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History Of Western Society. 6/E Complete Txt (Ch 1-31)

by: Mckay, John P.

History Of Western Society. 6/E Complete Txt (Ch 1-31)

by: Mckay, John P.

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9780395904312
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0395904315
Edition: 6th
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Copyright: 10/20/2006
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Maps

xix

Timelines/Genealogies

xxii

Listening to the Past

xxiii

Preface

xxv

Acknowledgments

xxxi

Near Eastern Origins

(34)

What Is History and Why?

(2)

The First Human Beings

(5)

Mesopotamian Civilization

(5)

The Spread of Mesopotamian Culture

(5)

Egypt, the Land of the Pharaohs (3100-1200 B.C.)

(6)

The Hittite Empire

(5)

The Fall of Empires and the Survival of Cultures (ca 1200 B.C.)

(3)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Reading

(1)

A Quest for Immortality

(2)

Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East

(26)

Recovery and Diffusion

(1)

Egypt, a Shattered Kingdom

(4)

The Children of Israel

(6)

Assyria, the Military Monarchy

(4)

Chaldean Babylonia (626-539 B.C.)

(1)

The Empire of the Persian Kings

(9)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Reading

(2)

The Covenant Between Yahweh and the Hebrews

(2)

The Legacy of Greece

(42)

Hellas: The Land

(1)

The Minoans and Mycenaens (ca 1650-ca 1100 B.C.)

(5)

Homer, Hesiod, and the Heroic Past (1100-800 B.C.)

(1)

The Polis

(3)

The Lyric Age (800-500 B.C.)

(8)

The Classical Period (500-338 B.C.)

(19)

The Final Act (404-338 B.C.)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Reading

(3)

The Great Plague at Athens, 430 B.C.

102

(2)

Hellenistic Diffusion

104

(30)

Alexander and the Great Crusade

105

(1)

Alexander's Legacy

106

(4)

The Spread of hellenism

110

(8)

The Economic Scope of the Hellenistic World

118

(4)

Religion in the Hellenistic World

122

(2)

Philosophy and the People

124

(2)

Hellenistic Science

126

(3)

Hellenistic Medicine

129

(3)

Summary

130

(1)

Notes

130

(1)

Suggested Reading

130

(2)

The Greeks Welcome the God Serapis

132

(2)

The Rise of Rome

134

(28)

The Land and the Sea

135

(1)

The Etruscans and Rome (750-509 B.C.)

136

(3)

The Roman Conquest of Italy (509-290 B.C.)

139

(1)

The Roman State

140

(2)

Social Conflict in Rome

142

(1)

Roman Expansion

143

(3)

Old Values and Greek Culture

146

(5)

The Late Republic (133-31 B.C.)

151

(9)

Summary

158

(1)

Notes

158

(1)

Suggested Reading

158

(2)

Popular Roman Views of Religion and Magic

160

(2)

The Pax Romana

162

(36)

Augustus's Settlement (31 B.C.-A.D. 14)

163

(7)

The Coming of Christianity

170

(5)

The Julio-Claudians and the Flavians (27 B.C.-A.D. 96)

175

(1)

The Age of the ``Five Good Emperors'' (A.D. 96-180)

176

(2)

Life in the ``Golden Age''

178

(7)

Civil Wars and Invasions in the Third Century

185

(1)

Reconstruction Under Diocletian and Constantine (A.D. 284-337)

186

(4)

Classical Antiquity and Late Antiquity

190

(6)

Summary

193

(1)

Notes

193

(1)

Suggested Reading

194

(2)

Rome Extends Its Citizenship

196

(2)

The Making of Europe

198

(44)

The Growth of the Christian Church

199

(8)

Christian Attitudes Toward Classical Culture

207

(4)

Christian Monasticism

211

(4)

The Migration of the Germanic Peoples

215

(4)

Germanic Society

219

(4)

The Byzantine East (ca 400-788)

223

(7)

The Arabs and Islam

230

(10)

Summary

236

(1)

Notes

237

(1)

Suggested Reading

238

(2)

The Conversion of Clovis

240

(2)

The Carolingian World: Europe in the Early Middle Ages

242

(30)

The Frankish Kingdom and the Emergence of the Carolingians

243

(4)

The Empire of Charlemagne

247

(4)

