Civilization in the West

by Kishlansky, Mark A.; Geary, Patrick; O'Brien, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780321066800
• ISBN10: 0321066804
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life. The authors tell a compelling story of Western Civilization that is enhanced by an image-based approach. Pictorial chapter openers draw students in by illustrating a dominant theme of the chapter and exploring the dramatic impression each image makes in reinforcing that theme. The presentation of geography guides students around the changing contours of the West through both standard maps and Geographic Tours of Europe. The greater number of maps and tours combine to make this text the strongest possible program for teaching historical geography (151 total maps, as compared to Chambers, the second highest, at 106). The addition of Discovering Western Civilization Online (new end-of-chapter website URLs) makes this the first Western Civilization book to date to include these resources.

Table of Contents

Maps and Geographical Tours	viii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures	ix
Documents	ix
Supplements	x
Preface	xi
The Italian Renaissance	353	(35)
A Civic Procession	354	(2)
Renaissance Society	356	(8)
The Environment	356	(2)
Production and Consumption	358	(1)
The Experience of Life	359	(3)
The Quality of Life	362	(2)
Renaissance Art	364	(6)
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter	364	(3)
Renaissance Style	367	(1)
Michelangelo	368	(2)
Renaissance Ideals	370	(5)
Humanists and the Liberal Arts	371	(2)
Machiavelli and Politics	373	(2)
The Politics of the Italian City-States	375	(11)
The Five Powers	376	(1)
Venice: A Seaborne Empire	377	(2)
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold	379	(2)
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450--1527	381	(5)
Questions for Review	386	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	386	(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	387	(1)
The European Empires	388	(39)
Ptolemy's World	389	(2)
European Encounters	391	(16)
A Passage to India	391	(2)
Mundus Novus	393	(4)
The Spanish Conquests	397	(3)
The Legacy of the Encounters	400	(3)
Geographical Tour
Europe in 1500	403	(1)
Eastern Boundaries	404	(1)
Central Europe	405	(1)
The West	406	(1)
The Formation of States	407	(12)
Eastern Configurations	408	(2)
The Western Powers	410	(9)
The Dynastic Struggles	419	(5)
Power and Glory	419	(1)
The Italian Wars	420	(4)
Questions for Review	424	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	424	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	426	(1)
The Reform of Religion	427	(38)
Sola Scriptura	428	(2)
The Intellectual Reformation	430	(5)
The Print Revolution	430	(1)
Christian Humanism	431	(1)
The Humanist Movement	432	(1)
The Wit of Erasmus	433	(2)
The Lutheran Reformation	435	(8)
The Spark of Reform	435	(2)
Martin Luther's Faith	437	(2)
Lutheranism	439	(3)
The Spread of Lutheranism	442	(1)
The Protestant Reformation	443	(10)
Geneva and Calvin	444	(2)
The English Reformation	446	(3)
The Reformation of the Radicals	449	(4)
The Catholic Reformation	453	(9)
The Spiritual Revival	453	(3)
Loyola's Pilgrimage	456	(2)
The Counter-Reformation	458	(2)
The Empire Strikes Back	460	(2)
Questions for Review	462	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	462	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	464	(1)
Europe At War, 1555--1648	465	(35)
The Massacre of the Innocents	466	(2)
The Crisis of the Western States	468	(15)
The French Wars of Religion	468	(4)
One King, Two Faiths	472	(4)
The World of Philip II	476	(1)
The Burgundian Inheritance	477	(3)
The Revolt of the Netherlands	480	(3)
The Struggles in Eastern Europe	483	(6)
Kings and Diets in Poland	484	(1)
Muscovy's Time of Troubles	485	(1)
The Rise of Sweden	486	(3)
The Thirty Years' War, 1618--1648	489	(8)
Bohemia Revolts	490	(1)
The War Widens	491	(4)
The Long Quest for Peace	495	(2)
Questions for Review	497	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	497	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	499	(1)
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1650	500	(39)
Haymaking	501	(2)
Economic Life	503	(10)
Rural Life	503	(4)
Town Life	507	(3)
Economic Change	510	(3)
Social Life	513	(10)
Social Constructs	514	(1)
Social Structure	515	(3)
Social Change	518	(2)
Peasant Revolts	520	(3)
Private Life	523	(13)
The Family	523	(4)
Communities	527	(3)
Popular Beliefs	530	(6)
Questions for Review	536	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	536	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	538	(1)
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century	539	(38)
Fit for a King	540	(2)
The Rise of the Royal State	542	(8)
Divine Kings	542	(2)
The Court and the Courtiers	544	(2)
The Drive to Centralize Government	546	(2)
The Taxing Demands of War	548	(2)
