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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Western Heritage: Volume C, Since 1789
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Volume C: Since 1789
A core text for introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization.
Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western history. Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural and political history, this text is presented in a flexible chronological organization. The new Ninth Edition provides updated scholarship, expanded coverage of cultural history, the ancient Near East, late antiquity, imperialism, and the Holocaust. Synopsis:Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western history. Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural and political history, this text is presented in a flexible chronological organization. The new Ninth Edition provides updated scholarship, expanded coverage of cultural history, the ancient Near East, late antiquity, imperialism, and the Holocaust. Table of Contents
18 The French Revolution The Crisis of the French Monarchy The Monarchy Seeks New Taxes Calonne’s Reform Plan and the Assembly of Notables Deadlock and the Calling of the Estates General The Revolution of 1789 The Estates General Becomes the National Assembly Fall of the Bastille The “Great Fear” and the Night of August 4 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen The Parisian Women’s March on Versailles The Reconstruction of France Political Reorganization Economic Policy The Civil Constitution of the Clergy Counterrevolutionary Activity The End of the Monarchy: A Second Revolution Emergence of the Jacobins The Convention and the Role of the Sans-culottes Europe at War with the Revolution Edmund Burke Attacks the Revolution Suppression of Reform in Britain The Second and Third Partitions of Poland, 1793, 1795 The Reign of Terror War With Europe The Republic Defended The “Republic of Virtue” and Robespierre’s Justification of Terror Repression of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women De-Christianization Revolutionary Tribunals The End of the Terror The Thermidorian Reaction Establishment of the Directory Removal of the Sans-culottes from Political Life In Perspective
19 The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Early Military Victories The Constitution of the Year VIII The Consulate in France (1799—1804) Suppressing Foreign Enemies and Domestic Opposition Concordat with the Roman Catholic Church The Napoleonic Code Establishing a Dynasty Napoleon’s Empire (1804—1814) Conquering an Empire The Continental System European Response to the Empire German Nationalism and Prussian Reform The Wars of Liberation The Invasion of Russia European Coalition The Congress of Vienna and the European Settlement Territorial Adjustments The Hundred Days and the Quadruple Alliance The Romantic Movement Romantic Questioning of the Supremacy of Reason Rousseau and Education Kant and Reason Romantic Literature The English Romantic Writers The German Romantic Writers Romantic Art The Cult of the Middle Ages and Neo-Gothicism Nature and the Sublime Religion in the Romantic Period Methodism New Directions in Continental Religion Romantic Views of Nationalism and History Herder and Culture Hegel and History Islam, the Middle East, and Romanticism In Perspective
20 The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815—1832) The Challenges of Nationalism and Liberalism The Emergence of Nationalism Early Nineteenth-Century Political Liberalism Conservative Governments: The Domestic Political Order Conservative Outlooks Liberalism and Nationalism Resisted in Austria and the Germanies Postwar Repression in Great Britain Bourbon Restoration in France The Conservative International Order The Congress System The Spanish Revolution of 1820 Revolt against Ottoman Rule in the Balkans The Wars of Independence in Latin America Revolution in Haiti Wars of Independence on the South American Continent Independence in New Spain Brazilian Independence The Conservative Order Shaken in Europe Russia: the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 Revolution in France (1830) Belgium Becomes Independent (1830) The Great Reform Bill in Britain (1832) In Perspective
21 Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830—1850) Toward an Industrial Society Population and Migration Railways The Labor Force The Emergence of a Wage Labor Force Working-Class Political Action: The Example of British Chartism Family Structures and the Industrial Revolution The Family in the Early Factory System Women in the Early Industrial Revolution Opportunities and Exploitation in Employment Changing Expectations in the Working-Class Marriage Problems of Crime and Order New Police Forces Prison Reform Classical Economics Malthus on Population Ricardo on Wages Government Policies Based on Classical Economics Early Socialism Utopian Socialism Anarchism Marxism 1848: Year of Revolutions France: the Second Republic and Louis Napoleon The Habsburg Empire: Nationalism Resisted Italy: Republicanism Defeated Germany: Liberalism Frustrated In Perspective
THE WEST AND THE WORLD: THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMY
PART 5: TOWARD THE MODERN WORLD
22 The Age of Nation-States The Crimean War (1853—1856) Peace Settlement and Long-Term Results Reforms in the Ottoman Empire Italian Unification Romantic Republicans Cavour’s Policy The New Italian State German Unification Bismarck The Franco-Prussian War and the German Empire (1870—1871) France: From Liberal Empire to the Third Republic The Paris Commune The Third Republic The Dreyfus Affair The Habsburg Empire Formation of the Dual Monarchy Unrest of Nationalities Russia: Emancipation and Revolutionary Stirrings Reforms of Alexander II Revolutionaries Great Britain: Toward Democracy The Second Reform Act (1867) Gladstone’s Great Ministry (1868—1874) Disraeli in Office (1874—1880) The Irish Question In Perspective
