Western Civilization, Comprehensive Volume (Chapters 1-29, Non-InfoTrac Version)

by Spielvogel, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780534600198
• ISBN10: 0534600190
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-23
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Documents	xvii
Maps	xxi
Chronologies	xxiii
Preface	xxiv
Introduction to Students of Western Civilization	xxix
The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations	1	(29)
The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires	30	(20)
The Civilization of the Greeks	50	(32)
The Hellenistic World	82	(21)
The Roman Republic	103	(30)
The Roman Empire	133	(29)
The Passing of the Roman World and the Emergence of Medieval Civilization	162	(28)
European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000	190	(27)
The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages	217	(26)
The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power	243	(30)
The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century	273	(29)
Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance	302	(34)
Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century	336	(32)
Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800	368	(32)
State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century	400	(38)
Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science	438	(25)
The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment	463	(28)
The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change	491	(31)
A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon	522	(30)
The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society	552	(27)
Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850	579	(32)
An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871	611	(31)
Mass Society in an ``Age of Progress'' 1871-1894	642	(30)
An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914	672	(35)
The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution	707	(32)
The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939	739	(32)
The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II	771	(32)
Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1970	803	(32)
The Western World (Since 1970)	835	(34)
Glossary	869	(8)
Pronunciation Guide	877	(8)
Credits	885	(10)
Index	895