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by Chambers, Hanawalt, Rabb, Woloch, and Grew
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The First Civilizations
The Earliest Humans
The First Civilizations in Mesopotamia
Egypt
The Early Indo-Europeans
Palestine
The Near Eastern Empires

Chapter 2: The Forming of Greek Civilization
Crete and Early Greece
The Greek Renaissance (Ca. 800-600 B.C.)
The Polis
The Challenge of Persia
The Wars of the Fifth Century (479-404 B.C.)

Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Classical Greek Culture (Ca. 500-323 B.C.)
The Rise of Macedonia
The Hellenistic Age

Chapter 4: The Roman Republic
The Unification of Italy
The Age of Mediterranean Conquest
The Roman Revolution
The End of the Roman Republic
The Founding of the Roman Empire

Chapter 5: The Empire and Christianity
The Empire at Its Height
Changes in Ancient Society
The Late Roman Empire
Christianity and Its Early Rivals

Chapter 6: The Making of Western Europe
The New Community of Peoples
The New Political Structures
The New Economy, 500-900
The Expansion of the Church
Letters and Learning

Chapter 7: The Empires of the Early Middle Ages (800-1000): Creation and Erosion
The Byzantine Empire
Islam
Civilization
The Carolingian or Frankish Empire
The Vikings, Kiev, and England

Chapter 8: Restoration of an Ordered Society
Economic and Social
Governments of Europe 1000-1150
The Reform of the Western Church
The Crusades

Chapter 9: The Flowering of Medieval Civilization
Cultural Developments
The States of Europe
The Church

Chapter 10: The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of State
Cities, Trade, and Commerce
Monarchies and the Development of Representative Institutions
Government in the East
The Papacy and the Church
Learning and Literature

Chapter 11: Breakdown and Renewal In An Age of Plague
Population Disaster
Popular Unrest
The Governments of Europe
The Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire

Chapter 12: Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300-1500
Art and Artists in the Italian Renaissance
The Culture of the North
Society
Scholastic Philosophy, Religious Thought, and Piety
The State of Christendom

Chapter 13: Reformations in Religion
Piety and Dissent
The Lutheran Reformation
The Spread of Protestantism
The Catholic Revival
Religion and Politics

Chapter 14: Economic Expansion and a New Politics
Expansion at Home
Expansion Overseas
The Centralization of Political Power
The Splintered States
The New Statecraft

Chapter 15: War and Crisis
Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II
From Unbounded War to International Crisis
The Military Revolution
Armies
Revolution in England
Revolts in France and Spain
Political Change in an Age of Crisis

Chapter 16: Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Scientific Advance from Copernicus to Newton
The Effects of the Discoveries
Thought
Literature and the Arts
Social Patterns and Popular Culture

Chapter 17: The Emergence of the European State System
Absolutism in France
Austrian and Prussian Absolutism
Absolutism in Spain and Russia
Alternatives to Absolutism
Sweden, and Poland
The International System

Chapter 18: The Wealth of Nations
Demographic and Economic Growth
The New Shape of Industry
Industrialization
Innovation and Tradition in Agriculture
Eighteenth-Century Empires

Chapter 19: The Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Elite Culture

Chapter 20: The French Revolution
Reform and Political Crisis
The Second Revolution

Chapter 21: The Age of Napoleon
From Robespierre to Bonaparte
The Napoleonic Settlement in France
Napoleonic Hegemony in Europe

Chapter 22: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Politics and Social Change
The Politics of Order
The Progression of Industrialization
The Social Effects

Chapter 23: Learning to Live with Change
Ideas of Change
The Structure of Society
The Spread of Liberal Government

Chapter 24: National States and National Cultures
The Revolutions of 1848
The Politics of Nationalism
France

Chapter 25: European Dynamism and the Nineteenth-Century World
The Economics of Growth
Europe's Knowledge of the Larger World
Modern Imperialism

Chapter 26: The Age of Progress
The Belle Epoque
Attacks On Liberal Civilizations
Domestic Politics

Chapter 27: World War and Democracy
The Coming of World War
The Course of the War
The Peace
The Era of Democracy

Chapter 28: The Great Twentieth-Century Crisis
The Distinctive Culture of the Twentieth Century
The New Revolutions
The Retreat from Democracy
The Rise of Totalitarianism
Democracies' Weak Response

Chapter 29: The Nightmare: World War II
The Years of Axis Victory
The Global War, 1942-1945
Building on the Ruins
European Recovery

Chapter 30: The New Europe
Europe's Place in the World
Postindustrial Society
The Politics of Prosperity
Rigidity
The End of an Era
Contemporary Culture

Epilogue
The Present and the Past
The Modern Economy
The Functions of the State
Questions of Values
The Nature of Community


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