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A. Daniel Frankforter is Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught for nearly four decades. His undergraduate work was in the history of ideas and philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Drew University, did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Göttingen and completed master’s and doctoral degrees in medieval history and religious studies at Penn State. His research has focused on the medieval English Church and on the evolving role of European women throughout the medieval period. Articles on these topics have appeared in such journals as Manuscripta, Church History, The British Studies Monitor, The Catholic Historical Review, The American Benedictine Review, The International Journal of Women’s Studies, and The Journal of Women’s History. His books include: A History of the Christian Movement: An Essay on the Development of Christian Institutions, Civilization and Survival, The Shakespeare Name Dictionary (with J. Madison Davis), The Medieval Millennium: An Introduction, The Western Heritage, Brief Edition (with Donald Kagan, Stephen Ozment, and Frank Turner), The Heritage of World Civilizations, brief third edition (with Albert Craig, William Graham, Donald Kagan, Stephen Ozment, and Frank Turner), an edition and translation of Poullain de la Barre’s De L’Égalité des deux Sexes, and Stones for Bread: A Critique of Contemporary Worship. Over the course of his career he has developed 15 courses dealing with aspects of the ancient and medieval periods of Western civilization, Judeo-Christian studies, and gender issues. His work in the classroom has been acknowledged by the Penn State Behrend Excellence in Teaching Award and the prestigious Amoco Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching Performance.
William M. Spellman is the Dean of Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He is a graduate of Suffolk University, Boston, and holds the Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of John Locke and the Problem of Depravity (Oxford, 1988); The Latitudinarians and the Church of England, 1660-1700 (Georgia, 1993); John Locke (Macmillan, 1995); European Political Thought, 1600-1700 (Macmillan, 1997); Monarchies, 1000-2000 (Reaktion Press, 2000); Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World (Greenwood Press, 2000) co-authored with Carole Levin, et. al.; The Global Community: Migration and the Making of the Modern World, 1500-2000 (Sutton, 2002); A Concise History of the World Since 1945 (Palgrave, 2006); and Migration and the Nation State (Reaktion Press, forthcoming).
| The West: Culture and Ideas, Volume II | |
| The Revolutionary Impulse | |
| The Early Modern State | |
| Larger Issue | |
| How do political systems reflect the structure of social and economic life? | |
| Society in Early Modern Europe | |
| Forging Centralized States | |
| Absolutism in France | |
| Constitutionalism in England | |
| Wars of Empire and Global Markets | |
| Central and Eastern Europe | |
| Europes Declining Powers | |
| New World Views: Europes Scientific Revolution | |
| Larger Issue | |
| How does the study of the natural world influence religious belief and the understanding of truth? | |
| The Medieval World View | |
| Anticipating the New Science | |
| New Directions in Astronomy and Physics | |
| New Approaches to Truth | |
| Theory and Application | |
| Politics as Science | |
| Science as Religion | |
| Superstition and Its Victims | |
| The Age of Enlightenment | |
| Rationalism and its Uses | |
| Larger Issue | |
| How do people construct ideas of progress? | |
| Critiquing the Traditional Way of Life | |
| Formulas for Improving Material Conditions | |
| Enlightened Despots | |
| Critiquing the Enlightenment | |
| The Arts in the Age of Reason | |
| Rebellion and Revolution: American Independence and the French Revolution | |
| Larger Issue: Can political change occur without social and economic upheaval? | |
| America Rejects Europe | |
| Revolution in France | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte and the Export of Revolution, 17991815 | |
| The French Revolution and the Americas | |
| Europe Triumphant 1815-1914 | |
| Industry, Society, and Environment | |
| Larger Issue: How do technology and urbanization influences the relationship between humans and nature? | |
| From Rural to Urban Lifestyles in Europe | |
| Agriculture, Demographics, and Labor | |
| Innovations in Production | |
| The Social Consequences of Industrialization | |
| Industry, the State, and Global Power | |
| The Age of Ideology in Western Europe | |
| Larger Issue: What leads people to challenge conventional ideas and practices? | |
| The Congress System and the Conservative Agenda | |
| Ideological Ferment | |
| The Revolutions of 1848 | |
| Britain and Reform | |
| The Romantic Movement | |
| Utilitarianism and Utopian Socialism | |
| The Marxist Challenge | |
| The Consolidation of Nation States | |
| Larger Issue: Is nationalism a constructive force in the modern age? | |
| Italian Unification | |
| The Creation of Modern Germany | |
| Constitutional Change in France and Britain | |
| The Waning of the Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Empires | |
| The United States and Western Europe | |
| Nationalism and Race | |
| Global Empire and European Culture | |
| Larger Issue: How does the projection of power reflect wider cultural values? | |
| The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods | |
| The Scramble for Empire: Africa | |
| The Scramble for Empire: South and East Asia | |
| The Legacy of Empire | |
| Imperialism, Intellectual Controversy, and European Culture | |
| Transformation in the Arts | |
| Europe in Crisis 1914-1945 | |
| World War I: The End of Enlightenment | |
| Larger Issue: Are nation states inherently adversarial? | |
| The Alliance System | |
| The Experience of Modern Warfare | |
| The Eastern Front and Europes Empire | |
| Naval War and American Entry | |
| The Impact of Total War at Home | |
| Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | |
| Peace Settlement and European Consciou | |
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