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A History of the Modern World

by: Palmer, R. R.; Colton, Joel; Kramer, Lloyd

A History of the Modern World

by: Palmer, R. R.; Colton, Joel; Kramer, Lloyd

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9780073106922
ISBN 10:
0073106925
Edition: 10th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 03/30/2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

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The tenth edition of A History of the Modern World remains one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. The new edition reflects the authors' continuing search for historical perspectives on complex events of our age, guided by the assumption that the events, cultures, and conflicts of the contemporary world are always rooted in long-evolving processes of historical change. Book jacket.

List of Illustrations	p. xvii
List of Chronologies, Maps, Charts, and Tables	p. xxv
Preface	p. xxviii
Geography and History	p. 1
The Rise of Europe	p. 9
Ancient Times: Greece, Rome, and Christianity	p. 10
The Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Europe	p. 18
The High Middle Ages: Secular Civilization	p. 28
The High Middle Ages: The Church	p. 37
The Upheaval in Western Christendom, 1300-1560	p. 49
Disasters of the Fourteenth Century	p. 50
The Renaissance in Italy	p. 56
The Renaissance outside Italy	p. 69
The New Monarchies	p. 73
The Protestant Reformation	p. 77
Catholicism Reformed and Reorganized	p. 93
Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648	p. 99
The Opening of the Atlantic	p. 99
The Commercial Revolution	p. 106
Changing Social Structures	p. 114
The Wars of Catholic Spain: The Netherlands and England	p. 121
The Disintegration and Reconstruction of France	p. 130
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648: The Disintegration of Germany	p. 135
The Growing Power of Western Europe, 1640-1715	p. 145
The Grand Monarque and the Balance of Power	p. 146
The Dutch Republic	p. 149
Britain: The Civil War	p. 155
Britain: The Triumph of Parliament	p. 162
The France of Louis XIV, 1643-1715: The Triumph of Absolutism	p. 169
The Wars of Louis XIV: The Peace of Utrecht, 1713	p. 181
The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740	p. 189
Three Aging Empires	p. 190
The Formation of an Austrian Monarchy	p. 199
The Formation of Prussia	p. 203
The "Westernizing" of Russia	p. 211
The Scientific View of the World	p. 225
Prophets of a Scientific Civilization: Bacon and Descartes	p. 226
The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal Gravitation	p. 231
New Knowledge of Human Beings and Society	p. 240
Political Theory: The School of Natural Law	p. 249
The Struggle for Wealth and Empire	p. 257
Elite and Popular Cultures	p. 258
The Global Economy of the Eighteenth Century	p. 265
Western Europe after the Peace of Utrecht, 1713-1740	p. 274
The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763	p. 282
The Age of Enlightenment	p. 297
The Philosophes-and Others	p. 298
Enlightened Despotism: France, Austria, Prussia	p. 311
Enlightened Despotism: Russia	p. 320
The Partitions of Poland	p. 325
New Stirrings: The British Reform Movement	p. 329
The American Revolution	p. 338
The French Revolution	p. 349
Backgrounds	p. 350
The Revolution and the Reorganization of France	p. 355
The Revolution and Europe: The War and the "Second" Revolution, 1792	p. 370
The Emergency Republic, 1792-1795: The Terror	p. 374
The Constitutional Republic: The Directory, 1795-1799	p. 383
The Authoritarian Republic: The Consulate, 1799-1804	p. 389
Napoleonic Europe	p. 395
The Formation of the French Imperial System	p. 396
The Grand Empire: Spread of the Revolution	p. 404
The Continental System: Britain and Europe	p. 409
The National Movements: Germany	p. 414
The Overthrow of Napoleon: The Congress of Vienna	p. 421
Industries, Ideas, and the Struggle for Reform, 1815-1848	p. 433
The Industrial Revolution in Britain	p. 435
The Advent of the "Isms"	p. 443
The Dike and the Flood: Domestic	p. 457
The Dike and the Flood: International	p. 461
The Breakthrough of Liberalism in the West: Revolutions of 1830-1832	p. 468
Triumph of the West European Bourgeoisie	p. 476
Revolutions and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870	p. 483
Paris: The Specter of Social Revolution in the West	p. 484
Vienna: The Nationalist Revolutions in Central Europe and Italy	p. 490
Frankfurt and Berlin: The Question of a Liberal Germany	p. 498
The New European "Isms": Realism, Positivism, Marxism	p. 503
Bonapartism: The Second French Empire, 1852-1870	p. 512
