Discovery: The Revolutions of 1848	p. 698
A Closer Look: The Birth of the Prison	p. 682
Documents
Young Italy (1832)	p. 685
The Communist Manifesto	p. 686
Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women	p. 695
State Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850-1871	p. 703
The Visual Record: The Birth of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck's Role	p. 704
Building Nations: The Politics of Unification	p. 706
The Crimean War	p. 706
Unifying Italy	p. 707
Map Discovery: The Crimean War	p. 707
Unifying Germany	p. 712
Map Discovery: The Unification of Germany	p. 713
The United States: Civil War and Reunification	p. 714
Nationalism and Force	p. 714
Reforming European Society	p. 715
The Second Empire in France, 1852-1870	p. 715
Victorian Political Reforms	p. 717
Reforming Russia	p. 720
The Politics of Leadership	p. 723
Changing Values and the Force of New Ideas	p. 723
The Politics of Homemaking	p. 724
Realism in the Arts	p. 726
Charles Darwin and the New Science	p. 728
Karl Marx and the Science of Society	p. 728
A New Revolution?	p. 730
A Closer Look: A Working Woman	p. 708
Documents
The Russian Emancipation Proclamation, 1861	p. 721
Mistress of the House	p. 725
On the Origin of Species, 1859	p. 730
The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914	p. 737
The Visual Record: Speeding to the Future: Mass Society and the Rejection of Tradition	p. 738
European Economy and the Politics of Mass Society	p. 740
Regulating Boom and Bust	p. 740
Challenging Liberal England	p. 742
Political Struggles in Germany	p. 743
Political Scandals and Mass Politics in France	p. 744
Defeating Liberalism in Austria	p. 747
Outsiders in Mass Politics	p. 748
Feminists and Politics	p. 748
The Jewish Question and Zionism	p. 751
Map Discovery: Jewish Migration	p. 752
Workers and Minorities on the Margins	p. 754
Shaping the New Consciousness	p. 755
The Authority of Science	p. 755
Establishing the Social Sciences	p. 756
The "New Woman" and the New Consciousness	p. 760
Art and the New Age	p. 762
The New Consumption	p. 763
A Closer Look: Sigmund Freud, Explorer of Dreams	p. 758
The West and the Wider World African Art and European Artists	p. 764
Documents
"J'Accuse"	p. 746
Constance Lytton	p. 751
"Angel" or Woman?	p. 761
Europe and the World, 1870-1914	p. 771
The Visual Record: The Politics of Mapmaking: The First Standardized Map of the World	p. 772
The European Balance of Power, 1870-1914	p. 774
Upsetting the European Balance of Power	p. 774
The Instability of the Alliance System	p. 775
The New Imperialism	p. 777
The Technology of Empire	p. 777
Motives for Empire	p. 778
The Search for Territory and Markets	p. 782
The Scramble for Africa: Diplomacy and Conflict	p. 782
Gold, Empire Building, and the Boer War	p. 785
Map Discovery: Africa, 1914	p. 786
Imperialism in Asia	p. 787
The Imperialism of the United States	p. 790
Results of a European-Dominated World	p. 791
A World Economy	p. 792
Map Discovery: World Colonial Holdings	p. 791
Race and Culture	p. 792
Women and Imperialism	p. 793
Ecology and Imperialism	p. 793
Critiquing Capitalism	p. 795
Documents
Leopold II of Belgium, Speech to an International Conference of Geographers, 12 September 1876	p. 780
Joseph Chamberlain's Speech to the Birmingham Relief Association	p. 783
Karl Pearson and the Defense of Eugenics	p. 794
War and Revolution, 1914-1920	p. 799
The Visual Record: Selling the Great War	p. 800
The War Europe Expected	p. 802
Separating Friends from Foes	p. 803
Military Timetables	p. 803
Assassination at Sarajevo	p. 804
Map Discovery: The Schlieffen Plan and France's Plan XVII	p. 804
A New Kind of Warfare	p. 806
Technology and the Trenches	p. 806
The German Offensive	p. 808
War on the Eastern Front	p. 810
Map Discovery: World War I	p. 810
War on the Western Front	p. 811
War on the Periphery	p. 813
Adjusting to the Unexpected: Total War	p. 814
Mobilizing the Home Front	p. 815
Silencing Dissent	p. 816
The Russian Revolution and Allied Victory	p. 817
Revolution in Russia	p. 817
The United States Enters the Great War	p. 823
Settling the Peace	p. 825
Wilson's Fourteen Points	p. 826
Treaties and Territories	p. 827
A Closer Look: The Women Who Started the Russian Revolution	p. 820
Documents
All Quiet on the Western Front	p. 807
"Dulce Et Decorum Est"	p. 809
War at Home	p. 815
War Communism	p. 822
The European Search for Stability, 1920-1939	p. 831
The Visual Record: The Hard Lessons of Inflation	p. 832
Geographical Tour: Europe After 1918	p. 834
New Nation-States, New Problems	p. 834
