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CHAPTER 13
    The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty, 1600-1715
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    Stresses in Traditional Society
        Mounting Demands on Rural Life
        Pressures on the Upper Orders

    Royal Absolutism in France
        Henry IV Secures the Monarchy
        Richelieu Elevates Royal Authority
        Mazarin Overcomes the Opposition
        The "Sun King" Rises
    MAP 13.1: FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV, 1661 Ð 1715

    The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern Europe
    MAP 13.2: Central and Eastern Europe, 1600
        Centralizing the State in Brandenburg-Prussia
        AustriaÕs Habsburgs Expand Their Control
        Russia and Its Tsars Gain Prominence
    MAP 13.3: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, 1640 Ð 1725.

    The Triumph of Constitutionalism
        The Nobility Loses Respect
        Protestantism Revitalized
        James I Invokes the Divine Right of Kings
        Charles I Alienates Parliament
        "God Made Men and the Devil Made Kings": Civil War, 1642-1649
    MAP 13.4: THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642 Ð 1646
        The King Laid Low
        A Puritan Republic Is Born: The Commonwealth: 1649-1660 Who Has the Power to Rule?
        The Monarchy Restored, 1660-1688
    BIOGRAPHY SAMUEL PEPYS (1633 Ð 1703)
        The Glorious Revolution
        Royalism Reconsidered: John Locke
        The Netherlands: The Sovereignty of Local Authority
    MAP 13.5: THE UNITED PROVINCES AND THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS, 1609

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 14
    A New World of Reason and Motion: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    Questioning Truth and Authority
        The Old View
        Undermining the Old View
    Developing a Modern Scientific View
        Astronomy and Physics: From Copernicus to Newton
        The Revolution Spreads: Medicine, Anatomy, and Chemistry
        The Methodology of Science Emerges

    Supporting and Spreading Science
        Courts and Salons
        The Rise of Royal Societies
        Religion and the New Science
        The New Worldview

    Laying the Foundations for the Enlightenment
        Science Popularized
        Skepticism and Religion
        Broadening Criticism of Authority and Tradition

    The Enlightenment in Full Stride
        The Philosophes
        The Encyclopedia
        Battling the Church
        Reforming Society
    BIOGRAPHY JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)
        The Culture and Spread of the Enlightenment

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 15
    Competing for Power and Wealth: The Old Regime, 1715-1789
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    Statebuilding and War
    MAP 15.1: EUROPE, 1721
        Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe
    MAP 15.2: THE EXPANSION OF RUSSIA AND THE PARTITION OF POLAND 1721-1795
    MAP 15.3: PRUSSIA AND THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE, 1721 Ð 1772
        Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
        Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry
    MAP 15.4: OVERSEAS COLONIES AND TRADE, 1740
    MAPS 15.5 AND 15.6: NORTH AMERICA, 1755 AND 1763

    The Twilight of Monarchies? The Question of Enlightened Absolutism

    Changes in Country and City Life
        The Agricultural Revolution
        Manufacturing Spreads in the Countryside: Cottage Industry
        More People, Longer Lives
        Deepening Misery for the Poor
        Prosperity and the Bourgeoisie

    The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New
        The Advent of the Modern Novel
        Pride and Sentiment in Art and Architecture
        Reaching New Heights in Music
    BIOGRAPHY: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
        The Grand Tour

    Culture for the Lower Classes
        Festivals and Popular Literature
        Gin and Beer
        Religious Revivals

    Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution
        Insults, Interests, and Principles: The Seeds of Revolt
        A War for Independence
        Creating the New Nation

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 16
    Overturning the Political and Social Order: The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    "A Great Ferment": Trouble Brewing in France
        The Financial Crisis Weakens the Monarchy
        The Underlying Causes of the Revolution
        The "Tennis Court Oath"
        Storming the Bastille
        The End of the Old Order

    The Constitutional Monarchy: Establishing a New Order
    MAPS 16.1 AND 16.2: REORGANIZING FRANCE IN 1789
        The King Discredited Reactions Outside France