The Crises of the Royal State	550	(13)
The Need to Resist	551	(2)
The Right to Resist	553	(3)
The English Civil War	556	(2)
The English Revolutions	558	(5)
The Zenith of the Royal State	563	(11)
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy	564	(2)
Absolutism in the East	566	(4)
The Origins of French Absolutism	570	(1)
Louis le Grand	571	(3)
Questions for Review	574	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	574	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	576	(1)
Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe	577	(38)
Rembrandt's Lessons	578	(2)
The New Science	580	(12)
Heavenly Revolutions	580	(4)
The Natural World	584	(6)
Science Enthroned	590	(2)
Empires of Goods	592	(12)
The Marketplace of the World	593	(2)
Consumption Choices	595	(3)
Dutch Masters	598	(2)
Mercantile Organization	600	(4)
The Wars of Commerce	604	(8)
The Mercantile Wars	605	(1)
The Wars of Louis XIV	606	(4)
The Colonial Wars	610	(2)
Questions for Review	612	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	612	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	614	(1)
The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe	615	(34)
Calling The Tune	616	(8)
Geographical Tour
Europe in 1714	618	(1)
Expansion in the West	619	(4)
Realignment in the East	623	(1)
The Rise of Russia	624	(8)
The Reforms of Peter the Great	625	(1)
Life in Rural Russia	626	(1)
The Enlightened Empress Catherine	627	(5)
The Two Germanies	632	(8)
The Rise of Prussia	633	(1)
Austria Survives	634	(3)
The Politics of Power	637	(3)
The Greatness of Great Britain	640	(6)
The British Constitution	640	(2)
Parties and Ministers	642	(1)
America Revolts	643	(3)
Questions for Review	646	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	647	(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	648	(1)
Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe	649	(36)
Happy Families	650	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Culture	652	(9)
The Enlightenment	652	(1)
The Spirit of the Enlightenment	653	(6)
The Impact of the Enlightenment	659	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Society	661	(21)
The Nobility	661	(2)
The Bourgeoisie	663	(8)
The Masses	671	(11)
Questions for Review	682	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	682	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	684	(1)
The French Revolution and The Napoleonic Era, 1789--1815	685	(36)
Admiring the American Revolution	686	(2)
The Crisis of the Old Regime in France, 1715--1788	688	(6)
Louis XV's France	688	(1)
Louis XVI and the National Debt	689	(2)
The Three Estates	691	(3)
The First Stage of the French Revolution, 1789--1792	694	(9)
Taking Politics to the People	694	(2)
Convening the Estates-General	696	(2)
The Storming of the Bastille	698	(1)
The Revolution of the Peasantry	698	(2)
Women on the March	700	(1)
The Revolution Threatened	701	(2)
Experimenting with Democracy: The Revolution's Second Stage, 1792--1799	703	(8)
Declaring Political Rights	703	(1)
The Second Revolution: the Revolution of the People	704	(1)
``Terror is the Order of the Day''	705	(5)
The End of the Revolution	710	(1)
The Reign of Napoleon, 1799--1815	711	(7)
Bonaparte Seizes Power	711	(1)
Napoleon at War with the European Powers	712	(2)
The First Empire and Domestic Reforms	714	(2)
Decline and Fall	716	(2)
Questions for Review	718	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	718	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	720	(1)
Industrial Europe	721	(42)
Portrait of an Age	722	(2)
The Traditional Economy	724	(7)
Farming Families	724	(2)
Rural Manufacture	726	(2)
The Agricultural Revolution	728	(3)
The Industrial Revolution in Britain	731	(21)
Britain First	732	(2)
Minerals and Metals	734	(3)
Cotton Is King	737	(3)
The Iron Horse	740	(4)
Entrepreneurs and Managers	744	(3)
The Wages of Progress	747	(5)
The Industrialization of the Continent	752	(9)
Industrialization Without Revolution	753	(3)
Industrialization and Union	756	(2)
The Lands That Time Forgot	758	(3)
Questions for Review	761	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	761	(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	762	(1)
Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815--1850	763	(1)
Potato Politics	764	(8)
Geographical Tour
Europe in 1815	766	(1)
The Congress of Vienna	766	(5)
The Alliance System	771	(1)
The New Ideologies	772	(10)
The New Politics of Preserving Order	772	(4)
Romanticism and Change	776	(2)
Reshaping State and Society	778	(4)
Protest and Revolution	782	(15)
Causes of Social Instability	782	(2)
The Revolutions of 1830	784	(4)
Reform in Great Britain	788	(1)
Workers Unite	789	(3)
Revolutions Across Europe, 1848--1850	792	(5)
Questions for Review	797	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	797	(2)
Discovering Western Civilization Online	799
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1