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Table of Contents
The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30.
Preface
Maps and Figures
Special Features
Chapter 1: Origins, to 1200 B.C.E.
What do we mean by “the West” and “Western civilization”?
Describing the West
What Is Civilization?
How did early human societies create new technologies and cultural forms?
From the First Hominids to the Paleolithic Era
Domestication
Implications of Agriculture
Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections
What kind of civilization did the Sumerians build in Mesopotamia?
Environment and Mesopotamian Development
The Invention of Writing and the First Schools
Religion in Mesopotamia
Sumerian Politics and Society
How did the Akkadian and Old Babylonian empires develop in Mesopotamia?
The Akkadians and the Babylonians
Life Under Hammurabi
Cultural Exchange in the Fertile Crescent
How did the Egyptians establish a prosperous and long-lasting society?
The Nile and the God-King
Egyptian Religion
Egyptian Society and Work
Egyptian Family Life
The Hyksos and New Kingdom Revival
Conflict and Cooperation with the Hittites
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 1 Review
Chapter 2: Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, 1200–510 B.C.E.
How did iron technology shape new states after 1200 B.C.E.?
Iron Technology
The Decline of Egypt and the Emergence of Kush
The Rise of Phoenicia
How did the Hebrews create an enduring religious tradition?
The Hebrew State
The Jewish Religion
Hebrew Family and Society
How did the Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians gain and lose power?
Assyria’s Long Road to Power
Assyrian Rule and Culture
The Neo-Babylonian Empire
How did the Persians conquer and rule their extensive empire?
Consolidation of the Persian Empire
Persian Religion
Persian Art and Culture
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 2 Review
Chapter 3: The Development of Greek Society and Culture, ca. 3000–338 B.C.E.
How did the geography of Greece shape its earliest kingdoms?
Geography and Settlement
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic
What was the role of the polis in Greek society?
Organization of the Polis
Governing Structures
Overseas Expansion
The Growth of Sparta
The Evolution of Athens
How did the wars of the classical period shape Greek history?
The Persian Wars
Growth of the Athenian Empire
The Peloponnesian War
The Struggle for Dominance
Philip II and Macedonian Supremacy
What ancient Greek ideas and ideals have had a lasting influence?
Athenian Arts in the Age of Pericles
Households and Work
Gender and Sexuality
Public and Personal Religion
The Flowering of Philosophy
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 4: Life in the Hellenistic World, 338–30 B.C.E.
How and why did Alexander the Great create an empire, and how did it evolve?
Military Campaigns
The Political Legacy
How did Greek ideas and traditions spread to create a Hellenized society?
Urban Life
Greeks in Hellenistic Cities
Greeks and Non-Greeks
What characterized the Hellenistic economy?
Rural Life
Production of Goods
Commerce
How did religion, philosophy, and the arts reflect and shape Hellenistic life?
Religion and Magic
Hellenism and the Jews
Philosophy and the People
Art and Drama
How did science and medicine serve the needs of Hellenistic society?
Science
Medicine
Chapter 4 Review
Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome, ca. 1000–27 B.C.E.
How did the Romans become the dominant power in Italy?
The Geography of Italy
The Etruscans
The Founding of Rome
The Roman Conquest of Italy
What were the key institutions of the Roman Republic?
The Roman State
Social Conflict in Rome
How did the Romans build a Mediterranean empire?
The Punic Wars
Rome Turns East
How did expansion affect Roman society and culture?
Roman Families
New Social Customs and Greek Influence
Opposing Views: Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus
What led to the fall of the Roman Republic?
The Countryside and Land Reforms
Political Violence
Civil War and the Rise of Julius Caesar
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 5 Review
Chapter 6: The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E.–284 C.E.
How did Augustus and Roman elites create a foundation for the Roman Empire?
Augustus and His Allies
Roman Expansion
Latin Literature
Marriage and Morality
How did the Roman state develop after Augustus?
The Julio-Claudians and the Flavians
The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
What was life like in the city of Rome and in the provinces?
Life in Imperial Rome
Approaches to Urban Problems
Popular Entertainment
Prosperity in the Roman Provinces
Trade and Commerce
How did Christianity grow into a major religious movement?
