West and the World Vol. II : A History of Civilization from 1500 to Modern Times

by Reilly, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781558761537
• ISBN10: 1558761535
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publisher

Table of Contents

Topical Outline	xi
Preface	xiii
Note on Chinese Spelling	xv
PART I A Unified World: 1500--1800	1	(126)
Preview of the Period	3	(20)
Self and Society: Individuality and Modernity	23	(18)
Medieval Social Salvation and Modern Specialization	23	(2)
The Room and the Book: Origins of Modern Individuality	25	(1)
The Italian Renaissance	26	(3)
Humanism and Individualism	29	(1)
The Protestant Reformation	30	(2)
Europe and China	32	(2)
Neo-Confucianism and the Individual	34	(1)
Wang Yangming	34	(2)
Wang Gen and the Tai-zhou Movement	36	(1)
Protestant and Confucian Individualism	37	(4)
Race and Racism: Color and Slavery	41	(32)
What is Race?	42	(1)
What is Racial Prejudice?	43	(1)
What is Racism?	43	(1)
Is Racism Universal or Recent?	44	(1)
The Color of Slaves	45	(2)
Sugar, Sails, and Slaves	47	(2)
The Problem of Whiteness	49	(1)
Dirty Words and White Lies	50	(1)
Negro y Blanco	51	(1)
The Red and the Black	51	(2)
The Burden of Slavery	53	(4)
British Versus Latin American Slavery: Racism and Manumission	57	(7)
British Versus Latin American Slavery: Racism and Miscegenation	64	(9)
Politics and Morality: Secular States and Middle Classes	73	(28)
Machiavelli	74	(5)
Machiavelli's Morality for the Modern State	79	(2)
Machiavelli's Modern Science of Politics	81	(2)
Protestantism, Absolutism, and Middle-Class Revolution	83	(2)
The Ethic of Process	85	(3)
Some Unfinished Business: The Political Ethics of Liberal Market Society	88	(1)
Hobbes: A Government for the Competitive Jungle	88	(5)
Locke: A Government for Christian Gentlemen	93	(2)
The Unfinished Business of Business Society: Private Ownership or Political Democracy	95	(3)
Opening the Process: From Liberal to Socialist Democracy	98	(3)
Work and Exchange: Capitalism Versus Tradition	101	(26)
Before Capitalism: Traditional Ways of Working and Exchanging	101	(2)
Premarket Exchange: Householding, Reciprocity, and Redistribution	103	(3)
The Origins of Capitalism: Markets, Logic, and Desire	106	(4)
Capitalism: Work and Pay, Prices and Profits	110	(5)
Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution	115	(4)
Capitalist Contradictions and Contractions	119	(1)
Railroaded to the Rescue	120	(7)
Chronological Table of a Unified World: 1500-1800	124	(3)
PART II An Industrial World: 1800--1914	127	(140)
Preview of the Period	129	(14)
Energy and Environment: Industry and Capitalism	143	(16)
The Industrial Revolution Is Responsible?	144	(1)
Industrialization: Mechanical Time Versus Organic Time	145	(1)
Industrialization: Standard Space and Interchangeable Parts	146	(1)
Energy Sources: Wind and Water Versus Coal and Iron	147	(4)
Capitalism Is Responsible?	151	(3)
Ecology and Ideal Capitalism	154	(2)
Ecology and Modern Capitalism	156	(3)
Economics and Revolution: Socialism and Capitalism	159	(22)
The French Revolution: Liberty and Equality	160	(1)
Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals: The First Communists	161	(2)
A New Old Idea of Work: The Socialism of Fourier	163	(5)
Varieties of Socialism: The Legacy of the French Revolution	168	(3)
The Origins of Marxism	171	(2)
1848: The Communist Manifesto	173	(3)
Socialism and Communism	176	(5)
Race and Class: The United States and South Africa	181	(24)
South Africa and North America: Colonies and Conquest	182	(1)
White Settlers and Indigenous Peoples	183	(2)
Race and Slavery	185	(1)
The American Civil War	185	(3)
Dominative Versus Aversive Racism	188	(2)
South Africa, 1834--1910	190	(2)
From Reconstruction to Segregation: Uniting the States, 1877--1914	192	(5)
Segregation in South Africa: Boer War to World War I	197	(3)
Apartheid and Segregation	200	(5)
Nationalism and Internationalism: Imperialism and Independence	205	(38)
The Rights of Englishmen and Indians	207	(1)
Nation, Language, and Colony	208	(1)
