Western Civilization Since 1300

by Spielvogel, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780534568412
• ISBN10: 0534568416
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Weaving the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, military, and other threads of Western civilization into a compelling story, BRIEF DISCOVERY EDITION of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume II, focuses on helping you enhance your study skills for success in this course and throughout your college career. Learning to analyze source material as you read the narrative will help you master the content of the course and interpret other materials and events you encounter in daily life.

Table of Contents

Documents	xvi
Maps	xxiii
Chronologies	xxiv
Photo Credits	xxv
Preface	xxviii
Introduction to Students of Western Civilization	xxxiii
Western Civilization to 1300	xxxv
The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century	296	(30)
Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance	326	(36)
The Age of Reformation	362	(30)
Discovery and Crisis in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	392	(34)
Response to Crisis: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century	426	(34)
Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science	460	(26)
The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment	486	(30)
The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change	516	(34)
A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon	550	(32)
The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society	582	(27)
Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815--1850	609	(35)
An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850--1871	644	(34)
Mass Society in an ``Age of Progress,'' 1871--1894	678	(32)
An Age of Modernity and Anxiety, 1894--1914	710	(37)
The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution	747	(34)
The Futile Search for a New Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919--1939	781	(34)
The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II	815	(32)
Cold War and a New Western World, 1945--1970	847	(32)
The Contemporary Western World (since 1970)	879	(36)
Glossary	915	(9)
Pronunciation Guide	924	(7)
Index	931