Factors Behind the Rise of Christianity
The Life and Teachings of Jesus
The Spread of Christianity
The Growing Acceptance and Evolution of Christianity
What political and economic problems did Rome face in the third century C.E.?
Civil Wars and Military Commanders
Turmoil in Economic Life
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 6 Review
Chapter 7: Late Antiquity, 250–600
How did Diocletian and Constantine try to reform the empire?
Political Measures
Economic Issues
The Acceptance of Christianity
How did the Christian Church become a major force in the Mediterranean and Europe?
The Church and Its Leaders
The Development of Christian Monasticism
Monastery Life
Christianity and Classical Culture
Christian Notions of Gender and Sexuality
Saint Augustine on Human Nature, Will, and Sin
What were the key characteristics of barbarian society?
Village and Family Life
Tribes and Hierarchies
Customary and Written Law
Celtic and Germanic Religion
How did the barbarian migrations shape Europe?
Celtic and Germanic People in Gaul and Britain
Visigoths and Huns
Germanic Kingdoms and the End of the Roman Empire
How did the church convert barbarian peoples to Christianity?
Missionaries’ Actions
The Process of Conversion
How did the Byzantine Empire preserve the legacy of Rome?
Sources of Byzantine Strength
The Law Code of Justinian
Byzantine Learning and Science
The Orthodox Church
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 7 Review
Chapter 8: Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600–1000
What were the origins of Islam, and what impact did it have on Europe as it spread?
The Culture of the Arabian Peninsula
The Prophet Muhammad
The Teachings and Expansion of Islam
Sunni and Shi’a Divisions
Life in Muslim Spain
Muslim-Christian Encounters
Cross-Cultural Influences in Science and Medicine
How did the Franks build and govern a European empire?
The Merovingians
The Rise of the Carolingians
The Warrior-Ruler Charlemagne
Carolingian Government and Society
The Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne
What were the significant intellectual and cultural developments in Charlemagne’s era?
The Carolingian Renaissance
Northumbrian Learning and Writing
How did the ninth-century invasions and migrations shape Europe?
Vikings in Western Europe
Slavs and Vikings in Eastern Europe
Magyars and Muslims
How and why did Europe become politically and economically decentralized in this period?
Decentralization and the Origins of “Feudalism”
Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave Trade
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 8 Review
Chapter 9: State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000–1300
How did monarchs try to centralize political power?
England
France
Central Europe
Italy
The Iberian Peninsula
How did the administration of law evolve in this period?
Local Laws and Royal Courts
The Magna Carta
Law in Everyday Life
What were the political and social roles of nobles?
Origins and Status of the Nobility
Training, Marriage, and Inheritance
Power and Responsibility
How did the papacy reform the church, and what were the reactions to these efforts?
The Gregorian Reforms
Emperor Versus Pope
Criticism and Heresy
The Popes and Church Law
What roles did monks, nuns, and friars play in medieval society?
Monastic Revival
Life in Convents and Monasteries
The Friars
What were the causes, course, and consequences of the Crusades and the broader expansion of Christianity?
Background and Motives of the Crusades
The Course of the Crusades
Consequences of the Crusades
The Expansion of Christianity
Christendom
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 9 Review
Chapter 10: Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000–1300
What was village life like in medieval Europe?
Serfdom and Social Mobility
The Manor
Work
Home Life
Childbirth and Childhood
How did religion shape everyday life in the High Middle Ages?
Christian Life in Medieval Villages
Saints and Sacraments
Muslims and Jews
Rituals of Marriage and Birth
Death and the Afterlife
What led to Europe’s economic growth and reurbanization?
The Rise of Towns
Merchant and Craft Guilds
The Revival of Long-Distance Trade
Business Procedures
The Commercial Revolution
What was life like in medieval cities?
City Life
Servants and the Poor
Popular Entertainment
How did universities serve the needs of medieval society?
Origins
Legal and Medical Training
Theology and Philosophy
University Students
How did literature and architecture express medieval values?
Vernacular Literature and Drama
Churches and Cathedrals
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 10 Review
Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450
How did climate change shape the late Middle Ages?
Climate Change and Famine
Social Consequences
How did the plague affect European society?
Pathology
Spread of the Disease
Care of the Sick
Economic, Religious, and Cultural Effects
What were the causes, course, and consequences of the Hundred Years’ War?
