Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan . . He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978-79; 1985). He has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace; several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and short stories on literary reviews.Joyce Salisbury is Frankenthal Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay where she has taught undergraduates for almost twenty years. She received a PhD in medieval history from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Salisbury is a respected historian who has published many articles and has written or edited eight books, including the critically acclaimed Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman, and The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages. Professor Salisbury is also an award-winning teacher, who was named "Professor of the Year for Wisconsin in 1991" by CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education), a prestigious national organization.

CHAPTER 10 A NEW SPIRIT IN THE WEST: THE RENAISSANCE, ca. 1300-1640

~ A New Spirit Emerges: Individualism, Realism, and Activism

~ The Politics of Individual Effort

~ Individualism as Self-Interest: Life During the Renaissance

~ An Age of Talent and Beauty: Renaissance Culture and Science

~ Renaissance of the New Monarchies of the North: 1453-1640

CHAPTER 11 "ALONE BEFORE GOD:" RELIGIOUS REFORM AND WARFARE 1500-1648

~ The Clash of Dynasties--1515-1555

~ A Tide of Religious Reform

~ The Catholic Reformation

~ Europe Erupts Again: A Century of Religious Warfare, 1559-1648

~ Life After the Reformation

CHAPTER 12 FAITH, FORTUNE, AND FAME: EUROPEAN EXPANSION, 1450-1700

~ The World Imagined

~ The World Discovered

~ Confrontation of Cultures

~ The World Market and Commercial Revolution

~ The World Transformed

CHAPTER 13 THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL AND SOVEREIGNTY, 1600-1715

~ Stresses in Traditional Society

~ Royal Absolutism in France

~ The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern Europe

~ The Triumph of Constitutionalism

CHAPTER 14 A NEW WORLD OF REASON AND MOTION: THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT, 1600-1800

~ Questioning Truth and Authority

~ Developing a Modern Scientific View

~ Supporting and Spreading Science

~ Laying the Foundations for the Enlightenment

~ The Enlightenment in Full Stride

CHAPTER 15 COMPETING FOR POWER AND WEALTH: THE OLD REGIME, 1715-1789

~ Statebuilding and War

~ Changes in Country and City Life

~ The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New

~ Culture for the Lower Classes

~ Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution

CHAPTER 16 OVERTURNING THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ORDER: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON, 1789-1815

~ “A Great Ferment”: Trouble Brewing in France

~ The Constitutional Monarchy: Establishing a New Order

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER 17 FACTORIES, CITIES, AND FAMILIES IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1780-1850

~ The Industrial Revolution Begins

~ New Markets, Machines, and Power

~ Industrialization Spreads to the Continent

~ Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Industrialization

~ Life in the Growing Cities

~ Public Health and Medicine in the Industrial Age

~ Family Ideals and Realities

CHAPTER 18 COPING WITH CHANGE: IDEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND REVOLUTION, 1815-1850

~ The Congress of Vienna: A Gathering of Victors

~ Ideologies: How the World Should Be

~ Restoration and Repression

~ A Wave of Revolution and Reform

~ The Dam Burst: 1848

CHAPTER 19 NATIONALISM AND STATE BUILDING: UNIFYING NATIONS, 1850-1870

~ Building Unified Nation-States

~ The Drive for Italian Unification

~ Germany “By Blood and Iron”

~ The Fight for National Unity in North America

~ Divided Authority in the Austrian and Ottoman Empires

~ Using Nationalism in France and Russia

CHAPTER 20 MASS POLITICS AND IMPERIAL DOMINATION: DEMOCRACY AND THE NEW IMPERIALISM, 1870-1914

~ Demands for Democracy

~ Insiders and Outsiders: Politics of the Extremes

~ Emigration: Overseas and Across Continents

~ The New Imperialism: The Race for Africa and Asia

CHAPTER 21 MODERN LIFE AND THE CULTURE OF PROGRESS: WESTERN SOCIETY, 1850-1914

~ The Second Industrial Revolution

~ City People

~ Sports and Leisure in the Cities

~ Private Life: Together and Alone at Home

~ Science in an Age of Optimism

~ Culture: Accepting the Modern World

~ From Optimism to Uncertainty

CHAPTER 22 DESCENDING INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: WORLD WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1914-1920

~ On the Path to Total War

~ The Front Lines

~ War on the Home Front

~ To the Bitter End

~ Assessing the Costs of the War

~ The Peace Settlement

~ Revolutions in Russia

CHAPTER 23 DARKENING DECADES: DICTATORS, DEPRESSION, AND WORLD WAR II, 1920-1945

~ Trying to Recover from the Great War, 1919-1919

~ Turning Away From Democracy: Dictatorships and Fascism, 1919-1929

~ Transforming the Soviet Union: 1920-1939

~ The Great Depression: 1929-1939

~ Nazism in Germany

~ The Road to War: 1931-1939

~ World War II 1939-1945

CHAPTER 24 SUPERPOWER STRUGGLES AND GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS: 1945-1980s

~ From Peace to Cold War

~ East and West: Two Paths to Recovery in Europe

~ The Twilight of Colonialism

~ A Sense of Relativity in Thought and Culture

~ Protests, Problems, and New Politics: The 1960s to the 1980s

~ Post-Industrial Society

~ Breakthroughs in Science

CHAPTER 25 INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

~ The Collapse of Communism

~ The World and the West from a Global Perspective