    To the Radical Republic and Back
        War and the Breakdown of Order
        Radical Republicans Struggle for Power
        The Terror
    BIOGRAPHY: MANON ROLAND (1754 Ð 1793)
        The Republic of Virtue
        The Revolution Spreads Outside of France
        Resistance to the Republic Rises
        Reaction: The "White" Terror and the Directory

    Napoleon Bonaparte
        NapoleonÕs Rise to Power
    MAP 16.3: FRANCE AND ITS SISTER REPUBLICS
        Napoleon Consolidates Control
        Reforming France
        Creating the Empire
        War and Conquest
    MAP 16.4: EUROPE The Impact Overseas
    MAP 16.5: LATIN AMERICA AFTER INDEPENDENCE
        Decline and Fall

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 17
    Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    The Industrial Revolution Begins
        A Booming Commercial Economy in the West
        BritainÕs Unique Set of Advantages
    MAP 17.1: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
        A Revolution in Agriculture

    New Markets, Machines, and Power
        The Rising Demand for Goods
        Cotton Leads the Way
        Iron: new Processes Transform Production
        The Steam Engine and the Factory System
        Coal: Fueling the Revolution
        Railroads: Carrying Industrialization Across the Land
        BritainÕs Triumph: The Crystal Palace Exhibition

    Industrialization Spreads to the Continent
    MAP 17.2: THE INDUSTDRIAL REVOLUTION IN EUROPE, 1850

    Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Industrialization
        The Middle Class
        The Working Classes
        Developing Working-Class Consciousness

    Life in the Growing Cities
        The Promise and Pitfalls of Work in the Cities
        Living with Urban Growth
        Worrying About Urban Society: Rising Crime

    Public Health and Medicine in the Industrial Age
        The Danger of Disease
    MAP 17.3: THE SPREAD OF A CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
        Seeking Medical Care
        Promising Developments for Public Health

    Family Ideals and Realities
        Middle-Class Ideals: Affection, Children, and Privacy
        Separate Spheres: Changing Roles for Middle-Class Women and Men
    BIOGRAPHY: THE CADBURYS
        Working-Class Realities
        Prostitution
        Stress and Survival in the Working Classes

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 18
    Cope with Change: Ideology, Politics, and Revolution, 1815-1850
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    The Congress of Vienna: A Gathering of Victors
    MAP 18.1: EUROPE, 1815
        The Concert of Europe: Securing the Vienna Settlement

    Ideologies: How the World Should Be
        Conservatism: Restoring the Traditional Order
        Liberalism: Individual Freedom and Political Reform
    BIOGRAPHY: JOHN STUART MILL (1806 Ð 1873)
        Nationalism: A Common Identity and National Liberation
        Romanticism: Freedom, Instinct, and Spontaneity
        Early Socialism: Ending Competition and Inequalities
        "Scientific Socialism": Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto

    Restoration and Repression
        The Return of the Bourbons in France
        Reaction and Repression in the German States
        Restoration in Italy
        Conservatism in Russia
        Holding the Line in Great Britain

    A Wave of Revolution and Reform
        The Greek War for Independence
        Liberal Triumphs in Western Europe
    MAP 18.2: EUROPEAN REVOLTS, 1820 Ð 1831
        Testing Authority in Eastern and Southern Europe
        Liberal Demands in Great Britain

    The Dam Burst: 1848
        The "Glory Days"
    MAP 18.3: EUROPEAN REVOLTS, 1848 Ð 1849
        The Return to Order
        What Happened?