Causes
English Successes
Joan of Arc and France’s Victory
Aftermath
Why did the church come under increasing criticism?
The Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism
Critiques, Divisions, and Councils
Lay Piety and Mysticism
What explains the social unrest of the late Middle Ages?
Peasant Revolts
Urban Conflicts
Sex in the City
Fur-Collar Crime
Ethnic Tensions and Restrictions
Literacy and Vernacular Literature
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 11 Review
Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350–1550
How did political and economic developments in Italy shape the Renaissance?
Trade and Prosperity
Communes and Republics of Northern Italy
City-States and the Balance of Power
What new ideas were associated with the Renaissance?
Humanism
Education
Political Thought
Christian Humanism
The Printed Word
How did art reflect new Renaissance ideals?
Patronage and Power
Changing Artistic Styles
The Renaissance Artist
What were the key social hierarchies in Renaissance Europe?
Race and Slavery
Wealth and the Nobility
Gender Roles
How did nation-states develop in this period?
France
England
Spain
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 12 Review
Chapter 13: Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500–1600
What were the central ideas of the reformers, and why were they appealing to different social groups?
The Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth Century
Martin Luther
Protestant Thought
The Appeal of Protestant Ideas
The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War
Marriage, Sexuality, and the Role of Women
How did the political situation in Germany shape the course of the Reformation?
The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty
Religious Wars in Switzerland and Germany
How did Protestant ideas and institutions spread beyond German-speaking lands?
Scandinavia
Henry VIII and the Reformation in England
Upholding Protestantism in England
Calvinism
The Reformation in Eastern Europe
What reforms did the Catholic Church make, and how did it respond to Protestant reform movements?
Papal Reform and the Council of Trent
New and Reformed Religious Orders
What were the causes and consequences of religious violence, including riots, wars, and witch-hunts?
French Religious Wars
The Netherlands Under Charles V
The Great European Witch-Hunt
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 13 Review
Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650
What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean
The Trading States of Africa
The Middle East
Genoese and Venetian Middlemen
How and why did Europeans undertake ambitious voyages of expansion?
Causes of European Expansion
Technology and the Rise of Exploration
The Portuguese Overseas Empire
Spain’s Voyages to the Americas
Spain “Discovers” the Pacific
Early Exploration by Northern European Powers
What was the impact of European conquest on the New World?
Conquest of the Aztec Empire
The Fall of the Incas
Portuguese Brazil
Colonial Empires of England and France
Colonial Administration
How did Europe and the world change after Columbus?
Economic Exploitation of the Indigenous Population
Society in the Colonies
Population Loss and the Ecological Impacts of Contact
Sugar and Slavery
Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects
The Birth of the Global Economy
How did expansion change European attitudes and beliefs?
Religious Conversion
European Debates About Indigenous Peoples
New Ideas About Race
Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity
William Shakespeare and His Influence
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 14 Review
Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589–1725
What were the crises and achievements of seventeenth-century European states?
The Social Order and Peasant Life
Environmental, Economic, and Social Crisis
The Thirty Years’ War
State-Building and the Growth of Armies
Baroque Art and Music
What was absolutism, and how did it evolve in western and central Europe?
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
The Foundations of French Absolutism
Louis XIV and Absolutism
Life at Versailles
Louis XIV’s Wars
The French Economic Policy of Mercantilism
What explains the rise of absolutism in Prussia and Austria?
The Return of Serfdom
The Austrian Habsburgs
Prussia in the Seventeenth Century
The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism
What were the distinctive features of Russian and Ottoman absolutism?
Mongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of Moscow
Building the Russian Empire
The Reforms of Peter the Great
The Ottoman Empire
What were alternatives to absolutism in early modern Europe?
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Failure of Absolutism in England
The Puritan Protectorate
The Restoration of the English Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 15 Review
Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540–1789
What revolutionary discoveries were made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Contributions from the Muslim World
Scientific Thought to 1500
The Copernican Hypothesis
Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus Right
Newton’s Synthesis
Natural History and Empire
Magic and Alchemy
What intellectual and social changes occurred as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
The Methods of Science: Bacon and Descartes
Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry
Science and Religion
Science and Society
How did the Enlightenment emerge, and what were major currents of Enlightenment thought?
