Long praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the eleventh edition of A History of Western Society includes even more built-in tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a brand-new, comprehensive primary source program in-text and online, expanded chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. Enhanced with a wealth of digital content—including carefully developed online document assignments for each chapter with auto-graded exercises—the eleventh edition provides easily assignable options for instructors and novel ways for students to master the content. Now integrated with LearningCurve, an adaptive online resource that helps students retain the material and come to class prepared.

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John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. He has published numerous articles and is author of Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (2010). His current research interests focus on issues of consumption, gender, and popular culture in West Germany and Western Europe after World War II.

Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450
Prelude to Disaster

Climate Change and Famine

Social Consequences

The Black Death

Pathology

Spread of the Disease

Care of the Sick

Economic, Religious, and Cultural Effects

Primary Source 11.1: Dance of Death

The Hundred Years’ War

Causes

English Successes

Joan of Arc and France’s Victory

Aftermath

Primary Source 11.2: The Trial of Joan of Arc

Challenges to the Church

The Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism

Critiques, Divisions, and Councils

Lay Piety and Mysticism

Primary Source 11.3: Raimon de Cornet on the Avignon Papacy

Social Unrest in a Changing Society

Peasant Revolts

Urban Conflicts

Sex in the City

Fur-Collar Crime

Ethnic Tensions and Restrictions

Literacy and Vernacular Literature

Primary Source 11.4: The Statute of Laborers

Primary Source 11.5: Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of Artisans

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ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Meister Eckhart

Mapping the Past: The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century Europe

Living in the Past: Treating the Plague

Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350–1550
Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy

Trade and Prosperity

Communes and Republics of Northern Italy

City-States and the Balance of Power

Primary Source 12.1: A Sermon of Savonarola

Intellectual Change

Humanism

Education

Political Thought

Christian Humanism

The Printed Word

Primary Source 12.2: Cassandra Fedele on Humanist Learning

Primary Source 12.3: Pico della Mirandola, "On the Dignity of Man"

Primary Source 12.4: Thomas More, Utopia

Art and the Artist

Patronage and Power

Changing Artistic Styles

The Renaissance Artist

Social Hierarchies

Race and Slavery

Wealth and the Nobility

Gender Roles

Politics and the State in Western Europe

France

England

Spain

Primary Source 12.5: Tax Collectors

Review and Explore — LearningCurve

ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci

Mapping the Past: The Growth of Printing in Europe, 1448–1552

Living in the Past: Male Clothing and Masculinity

Chapter 13: Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500–1600
The Early Reformation

The Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth Century

Martin Luther

Protestant Thought

The Appeal of Protestant Ideas

The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War

Marriage, Sexuality, and the Role of Women

Primary Source 13.1: Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty

Primary Source 13.2: Domestic Scene

The Reformation and German Politics

The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty

Religious Wars in Switzerland and Germany

The Spread of Protestant Ideas

Scandinavia

Henry VIII and the Reformation in England

Upholding Protestantism in England

Calvinism

The Reformation in Eastern Europe

Primary Source 13.3: Elizabethan Injunctions About Religion

Primary Source 13.4: 1547 Ordinances in Calvin’s Geneva

The Catholic Reformation

Papal Reform and the Council of Trent

New and Reformed Religious Orders

Primary Source 13.5: Saint Teresa of Ávila, The Life

Religious Violence

French Religious Wars

The Netherlands Under Charles V

The Great European Witch-Hunt

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ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Anna Jansz of Rotterdam

Living in the Past: Uses of Art in the Reformation

Mapping the Past: Religious Divisions in Europe, ca. 1555

Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650
World Contacts Before Columbus

The Trade World of the Indian Ocean

The Trading States of Africa

The Ottoman and Persian Empires

Genoese and Venetian Middlemen

The European Voyages of Discovery

Causes of European Expansion

Technology and the Rise of Exploration

The Portuguese Overseas Empire

The Problem of Christopher Columbus

Later Explorers

Spanish Conquest in the New World

Early French and English Settlement in the New World

Primary Source 14.1: A Portuguese Traveler Describes Swahili City-States of East Africa

Primary Source 14.2: Columbus Describes His First Voyage

Primary Source 14.3: Doña Marina Translating for Hernando Cortés During His Meeting with Montezuma

Primary Source 14.4: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives

The Impact of Conquest

Colonial Administration

Impact of European

Settlement on Indigenous Peoples

Life in the Colonies

The Columbian Exchange

Primary Source 14.5: Tenochtitlán Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries

Europe and the World After Columbus

Sugar and Slavery

Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects

The Birth of the Global Economy

Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

New Ideas About Race

Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity

William Shakespeare and His Influence

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja

Mapping the Past: Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange

Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589–1725
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding

