Western Civilization The Continuing Experiment, Brief Edition

by Noble, Thomas F. X.; Strauss, Barry; Osheim, Duane; Neuschel, Kristen; Cohen, William

• ISBN13: 9780395885482
• ISBN10: 0395885485
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-07
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western influences, and 2) power in all its senses, public and private; economic, social, cultural, and political; symbolic and real.

Table of Contents

The Ancestors of the West	1	(31)
Ancient Greece	32	(31)
Rome: From Republic to Empire, ca. 509--44 B.C.	63	(28)
Imperial Rome, 27 B.C.--A.D. 284	91	(24)
The World of Late Antiquity, ca. 300--600	115	(27)
Early Medieval Civilizations, ca. 600--900	142	(27)
The Expansion of Europe, ca. 900--1150	169	(28)
Medieval Civilization at Its Height, ca. 1150--1300	197	(28)
The Transformation of Medieval Civilization, 1300--1500	225	(27)
The Renaissance	252	(26)
Europe, the Old World and the New	278	(26)
The Age of the Reformation	304	(27)
Europe in the Age of Religious War, 1555--1648	331	(28)
Europe in the Age of Louis XIV, ca. 1610--1715	359	(27)
A Revolution in World-View	386	(25)
Europe on the Threshold of Modernity, ca. 1715--1789	411	(27)
Revolutionary Europe, 1789--1815	438	(26)
Restoration, Reform, and Revolution, 1814--1848	464	(28)
The Industrial Transformation of Europe, 1750--1850	492	(25)
New Powers and Tensions, 1850--1880	517	(26)
The Age of Optimism, 1850--1880	543	(26)
Escalating Tensions, 1880--1914	569	(28)
War and Revolution, 1914--1919	597	(28)
From Stability to Crisis, 1919--1939	625	(29)
The Era of the Second World War, 1939--1949	654	(27)
An Anxious Stability: The Age of the Cold War, 1949--1985	681	(27)
The West and the World in the Late Twentieth Century	708