A brief history of Western civilization : the unfinished legacy
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A brief history of Western civilization : the unfinished legacy
Longman, c2002
3rd ed., complete ed
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"Rev. ed. of: The unfinished legacy. 2nd ed. c1997"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Concise and engaging, A Brief History of Western Civilization, 3/e , brings the study of Western Civilization alive with comprehensive coverage of a wide array of characters and events.
Fully integrated coverage of social-as well as economic, religious, and cultural-history within a traditional, political framework makes this text stand apart. Accessible and well written, this balanced text explores everyday events and ordinary people as well as momentous affairs and powerful elites.
Table of Contents
Volume I includes Chapters 1-16 and Volume II includes Chapters 14-30.
1. The First Civilizations.
2 Early Greece.
3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece.
4. Early Rome and the Roman Republic.
5. Imperial Rome.
6. The Transformation of the Classical World.
7. The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam.
8. The West in the Early Middle Ages.
9. The High Middle Ages.
10. The Later Middle Ages.
11. The Italian Renaissance.
12. The European Empires.
13. The Reform of Religion.
14. Europe and War, 1555-1648.
15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650.
16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century.
17. Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe.
18. The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
19. Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
20. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1850.
21. Industrial Europe.
22. Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850.
23. State-Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850-1871.
24. The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914.
25. Europe and the World, 1870-1914.
26. War and Revolution, 1914-1920.
27. The European Search for Stability, 1920-1939.
28. Global Conflagration: Hot War and Cold War.
29. Postwar Recovery and the New Europe to 1989.
30. The West Faces the New Century, 1989 to the Present.
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