Western civilization/

Spielvogel, Jackson J.

Western civilization/ Jackson J. Spielvogel. - 8th ed. - Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2012. - xxxii, 1040 p.: col. ill., col. maps; 29 cm.

IThe ancient Near East : the first civilizations --
The ancient Near East : peoples and empires --
The civilization of the Greeks --
The Hellenistic world --
The Roman Republic --
The Roman Empire --
Late antiquity and the emergence of the medieval world --
European civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000 --
The recovery and growth of European society in the High Middle Ages --
The rise of kingdoms and the growth of church power --
The Later Middle Ages : crisis and disintegration in the fourteenth century --
Recovery and rebirth : the age of the Renaissance --
Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century --
v. 2. Since 1500 --
Europe and the world : new encounters, 1500-1800 --
State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century --
Toward a new Heaven and a new Earth : the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science --
The eighteenth century : an age of Enlightenment --
The eighteenth century : European states, international wars, and social change --
A revolution in politics : the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon --
The Industrial Revolution and its impact on European society --
Reaction, revolution, and romanticism, 1815-1850 --
An age of nationalism and realism, 1850-1871 --
Mass society in an "Age of Progress", 1871-1894 --
An age of modernity, anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914 --
The beginning of the twentieth-century crisis : war and revolution --
The futile search for a new stability : Europe between the wars, 1919-1939 --
The deepening of the European crisis : World War II --
Cold War and a new Western world, 1945-1965 --
Protest and stagnation : the Western world, 1965-1985 --
After the fall : the Western world in a global age (since 1985).

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