Western Civilizations

by Coffin, Judith; Stacey, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780393925579
• ISBN10: 0393925579
• Edition: 15th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-15
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The resulting book is approximately one-third shorter and one-third less expensive. The pedagogical format and chapter structure of the full edition have been maintained in the Brief Edition, and students will also have unrestricted access to the full ancillary package, including the Digital History Center.

Table of Contents

Maps	xix
Chronologies	xx
Documents	xxi
Preface	xxiii
Commerce, Conquest, and Colonization, 1300--1600	322	(20)
The Mongols	324	(3)
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire	327	(4)
Mediterranean Colonialism	331	(5)
Europe Encounters a New World	336	(4)
Conclusion	340	(2)
The Civilization of the Renaissance, C. 1350--1550	342	(26)
The Renaissance and the Middle Ages	344	(1)
The Renaissance in Italy	345	(6)
The Italian Renaissance: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture	351	(6)
The Waning of the Italian Renaissance	357	(2)
The Renaissance in the North	359	(4)
Conclusion	363	(5)
Digital History: Spices
Reformations of Religion	368	(24)
The Lutheran Upheaval	370	(6)
The Spread of Protestantism	376	(4)
The Domestication of the Reformation, 1525--1560	380	(2)
The English Reformation	382	(3)
Catholicism Transformed	385	(4)
Conclusion	389	(3)
Religious Wars and State Building, 1540--1660	392	(30)
Economic, Religious, and Political Tests	394	(1)
A Century of Religious Wars	395	(5)
Divergent Paths: Spain, France, and England, 1600--1660	400	(8)
The Problem of Doubt and the Quest for Certainty	408	(2)
Literature and the Arts	410	(6)
Conclusion	416	(6)
Part V Early Modern Europe
Absolutism and Empire, 1660--1789	422	(34)
The Appeal and Justification of Absolutism	424	(1)
Alternatives to Absolutism	424	(4)
The Absolutism of Louis XIV	428	(6)
The Remaking of Central and Eastern Europe	434	(2)
Autocracy in Russia	436	(4)
Commerce and Consumption	440	(2)
Colonization and Trade in the Seventeenth Century	442	(5)
Colonization and Empire	447	(4)
Conclusion	451	(5)
Digital History: Astrology, Astronomy, and Galileo
The Scientific Revolution	456	(16)
The Intellectual Roots of the Scientific Revolution	458	(1)
A Revolution in Astronomy	459	(5)
Methods for a New Philosophy: Bacon and Descartes	464	(1)
The Power of Method and the Force of Curiosity: Seventeeth-Century Experimenters	465	(5)
Conclusion	470	(2)
The Enlightenment	472	(28)
The Foundations of the Enlightenment	474	(1)
The World of the Philosophes	475	(2)
Internationalization of Enlightenment Themes	477	(3)
Empire and Enlightenment	480	(4)
Nature, Gender, and Enlightenment Radicalism: Rousseau and Wollstonecraft	484	(2)
The Enlightenment and Eighteenth-Century Culture	486	(8)
Conclusion	494	(6)
Part VI The French and Industrial Revolutions and Their Consequences
The French Revolution	500	(28)
The French Revolution: An Overview	502	(1)
The Coming of the Revolution	502	(2)
The Destruction of the Old Regime	504	(5)
A New Stage: Popular Revolution	509	(4)
From the Terror to Bonaparte: The Directory	513	(2)
Napoleon and Imperial France	515	(5)
The Return to War and Napoleons Defeat: 1806--1815	520	(3)
Conclusion	523	(5)
Digital History: Revolutionary Paris
The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society	528	(28)
The Industrial Revolution in Britain, 1760--1850	530	(6)
The Industrial Revolution on the Continent	536	(4)
The Social Consequences of Industrialization	540	(5)
Social Change: The Middle Classes	545	(8)
Conclusion	553	(3)
From Restoration to Revolution, 1815--1848	556	(28)
