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In this overview, Michael Burger provides a brief historical narrative of Western civilization. The no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-author approach make this book a valuable asset for every history student.
This new edition includes additional coverage of race and slavery in the eighteenth century, twentieth-century imperialism, and twenty-first-century developments such as populism - both right and left. New and improved maps make it easier for students to follow major developments.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Preface to the Third Edition
Notes on References, Further Reading, and Dates
Introduction
1 The Early Modern West I: The Reformation, the Great Consolidation, and the End of Christendom
Introduction
Fundamentals: Protestant Doctrine and the Middle Ages
A Catholic Reformation?
The Sexes and the Family
Fragmentation and Further Reform
Complications: Political and Social
Political Results: The Consolidation of Royal Authority
A Crisis of Authority and the End of Christendom
Early Modern Western Expansion
2 The Early Modern West II: Science, Society, and the State
Introduction
Fundamentals I: A Society of Orders, Estates, and Corporations
Fundamentals II: The Universe ca. 1600
Absolutism I: Motives, Means, and Implications
Absolutism II: Successes and Failures
Germany
France
Poland
Russia
England, Scotland, and Ireland
The United States
The Scientific Revolution I: Nature
Empiricism
The Scientific Revolution II: Society
Labor
3 The Early Modern West III: Enlightenment, Industrialization, and an Unraveled Compromise
Fundamentals
The Enlightenment I: Attitudes
The Enlightenment II: Continuity with the Past?
The Enlightenment III: Equality and Gender
The Enlightenment IV: Race and Slavery
The Crisis of the Ancien Regime: Rebellion and Revolution
The American Revolution
The Habsburg Lands
The French Revolution
Latin America
Counterrevolutions: Thermidor, Napoleon,
and the Congress of Vienna
The Industrial Revolution
4 The West, 1815-1914: The Search for Community, and Responses to the Enlightenment and Revolution
Fundamentals: The Search for Community
Change and Geist I: Romanticism
Nationalism: Thinking about the Nation in the
First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Nationalism and Politics: Movements of National Unification and Independence
Greece
Serbia and Bulgaria
Hungary
Germany
Italy
The United States
Change and Geist II: Marxism
Change and Geist III: Darwinism
The New Toughness of Mind
Imperialism I: Means
Imperialism II: Motives and Attitudes
Reform, State, and People
The Crisis of the Fin de Siècle: Modernism and Postmodernism
5 From ca. 1914 to the Present: The Search for Community, Global Conflict, and the Harvest of the Modern West
Fundamentals: State and Community
The Great War
The Great Depression
Communism
Fascism
General Considerations
Italy
Brazil
Germany
World War II
Cold War: The Pax Americana and Pax Communista
The Fall of Western Empires
Movements of Liberation in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Economy and Education: The Young
Ideology and the Search for Community
Women and Men
Race
Sexual Orientation
Multiculturalism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A Conservative Turn
A Global Community?
6 Coda: The Shaping of Western Civilization
Sources
Index
