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John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 and Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. He also contributed to Imagining the Twentieth Century.

Bennett D. Hill (Ph.D., Princeton), late of the University of Illinois, was the history department chair from 1978 to 1981. He published Church and State in the Middle Ages, English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century, and numerous articles and reviews, and was one of the contributing editors to The Encyclopedia of World History. A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he was also a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

John Buckler (Ph.D., Harvard University) taught history at the University of Illinois. Published books include Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C., Philip II and the Sacred War, and Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C. With Hans Beck, he most recently published Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century.

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies and a former chair of the Pinkney Prize Committee.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She currently serves as the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. He has published numerous articles and is author of the recently published book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History. His current research interests include issues of consumption, gender, and television in East and West Germany after World War II.

Chapter 1: Origins to 1200 b.c.e.

Understanding Western History

Describing the West

What Is Civilization?

The Earliest Human Societies

From the First Hominids to the Paleolithic Era

Planting Crops

Implications of Agriculture

Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections

Civilization in Mesopotamia

Environment and Mesopotamian Development

The Invention of Writing and the First Schools

Religion in Mesopotamia

Sumerian Politics and Society

Empires in Mesopotamia

The Akkadians and the Babylonians

Life Under Hammurabi

Cultural Exchange in the Fertile Crescent

The Egyptians

The Nile and the God-King

Egyptian Religion

Egyptian Society and Work

Egyptian Family Life

The Hyksos and New Kingdom Revival

Conflict and Cooperation with the Hittites

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hatshepsut and Nefertiti

Primary Source: Paleolithic Venus Figures

Primary Source: Morality in the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter 2: Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East 1200–510 b.c.e.
Iron and the Emergence of New States

Iron Technology

The Decline of Egypt and the Emergence of Kush

The Rise of Phoenicia

The Hebrews

The Hebrew State

The Jewish Religion

Hebrew Family and Society

Assyria, the Military Monarchy

Assyria’s Long Road to Power

Assyrian Rule and Culture

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Empire of the Persian Kings

Consolidation of the Persian Empire

Persian Religion

Persian Art and Culture

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Cyrus the Great

Primary Source: The Report of Wenamun

Primary Source: A Jewish Family Contract

Chapter 3: The Development of Greek Society and Culture, ca. 3000–338 b.c.e.
Greece in the Bronze Age

Geography and Settlement

The Minoans

The Mycenaeans

Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic

The Development of the Polis in the Archaic Age

Organization of the Polis

Governing Structures

Overseas Expansion

The Growth of Sparta

The Evolution of Athens

War and Turmoil in the Classical Period

The Persian Wars

Growth of the Athenian Empire

The Peloponnesian War

The Struggle for Dominance

Philip II and Macedonian Supremacy

Classical Greek Life and Culture

Athenian Arts in the Age of Pericles

Households and Work

Gender and Sexuality

Public and Personal Religion

The Flowering of Philosophy

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Aspasia

Primary Source: Hesiod, Works and Days
Primary Source: Sophocles, Antigone

Chapter 4: Life in the Hellenistic World 336–30 b.c.e.
Alexander’s Conquests and Their Political Legacy

Military Campaigns

The Political Legacy

Building a Hellenized Society

Urban Life

Greeks in Hellenistic Cities

Greeks and Non-Greeks

The Economy of the Hellenistic World

Agriculture and Industry

Commerce

Religion and Philosophy in the Hellenistic World

Religion and Magic

Hellenism and the Jews

Philosophy and the People

Hellenistic Science and Medicine

Science

Medicine

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Alexander the Great

Primary Source: Arrian on Alexander the Great

Individuals in Society: Archimedes, Scientist and Inventor

Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome ca. 1000–27 b.c.e.
Rome’s Rise to Power

The Geography of Italy

The Etruscans

The Founding of Rome

The Roman Conquest of Italy

The Roman Republic

The Roman State

Social Conflict in Rome

Roman Expansion

The Punic Wars

Rome Turns East

Roman Society

Roman Families

Greek Influence on Roman Culture

Opposing Views: Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus

The Late Republic

Reforms for Poor and Landless Citizens

Political Violence

Civil War

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Queen Cleopatra

Primary Source: A Woman’s Actions in the Turia Inscription

Primary Source: Plutarch on the Reforms of Gaius Gracchus

Chapter 6: The Roman Empire, 27 b.c.e.–284 c.e.
Augustus’s Reign

The Principate

Roman Expansion

The Flowering of Latin Literature

Marriage and Morality

Augustus’s Successors

The Julio-Claudians and the Flavians

The Age of the "Five Good Emperors"

