Western Civilization : A Brief History

by Spielvogel, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780534568351
• ISBN10: 0534568351
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-09
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Weaving the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, military, and other threads of Western civilization into a compelling story, BRIEF DISCOVERY EDITION of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume II, focuses on helping you enhance your study skills for success in this course and throughout your college career. Learning to analyze source material as you read the narrative will help you master the content of the course and interpret other materials and events you encounter in daily life.

Table of Contents

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

The Passing of the Roman World and the Emergence of Medieval Civilization

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

A New World of Cities and Kingdoms

The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance

The Age of Reformation

Discovery and Crisis in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Response to Crisis: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, And Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an "Age of Progress", 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity and Anxiety, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for a New Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II

Cold War and a New Europe, 1945-1970

The Contemporary Western World (since 1970)

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