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 19
    Nationalism and State Building: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    Building Unified Nation-States

    The Drive for Italian Unification
    MAP 19.1: THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY

    Germany "By Blood and Iron"
    MAP 19.2: THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY

    The Fight for National Unity in North America

    Divided Authority in the Austrian and Ottoman Empires
    MAP 19.3: LANGUAGE GROUPS OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
    MAP 19.4: THE DECLINE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1683 Ð 1914

    Using Nationalism in France and Russia
        Napoleon III and the Second Empire
        Alexander II and Russia
    BIOGRAPHY: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820 Ð 1910)

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom

CHAPTER 20
    Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    Demands for Democracy
        Liberal Democracy in Western Europe
        For and Against Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

    Insiders and Outsiders: Politics of the Extremes
        The Spread of Unions
        Socialism Gains Strength
    BIOGRAPHY: JEAN JAURéS (1859 Ð 1914)
        Anarchism: Freedom from All Authority
        Anti-Semitism and Ultranationalism
    MAP 20.1: JEWISH MIGRATION, 1870 Ð 1914
        Still Outsiders: Women, Feminism, and the Right to Vote

    Emigration: Overseas and Across Continents
        Leaving Europe Dreams Versus Realities

    The New Imperialism: The Race for Africa and Asia
        Money and Glory
        The Tools of Conquest
        The Scramble for Africa
    MAP 20.2: IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA, CA. 1885
    MAP 20.3: IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA, 1914
        Establishing Control in Asia
    MAP 20.4: IMPERIALISM IN ASIA, 1840 - 1914
        The Legacy of Imperialism

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 21
    Modern Life and the Culture of Progress: Western Society, 1850-1914
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    The Second Industrial Revolution
        Steal Leads the Way
        New Transportation and Communication Networks
        The Birth of Big Business
        The Lure of Shopping
        Winners and Losers in the Race for Wealth


    The New Urban Landscape
        Rebuilding Cities
Sewers and Subways

    City People
        On Top of It All: The Urban Elite
        Pride and success: The "Solid" Middle Class
        Hardworking and Hopeful: The Lower Middle Class
        The "Other Half": The Working Classes
        What to Do About "Them"

    Sports and Leisure in the Cities
        Building Character Through Athletics
        The New Tourist

    Private Life: Together and Alone at Home
        Family: The Promise of Happiness
        A Home of OneÕs Own Poor Housing
        Intimacy and Morality Sexual Realities
        Psychic Stress and Alcoholism

    Science in an Age of Optimism
        Science, Evolution, and Religion
        Mysteries of the Material and Human World
        Germs, Cures, and Healthcare

    Culture: Accepting the Modern World
        Realism and Naturalism: The Details of Social Life
        Impressionism: Celebrating Modern Life
    BIOGRAPHY: Claude Monet (1840-1926)

    From Optimism to Uncertainty
        Everything Is Relative
        Sex, Conflict, and the Unconscious
        Fear of Social Disintegration
        Disenchantment Sets In
        Art Turns Inward

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 22
    Descending Into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution, 1914-1920
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    On the Path to Total War
        Rivalries and Alliances
        Crises in the Balkans
    MAP 22.1 The Balkans, 1878
    MAP 22.2 The Balkans, 1914

    The Front Lines
        Off to Battle
    MAP 22.3 World War I The Schlieffen Plan
    MAP 22.4 The Western Front
        Slaughter and Stalemate on the Western Front
        Victory and Defeat on the Eastern and Southern Fronts
        The War Spreads Across the Globe

    War on the Home Front
        Mobilizing Resources
        New Gender Roles
        Maintaining the Effort


    To the Bitter End
    BIOGRAPHY KŠthe Kolwitz (1867-1945)

    Assessing the Costs of the War

    The Peach Settlement
        Gathering at Versailles
        A VictorsÕ Peace
        Redrawing the Map of Europe
    MAP 22.5 Europe, 1923
        Legacy of the Peace Treaty

    Revolutions in Russia
        The First Warnings: 1905 The Fall of the Tsar
        The Provisional Government
        The Rise of the Bolsheviks
        Communism and Civil War
    MAP 22.6 Civil War in Russia, 1919

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 23
    Darkening Decades: Dictators, Depression, and World War II, 1920-1945
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    Trying to Recover from the Great War,M 1919-1919
        The Victors Just Hold On
        Continuing Crises in Germany
        Conciliation and a Glimpse of Prosperity
        The Roaring Twenties?
        The Anxious Twenties

    Turning Away From Democracy: Dictatorships and Fascism, 1919-1929
        Authoritarianism in East-Central Europe
        The Rise of Fascism in Italy