Rome and the Provinces

Life in Imperial Rome

Approaches to Urban Problems

Popular Entertainment

Prosperity in the Roman Provinces

Trade and Commerce

The Coming of Christianity

Factors Behind the Rise of Christianity

The Life and Teachings of Jesus

The Spread of Christianity

The Growing Acceptance and Evolution of Christianity

The Empire in Disarray

Civil Wars and Military Commanders

Turmoil in Economic Life

Chapter Review – LearningCurve

ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Bithus, a Soldier in the Roman Army

Primary Source: Ovid, The Art of Love

Chapter 7: Late Antiquity, 250–600
Reconstruction Under Diocletian and Constantine

Political Measures

Economic Issues

The Acceptance of Christianity

The Growth of the Christian Church

The Church and Its Leaders

The Development of Christian Monasticism

Monastery Life

Christianity and Classical Culture

Christian Notions of Gender and Sexuality

Saint Augustine on Human Nature, Will, and Sin

Barbarian Society

Village and Family Life

Tribes and Hierarchies

Customary and Written Law

Celtic and Germanic Religion

Migration, Assimilation, and Conflict

Celtic and Germanic People in Gaul and Britain

Visigoths and Huns

Germanic Kingdoms and the End of the Roman Empire

Christian Missionaries and Conversion

Missionaries’ Actions

The Process of Conversion

The Byzantine Empire

Sources of Byzantine Strength

The Law Code of Justinian

Byzantine Intellectual Life

The Orthodox Church

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Theodora of Constantinople

Primary Source: Recruiting and Training Soldiers in the Roman Army

Primary Source: Tacitus on Germanic Society

Chapter 8: Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600–1000
The Spread of Islam

The Arabs

The Prophet Muhammad

The Teachings and Expansion of Islam

Sunni and Shi’a Divisions

Life in Muslim Spain

Muslim-Christian Relations

Cross-Cultural Influences in Science and Medicine

Frankish Rulers and Their Territories

The Merovingians

The Rise of the Carolingians

The Warrior-Ruler Charlemagne

Carolingian Government and Society

The Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne

Early Medieval Culture

The Carolingian Renaissance

Northumbrian Learning and Writing

Invasions and Migrations

Vikings in Western Europe

Slavs and Vikings in Eastern Europe

Magyars and Muslims

Political and Economic Decentralization

Decentralization and the Origins of "Feudalism"

Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave Trade

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: The Venerable Bede

Primary Source: The Muslim Conquest of Spain

Primary Source: The Death of Beowulf

Chapter 9: State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000–1300
Political Revival and the Origins of the Modern State

England

France

Central Europe

Italy

The Iberian Peninsula

Law and Justice

Local Laws and Royal Courts

The Magna Carta

Law in Everyday Life

Nobles

Origins and Status of the Nobility

Training, Marriage, and Inheritance

Power and Responsibility

The Papacy

The Gregorian Reforms

Emperor Versus Pope

Criticism and Heresy

The Popes and Church Law

Monks, Nuns, and Friars

Monastic Revival

Life in Convents and Monasteries

The Friars

The Crusades and the Expansion of Christianity

Background and Motives of the Crusades

The Course of the Crusades

Consequences of the Crusades

The Expansion of Christianity

Christendom

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hildegard of Bingen

Primary Source: Marriage and Wardship in the Norman Exchequer

Primary Source: Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam

Chapter 10: Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000–1300
Village Life

