West Transformed Vol. I : A History of Western Civilization, to 1715

by Hollister,Warren

• ISBN13: 9780155081291
• ISBN10: 0155081292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Contains chapters 1-17 of the comprehensive text.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
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
The Age of Louis XIV	580	(36)
The Scientific Revolution	616