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Fichner-Rathus' CULTURES AND VALUES: A GLOBAL VIEW OF THE HUMANITIES, VOLUME II, 10th Edition, takes you on a tour of some of the world's most interesting and significant examples of art, music, philosophy and literature from the beginnings of civilization to today. Discover the cultural connections occurring at the same time in different parts of the globe. Chapter previews, timelines, glossaries of key terms and "Big Picture" reviews all help make it easy for you to learn the material and study more effectively.
Contents
Fichner-Rathus, Cultures and Values Volume 2 Table of Contents
11. 1400-1500.
Crosscurrents: Christian Europe and the Ottoman Turks. The 15th Century in Northern Europe and Italy. The Iberian Peninsula. The Americas.
12. 1500-1600: Part 1.
Africa. The Iberian Peninsula: Voyages of Exploration, Voyages of Conquest. Italy in the 16th Century. The Islamic World in the 16th Century.
13. 1500-1600: Part 2.
Northern Europe in the 16th Century. India: The Mughal Period. China: The Late Ming Dynasty.
14. 1600-1700.
Edo Japan. China: The Qing Dynasty. Europe in the 17th Century. European Colonization of the Americas.
15. 1700-1800.
A Century of Revolutions. The Enlightenment. The Late 18th Century: Time of Revolution.
16. 1800-1870.
Political, Technological, and Industrial Revolutions in Europe and the United States. The Arts: From Neoclassicism to Romanticism in Europe and America. Realism in Art and Literature. Human Rights, Equal Rights. South Asia: British Colonial Rule in India. East Asia: China and Japan.
17. 1870-1914.
War, Peace, and Modernity. The Turn of the 20th Century. The 20th Century. Imperialism and Colonization.
18. 1914-1939.
"A War to End All Wars". Literature and Art in the Midst and Wake of War. Russia and the U.S.S.R.: Art and Revolution. European Art in the 1920s. The Mexican Revolution. Surrealism. The Harlem Renaissance: Representing Race and Place. The Great Depression. The Arts: Abstraction, Social Realism, Architecture, and Film. The Rise of Totalitarianism and the Path to a Second World War.
19. 1939-1980.
A Second World War: Events and Their Impact. Postwar Philosophy and Literature. The Cold War Era: An Age of Anxiety. Visual Arts in the 1940s and 1950s. The Civil Rights Movement in America. The Sixties: Disaffection and Rebellion. Visual Arts in the 1960s and 1970s. Global Events and Their Cultural Impact.
20. 1980-Present.
Globalization. New Philosophies, Science, and Technology. Postmodernism. Postmodern Architecture. The Visual Arts: Pluralism in Postmodernism. Postmodern Literature. Postmodern Music. Art, Identity, and Activism. Sexuality and Gender Identity. Representing Race, Identity, and Place. Social and Political Commentary. Cultural History and Identity. Historical Trauma and Memory. Parallelisms: Diaspora Identities in Art and Literature. "Us".