Back to the Future: Restoring Order, 1815--1830	558	(4)
Taking Sides: New Ideologies in Politics	562	(6)
Cultural Revolt: Romanticism	568	(5)
Reform and Revolution	573	(7)
Conclusion	580	(4)
Digital History: Nationalism and Music
What is a Nation? Territories, States, and Citizens, 1848--1871	584	(30)
Nationalism and Revolution in 1848	586	(5)
Building the Nation-State	591	(9)
Nation and State Building in Russia, the United States, and Canada	600	(3)
Eastern Questions and International Relations	603	(4)
Conclusion	607	(7)
Part VII The West At the World's Center
Imperialism and Colonialism, 1870--1914	614	(26)
Imperialism	616	(3)
Imperialism in South Asia	619	(1)
Imperialism in China	620	(6)
The French Empire and the Civilizing Mission	626	(1)
The ``Scramble for Africa'' and the Congo	627	(5)
Imperial Culture	632	(4)
Crises of Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	636	(2)
Conclusion	638	(2)
Modern Industry and Mass Politics, 1870--1914	640	(32)
New Technologies and Global Transformations	642	(3)
Labor Politics, Mass Movements	645	(2)
Demanding Equality: Suffrage and the Woman's Movement	647	(3)
Liberalism and its Discontents: National Politics at the Turn of the Century	650	(8)
The Science and Soul of the Modern Age	658	(9)
Conclusion	667	(5)
Digital History: The Olympics Past and Present
The First World War	672	(26)
The July Crisis	674	(5)
The Marne and Its Consequences	679	(1)
Stalemate, 1915	680	(2)
Slaughter in the Trenches: The Great Battles, 1916--1917	682	(2)
War of Empires	684	(2)
The Home Front	686	(3)
The Russian Revolution	689	(3)
The Road to German Defeat, 1918	692	(4)
Conclusion	696	(2)
Turmoil Between the Wars	698	(28)
The Soviet Union Under Lenin and Stalin	700	(7)
The Emergence of Fascism in Italy	707	(3)
Weimar Germany	710	(2)
Hitler and the National Socialists	712	(5)
The Great Depression in the Democracies	717	(3)
Interwar Culture: Artists and Intellectuals	720	(4)
Conclusion	724	(2)
The Second World War	726	(34)
The Causes of the War: Unsettled Quarrels, Economic Fallout, and Nationalism	728	(1)
The 1930s: Challenges to the Peace, Appeasement, and the ``Dishonest Decade''	729	(3)
The Outbreak of Hostilities and the Fall of France	732	(2)
Not Alone: The Battle of Britain and the Beginnings of a Global War	734	(3)
The Rise and Ruin of Nations: Germany's War in the East and the Occupation of Europe	737	(2)
Racial War, Ethic Cleansing, and the Holocaust	739	(3)
Total War: Home Fronts, the War of Production, Bombing and ``The Bomb''	742	(5)
The Allied Counterattack and the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb	747	(4)
Conclusion	751	(9)
Digital History: Cold War
Part VIII The West and the World
The Cold War World: Global Politics, Economic Recovery, and Cultural Change	760	(26)
The Cold War and a Divided Continent	762	(7)
Economic Renaissance	769	(4)
Revolution, Anticolonialism, and the Cold War	773	(7)
Postwar Culture and Thought	780	(3)
Conclusion	783	(3)
Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960--1990	786	(26)
Society and Class, 1945--1968	788	(7)
Social Movements during the 1960s	795	(4)
Economic Stagnation: The Price of Success	799	(2)
Europe Recast: The Collapse of Communism and the End of the Soviet Union	801	(7)
Conclusion	808	(4)
Digital History: War and Technology
A World Without Walls: Globalization and the West	812
Liquid Modernity? The Flow of Money, Ideas, and Peoples	814
After Empire: Postcolonial Politics in the Global Era	818
A New Center of Gravity: Israel, Oil, and Political Islam in the Middle East	820
Violence Beyond Bounds: War and Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century	826
Conclusion	828
Rulers of Principal States	1	(5)
Glossary	6	(16)
Text Credits	22	(2)
Illustration Credits	4	(23)
Index	27