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A History of Western Society,9780618612833
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A History of Western Society


Edition: 8th
Author(s): McKay, John P.
ISBN10:  0618612831
ISBN13:  9780618612833
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  2/4/2005
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing

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Table of Contents
Maps
xiii
Listening to the Past
xv
Preface xvii
The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages
379(34)
Prelude to Disaster
379(2)
The Black Death
381(6)
Pathology and Care
382(4)
Social, Economic, and Cultural Consequences
386(1)
The Hundred Years' War (ca 1337--1453)
387(6)
Causes
388(1)
The Popular Response
388(1)
The Course of the War to 1419
389(1)
Joan of Arc and France's Victory
390(2)
Costs and Consequences
392(1)
The Decline of the Church's Prestige
393(4)
The Babylonian Captivity
393(1)
The Great Schism
394(1)
The Conciliar Movement
394(3)
Individuals in Society: Jan Hus
397
The Life of the People
395(10)
Marriage
395(4)
Life in the Parish
399(1)
Fur-Collar Crime
400(1)
Peasant Revolts
401(2)
Race and Ethnicity on the Frontiers
403(2)
Vernacular Literature
405(8)
Summary
407(1)
Key Terms
408(1)
Notes
408(1)
Suggested Reading
409(1)
Listening to the Past: Christine de Pisan
410(3)
European Society in the Age of the Renaissance
413(40)
The Evolution of the Italian Renaissance
413(6)
Communes and Republics
415(1)
The Balance of Power Among the Italian City-States
416(3)
Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance
419(3)
Individualism
419(1)
Humanism
420(1)
Secular Spirit
421(1)
Art and the Artist
422(5)
Art and Power
422(3)
The Status of the Artist
425(2)
Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci
427(1)
Social Change
428(10)
Education and Political Thought
428(1)
The Printed Word
429(1)
Clocks
430(2)
Women and Work
432(1)
Culture and Sexuality
433(3)
Slavery and Ethnicity
436(2)
The Renaissance in the North
438(3)
Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450--1521)
441(12)
France
441(1)
England
442(1)
Spain
443(3)
Summary
446(1)
Key Terms
447(1)
Notes
447(1)
Suggested Reading
448(2)
Listening to the Past: An Age of Gold
450(3)
Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church
453(36)
The Condition of the Church (ca 1400--1517)
454(2)
Signs of Disorder
454(1)
Signs of Vitality
455(1)
Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism
456(8)
Luther's Early Years
456(1)
The Ninety-five Theses
457(2)
Protestant Thought
459(2)
The Social Impact of Luther's Beliefs
461(3)
Images in Society: From Reformation to Baroque
464(2)
Germany and the Protestant Reformation
466(4)
The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty
466(1)
The Political Impact of Luther's Beliefs
467(3)
The Growth of the Protestant Reformation
470(7)
Calvinism
470(2)
The Anabaptists
472(1)
The English Reformation
473(2)
The Establishment of the Church of Scotland
475(1)
Protestantism in Ireland
476(1)
Lutheranism in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
476(1)
The Reformation in Eastern Europe
476(1)
The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation
477(4)
The Slowness of Institutional Reform
477(2)
The Council of Trent
479(1)
New Religious Orders
480(3)
The Congregation of the Holy Office
483(1)
The Reformations: Revolution or Continuity?
483
Individuals in Society: Teresa of Avila
481(8)
Summary
483(1)
Key Terms
484(1)
Notes
484(1)
Suggested Reading
485(1)
Listening to the Past: Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
486(3)
The Age of Religious Wars and Overseas Expansion
489(42)
Politics, Religion, and War
490(12)
The Origins of Difficulties in France (1515--1559)
490(2)
Religious Riots and Civil War in France (1559--1598)
492(1)
The Netherlands Under Charles V
493(1)
The Revolt of the Netherlands (1566--1587)
494(2)
Philip II and the Spanish Armada
496(1)
The Thirty Years' War (1618--1648)
497(4)
Germany After the Thirty Years' War
501(1)
Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion
502(7)
Overseas Exploration and Conquest
502(3)
Technological Stimuli to Exploration
505(1)
The Explorers' Motives
506(1)
The Problem of Christopher Columbus
507(2)
Later Explorers
509(3)
The Economic Effects of Spain's Discoveries in the New World
510(1)
The Columbian Exchange
511(1)
Colonial Administration
511(1)
Changing Attitudes
512(5)
The Status of Women
512(2)
The Great European Witch-hunt
514(1)
European Slavery and the Origins of American Racism
515(2)
Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja
517(2)
Literature and Art
519(12)
The Essay: Michel de Montaigne
519(1)
Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
520(2)
Baroque Art and Music
522(2)
Summary
524(1)
Key Terms
524(1)
Notes
524(1)
Suggested Reading
525(1)
Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage
526(5)
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589--1715)
531(34)
Absolutism
532(16)
The Foundations of French Absolutism: Henry IV, Sully, and Richelieu
534(3)
The Absolute Monarchy of Louis XIV
537(2)
Financial and Economic Management Under Louis XIV: Colbert
539(2)
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
541(1)
French Classicism
541(1)
Louis XIV's Wars
542(2)
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
544(4)