Slavery, Serfdom, and Upward Mobility

The Manor

Work

Home Life

Childbirth and Child Abandonment

Popular Religion

Christian Life in Medieval Villages

Saints and Sacraments

Muslims and Jews

Rituals of Marriage and Birth

Death and the Afterlife

Towns and Economic Revival

The Rise of Towns

Merchant and Craft Guilds

The Revival of Long‑Distance Trade

Business Procedures

The Commercial Revolution

Urban Life

City Life

Servants and the Poor

Popular Entertainment

Medieval Universities

Origins

Legal and Medical Training

Theology and Philosophy

University Students

Literature and Architecture

Vernacular Literature and Drama

Churches and Cathedrals

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Life in Medieval Towns

Primary Source: The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela

Individuals in Society: Francesco Datini

Primary Source: Thomas Aquinas on Reason and Faith

Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450
Prelude to Disaster

Climate Change and Famine

Social Consequences

The Black Death

Pathology

Spread of the Disease

Care of the Sick

Economic, Religious, and Cultural Effects

The Hundred Years’ War

Causes

English Successes

Joan of Arc and France’s Victory

Aftermath

Challenges to the Church

The Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism

Critiques, Divisions, and Councils

Lay Piety and Mysticism

Social Unrest in a Changing Society

Peasant Revolts

Urban Conflicts

Sex in the City

Fur-Collar Crime

Ethnic Tensions and Restrictions

Literacy and Vernacular Literature

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Meister Eckhart

Primary Source: The Trial of Joan of Arc

Primary Source: The Statute of Laborers

Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350–1550
Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy

Trade and Prosperity

Communes and Republics of Northern Italy

City-States and the Balance of Power

Intellectual Change

Humanism

Education

Political Thought

Christian Humanism

The Printed Word

Art and the Artist

Patronage and Power

Changing Artistic Styles

The Renaissance Artist

Social Hierarchies

Race and Slavery

Wealth and the Nobility

Gender Roles

Politics and the State in Western Europe

France

England

Spain

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci

Primary Source: A Sermon of Savonarola

Primary Source: Cassandra Fedele on Humanist Learning

Chapter 13: Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500–1600
The Early Reformation

The Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth Century

Martin Luther

Protestant Thought

The Appeal of Protestant Ideas

The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War

Marriage, Sexuality, and the Role of Women

The Reformation and German Politics

The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty

Religious Wars in Switzerland and Germany

The Spread of Protestant Ideas

Scandinavia

Henry VIII and the Reformation in England

Upholding Protestantism in England

Calvinism

The Reformation in Eastern Europe

The Catholic Reformation

Papal Reform and the Council of Trent

New and Reformed Religious Orders

Religious Violence

French Religious Wars

The Netherlands Under Charles V

The Great European Witch-Hunt

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Anna Jansz of Rotterdam

Primary Source: Elizabethan Injunctions About Religion

Primary Source: 1547 Ordinances in Calvin’s Geneva

Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650
World Contacts Before Columbus

The Trade World of the Indian Ocean

The Trading States of Africa

The Ottoman and Persian Empires

Genoese and Venetian Middlemen

The European Voyages of Discovery

Causes of European Expansion

Technology and the Rise of Exploration

The Portuguese Overseas Empire

The Problem of Christopher Columbus

Later Explorers

Spanish Conquest in the New World

Early French and English Settlement in the New World

The Impact of Conquest

Colonial Administration

Impact of European Settlement on Indigenous Peoples

Life in the Colonies

The Columbian Exchange

Europe and the World After Columbus

Sugar and Slavery

Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects

The Birth of the Global Economy

Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

New Ideas About Race

Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity

William Shakespeare and His Influence

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja

Primary Source: A Portuguese Traveler Describes Swahili City-States of East Africa

Primary Source: Tenochtitlán Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries

Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589–1725
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding

The Social Order and Peasant Life

Famine and Economic Crisis

The Thirty Years’ War

Achievements in State-Building

Warfare and the Growth of Army Size

Popular Political Action

Absolutism in France and Spain

The Foundations of Absolutism

Louis XIV and Absolutism

Life at Versailles

French Financial Management Under Colbert

Louis XIV’s Wars

The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century

Absolutism in Austria and Prussia

The Return of Serfdom in the East

The Austrian Habsburgs

Prussia in the Seventeenth Century

The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism

The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire

The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow

The Tsar and His People

The Reforms of Peter the Great

The Growth of the Ottoman Empire

Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic

Absolutist Claims in England

Religious Divides and the English Civil War

Cromwell and Puritanical Absolutism in England

The Restoration of the English Monarchy

Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

Baroque Art and Music

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hürrem

Primary Source: Letter from Versailles

Primary Source: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government

Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540–1789
Major Breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution

Scientific Thought in 1500

Origins of the Scientific Revolution

The Copernican Hypothesis

Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus Right

Newton’s Synthesis

Important Changes in Scientific Thinking

Bacon, Descartes, and the Scientific Method

Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry

Empire and Natural History

Science and Society

The Enlightenment

The Emergence of the Enlightenment

The Influence of the Philosophes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The International Enlightenment

Urban Culture and Life in the Public Sphere

Race and the Enlightenment

Enlightened Absolutism

Frederick the Great of Prussia

Catherine the Great of Russia

The Austrian Habsburgs

Jewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened Absolutism

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment

Primary Source: Galileo Galilei, The Sidereal Messenger
Primary Source: Du Châtelet, Foundations of Physics

Chapter 17: The Expansion of Europe, 1650–1800
Working the Land

The Legacy of the Open-Field System

New Methods of Agriculture

The Leadership of the Low Countries and England

The Beginning of the Population Explosion

Long-Standing Obstacles to Population Growth

The New Pattern of the Eighteenth Century

The Growth of Rural Industry

The Putting-Out System

The Lives of Rural Textile Workers

The Industrious Revolution

The Debate over Urban Guilds

Urban Guilds

Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism

The Atlantic World and Global Trade

Mercantilism and Colonial Competition

The Atlantic Economy

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Identities and Communities of the Atlantic World

The Colonial Enlightenment

Trade and Empire in Asia and the Pacific

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Rebecca Protten

Primary Source: Adam Smith on the Division of Labor

Primary Source: Olaudah Equiano’s Economic Arguments for Ending Slavery

Chapter 18: Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650–1800
Marriage and the Family

Late Marriage and Nuclear Families

Work Away from Home

Premarital Sex and Community Controls

New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy

Sex on the Margins of Society

Children and Education

Child Care and Nursing

Foundlings and Infanticide

Attitudes Toward Children

The Spread of Elementary Schools

Popular Culture and Consumerism

Popular Literature

Leisure and Recreation

New Foods and Appetites

Toward a Consumer Society

Religious Authority and Beliefs

Church Hierarchy

Protestant Revival

Catholic Piety

Marginal Beliefs and Practices

Medical Practice

Faith Healing and General Practice

Improvements in Surgery

Midwifery

The Conquest of Smallpox

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT The Inner Life of the Individual

Primary Source: Parisian Boyhood

Individuals in Society: Rose Bertin, "Minister of Fashion"

Primary Source: Advice to Methodists

Chapter 19: Revolutions in Politics, 1775–1815
Background to Revolution

Social Change

Growing Demands for Liberty and Equality

The Seven Years’ War

The American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789

The Origins of the Revolution

Independence from Britain

Framing the Constitution

Limitations of Liberty and Equality

Revolution in France, 1789–1791

Breakdown of the Old Order

The Formation of the National Assembly

Popular Uprising and the Rights of Man

A Constitutional Monarchy and Its Challenges

World War and Republican France, 1791–1799

The International Response

The Second Revolution and the New Republic

Total War and the Terror

The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory

The Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815

Napoleon’s Rule of France

Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe

The Grand Empire and Its End

The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804

Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue

The Outbreak of Revolt

The War of Haitian Independence

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Toussaint L’Ouverture

Primary Source: Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"

Primary Source: Napoleon’s Proclamation to the French People

Chapter 20: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780–1850
The Industrial Revolution in Britain

Origins of the British Industrial Revolution

Technological Innovations and Early Factories

The Steam Engine Breakthrough

The Coming of the Railroads

Industry and Population

Industrialization Beyond Britain

National and International Variations

Industrialization in Continental Europe

Agents of Industrialization

Government Support and Corporate Banking

The Situation Outside of Europe

New Patterns of Working and Living

Work in Early Factories

Working Families and Children

The New Sexual Division of Labor

Relations Between Capital and Labor

The New Class of Factory Owners

Debates over Industrialization

The Early British Labor Movement

The Impact of Slavery

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Josiah Wedgwood

Primary Source: Living Conditions of the Working Classes

Primary Source: Advice for Middle-Class Women

Chapter 21: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815–1850
The Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars

The European Balance of Power

Metternich and Conservatism

Repressing the Revolutionary Spirit

Limits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South America

The Spread of Radical Ideas

Liberalism and the Middle Class

The Growing Appeal of Nationalism

The Foundations of Modern Socialism

The Birth of Marxist Socialism

The Romantic Movement

The Tenets of Romanticism

Literature

Art and Music

Reforms and Revolutions Before 1848

National Liberation in Greece

Liberal Reform in Great Britain

Ireland and the Great Famine

The Revolution of 1830 in France

The Revolutions of 1848

A Democratic Republic in France

Revolution and Reaction in the Austrian Empire

Prussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National Parliament

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Germaine de Staël

Primary Source: Metternich: Conservative Reaction in the German Confederation

Primary Source: The Republican Spirit in Paris, 1848

Chapter 22: Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840–1914
Taming the City

Industry and the Growth of Cities

The Advent of the Public Health Movement

The Bacterial Revolution

Improvements in Urban Planning

Public Transportation

Rich and Poor and Those in Between

The Distribution of Income

The People and Occupations of the Middle Classes

Middle-Class Culture and Values

The People and Occupations of the Working Classes

Working-Class Leisure and Religion

Changing Family Lifestyles

Middle-Class Marriage and Courtship Rituals

Middle- and Working-Class Sexuality

Prostitution

Separate Spheres and the Importance of Homemaking

Child Rearing

The Feminist Movement

Science and Thought

The Triumph of Science in Industry

Darwin and Natural Selection

The Modern University and the Social Sciences

Realism in Art and Literature

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Life in the Modern City on Film

Primary Source: First Impressions of the World’s Biggest City

Individuals in Society: Franziska Tiburtius

Primary Source: Max Weber Critiques Industrial Capitalism

Chapter 23: The Age of Nationalism, 1850–1914
Napoleon III in France

France’s Second Republic

Napoleon III’s Second Empire

Nation Building in Italy, Germany, and the United States

Italy to 1850

Cavour and Garibaldi in Italy

Growing Austro-Prussian Rivalry

Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian War

Taming the German Parliament

The Franco-Prussian War

Slavery and Nation Building in the United States

The Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman Empire

The "Great Reforms" in Russia

The Russian Revolution of 1905

Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman Empire

The Responsive National State, 1871–1914

The German Empire

Republican France

Great Britain and Ireland

The Austro-Hungarian Empire

The Nation and the People

Making National Citizens

Nationalism and Racism

Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism

Marxism and the Socialist Movement

The Socialist International

Unions and Revisionism

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Theodor Herzl

Primary Source: The Struggle for the Italian Nation

Primary Source: Eyewitness Accounts of Bloody Sunday

Chapter 24: The West and the World, 1815–1914
Industrialization and the World Economy

The Rise of Global Inequality

The World Market

The Opening of China

Japan and the United States

Western Penetration of Egypt

Global Migration Around 1900

The Pressure of Population

European Emigration

Asian Emigration

Western Imperialism, 1880–1914

The European Presence in Africa Before 1880

The Scramble for Africa After 1880

Imperialism in Asia

Causes of the New Imperialism

A "Civilizing Mission"