The Social Order and Peasant Life

Famine and Economic Crisis

The Thirty Years’ War

Achievements in State-Building

Warfare and the Growth of Army Size

Popular Political Action

Absolutism in France and Spain

The Foundations of Absolutism

Louis XIV and Absolutism

Life at Versailles

French Financial Management Under Colbert

Louis XIV’s Wars

The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century

Primary Source 15.1: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1701

Primary Source 15.2: Letter from Versailles

Absolutism in Austria and Prussia

The Return of Serfdom in the East

The Austrian Habsburgs

Prussia in the Seventeenth Century

The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism

The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire

The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow

The Tsar and His People

The Reforms of Peter the Great

The Growth of the Ottoman Empire

Primary Source 15.3: A German Account of Russian Life

Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic

Absolutist Claims in England

Religious Divides and the English Civil War

Cromwell and Puritanical Absolutism in England

The Restoration of the English Monarchy

Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

Primary Source 15.4: Diary of an English Villager

Primary Source 15.5: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
Baroque Art and Music

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hürrem

Living in the Past: The Absolutist Palace

Mapping the Past: Europe After the Peace of Utrecht, 1715

Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540–1789
Major Breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution

Scientific Thought in 1500

Origins of the Scientific Revolution

The Copernican Hypothesis

Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus Right

Newton’s Synthesis

Primary Source 16.1: Galileo Galilei, The Sidereal Messenger

Important Changes in Scientific Thinking

Bacon, Descartes, and the Scientific Method

Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry

Empire and Natural History

Science and Society

Primary Source 16.2: "An Account of a Particular Species of Cocoon"

The Enlightenment

The Emergence of the Enlightenment

The Influence of the Philosophes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The International Enlightenment

Urban Culture and Life in the Public Sphere

Race and the Enlightenment

Primary Source 16.3: Du Châtelet, Foundations of Physics

Primary Source 16.4: Enlightenment Culture

Primary Source 16.5: Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage"

Enlightened Absolutism

Frederick the Great of Prussia

Catherine the Great of Russia

The Austrian Habsburgs

Jewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened Absolutism

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment

Living in the Past: Coffeehouse Culture

Mapping the Past: The Partition of Poland, 1772–1795

Chapter 17: The Expansion of Europe, 1650–1800
Working the Land

The Legacy of the Open-Field System

New Methods of Agriculture

The Leadership of the Low Countries and England

Primary Source 17.1: Arthur Young on the Benefits of Enclosure

The Beginning of the Population Explosion

Long-Standing Obstacles to Population Growth

The New Pattern of the Eighteenth Century

The Growth of Rural Industry

The Putting-Out System

The Lives of Rural Textile Workers

The Industrious Revolution

Primary Source 17.2: Contrasting Views on the Effects of Rural Industry

The Debate over Urban Guilds

Urban Guilds

Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism

Primary Source 17.3: Adam Smith on the Division of Labor

The Atlantic World and Global Trade

Mercantilism and Colonial Competition

The Atlantic Economy

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Identities and Communities of the Atlantic World

The Colonial Enlightenment

Trade and Empire in Asia and the Pacific

Primary Source 17.4: Olaudah Equiano’s Economic Arguments for Ending Slavery

Primary Source 17.5: Mulatto Painting

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Rebecca Protten

Mapping the Past: Industry and Population in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Living in the Past: The Remaking of London

Chapter 18: Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650–1800
Marriage and the Family

Late Marriage and Nuclear Families

Work Away from Home

Premarital Sex and Community Controls

New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy

Sex on the Margins of Society

Children and Education

Child Care and Nursing

Foundlings and Infanticide

Attitudes Toward Children

The Spread of Elementary Schools

Primary Source 18.1: Parisian Boyhood

Primary Source 18.2: The Catechism of Health

Popular Culture and Consumerism

Popular Literature

Leisure and Recreation

New Foods and Appetites

Toward a Consumer Society

Primary Source 18.3: A Day in the Life of Paris

Primary Source 18.4: The Fashion Merchant

Religious Authority and Beliefs

Church Hierarchy

Protestant Revival

Catholic Piety

Marginal Beliefs and Practices

Primary Source 18.5: Advice to Methodists

Medical Practice

Faith Healing and General Practice

Improvements in Surgery

Midwifery

The Conquest of Smallpox

Review and Explore — LearningCurve

ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT The Inner Life of the Individual

Mapping the Past: Literacy in France, ca. 1789

The Past Living Now: The Commercialization of Sports

Individuals in Society: Rose Bertin, "Minister of Fashion"

Living in the Past: Improvements in Childbirth

Chapter 19: Revolutions in Politics, 1775–1815
Background to Revolution

Social Change

Growing Demands for Liberty and Equality

The Seven Years’ War

The American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789

The Origins of the Revolution

Independence from Britain

Framing the Constitution

Limitations of Liberty and Equality

Primary Source 19.1: Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"

Revolution in France, 1789–1791

Breakdown of the Old Order

The Formation of the National Assembly

Popular Uprising and the Rights of Man

A Constitutional Monarchy and Its Challenges

Primary Source 19.2: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?

