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Western Civilizationleads the market as the first western civilization text to include a separate chapter on Late Antiquity and the first to use the new political history--the effect of power and politics on all members of society--at the center of its narrative. Recognizing that European history was affected by factors outside the continent, this text looks at Europe by examining its place in the world. With an emphasis on the experimental nature of political and social history, the text challenges students to explore why and how history unfolded as it did. The Fourth Edition reinforces the global perspective of Europe through new scholarship and questions for critical thinking. Boxed features--"Global Encounters" and "Reading Sources"--highlight the role of primary sources in understanding historical events. Each chapter-based boxed feature, called "The Continuing Experiment," supports the major theme of the text and uses primary sources to highlight different political, social, and economic experiments throughout history. Increased coverage of events and figures based in regions not traditionally examined in Western Civilization texts includes the Viking and Norman invasions, Ivan the Terrible, and sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania. Chapter 30 has been completely revised to include discussions of the European Union, the attacks of September 11th and the Iraq War, issues of American unilateralism, and an examination of globalization and its effects on the environment.

The Ancestors of the West Origins, to ca. 3000 B.C.
Mesopotamia, to ca. 1600 B.C.
Egypt, to ca. 1100 B.C.
Widening Horizons: The Levant and Anatolia, 2500–1150 B.C.
The Sword, the Book, and the Myths: Western Asia and Early Greece Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians, and Persians, ca. 1200–330 B.C.
Israel, ca. 1500–400 B.C.
Early Greece, to ca. 725 B.C.
The Age of the Polis in Greece, ca. 750–350 B.C.
Society and Politics in Archaic Greece, ca. 750–500 B.C.
The Culture of Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
The Public Culture of Classical Greece
Alexander the Great and the Spread of Greek Civilization, ca. 350–30 B.C.
Philip and Alexander
The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 323–30 B.C.
The Alexandrian Moment
The Turn Inward: New Philosophies, New Faiths
Rome, from Republic to Empire, ca. 509–31 B.C.
Before the Republic, 753–509 B.C.
Government and Society in the Early and Middle Republics, ca. 509–133 B.C.
From Italian City-State to World Empire, ca. 509–133 B.C.
The Revolution from the Gracchi to the Caesars, 133–31 B.C.
Imperial Rome, 31 B.C.–A.D. 284
Augustus and the Principate, 31 B.C.–A.D. 68
The Roman Peace and Its Collapse, A.D. 69–284
Early Christianity
The World of Late Antiquity, 284–ca. 600
Rebuilding the Roman Empire, 284–395
The Catholic Church and the Roman Empire, 313–604
The Rise of Germanic Kingdoms in the West, ca. 370–530
The Roman Empire in the East, 395–565
Society and Culture in Late Antiquity
Early Medieval Civilizations, 600–900
The Islamic East
The Byzantine Empire
Catholic Kingdoms in the West
The Carolingian Empire
Early Medieval Economies and Societies
The Expansion of Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900–1300
Economic Expansion
The Heirs of the Carolingian Empire: Germany, Italy, and France
The British Isles
The Growth of New States
The Crusades, 1095-1291
Medieval Civilization at Its Height 900–1300
The Traditional Orders of Society
Social and Religious Movements, ca. 1100–1300
Latin Culture: From Schools to Universities
The Vernacular Achievement
Crisis and Recovery in Late Medieval Europe, 1300–1500
The Crisis of the Western Christian Church War and the Struggle Over Political Power, 1300–1450
Economy and Society
The Consolidation of the Late Medieval Governments, 1450–1500
The Renaissance Humanism and Culture in Italy, 1300–1500
The Arts in Italy, 1250–1550
The Spread of the Renaissance, 1350–1536
The Renaissance and Court Society
European Overseas Expansion to 1600
The European Background, 1250–1492
Portuguese Voyages of Exploration, 1350–1515
