Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Authors
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• List of Chapter Illustrations
• List of Chronologies, Historical Documents, Historical Interpretations and Debates, Maps, Charts, and Tables
• Preface
• Geography, History, and the Modern World
• Chapter 1 The Rise of Europe
  • 1. Ancient Times: Greece, Rome, and Christianity
  • 2. The Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Europe
  • 3. The High Middle Ages: Secular Civilization
  • 4. The High Middle Ages: The Church
• Chapter 2 The Upheaval in Western Christendom, 1300–1560
  • 5. Disasters of the Fourteenth Century
  • 6. The Renaissance in Italy
  • 7. The Renaissance outside Italy
  • 8. The New Monarchies
  • 9. The Protestant Reformation
  • 10. Catholicism Reformed and Reorganized
• Chapter 3 The Atlantic World, Commerce, and Wars of Religion, 1560–1648
  • 11. The Opening of the Atlantic
  • 12. The Commercial Revolution
  • 13. Changing Social Structures
  • 14. The Wars of Catholic Spain: The Netherlands and England
  • 15. The Disintegration and Reconstruction of France
  • 16. The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648: The Disintegration of Germany
• Chapter 4 The Growing Power of Western Europe, 1640–1715
  • 17. The Grand Monarque and the Balance of Power
  • 18. The Dutch Republic
  • 19. Britain: The Civil War
  • 20. Britain: The Triumph of Parliament
  • 21. The France of Louis XIV, 1643–1715: The Triumph of Absolutism
  • 22. The Wars of Louis XIV: The Peace of Utrecht, 1713
• Chapter 5 The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648–1740
  • 23. Three Aging Empires
  • 24. The Formation of an Austrian Monarchy
  • 25. The Formation of Prussia
  • 26. The Transformation of Russia
• Chapter 6 The Scientific View of the World
  • 27. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Bacon and Descartes
  • 28. The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal Gravitation
  • 29. New Knowledge of Human Beings and Society
  • 30. Political Theory: The School of Natural Law
• Chapter 7 The Global Struggle for Wealth and Empire
  • 31. Elite and Popular Cultures
  • 32. The Global Economy of the Eighteenth Century
  • 33. Western Europe after the Peace of Utrecht, 1713–1740
  • 34. The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763
• Chapter 8 The Age of Enlightenment
  • 35. The Philosophes and the Ideas of Enlightenment Culture
  • 36. Enlightened Despotism: France, Austria, Prussia
  • 37. Enlightened Despotism: Russia
  • 38. The Partitions of Poland
  • 39. New Stirrings: The British Reform Movement
  • 40. The American Revolution
• Chapter 9 The French Revolution
  • 41. Social and Cultural Backgrounds
  • 42. The Revolution and the Reorganization of France
  • 43. The Revolution and Europe: The War and the “Second” Revolution, 1792
  • 44. The Emergency Republic, 1792–1795: The Terror
  • 45. The Constitutional Republic: The Directory, 1795–1799
  • 46. The Authoritarian Republic: The Consulate, 1799–1804
• Chapter 10 Napoleonic Europe
  • 47. The Formation of the French Imperial System
  • 48. The Grand Empire: Spread of the Revolution
  • 49. The Continental System: Britain and Europe
  • 50. The National Movements and New Nationalist Cultures
  • 51. The Overthrow of Napoleon: The Congress of Vienna
• Chapter 11 Industries, Ideas, and the Struggle for Reform, 1815–1848
  • 52. The Industrial Revolution in Britain
  • 53. The Advent of the “Isms”
  • 54. The Leaking Dam and the Flood: Domestic
  • 55. The Leaking Dam and the Flood: International
  • 56. The Breakthrough of Liberalism in the West: Revolutions of 1830–1832
  • 57. Triumph of the West European Bourgeoisie
• Chapter 12 Revolutions and the Reimposition of Order, 1848–1870
  • 58. Paris: The Specter of Social Revolution in the West
  • 59. Vienna: The Nationalist Revolutions in Central Europe and Italy
  • 60. Frankfurt and Berlin: The Question of a Liberal Germany
  • 61. The New European “Isms”: Realism, Positivism, Marxism
  • 62. Bonapartism: The Second French Empire, 1852–1870
• Chapter 13 The Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859–1871
  • 63. Backgrounds: The Idea of the Nation-State