The Carolingian Intellectual Revival

251

(5)

Health and Medical Care in the Early Middle Ages

256

(2)

Aristocratic Resurgence

258

(1)

Feudalism and the Historians

259

(3)

Great Invasions of the Ninth Century

262

(8)

Summary

267

(1)

Notes

267

(1)

Suggested Reading

268

(2)

Feudal Homage and Fealty

270

(2)

Revival, Recovery, Reform, and Expansion

272

(28)

Political Revival

273

(3)

Revival and Reform in the Christian Church

276

(4)

The Gregorian Revolution

280

(3)

The Crusades

283

(6)

The Expansion of Latin Christendom

289

(9)

Summary

295

(1)

Notes

295

(1)

Suggested Reading

296

(2)

An Arab View of the Crusades

298

(2)

Life in Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages

300

(34)

Those Who Work

301

(14)

Those Who Fight

315

(7)

Those Who Pray

322

(10)

Summary

329

(1)

Notes

329

(1)

Suggested Reading

330

(2)

From Merchant to Monk

332

(2)

The Creativity and Vitality of the High Middle Ages

334

(44)

Medieval Origins of the Modern State

335

(14)

Towns and Economic Revival

349

(11)

Medieval Universities

360

(4)

Gothic Art

364

(4)

Heresy and the Friars

368

(3)

A Challenge to Religious Authority

371

(4)

Summary

371

(1)

Notes

372

(1)

Suggested Reading

373

(2)

London in the Late Twelfth Century

375

(3)

The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages

378

(36)

Prelude to Disaster

379

(1)

The Black Death

380

(6)

The Hundred Years' War (ca 1337-1453)

386

(6)

The Decline of the Church's Prestige

392

(4)

The Life of the People

396

(10)

Vernacular Literature

406

(6)

Summary

408

(1)

Notes

409

(1)

Suggested Reading

410

(2)

Christine de Pisan

412

(2)

European Society in the Age of the Renaissance

414

(36)

The Evolution of the Italian Renaissance

415

(5)

Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance

420

(2)

Art and the Artist

422

(6)

Social Change

428

(9)

The Renaissance in the North

437

(3)

Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450-1521)

440

(8)

Summary

445

(1)

Notes

445

(1)

Suggested Reading

446

(2)

A Universal Man

448

(2)

Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church

450

(36)

The Condition of the Church (ca 1400-1517)

451

(2)

Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism

453

(9)

Germany and the Protestant Reformation

462

(4)

The Growth of the Protestant Reformation

466

(9)

The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation

475

(9)

Summary

480

(1)

Notes

481

(1)

Suggested Reading

482

(2)

Calvin's Vision for Christian Renewal

484

(2)

The Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion

486

(44)

Politics, Religion, and War

487

(15)

Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion

502

(7)

Later Explorers

509

(3)

Changing Attitudes

512

(6)

Literature and Art

518

(8)

Summary

523

(1)

Notes

524

(1)

Suggested Reading

524

(2)

Columbus Describes His First Voyage

526

(4)

Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715)

530

(34)

Absolutism

531

(17)

Constitutionalism

548

(14)

Summary

559

(1)

Notes

559

(1)

Suggested Reading

560

(2)

The Court at Versailles

562

(2)

Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740

564

(30)

Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe

565

(3)

The Rise of Austria and Prussia

568

(8)

The Development of Russia

576

(9)

Absolutism and the Baroque

585

(5)

Summary

589

(1)

Notes

589

(1)

Suggested Reading

589

(1)

A Foreign Traveler in Russia

590

(4)

Toward a New World-view

594

(34)

The Scientific Revolution

595

(9)

The Enlightenment

604

(10)

The Enlightenment and Absolutism

614

(12)

Summary

623

(1)

Notes

624

(1)

Suggested Reading

624

(2)

Voltaire on Religion

626

(2)

The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century

628

(32)

Agriculture and the Land

629

(8)

The Beginning of the Population Explosion

637

(3)

The Growth of Cottage Industry

640

(4)

Building the Atlantic Economy

644

(14)

Summary

656

(1)

Notes

656

(1)

Suggested Reading

656

(2)

An Insight into Slavery

658

(2)

The Changing Life of the People

660

(30)

Marriage and the Family

661

(4)

Children and Education

665

(5)