The Internationalism of Free Trade	209	(1)
Free Trade for Whom?	210	(1)
Free Trade or Else: The Opium War	211	(1)
Nationalism in Europe	212	(3)
Nationalism in Multinational Societies	215	(1)
European Settler Societies and Nationalism	216	(3)
Workers of the World Disperse	219	(2)
Nationalism for the Colonies?	221	(1)
Indian Nationalism and the Rebellion of 1857	221	(2)
The Rani of Jhansi and Indian Nationalism	223	(2)
Chinese Nationalism and the Taiping Rebellion	225	(1)
Nationalism and Anticolonialism	225	(3)
From Free Trade to New Imperialism	228	(1)
Western Nationalism and the International Economy	228	(2)
The Partition of Africa	230	(2)
African Economic Dependence	232	(1)
Dominance over West African Peasants	233	(1)
Dominance over Central African Peoples	233	(1)
Dominance over East and South African Plains	234	(1)
Imperialism and National Economies	235	(1)
A Small Example	236	(1)
Ways and Words	237	(1)
Who Needs Nationalism?	237	(1)
Buy American?	238	(1)
The Socialist International	238	(5)
Culture and Change: Beyond Certainty and Relativity	243	(24)
Modern Painting: A Visual Barometer of Change	244	(8)
The Discovery of Change and Culture	252	(5)
Evolution: Certainty's Last Stand	257	(1)
From Certainty to Relativity	258	(2)
Beyond Certainty and Relativity: Understanding and Making Human History	260	(7)
Chronological Table of the Industrial World: 1800--1914	263	(4)
PART III A Divided World: 1914--1945	267	(58)
Preview of the Period	269	(10)
Nationalism and Communism: Revolution and Independence	279	(20)
The Chinese Nationalist Revolution of 1911	280	(2)
The Communist Revolution in Russia	282	(2)
The Appeal of the Russian Revolution	284	(1)
International Revolution Versus ``Socialism in One Country''	285	(1)
Communism Comes to China	285	(5)
The Comintern and India	290	(1)
World War I and Gandhi	291	(1)
Amritsar and Aftermath	292	(1)
Gandhi, Nehru, and Social Change	293	(3)
Nationalist and Socialist Revolution	296	(3)
Individual and Society: Freedom and Authority	299	(26)
Industrialization and Individuality	300	(1)
Class and Individuality in the Nineteenth Century	301	(3)
The Triumph of Liberalism	304	(3)
Managed Mass Society: Twentieth-Century Corporatism	307	(5)
The Triumph of Totalitarianism	312	(13)
Chronological Table of a Divided World: 1914--1945	322	(3)
PART IV The Nuclear World: 1945--Present	325	(76)
Preview of the Period	327	(14)
Industry and Capitalism: Markets and Governments	341	(18)
State and Industry: Russia and Japan	342	(2)
Japan Inc.	344	(3)
Chinese Communism: One Step Forward; One Step Backward	347	(1)
China Since Mao Zedong	348	(1)
United States and Western Europe	349	(1)
The Welfare State	350	(1)
The West and the Rest	351	(1)
The Oil Cartel and Slick	351	(1)
Global Industrial Competition	352	(1)
Free-Market Fallout From the Defeat of Communism	352	(2)
The New Capitalism and the Telecommunications Revolution	354	(1)
Markets and Technology	355	(4)
Ecology and Resources: Economics and Technology	359	(22)
A Green Dream	360	(1)
Dammed If You Do	361	(1)
Damned If You Don't	362	(1)
Irrigation, Fertilizers, and Pesticides	363	(3)
Bhopal	366	(1)
Silent Spring to Earth Day	367	(1)
Technological Template	368	(1)
The Synthetic, Throw-Away Technology	368	(2)
Why the Wrong Template?	370	(1)
Private Profits and Social Costs	370	(1)
Private and Public Technology	371	(2)
Communism, A Sea of Cotton, and Chernobyl	373	(2)
New Directions?	375	(2)
Cairo Sky	377	(1)
Sustainable Global Industrialization?	377	(4)
Identity and Global Culture: Nation and World	381	(20)
National Identity in Europe and the United States, 1950--1970	382	(2)
Silver Screens as National Mirrors	384	(2)
Film and National Identity in Asia	386	(2)
Hollyworld	388	(1)
The Transformation of American Culture	389	(1)
Hollyworld and McWorld	390	(1)
Selling the American Dream	391	(1)
Selling and Citizenship	392	(1)
Identity and Commerce	392	(2)
Alternatives to McDomination	394	(7)
Chronological Table of The Nuclear World: 1945--Present	399	(2)
Index	401