Brief History of Western Civilization The Unfinished Legacy

Each Chapter concludes with "Questions for Review," "Discovering Western Civilization Online," and "Suggestions for Further Reading."14. Europe at War, 1555-1648.The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents.The Crises of the Western States.The Struggles in Eastern Europe.The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648.Document: War Is Hell.15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650.The Visual Record: Haymaking.Economic Life.Social Life.Private and Community Life.Document: The Devil's Due.16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century.The Visual Record: Fit for a King.The Rise of the Royal State.The Crises of the Royal State.The Zenith of the Royal State.Document: A Glimpse of a King.17. Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe.The Visual Record: Rembrandts Lessons.The New Science.Empires of Goods.The Wars of Commerce.Document: Encountering Pirates.18. The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe.The Visual Record: A Dashing Officer.Geographical Tour: A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714.The Rise of Russia.The Two Germanies.The Greatness of Great Britain.Document: Childhood Traumas.19. Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe.The Visual Record: Happy Families.Eighteenth-Century Culture.Eighteenth-Century Society.Document: Love and Marriage.20. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815.The Visual Record: Eighteenth-Century Revolution.The Crisis of the Old Regime in France, 1715-1788.The First Stage of the French Revolution, 1789-1792.Experimenting with Democracy: The Revolution's Second Stage, 1792-1799.The Reign of Napoleon, 1799-1815.Document: The Civil Code of the Code Napoléon (1804).21. Industrial Europe.The Visual Record: An Iron Forge.The Traditional Economy.The Industrial Revolution in Britain.The Industrialization of the Continent.Document: Exploiting the Young.22. Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850.The Visual Record: Potato Politics.Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815.The New Ideologies.Protest and Revolution.Document: Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women.23. Statebuilding and Social Change In Europe, 1850-1871.The Visual Record: The Birth of the German Empire.Building Nations: The Politics of Unification.Reforming European Society.Changing Values and the Force of New Ideas.Document: Red Women in Paris.24. The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914.The Visual Record: Speeding to the Future.European Economy and the Politics of Mass Society.Outsiders in Mass Politics.Shaping the New Consciousness.Document: Constance Lytton.25. Europe and the World, 1870-1914.The Visual Record: The Politics of Mapmaking.The European Balance of Power, 1870-1914.The New Imperialism.The European Search for Territory and Markets.Results of a European-Dominated World.Document: Joseph Chamberlains Speech to the Birmingham Relief Association.26. War and Revolution, 1914-1920.The Visual Record: Selling the Great War.The War Europe Expected.A New Kind of Warfare.Adjusting to the Unexpected: Total War.Reshaping Europe: After War and Revolution.Document: All Quiet on the Western Front.27. The European Search for Stability, 1920-1939.The Visual Record: The Harsh Lessons of Hyperinflation.Geographical Tour: Europe After 1918.Crisis and Collapse in a World Economy.The Soviet Union's Separate Path.The Rise of Fascist Dictatorship in Italy.Hitler and the Third Reich.Democracies in Crisis.Document: Adolph Hitler on "Racial Purity."28. Global Conflagration: Hot War and Cold War.The Visual Record: Precursor of War.Aggression and Conquest.Racism and Destruction.Allied Victory.Regulating the Cold War.Document: President Franklin Roosevelt's Request for a Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941.29. Postwar Recovery and the New Europe to 1989.The Visual Record: Europe in Ruins.Reconstructing Europe.Creating the Welfare State.Youth Culture and the "Generation Gap."Toppling CKishlansky, Mark A. is the author of 'Brief History of Western Civilization The Unfinished Legacy', published 2004 under ISBN 9780321196774 and ISBN 0321196775.