West Transformed : A History of Western Civilization

by Hollister,Warren

• ISBN13: 9780155081178
• ISBN10: 0155081179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-20
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

THE WEST TRANSFORMED is a comprehensive introductory Western civilization or European history textbook. It covers a variety of fields of history including social history, but stresses traditional topics via its strong narrative. The development of civilization in the West is presented as a series of cultural, technological, social, and political transformations. This strong unifying theme focuses on the tensions between continuity and change in human affairs.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Prologue From Human Origins to Civilization	xxxvii
Part One THE BIRTH OF THE WEST	1	(184)
The Origins of Western Civilization: The Ancient Near East	3	(40)
The Foundations of Ancient Greece	43	(32)
Hellenism and Its Diffusion	75	(36)
Rome: From Republic to Empire	111	(34)
Religion and the Transformation of the Roman Empire	145	(40)
Part Two WESTERN EURASIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES	185	(196)
After Rome: Byzantium, Islam, the West, and Jews	188	(35)
The Western Revival	223	(42)
The Medieval Dual Revolution: A Money Economy and Religious Reform	265	(43)
Crusaders and Kings in the High Middle Ages	308	(39)
The Mind and Imagination of the High Middle Ages	347	(34)
Part Three AN AGE OF TRANSITION	381	(196)
The Late Middle Ages: Crises and Transitions	384	(44)
The European Renaissance	428	(38)
Reformers and Reformations	466	(43)
The Old World and the New	509	(36)
Striving for the Absolutist State: The Early Seventeenth Century	545	(32)
Part Four THE AGE OF REVOLUTION	577	(264)
The Age of Louis XIV	580	(36)
The Scientific Revolution	616	(29)
The Age of Enlightenment	645	(36)
The Eighteenth-Century State: Global Empires and the Balance of Power	681	(34)
The Industrial Revolution	715	(29)
The French Revolution	744	(36)
The Origin of Modern Ideology	780	(30)
Industrialization and Revolution	810	(31)
Part Five THE CENTURY OF POWER	841	(226)
Power and the Nation-State	843	(30)
The Economics and Ideology of Power	873	(29)
The Birth of Modernism	902	(28)
Imperialism and the Coming of World War I	930	(35)
War and Revolution	965	(33)
The Interwar Search for Solutions	998	(31)
World War II: The Century of Power Bankrupt	1029	(38)
Part Six THE END OF THE EUROPEAN ERA	1067	(58)
New World, New Europe	1068	(31)
The End of the European Era	1099	(26)
Epilogue Prologue New Beginnings	1125