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Western Experience #2: The Western Experience: Since the Eighteenth Century
by Mortimer Chambers
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Synopses & Reviews In an age when so many people only look forward, THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE combines new and traditional approaches to the past that, combined with an interpretive approach, challenge, stimulate, and engage students. The approach of the authors is appealing to those who want students to come away from their course with more than a grasp of the “facts”, but instead wish students to analyze assumptions and use critical thinking skills. To further this goal, the authors not only see their book as a collection of interpretive essays that can serve as an example of historical writing, but they show and exemplify how historians struggle and deal with the past, for instance by discussing various controversies in history such as the Black Athena question. In addition, while the text presents a chronological survey of the history of Western Civilization, the narrative weaves several recurring themes that are strengthened and highlighted in new ways in this edition. The themes of social structure, the body politic, organization of production and the impact of technology, evolution of the family and changing gender roles, war, religion and cultural expression are laid out at the beginning of each chapter in the form of a color coded grid that the student and instructor will find easy to follow through the narrative. About the Author Mortimer Chambers is a Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a Rhodes scholar from 1949 to 1952 and received an M.A. from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1955 after obtaining his doctorate from Harvard University in 1954. He has taught at Harvard University (1954-1955) and the University of Chicago (1955-1958). He was visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1958, the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971, The University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1974 and Vassar College in 1988. A specialist in Greek and Roman history, he is a co-author of Aristotles History of Athenian Democracy (1962), editor of a series of essays entitled The Fall of Rome (1963), and author of Georg Busolt: His Career in His Letters (1990) and of Staat der Athener, a German translation and commentary to Aristotles Constitution of the Athenians (1990). He has edited Greek texts of the latter work (1986) and of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (1993). He has contributed articles to the American Historical Review and Classical Philology as well as other journals, both in America and in Europe.Barbara Hanawalt is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous books and articles on the social and cultural history of The Middle Ages. Her publications include Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (1998), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993), The Ties That Bound: Peasant Life in Medieval England (1986), and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 (1979). She received her M. A. in 1964 and her Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Michigan. She has served as president of the Social Science History Association and has been on the Council of the American Historical Association and the Medieval Academy of America. As Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota (1990-1997) she edited five volumes on the intersection of history and literature. She was an NEH Fellow (1997-98, a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (1988-1989), an ACLS Fellow (1975-1976), and a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1997-1998), a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (1990-1991), a member of the School of Historical Research at the Institute for Advanced Study (l982-1983), and senior research fellow at the Newberry Library (1979-1980).Theodore K. Rabb is Professor of History at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton, and subsequently taught as Stanford, Northwestern, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins universities. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews, and has been editor of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History since its foundation. Among his books are The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe and Renaissance Lives. Professor Rabb has held offices in various national organizations, including the American Historical Association and The National Council for Historical Education. He was the principal historian for the PBS series, Renaissance.Isser Woloch is Professor of History at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. (1965) from Princeton University in the field of eighteenth and nineteenth-century European history. He has taught at Indiana University and at the University of California at Los Angeles where, in 1967, he received a Distinguished Teaching Citation. He has been a fellow of the A.C.L.S., the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His publications include Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory (1970), The Peasantry in the Old Regime: Conditions and Protests (1970), The French Veteran