Western Heritage, 1300-1815,9780136173830

Western Heritage, 1300-1815

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780136173830
ISBN10: 0136173837
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-04-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
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Summary

"Volume I: to 1740" A core text for introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization. Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western history. Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural and political history, this text is presented in a flexible chronological organization. The new Ninth Edition provides updated scholarship, expanded coverage of cultural history, the ancient Near East, late antiquity, imperialism, and the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

The Foundations of Western Civilization in the Ancient World 1(195)
1 The Birth of Civilization
6(28)
2 The Rise of Greek Civilization
34(38)
3 Classical and Hellenistic Greece
72(40)
4 Rome: From Republic to Empire
112(42)
5 The Roman Empire
154(42)
The Middle Ages, 476-1300 196(108)
6 The Early Middle Ages (476-1000): The Birth of Europe
200(40)
7 The High Middle Ages (1000-1300): The Ascendancy of the Church and the Rise of States
240(30)
8 The High Middle Ages (1000-1300): People, Towns, and Universities
270(34)
Europe in Transition, 1300-1750 304(300)
9 The Late Middle Ages (1300-1527): Centuries of Crisis
308(24)
10 Renaissance and Discovery
332(36)
11 The Age of Reformation
368(46)
12 The Age of Religious Wars
414(34)
13 Paths to Constitutionalism and Absolutism: England and France in the Seventeenth Century
448(32)
14 New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
480(32)
15 Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power (1686-1740)
512(32)
16 Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century
544(34)
17 Empire, War, and Colonial Rebellion
578(26)
Enlightenment and Revolution 604(192)
18 The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
608(32)
19 The French Revolution
640(42)
20 The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism
682(38)
21 The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832)
720(40)
22 Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850)
760(36)
Toward the Modern World 796(232)
23 The Age of Nation-States
800(34)
24 The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I
834(42)
25 The Birth of Modern European Thought
876(34)
26 Imperialism, Alliances, and War
910(54)
27 Political Experiments of the 1920s
964(32)
28 Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s
996(32)
Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions 1028
29 World War II
1032(38)
30 Europe and the Soviet-American Rivalry
1070(52)
31 Toward a New Europe and the Twenty-first Century
1122

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