The Global Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859-1871	p. 517
Backgrounds: The Idea of the Nation-State	p. 517
Cavour and the Italian War of 1859: The Unification of Italy	p. 521
The Founding of a German Empire and the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary	p. 525
Liberalization in Tsarist Russia: Alexander II	p. 537
The United States: The American Civil War	p. 544
The Dominion of Canada, 1867	p. 549
Japan and the West	p. 552
European Civilization, 1871-1914: Economy and Politics	p. 561
The Modern "Civilized World"	p. 562
Basic Demography: The Increase of the Europeans	p. 565
The World Economy of the Nineteenth Century	p. 574
The Advance of Democracy: Third French Republic, United Kingdom, German Empire	p. 584
European Civilization, 1871-1914: Society and Culture	p. 601
The Advance of Democracy: Socialism, Labor Unions, and Feminism	p. 602
Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion	p. 609
The Waning of Classical Liberalism	p. 622
Europe's World Supermacy, 1871-1914	p. 629
Imperialism: Its Nature and Causes	p. 630
The Americas	p. 638
The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire	p. 643
The Partition of Africa	p. 650
Imperialism in Asia: The Dutch, the British, and the Russians	p. 659
Imperialism in Asia: China and the West	p. 666
The Russo-Japanese War and Its Consequences	p. 672
The First World War	p. 677
The International Anarchy	p. 677
The Armed Stalemate	p. 687
The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention of the United States	p. 696
The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires	p. 701
The Economic, Social, and Cultural Impact of the War	p. 703
The Peace of Paris, 1919	p. 709
The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union	p. 719
Backgrounds	p. 721
The Revolution of 1905	p. 728
The Revolution of 1917	p. 733
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	p. 742
Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges	p. 749
The International Impact of Communism, 1919-1939	p. 759
Democracy, Anti-Imperialism, and the Economic Crisis After the First World War	p. 763
The Advance of Democracy after 1919	p. 763
The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno	p. 768
Anti-Imperialist Movements in Asia	p. 773
The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy	p. 785
Democracy and Dictatorship in the 1930S	p. 795
The United States: Depression and New Deal	p. 796
Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in Britain and France	p. 799
Italian Fascism	p. 808
Totalitarianism: Germany's Third Reich	p. 813
The Second World War	p. 827
The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War	p. 828
The Years of Axis Triumph	p. 837
The Western-Soviet Victory	p. 845
The Foundations of the Peace	p. 859
The Cold War and Reconstruction After the Second World War	p. 865
The Cold War: The Opening Decade, 1945-1955	p. 866
Western Europe: Economic Reconstruction	p. 882
Western Europe: Political Reconstruction	p. 886
Reshaping the Global Economy	p. 896
The Communist World: The U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe	p. 902
The Communist World: Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China	p. 908
Postcolonial Nations in Asia and Latin America	p. 915
The Emergence of Independent Nations in South Asia	p. 917
The Emergence of Independent Nations in Southeast Asia	p. 925
Changing Latin America	p. 933
Empires into Nations: Africa and the Middle East After the Second World War	p. 945
The African Revolution	p. 946
Ferment in the Middle East	p. 969
Revolution and War in the Persian Gulf	p. 981
The Developing World	p. 989
Coexistence, Confrontation, and the New Global Economy	p. 995
Confrontation and Detente, 1955-1975	p. 996
Collapse and Recovery of the Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s	p. 1010
The Cold War Rekindled	p. 1021
China after Mao	p. 1027
The International Revolt Against Soviet Communism	p. 1033
The Crisis in the Soviet Union	p. 1034
The Collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 1039
The Collapse of the Soviet Union	p. 1046
After Communism	p. 1050
The Changing Modern World	p. 1065
Western Europe after the Cold War	p. 1066
Nation-States and Economies in the Age of Globalization	p. 1069
Intellectual and Social Transitions in Modern Cultures	p. 1079
International Conflict in the Twenty-First Century	p. 1099
Social Challenges in the Twenty-First Century	p. 1110
Rulers and Regimes	p. 1116
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 1121
Index	p. 1220
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