. Maps. . . Charts, Tables, and Figures. . . Documents. . . Preface. . . Acknowledgments. . . Supplements. . . About the Authors. . Ch. 1. The First Civilizations. 2. Ch. 2. Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C. 36. Ch. 3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C. 68. Ch. 4. Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-31 B.C. 104. Ch. 5. Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.-A.D. 192. 134. Ch. 6. The Transformation of the Classical World. 170. Ch. 7. The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam. 198. Ch. 8. The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900. 230. Ch. 9. The High Middle Ages. 264. Ch. 10. The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500. 304. Ch. 11. The Italian Renaissance. 338. Ch. 12. The European Empires. 372. Ch. 13. The Reform of Religion. 408. Ch. 14. Europe at War, 1555-1648. 444. Ch. 15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650. 478. Ch. 16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century. 516. Ch. 17. Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe. 552. Ch. 18. The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe. 590. Ch. 19. Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe. 624. Ch. 20. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815. 660. Ch. 21. Industrial Europe. 696. Ch. 22. Social Transformations and Political Upheavals, 1815-1850. 738. Ch. 23. State-Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850-1871. 778. Ch. 24. The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914. 814. Ch. 25. Europe and the World, 1870-1914. 848. Ch. 26. War and Revolution, 1914-1920. 882. Ch. 27. The European Search for Stability, 1920-1939. 918. Ch. 28. Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939-1945. 956. Ch. 29. Postwar Recovery and Crisis: From the Cold War to the New Europe. 992. Ch. 30. The Contemporary West, 1968 to the Present. 1028. . Credits. C-1. . Index. I-1.
Documents in Western Civilization provides students with a collection of primary source documents in Western Civilization, presented in chronological order to aid students in placing these documents in historical context.
Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence Since 1500
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A Look at the Evidence Merry E. Wiesner, Julius Ralph Ruff, William Bruce Wheeler. I DISCOVERING THE WE5TERN PAST WIESNER RUFF WHEELER OURTH EDITION Volume.
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This authoritative book presents an engaging and accessible narrative account of the central developments in Western history to 1740.
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