Detailed Contents
Preface
Supplements
About the Authors
INTRODUCTION: The Idea of Western Civilization
Chapter 1 The First Civilizations
Chapter 2 Early Greece,2500-500 B.C.E.
Chapter 3 Classical and Hellenistic Greece,500-100 B.C.E.
Chapter 4 Eady Rome and the Roman Republic,800-146 B.C.E.
Chapter 5 Imperial Rome,146 B.C.E.-192 C.E.
Chapter 6 The Transformation of the Classical World,192-500
Chapter 7 The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam
Chapter 8 The West in the Early Middle Ages,500-900
Chapter 9 The High Middle Ages,900-1300
Chapter 10 The Later Middle Ages,1300-1500
Chapter 11 The Italian Renaissance
Chapter 12 The European Empires
Chapter 13 The Reform of Religion
Chapter 14 Europeat War,I555-I648
Chapter 15 The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe,1500-1650
Chapter 16 The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 17 Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
Chapter 18 The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 19 Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 20 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era,1789-1815
Chapter 21 Industrial Europe
Chapter 22 Political Upheavals and Social Transformations,1815-1850
Chapter 23 State Building and Social Change in Europe,1850-1871
Chapter 24 The Crisis ofEuropean Culture,1871-1914
Chapter 25 Europe and the World,1870-1914
Chapter 26 War and Revolution,1914-1920
Chapter 27 The European Search for Stability,1920-1939
Chapter 28 Global Conflagration: Wodd War Ⅱ,/939-1945
Chapter 29 The Cold War and Postwar Economic Recovery,1945-1970
Chapter 30 The End of the Cold War and New Global Challenges,1970 to the Present
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