Western Civilization : A History of European Society Since 1300

by Hause, Steven; Maltby, William

• ISBN13: 9780534545413
• ISBN10: 0534545416
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This book will appeal to instructors who focus on the social history of western civilization, rather than merely the political history. The many historical documents and statistics incorporated into the text enhance the discussion of the lifestyle of the general populace across western civilization. This volume contains Chapters 13 through 33 of the comprehensive text.

Table of Contents

PART THREE: EARLY MODERN EUROPE

13. PLAGUE, WAR AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE LONG FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Famine, Economic Decline, and the Black Death (1315-50)

The Economic Consequences of the Black Death

Social Disorder from the Jacqueries to the Bundschuh Revolts

The Transformation of Warfare: The Emergence of the Soldier

The New Military Technology: Artillery, Fortifications, and Shipbuilding

Centers of Conflict: The Eastern Frontiers

The Hundred Years' War in the West

Political Turbulence and Dynastic Collapse: France, Castile, and England

Art and Literature: The Measure of Discontent

Conclusion

14. THE RENAISSANCE: POLITICAL RENEWAL AND INTELLECTUAL CHANGE

The Consolidation of the State (c

1350-1500)

The New Learning: Learned Culture in the Late Medieval Italian City-State

Conclusion

15. THE RELIGIOUS REFORMATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Late Medieval Demands for Religious Reform

Martin Luther and the Outbreak of the Protestant Reformation

Other Forms of Protestantism: The Radicals, Zwingli, and Calvin

The English Reformation

The Catholic Reformation

The Political, Economic, and Social Consequences of Reform

Conclusion

16. OVERSEAS CONQUEST AND RELIGIOUS WARS TO 1648

The Portuguese Voyages to Africa, India, and Brazil

Columbus and the Opening of America

The First Colonial Empire: Portugal

The Spanish Empire in Mexico and Peru

The Biological and Economic Legacy of the Conquests

A Clash of Empires: The Ottoman Challenge and the Emperor Charles V

The Crisis of the Early Modern State

The Price of Conflict: Fiscal Crisis and Administrative

Devolution

Conclusion

17. PREINDUSTRIAL EUROPE: SCIENCE, THE ECONOMY, AND POLITICAL REORGANIZATION

Medieval Science and the Scientific Revolution

The Origins of Modern Scientific Thought: Physics from Copernicus to Newton

Medicine From Galen to Harvey

The Expansion of the Northern Powers: France, England, and the Netherlands

The Golden Age in the Netherlands

The Reorganization of War and Government: France under Louis XIV

Preindustrial Economy and Society

Conclusion

PART FOUR: MODERN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1715-1815. 18

THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF THE OLD REGIME

The Population of Europe in the Old Regime

The Economic Structures of the Rural World

Corporative Society and the Standestaat

The Social and Economic Structure of Urban Europe

National Economies: The Doctrine of Mercantilism

Global Economies: Slavery and the Triangular Trade

Conclusion

19. DAILY LIFE IN THE OLD REGIME

People and Space: Population Density, Travel, and Communication

Life Expectancy in the Old Regime

Disease and the Biological Old Regime

Subsistence Diet and the Biological Old Regime

The Life Cycle: Birth

Conclusion

20. THE POLITICAL EVOLUTION OF THE OLD REGIME, 1715-89

The Structures of Government: Monarchy

The Rise of Parliamentary Government in Hanoverian England

The Vulnerable Monarchy of Bourbon France

The Hapsburg Empire in the Age of Maria Theresa

The Army, the Bureaucracy, and the Rise of Hohenzollern

Catherine the Great and Despotism in Romanov Russia

Conclusion

21. THE CULTURE OF OLD REGIME EUROPE

High Culture: From the Baroque to the Classical

Religion and Eighteenth-Century Culture

The Enlightenment and Its Origins

22. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON, 1789-1815

The Origins of the French Revolution

The Estates General and the Beginning of the Revolution

The Revolutionary Crowd: The Bastille and the Great Fear

The Legislative Revolution of the National Assembly, 1789-91. Europe and the Revolution

The Legislative Assembly and the Wars of the Revolution

The First Republic: The Convention

Civil War and Reign of Terror

The Thermidorean Reaction and the Directory, 1794-99. The Revolutionary Wars and the Rise of Napoleon