  • 64. Cavour and the Italian War of 1859: The Unification of Italy
  • 65. The Founding of a German Empire and the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
  • 66. Tsarist Russia: Social Change and the Limits of Political Reform
  • 67. Nation-Building in the Wider Atlantic World: The United States and Canada
• Chapter 14 Europe’s Economic and Political Ascendancy, 1871–1914
  • 68. The Concept of the Modern “Civilized World”
  • 69. Basic Demography: The Increase of Europe’s Population
  • 70. The World Economy of the Nineteenth Century
  • 71. The Advance of Democracy: Third French Republic, United Kingdom, German Empire
• Chapter 15 European Society and Culture, 1871–1914
  • 72. The Advance of Democracy: Socialism, Labor Unions, and Feminism
  • 73. Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion
  • 74. The Waning of Classical Liberalism
• Chapter 16 Europe’s Colonial Empires and Global Dominance, 1871–1914
  • 75. Imperialism: Its Nature and Causes
  • 76. The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
  • 77. The European Partition of Africa
  • 78. Imperialism in Asia: The Dutch, the British, and the Russians
  • 79. Imperialism in Asia: China and Europe
  • 80. The Russo-Japanese War and Its Consequences
• Chapter 17 The First World War
  • 81. The International Anarchy
  • 82. The Armed Stalemate
  • 83. The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention of the United States
  • 84. The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires
  • 85. The Economic, Social, and Cultural Impact of the War
  • 86. The Peace of Paris, 1919
• Chapter 18 The Russian Revolution and the Emergence of the Soviet Union
  • 87. Backgrounds
  • 88. The Revolution of 1905
  • 89. The Revolution of 1917
  • 90. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • 91. Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges
  • 92. The International Impact of Communism, 1919–1939
• Chapter 19 Democracy, Anti-Imperialism, and the Economic Crisis After the First World War
  • 93. The Advance of Democracy after 1919
  • 94. The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno
  • 95. Anti-Imperialist Movements in Asia
  • 96. The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy
• Chapter 20 Democracy and Dictatorship in the 1930S
  • 97. Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in Britain and France
  • 98. Italian Fascism
  • 99. Totalitarianism: Germany’s Third Reich
• Chapter 21 The Second World War
  • 100. The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War
  • 101. The Years of Axis Triumph
  • 102. The Western-Soviet Victory
  • 103. The Foundations of the Peace
• Chapter 22 The Cold War and Reconstruction after the Second World War
  • 104. The Cold War: The Opening Decade, 1945–1955
  • 105. Western Europe: Economic Reconstruction
  • 106. Western Europe: Political Reconstruction
  • 107. Europe and the Global Economy
  • 108. Communist Societies in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
• Chapter 23 Decolonization and the Breakup of the European Empires
  • 109. The Emergence of Independent Nations in South Asia and Southeast Asia
  • 110. The African Revolution
  • 111. Europe and the Modern Middle East
• Chapter 24 Coexistence, Confrontation, and the New European Economy
  • 112. Confrontation and Détente, 1955–1975
  • 113. Collapse and Recovery of the European and Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s
  • 114. The Cold War Rekindled and Defused
• Chapter 25 The International Revolt Against Soviet Communism
  • 115. The Crisis in the Soviet Union
  • 116. The Collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 117. The Collapse of the Soviet Union
  • 118. After Communism
• Chapter 26 Europe and the Changing Modern World
  • 119. Western Europe after the Cold War
  • 120. Nation-States and Economies in the Age of Globalization
  • 121. Intellectual and Social Transitions in Modern Cultures
  • 122. Europe and International Conflicts in the Early Twenty-First Century
  • 123. Social and Environmental Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
• Appendix Rulers and Regimes
• Index
• Suggestions for Further Reading

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