Food and Medical Practice

670

(9)

Religion and Popular Culture

679

(7)

Summary

684

(1)

Notes

685

(1)

Suggested Reading

685

(1)

A New Way to Educate Children

686

(4)

The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815

690

(34)

Liberty and Equality

691

(1)

The American Revolution, 1775-1789

692

(4)

The French Revolution, 1789-1791

696

(8)

World War and Republican France, 1791-1799

704

(8)

The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815

712

(10)

Summary

718

(2)

Notes

720

(1)

Suggested Reading

720

(2)

Revolution and Women's Rights

722

(2)

The Revolution in Energy and Industry

724

(30)

The Industrial Revolution in Britain

725

(9)

Industrialization in Continental Europe

734

(6)

Capital and Labor

740

(12)

Summary

749

(1)

Notes

750

(1)

Suggested Reading

750

(2)

The Testimony of Young Mining Workers

752

(2)

Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850

754

(34)

The Peace Settlement

755

(6)

Radical Ideas and Early Socialism

761

(5)

The Romantic Movement

766

(6)

Reforms and Revolutions

772

(6)

The Revolutions of 1848

778

(8)

Summary

784

(1)

Notes

784

(1)

Suggested Reading

784

(2)

Faith in Democratic Nationalism

786

(2)

Life in the Emerging Urban Society

788

(34)

Taming the City

789

(8)

Rich and Poor and Those in Between

797

(8)

The Changing Family

805

(8)

Science and Thought

813

(7)

Summary

817

(1)

Notes

817

(1)

Suggested Reading

818

(2)

Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality

820

(2)

The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914

822

(34)

Napoleon III in France

823

(2)

Nation Building in Italy and Germany

825

(9)

Nation Building in the United States

834

(3)

The Modernization of Russia

837

(4)

The Responsive National State, 1871-1914

841

(7)

Marxism and the Socialist Movement

848

(6)

Summary

851

(1)

Notes

852

(1)

Suggested Reading

852

(2)

The Making of a Socialist

854

(2)

The West and the World

856

(34)

Industrialization and the World Economy

857

(8)

The Great Migration

865

(6)

Western Imperialism

871

(10)

Responses to Western Imperialism

881

(7)

Summary

886

(1)

Notes

886

(1)

Suggested Reading

887

(1)

A Japanese Plan for a Modern Army

888

(2)

The Great Break: War and Revolution

890

(36)

The First World War

891

(13)

The Home Front

904

(4)

The Russian Revolution

908

(8)

The Peace Settlement

916

(8)

Summary

922

(1)

Notes

922

(1)

Suggested Reading

922

(2)

The Experience of War

924

(2)

The Age of Anxiety

926

(30)

Uncertainty in Modern Thought

927

(8)

Modern Art and Music

935

(3)

Movies and Radio

938

(2)

The Search for Peace and Political Stability

940

(4)

The Great Depression, 1929-1939

944

(10)

Summary

952

(1)

Notes

952

(1)

Suggested Reading

952

(2)

A Christian View of Evil

954

(2)

Dictatorships and the Second World War

956

(36)

Authoritarian States

957

(3)

Stalin's Soviet Union

960

(8)

Mussolini and Fascism in Italy

968

(2)

Hitler and Nazism in Germany

970

(5)

Nazi Expansion and the Second World War

975

(15)

Summary

987

(1)

Notes

988

(1)

Suggested Reading

988

(2)

Witness to the Holocaust

990

(2)

Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985

992

(38)

The Division of Europe

993

(3)

The Western Renaissance, 1945-1968

996

(8)

Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

1004

(5)

Postwar Social Transformations, 1945-1968

1009

(6)

Renewed Challenges in the Late Cold War, 1968-1985

1015

(7)

The Changing Lives of Women

1022

(6)

Summary

1025

(1)

Notes

1026

(1)

Suggested Reading

1026

(2)

A Feminist Critique of Marriage

1028

(2)

Revolution, Reunification, and Rebuilding: 1985 to the Present

1030

The Decline of Communism in Eastern Europe

1031

The Revolutions of 1989

1037

Building a New Europe in the 1990s

1046

Entering the New Millennium

1059

Notes

1060

Suggested Reading

1060

A Solidarity Leader Speaks from Prison

1062

Index

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