Primary Source 19.3: Petition of the French Jews

World War and Republican France, 1791–1799

The International Response

The Second Revolution and the New Republic

Total War and the Terror

The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory

Primary Source 19.4: Contrasting Visions of the Sans‑Culottes

The Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815

Napoleon’s Rule of France

Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe

The Grand Empire and Its End

Primary Source 19.5: Napoleon’s Proclamation to the French People

The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804

Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue

The Outbreak of Revolt

The War of Haitian Independence

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Toussaint L’Ouverture

Living in the Past: A Revolution of Culture and Daily Life

Mapping the Past: Napoleonic Europe in 1812

Chapter 20: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780–1850
The Industrial Revolution in Britain

Origins of the British Industrial Revolution

Technological Innovations and Early Factories

The Steam Engine Breakthrough

The Coming of the Railroads

Industry and Population

Industrialization Beyond Britain

National and International Variations

Industrialization in Continental Europe

Agents of Industrialization

Government Support and Corporate Banking

The Situation Outside of Europe

New Patterns of Working and Living

Work in Early Factories

Working Families and Children

The New Sexual Division of Labor

Primary Source 20.1: Debate over Child Labor Laws

Primary Source 20.2: Living Conditions of the Working Classes

Primary Source 20.3: The Testimony of Young Mine Workers

Relations Between Capital and Labor

The New Class of Factory Owners

Debates over Industrialization

The Early British Labor Movement

The Impact of Slavery

Primary Source 20.4: Ford Maddox Brown, Work

Primary Source 20.5: Advice for Middle-Class Women

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Josiah Wedgwood

Living in the Past: The Steam Age

Mapping the Past: Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850

Chapter 21: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815–1850
The Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars

The European Balance of Power

Metternich and Conservatism

Repressing the Revolutionary Spirit

Limits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South America

Primary Source 21.1: Metternich: Conservative Reaction in the German Confederation

The Spread of Radical Ideas

Liberalism and the Middle Class

The Growing Appeal of Nationalism

The Foundations of Modern Socialism

The Birth of Marxist Socialism

The Romantic Movement

The Tenets of Romanticism

Literature

Art and Music

Primary Source 21.2: English Romantic Poets

Primary Source 21.3: Adam Mickiewicz and Romantic Nationalism in Poland

Reforms and Revolutions Before 1848

National Liberation in Greece

Liberal Reform in Great Britain

Ireland and the Great Famine

The Revolution of 1830 in France

The Revolutions of 1848

A Democratic Republic in France

Revolution and Reaction in the Austrian Empire

Prussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National Parliament

Primary Source 21.4: The Republican Spirit in Paris, 1848

Primary Source 21.5: The Triumph of Democratic Republics

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Germaine de Staël

Mapping the Past: Europe in 1815

Living in the Past: Revolutionary Experiences in 1848

Chapter 22: Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840–1914
Taming the City

Industry and the Growth of Cities

The Advent of the Public Health Movement

The Bacterial Revolution

Improvements in Urban Planning

Public Transportation

Primary Source 22.1: First Impressions of the World’s Biggest City

Rich and Poor and Those in Between

Middle-Class Culture and Values

The Distribution of Income

The People and Occupations of the Middle Classes

The People and Occupations of the Working Classes

Working-Class Leisure and Religion

Primary Source 22.2: Apartment Living in Paris

Changing Family Lifestyles

Middle-Class Marriage and Courtship Rituals

Middle and Working-Class Sexuality

Prostitution

Separate Spheres and the Importance of Homemaking

Child Rearing

The Feminist Movement

Primary Source 22.3: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality

Science and Thought

The Triumph of Science in Industry

Darwin and Natural Selection

The Modern University and the Social Sciences

Realism in Art and Literature

Primary Source 22.4: Max Weber Critiques Industrial Capitalism

Primary Source 22.5: Émile Zola and Realism in Literature

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Life in the Modern City on Film