France Under Napoleon

The Napoleonic Wars

Conclusion

PART FIVE: EUROPE IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1815-1914. 23

THE POPULATION EXPLOSION

The Agricultural Revolution

Handcraft, Cottage Industry, and the Steam Engine

The Urban World

Changing Class Structures

The Standard of Living Debate

From the British Industrial Revolution to Continental European Industrialization

The European Industrial "Take-Off"

Conclusion

24. DAILY LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

European Demography and the Increase in Life Expectancy

Disease in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Food and Vital Revolution of the Nineteenth Century

The Life Cycle: Birth and Birth Control

Sexual Attitudes and Behavior in the Nineteenth Century

Conclusion

25. THE DEFENSE OF THE OLD REGIME, 1815-48

The Congress of Vienna and the Restoration of the Old Order

Challenges to the Old Order: the '-isms'

Autocracy in Romanov Russia

The Liberal-Monarchical Compromise in France

The Revolutions of 1830. The Advance of Liberalism in Britain

International Liberalism and Slavery

Conclusion

26. EUROPE IN AN AGE OF NATIONALISM, 1848-1870

The Origins of the Revolutions of 1848. The Labor Movement and the Rise of Socialism

Mid-Victorian Britain

The Crimean War, 1853-1856. Russia in the Alexandrine Age

The Unification of Italy: the Risogimento

Bismarck and the Unification of Germany

Conclusion

27. EUROPE IN THE BELLE ÉPOQUE, 1871-1914

The German Empire, 1871-1914. The French Third Republic

Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Imperial Russia on the Eve of Revolution

Belle Époque Democracy around Europe

The Rise of Trade Unionism and Socialism

The Growth of Women's Rights Movements

European Culture During the Belle Époque

Conclusion

PART SIX: EUROPE IN THE AGE OF MASS SOCIETY, SINCE 1914. 28

IMPERIALISM, WAR, AND REVOLUTION 1881-1920. The Bismarckian System of Alliances, 1871-90

The Diplomatic Revolution, 1890-1914. The Eastern Question and the Road to War

Militarism and the European Arms Race

The Balkan Crisis of July 1914. World War I: From the Invasion of Belgium to a World War

The Russian Revolution: The February Revolution

Conclusion

29. EUROPE IN AN AGE OF DICTATORSHIP, 1919-1939

The Peace of Paris, 1919-20. Economic Recovery and the Reconstruction of Europe in the 1920's

The Conservative Reaction of the 1920's

The Changing Conditions of Life in Europe

European Culture after the Deluge

European Democracy after World War I

The Great Depression of the 1930's

The Spanish Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War

The Global Struggle for Freedom from Europe

Mussolini and Fascist Italy, 1919-39. Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1928-39

The Authoritarian Movements of the 1930's

Stalin and Soviet Communism, 1924-39. Conclusion

30. EUROPE IN AN AGE OF TOTAL WAR: WORLD WAR II, 1939-1945

The Long Armistice and the Origins of World War II

The Years of Axis Conquest, 1939-1942. World War II on the Home Front

The Global War

Allied Victory in Europe, 1942-45. The Holocaust, 1941-1945

Conference Diplomacy and Peace in Europe in 1945. Conclusion

31. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPE

The Population of Twentieth Century Europe

Economic Structures: The Decline of Agriculture

The Vital Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Mortality and Life Expectancy

The Life Cycle: Marriage and Divorce

The Continuing Vital Revolution

32. EUROPE IN THE AGE OF COLD WAR, 1945-1975

Postwar Europe

Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-49. The USSR Under Stalin and Krushchev 1945-64

Great Britain: Clement Attlee and the Birth of the Welfare State

The French Fourth Republic: Jean Monnet and the Planned Economy

The Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer and the Economic Miracle

Europe and the World: The Age of Decolonization, 1945-75. The European Economic Community, 1945-75

The Cooling Down of the Cold War: Ostpolitik and Detente, 1965-75. An Era of Unrest and Violence

Conclusion

33. THE NEW BELLE ÉPOQUE: DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITY SINCE 1975

European Peace and Prosperity

Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Revolution

Discontent in Eastern Europe and the Rise of Solidarity

The Gorbachev Revolution in the USSR, 1985-89. The Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe

The Breakup of the Soviet Union

Helmut Kohl and the Reunification of Germany, 1989-90. The Yugoslav Civil War, 1991-1995

Conclusion