German Recovery	p. 836
France's Search for Security	p. 837
The United States in Europe	p. 837
Crisis and Collapse in a World Economy	p. 838
International Loans and Trade Barriers	p. 838
The Great Depression	p. 840
The Soviet Union's Separate Path	p. 842
The Soviet Regime at the End of the Civil War	p. 842
The New Economic Policy, 1921-1928	p. 843
Stalin's Rise to Power	p. 844
The First Five-Year Plan	p. 845
The Comintern, Economic Development, and the Purges	p. 846
Women and the Family in the New Soviet State	p. 848
The Rise of Fascist Dictatorship in Italy	p. 849
Mussolini's Italy	p. 850
Mussolini's Plans for Empire	p. 851
Hitler and the Third Reich	p. 852
Hitler's Rise to Power	p. 852
Nazi Goals	p. 853
Propaganda, Racism, and Culture	p. 855
Democracies in Crisis	p. 857
The Failure of the Left in France	p. 857
Map Discovery: Europe: Types of Government	p. 858
Muddling Through in Great Britain	p. 859
The Spanish Republic as Battleground	p. 862
A Closer Look: The Screams from Guernica	p. 860
Documents
The Depression for Women	p. 841
The Results of the First Five-Year Plan	p. 844
The Law on the Abolition of Legal Abortion, 1936	p. 848
Adolf Hitler on "Racial Purity"	p. 856
Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939-1945	p. 867
The Visual Record: Precursor of War: The Annexation of Austria	p. 868
Aggression and Conquest	p. 870
Hitler's Foreign Policy and Appeasement	p. 870
Hitler's War, 1939-1941	p. 871
Map Discovery: World War II in Europe	p. 872
Collaboration and Resistance	p. 874
Racism and Destruction	p. 875
Enforcing Nazi Racial Policies	p. 875
The Destruction of Europe's Jews	p. 876
Allied Victory	p. 881
The Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War	p. 881
The United States Enters the War	p. 883
Winning the War in Europe	p. 886
Japanese War Aims and Assumptions	p. 887
Winning the War in the Pacific	p. 888
Map Discovery: World War II in the Pacific, 1941-1945	p. 889
The Fate of Allied Cooperation: 1945	p. 890
A Closer Look: The Atomic Wasteland	p. 892
Documents
Manifesto of the Jewish Resistance in Vilna, September 1943	p. 880
President Franklin Roosevelt's Request for a Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941	p. 884
Japan's Declaration of War on the United States and Great Britain, 8 December 1941	p. 885
"Glittering Fragments"	p. 890
The Cold War and Postwar Economic Recovery: 1945-1970	p. 897
The Visual Record: Europe in Ruins: Warsaw, 1946	p. 898
The Origins of the Cold War	p. 900
The World in Two Blocs	p. 900
Map Discovery: The Division of Germany	p. 900
Map Discovery: The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc	p. 902
The Nuclear Club	p. 904
Decolonization and the Cold War	p. 905
Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union	p. 907
The Economic Challenge	p. 907
The Economic Solution: The Marshall Plan	p. 908
Western European Economic Integration	p. 908
Japan's Recovery	p. 911
The Soviet Path to Economic Recovery	p. 911
The Welfare State and Social Transformation	p. 916
Prosperity and Consumption in the West	p. 917
Family Strategies	p. 918
Youth Culture and Dissent	p. 921
The West and the Wider World Made in Japan	p. 912
Documents
The Iron Curtain	p. 901
The Marshall Plan	p. 909
Report to the Twentieth Party Congress	p. 914
The Second Sex	p. 920
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"	p. 923
The End of the Cold War and New Global Challenges, 1970 to the Present	p. 929
The Visual Record: The Berlin Wall Comes Down	p. 930
The End of the Cold War and the Emergence of a New Europe	p. 932
The Brezhnev Doctrine and Detente	p. 932
The New Direction in Soviet Politics	p. 932
Reform in Eastern Europe	p. 934
The Unification of Germany	p. 937
Russia and the New Republics	p. 940
Map Discovery: Republics of the Soviet Union	p. 943
Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism	p. 944
The Chechen Challenge	p. 944
War in the Balkans	p. 947
The West in the Global Community	p. 949
European Union and the American Superpower	p. 949
A New Working Class: Foreign Workers	p. 952
Women's Changing Lives	p. 955
Terrorism: The "New Kind of War"	p. 957
A Closer Look: Televisions, Computers, and the Media Revolution	p. 938
Documents
Career Advancement, Communist-Style	p. 940
A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya	p. 946
The Return of Fascism?	p. 954
Glossary	p. G-1
Credits	p. C-1
Index	p. I-1
Primary Source Documents	p. D-1
How to Analyze Primary Source Documents	p. D-3
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