    Transforming the Soviet Union: 1920-1939
        LeninÕs Compromise: The NEP
        The Struggle to Succeed Lenin
        StalinÕs Five-Year Plans
        Blood and Terror: The Great Purges

    The Great Depression: 1929-1939
        Crash!
        In the Teeth of the Depression
        Searching for Solutions

    Nazism in Germany
        The Young Adolf Hitler
        The Birth of Nazism in GermanyÕs Postwar Years
        The Growth of the Nazi Party
        The Appeal of Nazism
        Hitler Takes Power
        Life in Nazi Germany
        Rebuilding and Rearming the New Germany

    The Road to War: 1931-1939
        International Affairs Break Down
        Civil War in Spain
    MAP 23.1 The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
        Trying to Cope with Germany
    MAP 23.2 German Expansion, 1936-1939

    World War II 1939-1945
        Triumph of the German Blitzkrieg
        War in North Africa and the Balkans
        Operatin Barbarossa: Germany Invades the Soviet Union
        Japan Attacks
        Behind the Lines: The Struggle and the Horror
    BIOGRAPHY Josip Broz (Tito) (1892-1980)
        Turning the Tide of War
    MAP 23.3 World War II in Europe
    MAP 23.4 World War II in the Pacific

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 24
    Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: 1945-1980s
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    From Peace to Cold War
        The Settlement
        Origins of the Cold War
        The Cold War
    MAP 24.1 EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II
    MAP 24.2 DUROPE DURING THE COLD WAR
        The Global Impact of the Cold War
    MAP 24.3 COLD WAR ALLIANCES AND CONFLICTS
    MAP 24.4 VIETNAM AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
        DŽtente

    East and West: Two Paths to Recovery in Europe
        Tight Control in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
        Parliamentary Politics and Prosperity in the Western Democracies
        Assessing the Paths Taken

    The Twilight of Colonialism
        Revolts in Southern Asia
        Conflict in the Middle East
    MAP 24.5 THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1947-1982
        Liberating Africa
    MAP 24.6 DECOLONIZATION

    A Sense of Relativity in Thought and Culture
        Existentialism: Responsibility and Despair
        A Culture of Contrasts and Criticism

    Protests, Problems, and New Politics: The 1960s to the 1980s
        A Flurry of Social Protests and Movements
    BIOGRAPHY Simone de Beauvoir (1908 Ð 1986)
        Stagnant Growth and Rising Inflation
        The New Political Landscape

    Post-Industrial Society
        Changing Fortunes in the Post-Industrial Society
        The Baby Boom and the Booming Cities
        The Shifting Foundations of Family and Private Life
        The "Sexual Revolution" and the Youth Culture

    Breakthroughs in Science
        From the Universe Above to the Universe Within
        The Information Revolution
        Transforming Medicine

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom


CHAPTER 25
    Into the Twenty-First Century
        Timeline: The Big Picture

    The Collapse of Communism
        Undermining Communism in the Soviet Union
        Gorbachev Launches Reforms
    BIOGRAPHY Vaclav Havel
        Revolutions in Eastern Europe
    MAP 25.1 EASTERN EUROPE, 1989
        The Soviet Union Disintegrates
    MAP 25.2 THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1991
        Life After the Collapse of Communism
        Nationalism Unleashed
    MAPS 25.3 AND 25.4 DISINTEGRATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND YOGOSLAVIA IN THE 1990S

    Repercussions and Realignments in the West
        The United States Unchallenged and Germany Rising
        Politics Shift to the Right
        Toward European Integration
    MAP 25.5 THE EUROPEAN UNION, 1999

    The World and the West from a Global Perspective
        East Asia and the Rise of the Pacific Rim
        The Challenge of Islam
        Across Borders: Cultural Conflict and Convergence
        Beyond Borders: Uncertainty in a Shrinking World
    MAP 25.6 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

    Summary
    Timeline: A Closer Look
    Review, Analyze, and Anticipate
    Beyond the Classroom
Glossary Credits
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