from the Revolution to the Restoration (1979), and Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 (1982), and The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s (1994).Raymond Grew is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He earned both his M.A. (1952) and Ph.D. (1957) from Harvard University in the field of modern European history. He was a Fulbright Fellow to Italy (1954-1955), and Fulbright Traveling Fellow to France (1976, 1990), Guggenheim Fellow (1968-1969), Director of Studies at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1976, 1987, 1990), and a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1979). In 1962 he received the Chester Highby Prize from the American Historical Association, and in 1963 the Italian government awarded him the Unita dItalia Prize; in 1992 he received the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies. He is an active member of the A.H.A.; the Society for French Historical Studies; the Society for Italian Historical Studies, of which he has been president; and the Council for European Studies, of which he has twice served as national chair. His books included A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity (1963), edited Crises of Development in Europe and the United States (1978), and with Patrick J. Harrigan, School, State, and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France (1991); he is also the editor of Comparative Studies in Society and History and its book series. He has also written on global history and is one of the directors of the Global History Group. His articles and reviews have appeared in a number of European and American journals. Table of Contents List of Maps XXIVList of Boxes XXVIIBooks Related Interest XXXPreface XXXIIntroduction XXXVII>Chapter 15 War and CrisisI. Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II Elizabeth I of England/The Dutch Revolt/Civil War in FranceII. From Unbounded War to International CrisisThe Thirty years War/The Peace of WestphaliaIII. The Military RevolutionWeapons and Tactics/The Organization and Support of Armies/The Life of the SoldierIV. Revolution in EnglandPressures for Change/Parliament and Law/Rising Antagonisms/England Under CromwellV. Revolts in France and SpainThe France of Henry IV/Louis XIII/Political and Social Crisis/The Fronde/Sources of Discontent in Spain/Revolt and SecessionVI. Political Change in an Age of CrisisThe Unites Provinces/Sweden/Eastern Europe and the CrisisChapter 16 Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
I. Scientific Advance from Copernicus to NewtonOrigins of the Scientific Revolution/The Breakthroughs/The Climax of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac NewtonII. The Effects of the DiscoveriesThe New Epistemology/Bacon and Descartes/Pascals Protest Against New Sciences/Science InstitutionalizedIII. The Arts and LiteratureUnsettling Art/Unsettling Writers/The Return of Assurance to the Arts/Stability and Restraint in the ArtsV. Social Patterns and Popular CulturePopular Trends/Social Status/Mobility and Crime/Changes in the Villages and Cities/Belief in Magic and Rituals/Forces of Restraint/ConclusionChapter 17 The Emergence of the European State System
I. Absolutism in FranceThe Rule of Louis XIV/Government/Foreign Policy/Domestic Policy/The End of an Era/France After Louis XIVII. Other Patterns of AbsolutismThe Habsburgs at Vienna/The Hohenzollerns at Berlin/Rivalry and State Building/The Prussia of Frederick William I/Frederick the Great/The Habsburg Empire/The Habsburgs and Bourbons at Madrid/Peter the Great at St. PetersburgIII. Alternatives to AbsolutismAristocracy in the United Provinces, Sweden, and Poland/The Triumph of the Gentry in England/The Growth of Stability/Contrasts in Political ThoughtIV. The International SystemDiplomacy and Warfare/Armies and Navies/The Seven Years WarChapter 18 The Wealth of Nations
I. Demographic and Economic GrowthThe New Demographic Era/Profit Inflation: The Movement of Prices/ProtoindustrializationII. The New Shape of IndustryTowards a New Economic Order/The Roots of Economic Transformation in England/Cotton: The Beginning of IndustrializationIII. Innovation and Tradition in AgricultureConvertible Husbandry/The Enclosure Movement in Britain/Serf and Peasants on the Continent IV. Eighteenth-Century EmpiresMercantile and Naval Competition/The Profits of Empire/Slavery, the Foundation of Empire/Mounting Colonial Conflicts/The British Foothold in IndiaChapter 19 The Age of Enlightenment
I. The EnlightenmentThe Broadening Reverberations of Science/Beyond Christianity/The Philosophies/Diderot and the EncyclopediaII. Eighteenth-Century Elite CultureCosmopolitan High Culture/Publishing and Reading/Literature, Music and ArtIII. Popular CulturePopular Literature/Literacy and Primary Schooling/Sociability and RecreationChapter 20 The French Revolution
I. Reform and Political CrisisEnlightened Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe/Joseph II and the Limits of Absolutism/Constitutional Crises in the West/Upheavals in the British EmpireII. 1789: The French RevolutionOrigins of the Revolution/Fiscal Crisis and Political Deadlock/From the Estates General to the National Assembly/The Convergence of RevolutionsIII. The Reconstruction of FranceThe New Constitution/The Revolution of the Church/Counterrevolution, Radicalism, and WarIV. The Second RevolutionThe National Convention /The Revolutionary Crisis/The Jacobin Dictatorship/The Sans-culottes: Revolution From Below/The Revolutionary WarsChapter 21 The Age of Napoleon
