The Mainstream of CivilizationHarcourt Press, 1994 - 979 pages This affordable text offers a traditional political history approach in one convenient volume. A classic survey of Western civilization, this text has remained popular for its balanced coverage and its consistent efforts to explain why history exhibits the patterns it has. |
Contents
The Origin of Civilization | 10 |
The Era of Small Kingdoms ca 1250 | 24 |
2 | 33 |
The Dark Age and Archaic Greece | 39 |
The Rise of Athens and Sparta | 48 |
3 | 63 |
The Foundations of Rome and | 70 |
Roman Expansion Overseas | 76 |
35 | 537 |
The Culture of the Baroque | 539 |
Arts and Letters in the Eighteenth | 551 |
22 | 557 |
The World Wars of MidCentury 1740 | 566 |
Enlightened Absolutism 176389 | 577 |
23 | 583 |
The Failure of Constitutional Monarchy | 590 |
The Collapse of the Republic 146 | 84 |
7 | 167 |
Imperial Society First to Third The Macedonian Period | 182 |
Roman Culture during | 195 |
Germanic Society 131 Caliphs | 209 |
21 | 269 |
12 | 305 |
The Decline of the Carolingians and The Growth of Royal Power | 315 |
AngloSaxon England 242 England France and the Papacy in | 323 |
Life in Early Medieval Society 247 | 329 |
The Rural Nobility 262 Poland | 337 |
The Crusaders 272 Russia | 343 |
14 | 351 |
6 | 352 |
Romanesque and Gothic Art and England in the Later Middle Ages | 358 |
The Intellectual Renaissance 288 France in the Late Middle Ages | 365 |
Southeast Asia | 385 |
Japan | 396 |
16 | 403 |
INDIA AND CHINA | 409 |
Family Life | 410 |
Political Consolidation | 416 |
17 | 425 |
Luthers Revolt | 432 |
The Radicals | 440 |
India 145 | 451 |
19 | 475 |
Disintegration and Disaster | 487 |
Europes Population and Economy | 493 |
20 | 499 |
CONSTITUTIONALISM 1660 | 505 |
The Emergence | 513 |
Central and Eastern Europe 1648 | 520 |
Absolutism Constitutionalism and | 529 |
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION | 531 |
France from the Convention to | 597 |
THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND 33 | 611 |
The Biological | 612 |
The First Industrial Revolution 1750 | 619 |
Human | 627 |
REVOLUTION OF IDEAS | 635 |
The State | 650 |
26 | 657 |
The End of Revolution in Western | 664 |
The Making of Italy and Germany | 670 |
EUROPE AND THE WORLD IN | 683 |
France Germany Italy | 693 |
Resistance | 703 |
28 | 711 |
Battles for Womens Rights | 727 |
Art in an Age of Science | 733 |
29 | 739 |
The Breakthrough to World Politics | 749 |
Germany on the Loose 190514 | 757 |
31 | 799 |
The Great Depression | 805 |
The Democracies Falter | 813 |
32 | 819 |
THE TOTALITARIAN STATES | 827 |
From Dictatorship to Expansion | 833 |
The Road to War 193639 | 844 |
Birth of the | 870 |
The Cold War | 882 |
THE END OF THE COLD | 949 |
The Adventures of Nikita Sergeyevich Western Europe in Search of Itself | 959 |
America in New World Disorder | 970 |
Illustration Credits | 981 |
Index | |
China 155 | |
Copyright | |