Spanish Voyages of Exploration, 1492–1522
Spain's Colonial Empire, 1492–1600
The Columbian Exchange
The Age of the Reformation
The Reformation Movements, ca. 1517–1545
The Empire of Charles V (r. 1519–1556)
The English Reformation, 1520–1603
France, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, 1523–1560
The Late Reformation, ca. 1545–600
Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560–1648
Economic Change and Social Tensions
Imperial Spain and the Limits of Royal Power
Religious and Political Conflict in France and England
Religious and Political Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe Writing, Drama, and Art in an Age of Upheaval
Europe in the Age of Louis XIV, ca. 1640–1715
France in the Age of Absolutism English Civil War and Its Aftermath
New Powers in Central and Eastern Europe
The Expansion of Overseas Trade and Settlement
A Revolution in World-View
The Revolution in Astronomy, 1543–1632
The Scientific Revolution Generalized, ca. 1600–1700
The New Science: Society, Politics, and Religion
Europe on the Threshold on Modernity, ca. 1715–1789
The Enlightenment European States in the Age of Enlightenment
The Widening Scope of Commerce and Warfare
Economic Expansion and Social Change
An Age of Revolution, 1789–1815
The Beginnings of Revolution, 1775–1789
The Phases of Revolution, 1789–1799
The Napoleonic Era and the Legacy of Revolution, 1799–1815
The Industrial Transformation of Europe, 1750–1850
Setting the Stage for Industrialization
Industrialization and European Production
The Transformation of Europe and Its Environment
Responses to Industrialization
Restoration, Reform, and Revolution, 1814–1848
The Search for Stability: The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
Ideological Confrontations Restoration, Reform, and Reaction
The Revolutions of 1848
Nationalism and Political Reform, 1850–1880
The Changing Nature of International Relations
Italian Unification, 1859–1870
German Unification, 1850–1871
Precarious Empires
The Emergence of a New Political Form in the United States and Canada, 1840–1880
The Development of Western Democracies
The Age of Optimism, 1850–1880
Industrial Growth and Acceleration Changing Conditions
Among Social Groups
Urban Problems and Solutions
Social and Political Initiatives
Culture in an Age of Optimism
Escalating Tensions, 1880–1914
The New Imperialism and the Spread of Europe's
Population From Optimism to Anxiety: Politics and Culture
Vulnerable Democracies Autocracies in Crisis
The Coming War
War and Revolution, 1914–1919
The Unforeseen Stalemate, 1914–1917
The Experience of Total War
Two Revolutions in Russia: March and November 1917
The New War and the Allied Victory, 1917–1918
The Outcome and the Impact
The Illusion of Stability, 1919–1930
The West and the World
After the Great War Communism, Fascism, and the New Political Spectrum
Toward Mass Society Weimar Germany and the Trials of the New Democracies
The Search for Meaning in a Disordered World
The Tortured Decade, 1930–1939
The Great Depression
The Stalinist Revolution in the Soviet
Union Hitler and Nazism in Germany
Fascist Challenge and Antifascist Response, 1934–1939
The Coming of World War II, 1935–1939
The Era of the Second World War, 1939–1949
The Victory of Nazi Germany, 1939–1941
The Assault on the Soviet Union and the Nazi
New Order A Global War, 1941–1944
The Shape of the Allied Victory, 1944–1945
Into the Postwar World
An Anxious Stability: The Age of the Cold War, 1949–1989
The Search for Cultural Bearings
Prosperity and Democracy in Western Europe
The Communist Bloc: From Consolidation to Stagnation Europe, the West, and the World
The Collapse of the Soviet System, 1975–1991
The West and the World Since 1989
The Uncertain International Framework
After the Cold War
New Outcomes of the Continuing
Democratic Experiment
Lifestyles and Identities
The West in a Global Age
The Uncertain Meaning of the West
Conclusion: Learning from Western Civilization in a Global Age
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Western Civilization The Continuing Experiment

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