A History of Western Society, Since 1300

Table of Contents

Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages
Prelude to Disaster
The Black Death
The Hundred Years' War (ca 1337-1453)
The Decline of the Church's Prestige
The Life of the People
Vernacular Literature

Chapter 13: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance
The Evolution of the Italian Renaissance
Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance
Art and the Artist
Social Change
The Renaissance in the North
Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450-1521)

Chapter 14: Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church
The Condition of the Church (ca 1400-1517)
Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism
Germany and the Protestant Reformation
The Growth of the Protestant Reformation
The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation

Chapter 15: The Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion
Politics, Religion, and War
Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion
Later Explorers
Changing Attitudes
Literature and Art

Chapter 16: Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715)
Absolutism
Constitutionalism

Chapter 17: Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740
Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe
The Rise of Austria and Prussia
The Development of Russia
Absolutism and Baroque Architecture

Chapter 18: Toward a New World-view
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment and Absolutism

Chapter 19: The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Agriculture and the Land
The Beginning of the Population Explosion
The Growth of Cottage Industry
Building the Atlantic Economy

Chapter 20: The Changing Life of the People
Marriage and the Family
Children and Education
Food and Medical Practice
Religion and Popular Culture

Chapter 21: The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815
Liberty and Equality
The American Revolution, 1775-1789
The French Revolution, 1789-1791
World War and Republican France, 1791-1799
The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815

Chapter 22: The Revolution in Energy and Industry
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
Industrialization in Continental Europe
Capital and Labor

Chapter 23: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850
The Peace Settlement
Radical Ideas and Early Socialism
The Romantic Movement
Reforms and Revolutions
The Revolutions of 1848

Chapter 24: Life in the Emerging Urban Society
Taming the City
Rich and Poor and Those In Between
The Changing Family
Science and Thought

Chapter 25: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914
Napoleon III in France
Nation Building in Italy and Germany
Nation Building in the United States
The Modernization of Russia
The Responsive National State, 1871-1914
Marxism and the Socialist Movement

Chapter 26: The West and the World
Industrialization and the World Economy
The Great Migration
Western Imperialism
Responses to Western Imperialism

Chapter 27: The Great Break: War and Revolution
The First World War
The Home Front
The Russian Revolution
The Peace Settlement

Chapter 28: The Age of Anxiety
Uncertainty in Modern Thought
Modern Art and Music
Movies and Radio
The Search for Peace and Political Stability
The Great Depression, 1929-1939

Chapter 29: Dictatorships and the Second World War
Authoritarian States
Stalin's Soviet Union
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
Nazi Expansion and the Second World War

Chapter 30: Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985
The Division of Europe
The Western Renaissance, 1945-1968
Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-1968
Postwar Social Transformations, 1945-1968
Conflict and Uncertainty in the Late Cold War, 1968-1985

Chapter 31: Revolution, Rebuilding, and New Challenges: 1985 to the Present
The Decline of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Revolutions of 1989
Building a New Europe in the 1990s
New Challenges in the Twenty-first Century
The Future in Perspective




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