The Early Enlightenment
The Influence of the Philosophes
Enlightenment Movements Across Europe
How did the Enlightenment change social ideas and practices?
Global Contacts
Enlightenment Debates About Race
Women and the Enlightenment
Urban Culture and Life in the Public Sphere
What impact did new ways of thinking have on politics?
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Catherine the Great of Russia
The Austrian Habsburgs
Jewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened Absolutism
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 16 Review
Chapter 17: The Expansion of Europe, 1650–1800
Why did European agriculture grow between 1650 and 1800?
The Legacy of the Open-Field System
New Methods of Agriculture
The Leadership of the Low Countries and England
Why did the European population rise dramatically in the eighteenth century?
Long-Standing Obstacles to Population Growth
The New Pattern of the Eighteenth Century
How and why did rural industry intensify in the eighteenth century?
The Putting-Out System
The Lives of Rural Textile Workers
The Industrious Revolution
What important changes occurred in economic thought and practice in the eighteenth century?
Economic Regulation and the Guilds
The Financial Revolution
Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism
How did empire and trade shape new economic, cultural, and social developments?
Mercantilism and Colonial Competition
The Atlantic Economy
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Identities and Communities of the Atlantic World
The Atlantic Enlightenment
Trade and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 17 Review
Chapter 18: Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650–1800
How did marriage and family life change in the eighteenth century?
Late Marriage and Nuclear Families
Work Away from Home
Contraception and Community Controls
New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy
Sex on the Margins of Society
What was life like for children, and how did attitudes toward childhood evolve?
Child Care and Nursing
Foundlings and Infanticide
Attitudes Toward Children
The Spread of Elementary Schools
How did increasing literacy and new patterns of consumption affect people’s lives?
Popular Literature
Leisure and Recreation
New Foods and Appetites
Toward a Consumer Society
What role did religion play in eighteenth-century society?
Church Hierarchy
Protestant Revival
Catholic Piety
Marginal Beliefs and Practices
How did the practice of medicine evolve in the eighteenth century?
Faith Healing and General Practice
Improvements in Surgery
Midwifery
The Conquest of Smallpox and the Birth of Vaccination
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 18 Review
Chapter 19: Revolutions in Politics, 1775–1815
What were the factors behind the revolutions of the late eighteenth century?
Social Change
Growing Demands for Liberty and Equality
The Seven Years’ War
Why and how did American colonists forge a new, independent nation?
The Origins of the Revolution
Independence from Britain
Framing the Constitution
Limitations of Liberty and Equality
How did the events of 1789 result in a constitutional monarchy in France?
Breakdown of the Old Order
The Formation of the National Assembly
Popular Uprising and the Rights of Man
A Constitutional Monarchy and Its Challenges
Why and how did the French Revolution take a radical turn?
The International Response
The Second Revolution and the New Republic
Total War and the Terror
The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory
How did Napoleon Bonaparte create a French empire, and why did it fail?
Napoleon’s Rule of France
Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe
The Grand Empire and Its End
How did slave revolt on colonial Saint-Domingue lead to the independent nation of Haiti?
Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue
The Outbreak of Revolt
The War of Haitian Independence
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 19 Review
Chapter 20: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780–1850
Why and how did the Industrial Revolution emerge in Britain?
Why Britain?
Technological Innovations and Early Factories
The Steam Engine Breakthrough
Steam-Powered Transportation
Industry and Population
How did countries outside Britain respond to the challenge of industrialization?
National and International Variations
Industrialization in Continental Europe
Agents of Industrialization
The Global Picture
How did work and daily life evolve during the Industrial Revolution?
Work in Early Factories
Working Families and Children
The New Sexual Division of Labor
Living Standards for the Working Class
Environmental Impacts of Industrialization
What were the social consequences of industrialization?
The New Class of Factory Owners
Responses to Industrialization
The Early British Labor Movement
The Impact of Slavery
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 20 Review
Chapter 21: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815–1850
How was peace restored and maintained after the Napoleonic Wars?
The European Balance of Power
Metternich and Conservatism
Repressing the Revolutionary Spirit
Limits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South America
What new ideologies emerged to challenge conservatism?