I. From Robespierre to BonoparteThe Thermidorian Reaction/The Directory/The Brumaire CoupII. The Napoleonic Settlement in FranceThe Napoleonic Style/Political and Religious Settlements/The Era of the NotablesIII. Napoleonic Hegemony in EuropeMilitary Supremacy and the Reorganization of Europe/Naval War with Britain/The Napoleonic Conscription MachineIV. Opposition to NapoleonThe “Spanish Ulcer”/The Russian Debacle/German Resistance and the Last Coalition/The Napoleonic LegendChapter 22 Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Politics and Social Change
I. The Politics of OrderThe Congress of Vienna/The Pillars of the Restoration: Russia, Austria, Prussia/The Test of Restoration: Spain, Italy, and FranceII. The Progress of IndustrializationThe Technology to Support Machines/The Economic Effects of Revolution and War/Patterns of IndustrializationIII. The Social EffectsThe Division of Labor/The Family/The Standard of LivingChapter 23 Learning to Live With Change
I. Ideas of ChangeRomanticism/Social Thought/The Early SocialistsII. The Structure of SocietySocial Classes/The Changing Populations/Social WelfareIII. The Spread of Liberal GovernmentGreat Britain/The Revolutions of 1830Chapter 24 National States and National Cultures
I. The Revolutions of 1848The Opening Phase/The Final Dissensions/The Final PhaseII. The Politics of NationalismThe Elements of Nationalism/A New Regime: The Second Empire in France/Nationalism and International Relations/A New Nation: The Unification of Italy/A New Nation: The Unification of Germany/Reshaping Old EmpiresIII. Nineteenth-Century CultureThe Organization of Culture/The Content of CultureChapter 25 European Power: Wealth, Knowledge, and Imperialism
I. The Economics of GrowthThe Second Industrial Revolution/The Demographic TransitionII. The Knowledge of Nature and SocietyThe Conquests of Science/Social Science and Ideas of ProgressIII. Europe and the WorldThe Apparent Decline of colonial Empires/Europes Growing Engagement OverseasIV. Modern ImperialismThe Meaning of Imperialism/Explanations of Imperialism/Imperialism and European Society/Conquests of the New ImperialismChapter 26 The Age of Progress
I. The Belle EpoquePopular Culture/“The Woman Question”/The ArtsII. Attacks on Liberal CivilizationWorking Class Movements/The Christian Critique/Beyond ReasonIII. Domestic PoliticsCommon Problems/France: The Third Republic/Germany: The Reich/Italy: The Liberal Monarchy/Russia: Defeat and Revolution/Austria-Hungary: The Delicate Balance/Spain: Instability and Loss of Empire/Great Britain: Heading Towards DemocracyChapter 27 World War I and the War it Created
I. The Coming of World WarBismarcks System of Alliances/The Shifting Balance/The Outbreak of World War/The Origins of World WarII. The Course of the WarThe Surprises of the First Two Years/Adjustment to Total War/The Great Trials of 1917-1918/The Effects of World War 1III. The PeaceThe Revolutionary Situation/The Peace TreatiesIV. Postwar DemocracyThe New Governments/The Established Democracies/International RelationsChapter 28 The Great Twentieth- Century Crisis
I. Two Successful RevolutionsRevolution in Russia/Towards a Communist Society/Italian FascismII. The Distinctive Culture of the Twentieth CenturyFreudian Psychology/The Humanities/The Sciences/Public CultureIII. The Retreat from DemocracyAuthoritarian Regimes/The Great DepressionIV. Nazi Germany and the USSRHitlers Germany/Stalins Soviet UnionV. Democracies Weak ResponseDivisive Social Change/The Argument for Liberty/Domestic Politics/The Failures of DiplomacyChapter 29 The Nightmare: World War II
I. The Years of Axis VictoryThe Path to War/The Course of the War, 1939-1941II. The Global War, 1942-1945The Turn of the Tide/Competing Political Systems/Allied Strategy/The Road to VictoryIII. Building on the RuinsImmediate Crises/Europe DividedIV. European RecoveryEconomic Growth/New Political Directions/The International ContextChapter 30 The New Europe
I. The New InstitutionsCautious Beginnings/Toward European UnionII. Postindustrial SocietyEuropes AdvantageIII. The Politics of ProsperityWaves of Protest/Capitalist Countries: The Challenge of Recession/Communist Rule: The Problem of RigidityIV. The End Of an EraThe Miracles of 1989/The Disintegration of the USSR/Europe Without Cold WarV. Contemporary CulturePostwar Creativity/The Explosion of Popular Culture/Social ThoughtEpilogue
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780072565461
- Subtitle:
- Since the Eighteenth Century
- Author:
- Chambers, Mortimer
- Author:
- Grew, Raymond
- Author:
- Rabb, Theodore
- Author:
- Rabb, Theodore K.
- Author:
- Woloch, Isser
- Author:
- Hanawalt, Barbara
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- Subject:
- Europe - General
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 8
- Series:
- Western Experience
- Series Volume:
- 2
- Publication Date:
- August 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- College/higher education:
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 1181
- Dimensions:
- 9.92x8.02x1.00 in. 2.86 lbs.
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