Mapping the Past: European Cities of 100,000 or More, 1800–1900

The Past Living Now: Modern Sewage Systems

Living in the Past: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Fashion

Individuals in Society: Franziska Tiburtius

Chapter 23: The Age of Nationalism, 1850–1914
Napoleon III in France

France’s Second Republic

Napoleon III’s Second Empire

Nation Building in Italy, Germany, and the United States

Italy to 1850

Cavour and Garibaldi in Italy

Growing Austro-Prussian Rivalry

Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian War

Taming the German Parliament

The Franco-Prussian War

Slavery and Nation Building in the United States

Primary Source 23.1: The Struggle for the Italian Nation

The Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman Empire

The "Great Reforms" in Russia

The Russian Revolution of 1905

Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman Empire

Primary Source 23.2: Eyewitness Accounts of Bloody Sunday

The Responsive National State, 1871–1914

The German Empire

Republican France

Great Britain and Ireland

The Austro-Hungarian Empire

The Nation and the People

Making National Citizens

Nationalism and Racism

Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism

Primary Source 23.3: Ernest Renan on National Identity

Primary Source 23.4: Building Nationalism

Marxism and the Socialist Movement

The Socialist International

Unions and Revisionism

Primary Source 23.5: Adelheid Popp, the Making of a Socialist

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Theodor Herzl

Mapping the Past: The Unification of Germany, 1864–1871

Living in the Past: Peasant Life in Post-Reform Russia

Chapter 24: The West and the World, 1815–1914
Industrialization and the World Economy

The Rise of Global Inequality

The World Market

The Opening of China

Japan and the United States

Western Penetration of Egypt

Primary Source 24.1: Lin Zexu and Yamagata Aritomo on Western Imperialism

Global Migration Around 1900

The Pressure of Population

European Emigration

Asian Emigration

Primary Source 24.2: Nativism in the United States

Western Imperialism, 1880–1914

The European Presence in Africa Before 1880

The Scramble for Africa After 1880

Imperialism in Asia

Causes of the New Imperialism

A "Civilizing Mission"

Orientalism

Critics of Imperialism

Primary Source 24.3: The White Man’s Burden

Primary Source 24.4: Orientalism in Art and Everyday Life

Primary Source 24.5: The Brown Man’s Burden

Responding to Western Imperialism

The Pattern of Response

Empire in India

The Example of Japan

Toward Revolution in China

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Cecil Rhodes

Living in the Past: The Immigrant Experience

Mapping the Past: The Partition of Africa

Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914–1919
The Road to War

Growing International Conflict

The Mood of 1914

The Outbreak of War

Primary Source 25.1: German Diplomacy and the Road to War

Waging Total War

Stalemate and Slaughter on the Western Front

The Widening War

Primary Source 25.2: Poetry in the Trenches

The Home Front

Mobilizing for Total War

The Social Impact

Growing Political Tensions

Primary Source 25.3: Wartime Propaganda Posters

The Russian Revolution

The Fall of Imperial Russia

The Provisional Government

Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution

Trotsky and the Seizure of Power

Dictatorship and Civil War

Primary Source 25.4: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian People

The Peace Settlement

The End of the War

Revolution in Austria-Hungary and Germany

The Treaty of Versailles

The Peace Settlement in the Middle East

The Human Costs of the War

Primary Source 25.5: Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Vera Brittain

Living in the Past: Life and Death on the Western Front

Mapping the Past: Territorial Changes After World War I

Chapter 26: The Age of Anxiety, 1880–1940
Uncertainty in Modern Thought

Modern Philosophy

The Revival of Christianity

The New Physics

Freudian Psychology

Primary Source 26.1: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of God

Modernism in Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music

Architecture and Design

New Artistic Movements

Twentieth-Century Literature

Modern Music

Primary Source 26.2: The Futurist Manifesto

An Emerging Consumer Society

Mass Culture

The Appeal of Cinema

The Arrival of Radio

Primary Source 26.3: The Modern Girl: Image or Reality?

The Search for Peace and Political Stability

Germany and the Western Powers

Hope in Foreign Affairs

Hope in Democratic Government

Primary Source 26.4: Keynes on German Reparations After World War I

The Great Depression, 1929–1939

The Economic Crisis

Mass Unemployment

The New Deal in the United States

The Scandinavian Response to the Depression

Recovery and Reform in Britain and France

Primary Source 26.5: George Orwell on Life on the Dole

Review and Explore — LearningCurve

ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Gustav Stresemann

Living in the Past: Modern Design for Everyday Use

Mapping the Past: The Great Depression in the United States and Europe, 1929–1939

Chapter 27: Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919–1945
Authoritarian States

Conservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian

Dictatorships

Communism and Fascism

Primary Source 27.1: The Appeal of Propaganda

Stalin’s Soviet Union

From Lenin to Stalin

The Five-Year Plans

Life and Culture in Soviet Society

Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges

Primary Source 27.2: Stalin Justifies the Five-Year Plan

Primary Source 27.3: Famine and Recovery on a Soviet Collective Farm

Mussolini and Fascism in Italy

The Seizure of Power

The Regime in Action

Hitler and Nazism in Germany

The Roots of National Socialism

Hitler’s Road to Power

State and Society in Nazi Germany

Popular Support for National Socialism

Aggression and Appeasement

Primary Source 27.4: The "Reich Citizenship Law" and the Nazi Volk

The Second World War

German Victories in Europe

Europe Under Nazi Occupation

The Holocaust

Japanese Empire and the War in the Pacific

The "Hinge of Fate"

Allied Victory

Primary Source 27.5: Everyday Life in the London Blitz

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Primo Levi

Living in the Past: Nazi Propaganda and Consumer Goods

Mapping the Past: World War II in Europe and Africa, 1939–1945

Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965
Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War

The Legacies of the Second World War

The Peace Settlement and Cold War Origins

West Versus East

Big Science in the Nuclear Age

Primary Source 28.1: A Soviet View of the Arms Race

The Western Renaissance/Recovery in Western Europe

The Search for Political and Social Consensus

Toward European Unity

The Consumer Revolution

Primary Source 28.2: Western European Recovery and the Promise of Prosperity

Primary Source 28.3: The Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate"

Developments in the Soviet Union and the East Bloc

Postwar Life in the East Bloc

Reform and De‑Stalinization

Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion

The Limits of Reform

Primary Source 28.4: The Hungarian Communist Party Calls for Reforms

The End of Empires

Decolonization and the Global Cold War

The Struggle for Power in Asia

Independence and Conflict in the Middle East

Decolonization in Africa

Primary Source 28.5: Frantz Fanon on Violence, Decolonization, and Human Dignity

Postwar Social Transformations

Changing Class Structures

Patterns of Postwar Migration

New Roles for Women

Youth Culture and the Generation Gap

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Armando Rodrigues

Mapping the Past: The Aftermath of World War II in Europe, ca. 1945–1950

Living in the Past: A Model Socialist Steel Town

Chapter 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991
Reform and Protest in the 1960s

Cold War Tensions Thaw

The Affluent Society

The Counterculture Movement

The United States and Vietnam

Student Revolts and 1968

The 1960s in the East Bloc

Primary Source 29.1: Human Rights Under the Helsinki Accords

Primary Source 29.2: Counterculture Graffiti from Paris, 1968

Crisis and Change in Western Europe

Economic Crisis and Hardship

The New Conservatism

Challenges and Victories for Women

The Rise of the Environmental Movement

Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism

Primary Source 29.3: Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Critique of Marriage

Primary Source 29.4: Green Party Representatives Enter Parliament

The Decline of "Developed Socialism"

State and Society in the East Bloc

Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland

From Détente Back to Cold War

Gorbachev’s Reforms in the Soviet Union

Primary Source 29.5: Dissent in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

The Revolutions of 1989

The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc

German Unification and the End of the Cold War

The Disintegration of the Soviet Union

Review and Explore — LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Margaret Thatcher

Living in the Past: The Supermarket Revolution

Mapping the Past: Democratic Movements in Eastern Europe, 1989

Chapter 30: Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present
Reshaping Russia and the Former East Bloc

Economic Shock Therapy in Russia

Russian Revival Under Vladimir Putin

Coping with Change in the Former East Bloc

Tragedy in Yugoslavia

Primary Source 30.1: President Putin on Global Security

The New Global System

The Global Economy

The New European Union

Supranational Organizations

The Human Side of Globalization

Life in the Digital Age

Primary Source 30.2: The Slow Food Manifesto

Toward a Multicultural Continent

The Prospect of Population Decline

Changing Immigration Flows

Ethnic Diversity in Contemporary Europe

Europe and Its Muslim Citizens

Primary Source 30.3: National Front Campaign Poster

Confronting Twenty-First-Century Challenges

Growing Strains in U.S.-European Relations

Turmoil in the Muslim World

The Global Recession and the Viability of the Eurozone

Dependence on Fossil Fuels

Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

Promoting Human Rights

Primary Source 30.4: William Pfaff, Will the French Riots Change Anything?

Primary Source 30.5: Osama bin Laden Calls for Global Jihad

Review and Explore — LearningCurve

ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Contesting Globalization

Mapping the Past: The European Union, 2013

Living in the Past: The Euro

Individuals in Society: Tariq Ramadan

The Past Living Now: Remembering the Holocaust

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