Constitutionalism
548(9)
The Decline of Royal Absolutism in England (1603--1649)
548(2)
Religious Issues
550(1)
Puritanical Absolutism in England: Cromwell and the Protectorate
551(1)
The Restoration of the English Monarchy
552(1)
The Triumph of England's Parliament: Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government
553(2)
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
555(2)
Individuals in Society: Gluckel of Hameln
557(8)
Summary
559(1)
Key Terms
559(1)
Notes
560(1)
Suggested Reading
560(2)
Listening to the Past: The Court at Versailles
562(3)
Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740
565(30)
Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe
566(3)
The Medieval Background
566(1)
The Consolidation of Serfdom
567(2)
The Rise of Austria and Prussia
569(8)
Austria and the Ottoman Turks
569(4)
Prussia in the Seventeenth Century
573(2)
The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism
575(2)
The Development of Russia
577(6)
The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow
577(2)
Tsar and People to 1689
579(2)
The Reforms of Peter the Great
581(2)
Individuals in Society: Stenka Razin, Russian Rebel
583(2)
Absolutism and Baroque Architecture
585(10)
Palaces and Power
585(2)
Royal Cities
587(1)
The Growth of St. Petersburg
587(2)
Summary
589(1)
Key Terms
589(1)
Notes
589(3)
Suggested Reading
592
Listening to the Past: A Foreign Traveler in Russia
590(5)
Toward a New World-view
595(34)
The Scientific Revolution
595(10)
Scientific Thought in 1500
596(1)
The Copernican Hypothesis
596(2)
From Brahe to Galileo
598(3)
Newton's Synthesis
601(1)
Causes of the Scientific Revolution
602(2)
Some Consequences of the Scientific Revolution
604(1)
The Enlightenment
605(10)
The Emergence of the Enlightenment
605(2)
The Philosophes and the Public
607(3)
The Later Enlightenment
610(2)
Urban Culture and Public Opinion
612(3)
The Enlightenment and Absolutism
615(2)
Frederick the Great of Prussia
615(1)
Catherine the Great of Russia
616(3)
The Austrian Habsburgs
619(1)
Absolutism in France
620(2)
The Overall Influence of the Enlightenment
622
Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment
617(12)
Summary
623(1)
Key Terms
624(1)
Notes
624(1)
Suggested Reading
624(2)
Listening to the Past: Voltaire on Religion
626(3)
The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century
629(32)
Agriculture and the Land
630(6)
The Open-Field System
630(1)
The Agricultural Revolution
631(2)
The Leadership of the Low Countries and England
633(1)
The Cost of Enclosure
634(2)
The Beginning of the Population Explosion
636(3)
Limitations on Population Growth
636(1)
The New Pattern of the Eighteenth Century
637(2)
The Growth of the Cottage Industry
639(4)
The Putting-Out System
639(2)
The Textile Industry
641(2)
Building the Atlantic Economy
643(5)
Mercantilism and Colonial Wars
643(1)
Land and Labor in British America
644(3)
The Growth of Foreign Trade
647(3)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
650(2)
Revival in Colonial Latin America
652(2)
Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism
654
Images in Society: London: The Remaking of a Great City
648(5)
Individuals in Society: Olaudah Equiano
653(8)
Summary
656(1)
Key Terms
656(1)
Notes
656(1)
Suggested Reading
656(2)
Listening to the Past: The Decline of the Guilds
658(3)
The Changing Life of the People
661(30)
Marriage and the Family
662(4)
Extended and Nuclear Families
662(1)
Work Away from Home
662(2)
Premarital Sex and Community Controls
664(1)
New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy
665(1)
Children and Education
666(6)
Child Care and Nursing
667(1)
Foundlings and Infanticide
667(1)
Attitudes Toward Children
668(2)
Schools and Popular Literature
670(2)
Food and Medical Practice
672(5)
Diets and Nutrition
672(1)
The Impact of Diet on Health
673(2)
Medical Practitioners
675(3)
Hospitals and Medical Experiments
678
Individuals in Society: Madame du Coudray, the Nation's Midwife
677(3)
Religion and Popular Culture
680(11)
The Institutional Church
680(1)
Protestant Revival
681(1)
Catholic Piety
682(1)
Leisure and Recreation
683(2)
Summary
685(1)
Key Terms
685(1)
Notes
685(3)
Suggested Reading
688
Listening to the Past: Gender Constructions and Education for Girls
686(5)
The Revolution in Politics, 1775--1815
691
Liberty and Equality
691(2)
The American Revolutionary Era, 1775--1789
693(4)
The Origins of the Revolution
694(1)
Independence
695(1)
Framing the Constitution
696(1)
The Revolution's Impact on Europe
697(1)
The French Revolution, 1789--1791
697(7)
The Breakdown of the Old Order
697(1)
Legal Orders and Social Realities
698(1)
The Formation of the National Assembly
699(1)
The Revolt of the Poor and the Oppressed
700(3)
A Limited Monarchy
703(1)
World War and Republican France, 1791--1799
704(8)
Foreign Reactions and the Beginning of War
705(1)
The Second Revolution
706(2)
Total War and the Terror
708(3)
The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory, 1794--1799
711(1)
The Napoleonic Era, 1799--1815
712(7)
Napoleon's Rule of France
712(2)
Napoleon's Wars and Foreign Policy
714(5)
Individuals in Society: Jakob Walter, German Draftee with Napoleon
719
Summary
720(1)
Key Terms
720(1)
Notes
720(1)
Suggested Reading
721(1)
Listening to the Past: Revolution and Women's Rights
722
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