Orientalism

Critics of Imperialism

Responding to Western Imperialism

The Pattern of Response

Empire in India

The Example of Japan

Toward Revolution in China

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Cecil Rhodes

Primary Source: Nativism in the United States

Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914–1919
The Road to War

Growing International Conflict

The Mood of 1914

The Outbreak of War

Waging Total War

Stalemate and Slaughter on the Western Front

The Widening War

The Home Front

Mobilizing for Total War

The Social Impact

Growing Political Tensions

The Russian Revolution

The Fall of Imperial Russia

The Provisional Government

Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution

Trotsky and the Seizure of Power

Dictatorship and Civil War

The Peace Settlement

The End of the War

Revolution in Austria-Hungary and Germany

The Treaty of Versailles

The Peace Settlement in the Middle East

The Human Costs of the War

Chapter Review – LearningCurve

ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Vera Brittain

Primary Source: German Diplomacy and the Road to War

Primary Source: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian People

Chapter 26: The Age of Anxiety, 1880–1940
Uncertainty in Modern Thought

Modern Philosophy

The Revival of Christianity

The New Physics

Freudian Psychology

Modernism in Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music

Architecture and Design

New Artistic Movements

Twentieth-Century Literature

Modern Music

An Emerging Consumer Society

Mass Culture

The Appeal of Cinema

The Arrival of Radio

The Search for Peace and Political Stability

Germany and the Western Powers

Hope in Foreign Affairs

Hope in Democratic Government

The Great Depression, 1929–1939

The Economic Crisis

Mass Unemployment

The New Deal in the United States

The Scandinavian Response to the Depression

Recovery and Reform in Britain and France

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Gustav Stresemann

Primary Source: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of God

Primary Source: Keynes on German Reparations After World War I

Chapter 27: Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919–1945
Authoritarian States

Conservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships

Communism and Fascism

Stalin’s Soviet Union

From Lenin to Stalin

The Five-Year Plans

Life and Culture in Soviet Society

Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges

Mussolini and Fascism in Italy

The Seizure of Power

The Regime in Action

Hitler and Nazism in Germany

The Roots of National Socialism

Hitler’s Road to Power

State and Society in Nazi Germany

Popular Support for National Socialism

Aggression and Appeasement

The Second World War

German Victories in Europe

Europe Under Nazi Occupation

The Holocaust

Japanese Empire and the War in the Pacific

The "Hinge of Fate"

Allied Victory

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Primo Levi

Primary Source: The "Reich Citizenship Law" and the Nazi Volk
Primary Source: Everyday Life in the London Blitz

Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965
Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War

The Legacies of the Second World War

The Peace Settlement and Cold War Origins

West Versus East

Big Science in the Nuclear Age

The Western Renaissance/Recovery in Western Europe

The Search for Political and Social Consensus

Toward European Unity

The Consumer Revolution

Developments in the Soviet Union and the East Bloc

Postwar Life in the East Bloc

Reform and De-Stalinization

Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion

The Limits of Reform

The End of Empires

Decolonization and the Global Cold War

The Struggle for Power in Asia

Independence and Conflict in the Middle East

Decolonization in Africa

Postwar Social Transformations

Changing Class Structures

Patterns of Postwar Migration

New Roles for Women

Youth Culture and the Generation Gap

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Armando Rodrigues

Primary Source: Western European Recovery and the Promise of Prosperity

Primary Source: The Hungarian Communist Party Calls for Reforms

Chapter 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991
Reform and Protest in the 1960s

Cold War Tensions Thaw

The Affluent Society

The Counterculture Movement

The United States and Vietnam

Student Revolts and 1968

The 1960s in the East Bloc

Crisis and Change in Western Europe

Economic Crisis and Hardship

The New Conservatism

Challenges and Victories for Women

The Rise of the Environmental Movement

Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism

The Decline of "Developed Socialism"

State and Society in the East Bloc

Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland

From Détente Back to Cold War

Gorbachev’s Reforms in the Soviet Union

The Revolutions of 1989

The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc

German Unification and the End of the Cold War

The Disintegration of the Soviet Union

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Margaret Thatcher

Primary Source: Human Rights Under the Helsinki Accords

Primary Source: Counterculture Graffiti from Paris, 1968

Chapter 30: Life in an Age of Globalization 1990 to the Present
Reshaping Russia and the Former East Bloc

Economic Shock Therapy in Russia

Russian Revival Under Vladimir Putin

Coping with Change in the Former East Bloc

Tragedy in Yugoslavia

The New Global System

The Global Economy

The New European Union

Supranational Organizations

The Human Side of Globalization

Life in the Digital Age

Toward a Multicultural Continent

The Prospect of Population Decline

Changing Immigration Flows

Ethnic Diversity in Contemporary Europe

Europe and Its Muslim Citizens

Confronting Twenty-First-Century Challenges

Growing Strains in U.S.-European Relations

Turmoil in the Muslim World

The Global Recession and the Viability of the Eurozone

Dependence on Fossil Fuels

Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

Promoting Human Rights

Chapter Review – LearningCurve
ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Contesting Globalization

Primary Source: The Slow Food Manifesto

Individuals in Society: Tariq Ramadan

Primary Source: Osama bin Laden Calls for Global Jihad

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