From Louis XIV through the Cold War
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From Louis XIV through the Cold War
(Great issues in Western civilization, 2)
Random House, c1992
4th ed
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of edited readings (primary and secondary) is organized chronologically into chapters that each present a "great issue": that is, a question or problem in Western civilization that is of ongoing interest to students and historians. The chapters present a variety of primary source materials - letters, chronicles, poems, government records, treatises - together with interpretations by modern historians representing a variety of points of view. This approach is designed to help students learn to evaluate historical materials critically and form their own opinions on issues. This edition includes a new chapter on the African origins of Western civilization.
Table of Contents
- The absolutism of Louis XIV - the end of anarchy or the beginning of tyranny?
- the enlightenment - the age of reason?
- the origins of the French revolution - popular misery, social ambitions or philosophical ideas?
- the industrial revolution in England - blessing or curse to the working man?
- the Marxists - revolutionaries or reformers?
- social Darwinism - law of nature of justification of repression?
- English liberalism - coherent or confused?
- the outbreak of World War I - who was responsible?
- the Bolshevik revolution - why did it succeed?
- the origins of Nazi Germany - German history or charismatic leadership?
- the Cold War - who was to blame?
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