Liberalism and the Middle Class
The Growing Appeal of Nationalism
The First Socialists
The Birth of Marxist Socialism
What were the characteristics of the Romantic movement?
The Romantic Worldview
Romantic Literature
Romanticism in Art and Music
How did reforms and revolutions challenge conservatism after 1815?
The Greek War of Independence
Liberal Reform in Great Britain
Ireland and the Great Famine
The Revolution of 1830 in France
What were the main causes and consequences of the revolutions of 1848?
A Democratic Republic in France
Revolution and Reaction in the Austrian Empire
Prussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National Assembly
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
REVIEW & EXPLORE
Chapter 21 Review
Chapter 22: Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840–1914
What were the main changes in urban life in the nineteenth century?
Industry and the Growth of Cities
The Advent of the Public Health Movement
The Bacterial Revolution
Improvements in Urban Planning
Public Transportation
How did class and gender reinforce social difference in the nineteenth century?
The Distribution of Income
The People and Occupations of the Middle Classes
The People and Occupations of the Working Classes
Prostitution
The Leisure Pursuits of the Working Classes
Faith and Religion
How did urbanization affect family life and gender roles?
Lifestyles of the Middle Classes
Middle-Class Marriage and Courtship Rituals
Middle- and Working-Class Sexuality
Separate Spheres and the Importance of Homemaking
Child Rearing
What were the most important changes in science and culture?
The Triumph of Science in Industry
Darwin and Natural Selection
The Modern University and the Social Sciences
Realism in Art and Literature
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 22 Review
Chapter 23: The Age of Nationalism, 1850–1914
What were the main features of the authoritarian nation-state built by Napoleon III?
France’s Second Republic
Napoleon III’s Second Empire
How were strong nation-states forged in Italy, Germany, and the United States?
The Unification of Italy
The Austro-Prussian War
Taming the German Parliament
The Franco-Prussian War and German Unification
How did Russian and Ottoman leaders modernize their states and societies?
The “Great Reforms” in Russia
The Russian Revolution of 1905
Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman Empire
How did the relationship between government and the governed change after 1871?
The Responsive National State
The German Empire
Republican France and the Third French Republic
Great Britain and Ireland
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
What were the costs and benefits of nationalism for ordinary people?
Making National Citizens
The Feminist Movement
Nationalism and Racism
Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism
How and why did revolutionary Marxism evolve in the late nineteenth century?
The Socialist International
Labor Unions and the Evolution of Working-Class Radicalism
Marxist Revisionism
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 23 Review
Chapter 24: The West and the World, 1815–1914
What were the global consequences of European industrialization?
The Rise of Global Inequality
The World Market
Western Pressures on China
Japan and the United States
Western Intervention in Egypt
How was massive migration an integral part of Western expansion?
The Pressure of Population
European Emigration
The Immigrant Experience in the United States
Asian Emigration
How did the New Imperialism change Western colonialism?
The European Presence in Africa Before 1880
The Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa
The British in Africa After 1885
Imperialism in Asia
Causes of the New Imperialism
A “Civilizing Mission”
Gender and Empire
European Critics of Imperialism
How did non-Westerners respond to Western expansion?
Impacts and Patterns of Response
The British Empire in India
Reforming Japan
Toward Revolution in China
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 24 Review
Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914–1919
What caused the outbreak of the First World War?
Growing International Conflict
The Mood of 1914
The July Crisis and the Outbreak of War
How did the First World War differ from previous wars?
Stalemate and Slaughter on the Western Front
The Widening War
In what ways did the war transform life on the home front?
Mobilizing for Total War
The Social Impact of Total War
Growing Political Tensions
Why did world war lead to a successful Communist revolution in Russia?
The Fall of Imperial Russia
The Provisional Government
Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution
Trotsky and the Seizure of Power
Dictatorship and Civil War
What were the benefits and costs of the postwar peace settlement?
The End of the War
Revolution in Austria-Hungary and Germany
The Treaty of Versailles
The Peace Settlement in the Middle East
The Human Costs of the War
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 25 Review
Chapter 26: Opportunity and Crisis in the Age of Modernity, 1880–1940
How did intellectual developments reflect the ambiguities of modernity?
Modern Philosophy
The Revival of Christianity
The New Physics
Freudian Psychology
How did modernism revolutionize Western culture?
