TY - BOOK AU - Spielvogel,Jackson J. TI - Western civilization SN - 9780495913245 (hardcover) U1 - 909.09821 PY - 2012/// CY - Boston PB - Wadsworth, Cengage Learning KW - Civilization, Western KW - History N1 - 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) ER -