The Western Perspective A History of Civilization in the West (with InfoTrac)

by Cannistraro, Philip V.; Reich, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780534610654
• ISBN10: 053461065X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

True to its title, THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE focuses on the Western experience, while also placing that experience in the wider context of developments in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific. Accessible and clearly written, Cannistraro and Reich's text illustrates the causal connections across cultures and historical periods, conveying the record of human struggle and achievement, of conflict and community, of cultural diversity, of economic and technological developments, and of social change. The text's unique cultural perspective and theme and its unusually rich coverage of cultural history offer vivid images that communicate the full range of human experience. The "Perspectives" theme, which appears in every part and topic opener and in features, gives the book its unifying motif. Meanwhile, the book's flexible, modular structure ensures that you can easily adapt the text to your syllabus. THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Complete Volume, Second Edition (Contains Parts I-VIII) ISBN: 053461065X THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Volume I: To 1715, Second Edition (Contains Parts I-VI) ISBN: 0534610668 THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Volume II: Since 1500, Second Edition (Contains Parts IV-VIII) ISBN: 0534610676 THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Volume A: To 1500, Second Edition (Contains Parts I-IV) ISBN: 0534610692 THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Volume B: 1300-1815, Second Edition (Contains Parts III-VII) ISBN: 0534610706 THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Volume C: 1789-Present, Second Edition (Contains Parts VI-VIII) ISBN: 0534610714 THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Alternative Volume: Since 1300, Second Edition (Parts III-VIII, Topics 20-95) ISBN: 0534610684

Table of Contents

The Ancient World

People Before History

Mesopotamia and Its Cities

Egypt of the Pharaohs

Other Peoples in the Ancient Near East

Art and Belief in the Ancient World

The Structure and Economic Life of Ancient Society

Classical Antiquity

The Emergence of Greece: From Bronze to Iron

The Greeks in the Archaic Era

The Greek World in Conflict: the Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath

The Classical Vision

The Life and Commerce of Classical Greece

Alexander and the Hellenistic Age

The Rise of Rome

Romans of the Republic

The Collapse of the Roman Republic

The Empire: From Augustus to Marcus Aurelius

Politics and the Arts: Roman Imperial Culture

Daily Life in the Roman World

Christianity and the Crisis of Empire

Medieval Europe

Politics After Rome: the Germanic Kingdoms

Early Medieval Christianity

Byzantium: the Eastern Empire

Europe and Islam

The First Europe: the West in the Age of Charlemagne

The Social Order of Medieval Europe

The Feudal Monarchies

The Militant Church: Reform and the Papacy

Scholars, Troubadours, and Builders

Monarchy and Its Limits: Government in the High Middle Ages

Art and Ideas in the Gothic Age

The Fourteenth Century: Stress and Change in European Society

The Late Middle Ages

The Renaissance and Reformation

The Age of the New Monarchs

Power and Culture in Renaissance Italy

The Visual Arts of the Italian Renaissance

Arts and Letters in Renaissance Europe

Upheaval and Transformation in Eastern Europe

The Era of Reconnaissance

The Reformation

The Social Worlds of the Renaissance and Reformation

The Early Modern World

Catholic Reform and the Counter-Reformation

Catholic Spain and the Struggle for Supremacy

Crown and Parliament in Tudor-Stuart England

Religious War and the Ascendancy of the French Monarchy

Patterns of Life in a Time of Upheaval

The European Economy and Overseas Empire

The Baroque Era

The Old Regime

The Scientific Revolution and Western Thought

Southern Europe: Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean

Absolute Monarchy: Louis XIV and the Divine Right of Kings

England and the Rise of Constitutional Monarchy

Central Europe and the Shifting Balance of Power

The Baltic and Eastern Europe in Transition

The Culture of the Old Regime

Europe and the World Economy

The Global Conflict: Wars for Empire

European Society in the Eighteenth Century

The Age of Reason

The Modern Age

The Politics of Enlightenment: Europe and America

The Industrial Revolution

Revolution in France: Liberty, Terror, Reaction

Europe in the Napoleonic Era

Restoration and Resistance in the Age of Metternich

The New Social Order: Workers, Women, and the Middle Class

The Romantic Vision: Art and Culture in a Revolutionary World

Thought and Action: the Revolutions of 1848

The Liberal State: Domestic Politics in Britain and France

Austria and Russia: Conservatism Entrenched

Diplomacy and War: the Age of Nation Building

Technology and the European Economy

Middle-Class Values and Working-Class Realities

Arts, Ideas, and Social Consciousness

Politics and National Development in Europe, 1870+1914

The Crisis of Empire in Eastern Europe

Europe, the United States, and the World Economy

The Drive for Empire: European Imperialism in Asia and Africa

The Social Order Challenged

Society in Transition: the Modernization of Europe

Art and Science: the Modernist Revolution

The Contemporary Era

The Great War

Radical Extremes: the Russian Revolution and the Rise of Fascism

The European Economy: Boom and Bust

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin: the Totalitarian Nightmare

The Western Democracies

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