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Western Civilization: A History of European Society : From the Old Regime to the Present,9780534545338
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Western Civilization: A History of European Society : From the Old Regime to the Present

by HAUSE/MALTBY
Edition:
1st
ISBN13:

9780534545338

ISBN10:
0534545335
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
12/21/1998
Publisher(s):
Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This book will appeal to instructors who focus on the social history of western civilization, rather than merely the political history. The many historical documents and statistics incorporated into the text enhance the discussion of the lifestyle of the general populace across western civilization. Volume 2 contains Chapters 1 through 14 of the comprehensive text.

Table of Contents

17. Preindustrial Europe: Science, the Economy, and Political Reorganization
Introduction
The Scientific Revolution
The Colonial and Economic Expansion of the Northern Powers
The Reorganization of War and Government
The Preindustrial Economy
Suggested Readings
Section Four: MODERN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1715-1815. 18
The Economic and Social Structure of the Old Regime
The Population of Europe in the Old Regime
The Economic Structures of the Rural World
Corporative Society and the Standestaat
The Aristocracy: Varieties of a Privileged Elite
The Privileged Status of the Aristocracy
Varieties within the Peasantry: Serfdom
Varieties within the Peasantry: Free Peasants
The Urban Population of the Old Regime
National Economies in the Age of Mercantilism
Global Economies
19. Daily Life in the Old Regime
People and Space
Life Expectancy in the Old Regime
Disease and the Biological Old Regime
Public Health and Medicine Before the Germ Theory
Medicine and the Biological Old Regime
Subsistence Diet and the Biological Old Regime
The Colombian Exchange and the European Diet
Famine in the Old Regime
Diet, Disease, and Appearance
The Life Cycle: Birth
The Life Cycle: Infancy and Childhood
The Life Cycle: Marriage and the Family
20. The Political Evolution of the Old Regime, 1715-1789
The Structures of Government in the Old Regime
Parliament and the Political Evolution of Hanoverian England
The Vulnerable Monarchy of Bourbon France
The French Financial Crisis and the Resurgent Aristocracy
The Hapsburg Empire in the Age of Maria Theresa
The Hapsburg Empire and the Enlightened Despotism of Joseph II
The Army, the Bureaucracy, and the Rise of Hohenzollern Prussia
The Prussian Monarchy of Friedrick the Great
Catherine the Great and Despotism in Romanov Russia
21. European Culture in the Old Regime
The High Culture: from the Baroque to the Neo-Classical
Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Religion and Eighteenth Century Culture
The Revolt of the Intellectuals: the Enlightenment
22. The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815
The Origins of the French Revolution
The Estates and the Beginning of Revolution, 1789. The Revolutionary Crown and the Mob
The Legislative Revolution of the National Assembly, 1789-1791. The Legislative Revolution of the National Assembly, 1789-1791
Europe and the Revolution
The Legislative Assembly and the Wars of the Revolution
The First Republic: the Convention, 1792-1795. Civil War and Reign of Terror, 1793-1794
The Thermidorean Reaction and the Directory, 1794-1799. Revolutionary Wars and the Rise of Napoleon
France Under Napoleon
The Napoleonic Wars
Section Five: EUROPE IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1815-1914. 23
Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe
The Population Explosion
The Vital Revolution
The Urbanization of Europe
The Agricultural Revolution
The Controversy Over Enclosure
The Economic Structures of the British Industrial Revolution
Industrialization and Society
The Standard of Living Debate
Continental European Industrialization
The European Industrial "Take-Off"
24. Daily Life in the Nineteenth Century
Demography and the Increase in Life Expectance
Disease in Nineteenth Century Europe
Medicine, Public Health, and the Conquest of Disease
Food and Vital Revolution
The Life Cycle: Birth and Birth Control
The Life Cycle: Youth
The Life Cycle: Marriage and the Family
Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
25. The Defense of the Old Regime, 1815-1848
The Congress of Vienna and the Restoration of the Old Order, 1815. The Conservative Alliance and the Congress System, 1815-1825
Preserving the Old Order: Religion
Preserving the Old Order: Law
Challenging the Old Order: the "-isms"
Challenging the Old Order: Revolution, 1815-1825. The Old Order in Russia: Aristocracy and Revolt
The Liberal-Monarchical Compromise in France
The Revolutions of 1830-1832. The Evolution of the Old Order in Great Britain
International Liberalism and Slavery
26. Europe in an Age of Nationalism, 1848-1870
The Origins of the Revolutions of 1848. The Spread of Revolution: the Springtime of Peoples, 1848-1849
The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1849-1852. The Labor Movement and the Rise of Socialism
Mid-Victorian Britain and Gradual Liberalism
The Crimean War, 1853-1856. Russia in the Alexandrine Age
The Unification of Italy: the Risogimento
Bismarck and the Unification of Germany
27. Europe in the Belle Epoque, 1871-1914
The German Empire, 1871-1914. The French Third Republic, 1871-1914
Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1867-1914. Imperial Russia on the Eve of Revolution
Working Class Movements
Women's Rights Movements
European Culture in the Belle Epoque
Section Six: EUROPE IN THE AGE OF MASS SOCIETY
28. Imperialism, World War and Revolution In 1920
The Bismarckian Alliance System, 1871-1890. The New Imperialism, 1881-1914
The Scramble for Africa
The Opening of China and Imperialism in Asia
Breakdown of the Bismarckian Hegemony: the Diplomatic Revolution, 1890-1914. Militarism and the European Arms Race
World War One
The Russian Revolution, 1917-1920. 29
Europe in an Age of Dictatorship, 1919-1939. The Recovery of Europe in the 1920s
The Strength of European Democracy in the 1920s
The Crisis of Democracy in the 1930s
European Dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s
30. Europe and World War Two, 1939-1945
The Long Armistice and the Origins of World War Two, 1919-1939. World War Two: The Years of Axis Conquest, 1939-1942
World War Two on the Home Front
Global War and Allied Victory, 1942-1945. The Holocaust, 1941-1945
Ending the War, 1944-1946. 31
The Social and Economic Structure of Contemporary Europe
Population Trends in the Twentieth Century
Changing Economic Structures
Social Structure and the Life Cycle
32. Europe in the Age of Cold War, 1945-1975
The Slow if Europe in the 1940s
The Origins of the Cold War
The USSR Under Stalin and Krushchev
Cold War Confrontation in the 1950s and 1960s
The Recovery of West European Democracy
Europe and Global History: the Age of Decolonization, 1945-1975. The Relaxation of the Cold War: Ostpolitik and DTtente, 1965-1975
A Troubled West: Unrest and Violence, 1968-1975. 33
The New Belle Epoque: Prosperity, Democracy, and Unity Since 1975. European Peace and Prosperity
Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Revolution, 1975-1990. The Revolutions of 1989 and the Collapse of Communist Europe
Helmut Kohl and the German Resurgence
The Yugoslav Civil War, 1991-1995. Europe at the Closing of the Twentieth Century
Document Sources
Photo Credits
Index


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