The Western Perspective Since the Middle Ages, Volume 2 (with InfoTrac)

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

• ISBN13: 9780534610678
• ISBN10: 0534610676
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-23
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This is Volume II (since 1500) of THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Second Edition. 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 is also available in the following split options: 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

Part IV: THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

33. The Age of the New Monarchs

34. Power and Culture in Renaissance Italy

35. The Visual Arts of the Italian Renaissance

36. Arts and Letters in Renaissance Europe

37. Upheaval and Transformation in Eastern Europe

38. The Era of Reconnaissance

39. The Reformation

40. The Social Worlds of the Renaissance and Reformation

Part V: THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

41. Catholic Reform and the Counter-Reformation

42. Catholic Spain and the Struggle for Supremacy

43. Crown and Parliament in Tudor-Stuart England

44. Religious War and the Ascendancy of the French Monarchy

45. Patterns of Life in a Time of Upheaval

46. The European Economy and Overseas Empire

47. The Baroque Era

Part VI: THE OLD REGIME

48. The Scientific Revolution and Western Thought

49. Southern Europe: Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean

50. Absolute Monarchy: Louis XIV and the Divine Right of Kings

51. England and the Rise of Constitutional Monarchy

52. Central Europe and the Shifting Balance of Power

53. The Baltic and Eastern Europe in Transition

54. The Culture of the Old Regime

55. Europe and the World Economy

56. The Global Conflict: Wars for Empire

57. European Society in the Eighteenth Century

58. The Age of Reason

Part VII: THE MODERN AGE

59. The Politics of Enlightenment: Europe and America

60. The Industrial Revolution

61. Revolution in France: Liberty, Terror, Reaction

62. Europe in the Napoleonic Era

63. Restoration and Resistance in the Age of Metternich

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

65. The Romantic Vision: Art and Culture in a Revolutionary World

66. Thought and Action: The Revolutions of 1848

67. The Liberal State: Domestic Politics in Britain and France

68. Austria and Russia: Conservatism Entrenched

69. Diplomacy and War: The Age of Nation Building

70. Technology and the European Economy

71. Middle-Class Values and Working-Class Realities

72. Arts, Ideas, and Social Consciousness

73. Politics and National Development in Europe, 1870–1914

74. The Crisis of Empire in Eastern Europe

75. Europe, the United States, and the World Economy

76. The Drive for Empire: European Imperialism in Asia and Africa

77. The Social Order Challenged

78. Society in Transition: The Modernization of Europe

79. Art and Science: The Modernist Revolution

Part VIII: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA

80. The Great War

81. Radical Extremes: The Russian Revolution and the Rise of Fascism

82. The European Economy: Boom and Bust

83. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin: The Totalitarian Nightmare

84. The Western Democracies and Eastern Europe

85. Social Values and the Lost Generation

86. Civilization and Its Discontents: Psychoanalysis and the Arts

87. The Road to War

88. The Second World War

89. The Age of Empire: Decolonization and the Third World

90. The Politics of Stability in Western Europe

91. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

92. Mobility and Social Change: Toward the Consumer Society

93. Culture in the Age of Uncertainty

94. The Path Toward European Integration

95. Epilogue: Facing the Twenty-First Century

Glossary

Index