Architecture and Design
New Artistic Movements
Twentieth-Century Literature
Modern Music
How did consumer society change everyday life?
Modern Mass Culture
The Appeal of Cinema
The Arrival of Radio
What obstacles to lasting peace did European leaders face?
Germany and the Western Powers
Hope in Foreign Affairs
Hope in Democratic Government
What were the causes and consequences of the Great Depression?
The Economic Crisis
Mass Unemployment
The New Deal in the United States
The Scandinavian Response to the Depression
Recovery and Reform in Britain and France
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 26 Review
Chapter 27: Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919–1945
What were the most important characteristics of Communist and Fascist ideologies?
Conservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships
Communism and Fascism
The Spanish Civil War
How did Stalinism transform state and society in the Soviet Union?
From Lenin to Stalin
Stalin and the Nationalities Question
The Five-Year Plans
Life and Culture in Soviet Society
The Great Purges and the Great Terror of 1937-38
What kind of government did Mussolini establish in Italy?
The Seizure of Power
The Fascist Regime in Action
What policies did Nazi Germany pursue, and why did they appeal to ordinary Germans?
The Roots of National Socialism
Hitler’s Road to Power
State and Society in Nazi Germany
Popular Support for National Socialism
Aggression and Appeasement
What explains the success and then defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II?
German Victories in Europe
Europe Under Nazi Occupation
The Holocaust
Japanese Empire and the War in the Pacific
The Grand Alliance and the “Hinge of Fate”
Allied Victory
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
REVIEW & EXPLORE
Chapter 27 Review
Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965
Why was World War II followed so quickly by the Cold War?
The Legacies of the Second World War
The Peace Settlement and Cold War Origins
West Versus East
Big Science in the Nuclear Age
What were the sources of postwar recovery and stability in western Europe?
The Search for Political and Social Consensus
Toward European Unity
The Consumer Revolution
What was the pattern of postwar development in the Soviet bloc?
Postwar Life in the East Bloc
Reform and De-Stalinization
Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion
The Limits of Reform
How did decolonization proceed in the Cold War era?
Decolonization and the Global Cold War
The Struggle for Power in Asia
Independence and Conflict in the Middle East
Decolonization in Africa
What were the key changes in social relations in postwar Europe?
Changing Class Structures
Patterns of Postwar Migration
New Roles for Women
Youth Culture and the Generation Gap
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 28 Review
Chapter 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991
Why did the postwar consensus of the 1950s break down?
Cold War Tensions Thaw
The Affluent Society
The Counterculture Movement
The United States and Vietnam
Student Revolts and 1968
The 1960s in the East Bloc
What were the consequences of economic stagnation in the 1970s?
Economic Crisis and Hardship
The New Conservatism
Challenges and Victories for Women
The Rise of the Environmental Movement
Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism
What led to the decline of “developed socialism” in the East Bloc?
State and Society in the East Bloc
Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland
From Détente Back to Cold War
Gorbachev’s Reforms in the Soviet Union
What were the causes and consequences of the 1989 revolutions in the East Bloc?
The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc
German Unification and the End of the Cold War
The Disintegration of the Soviet Union
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 29 Review
Chapter 30: Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present
How did life change in Russia and the former East Bloc countries after 1989?
Economic Shock Therapy in Russia
Russian Revival Under Vladimir Putin
Political Instability and Russian Intervention in the Former Soviet Republics
Economic and Political Transformations in the Former East Bloc
Civil War in Yugoslavia
How did globalization affect European life and society?
The Global Economy
The New European Union
Supranational Organizations
Life in the Age of Social Media
The Costs and Consequences of Globalization
How is growing ethnic diversity changing contemporary Europe?
The Prospect of Population Decline
Changing Immigration Flows
Toward a Multicultural Continent
Europe and Its Muslim Population
What challenges will Europeans face in the coming decades?
Growing Strains in U.S.-European Relations
Turmoil in the Muslim World
The Global Recession and the Viability of the European Union
The New Populism
The COVID-19 Pandemic
Dependence on Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, and Environmental Degradation
Promoting Human Rights
LOOKING BACK / LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter 30 Review
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
Authors
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Clare Haru Crowston
Joe Perry
John P. McKay
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