The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

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Dedication
Contents
Prologue: The Value of European History
1 Early Humans and the Dawn of Civilization
2 Ancient Greece: Politics and War
3 Ancient Greece: Society, Culture, and Daily Life
4 Ancient Rome: Politics and War
5 Ancient Rome: Society, Culture, and Daily Life
6 The Middle Ages: Politics and War, 500–1300
7 The Middle Ages: Society, Culture, and Daily Life
8 The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
9 The Age of Discovery, the Protestant Reformation, and the Wars of Religion, 1492–1648
10 Politics, Colonialism, and War, 1648–1789
11 European Society During the Scientific, Agricultural, and Industrial Revolutions, 1600–1800
12 The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Age of Napoleon, 1700–1815
13 Challenging the Conservative Order: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socioeconomic Change, 1815–50
14 Middle-Class Europe: The Triumph of Liberalism and Nationalism and the Rise of Socialism, 1850–1914
15 Industrialization, Imperialism, and Intellectual and Social Change, 1850–1914
16 World War I, 1914–18
17 Interwar Europe, 1919–39
18 World War II, 1939–45
19 The Cold War and the End of European Dominance, 1945–present
Epilogue: Europe, the United States, and the World in the Twenty-First Century
Index