23 The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I Population Trends and Migration The Second Industrial Revolution New Industries Economic Difficulties The Middle Classes in Ascendancy Social Distinctions within the Middle Class Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban Life The Redesign of Cities Urban Sanitation Housing Reform and Middle-Class Values Varieties of Late-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Experiences Women’s Social Disabilities New Employment Patterns for Women Working-Class Women Poverty and Prostitution Women of the Middle Class The Rise of Political Feminism Jewish Emancipation Differing Degrees of Citizenship Broadened Opportunities Labor, Socialism, and Politics to World War I Trade Unionism Democracy and Political Parties Karl Marx and the First International Great Britain: Fabianism and Early Welfare Programs France: “Opportunism” Rejected Germany: Social Democrats and Revisionism Russia: Industrial Development and the Birth of Bolshevism In Perspective
24 The Birth of Modern European Thought The New Reading Public Advances in Primary Education Reading Material for the Mass Audience Science at Mid-century Comte, Positivism, and the Prestige of Science Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Science and Ethics Christianity and the Church under Siege Intellectual Skepticism Conflict between Church and State Areas of Religious Revival The Roman Catholic Church and the Modern World Islam and Late-Nineteenth-Century European Thought Toward a Twentieth-Century Frame of Mind Science: The Revolution in Physics Literature: Realism and Naturalism Modernism in Literature The Coming of Modern Art Friedrich Nietzsche and the Revolt Against Reason The Birth of Psychoanalysis Retreat from Rationalism in Politics Racism Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Zionism Women and Modern Thought Anti-feminism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Thought New Directions in Feminism In Perspective
25 Imperialism, Alliances, and War Expansion of European Power and the New Imperialism The New Imperialism Motives for the New Imperialism The “Scramble for Africa” Asia Emergence of the German Empire and the Alliance Systems (1873—1890) Bismarck’s Leadership Forging the Triple Entente (1890—1907) World War I The Road to War (1908—1914) Sarajevo and the Outbreak of War (June—August 1914) Strategies and Stalemate; 1914—1917 The Russian Revolution The Provisional Government Lenin and the Bolsheviks The Communist Dictatorship The End of World War I Germany’s Last Offensive The Armistice The End of the Ottoman Empire The Settlement at Paris Obstacles the Peacemakers Faced The Peace Evaluating the Peace In Perspective
26 Political Experiments of the 1920s Political and Economic Factors after the Paris Settlement Demands for Revision of the Paris Settlement Postwar Economic Problems New Roles for Government and Labor The Soviet Experiment Begins War Communism The New Economic Policy Stalin Versus Trotsky The Third International Women and the Family in the Early Soviet Union The Fascist Experiment in Italy The Rise of Mussolini The Fascists in Power Motherhood and the Nation in Fascist Italy Joyless Victors France: The Search for Security Great Britain: Economic Confusion Trials of the Successor States in Eastern Europe Economic and Ethnic Pressures Poland: Democracy to Military Rule Czechoslovakia: A Viable Democratic Experiment Hungary: Turmoil and Authoritarianism Austria: Political Turmoil and Nazi Occupation Southeastern Europe: Royal Dictatorships The Weimar Republic in Germany Constitutional Flaws Lack of Broad Popular Support Invasion of the Ruhr and Inflation Hitler’s Early Career The Stresemann Years Locarno In Perspective
THE WEST AND THE WORLD: IMPERIALISM: ANCIENT AND MODERN
27 Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s Toward the Great Depression The Financial Tailspin Problems in Agriculture Commodities Depression and Government Policy Confronting the Great Depression in the Democracies Great Britain: the National Government France: the Popular Front Germany: The Nazi Seizure of Power Depression and Political Deadlock Hitler Comes to Power Hitler’s Consolidation of Power The Police State and Anti-Semitism Italy: Fascist Economics Syndicates Corporations Racial Ideology and the Lives of Women Nazi Economic Policy Stalin’s Soviet Union: Central Economic Planning, Collectivization, and Party Purges The Decision for Rapid Industrialization The Collectivization of Agriculture Flight to the Soviet Cities Urban Consumer Shortages Foreign Reactions and Repercussions The Purges In Perspective
PART 6: GLOBAL CONFLICT, COLD WAR, AND NEW DIRECTIONS
28 World War II Again the Road to War (1933—1939) Hitler’s goals Italy Attacks Ethiopia Remilitarization of the Rhineland The Spanish Civil War Austria and Czechoslovakia Munich The Nazi-Soviet Pact World War II (1939—1945) The German Conquest of Europe The Battle of Britain The German Attack on Russia Hitler’s Plans for Europe Japan and the United States Enter the War The Defeat of Nazi Germany The Tide Turns Fall of the Japanese Empire The Cost of War Racism and the Holocaust The Destruction of the Polish Jewish Community Polish Anti-Semitism Between the Wars The Nazi Assault on the Jews of Poland Explanations of the Holocaust The Domestic Fronts Germany: From Apparent Victory to Defeat France: Defeat, Collaboration, and Resistance Great Britain: Organization for Victory The Soviet Union: andrdquor; The Great Patriotic War Preparations for Peace The Atlantic Charter Tehran: Agreement on a Second Front Yalta Potsdam In Perspective
29 THE COLD WAR ERA AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW EUROPE The Emergence of the Cold War Containment in American Foreign Policy Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe The Postwar Division of Germany NATO and the Warsaw Pact The Creation of the State of Israel The Korean War The Khrushchev Era Khruschev’s Domestic Policies The Three Crises of 1956 Later Cold War Confrontations The Brezhnev Era 1968: the Invasion of Czechoslovakia The U.S. and Détente The Invasion of Afghanistan Communism and Solidarity in Poland Relations with the Reagan Administration Decolonization: The European Retreat from Empire Major Areas of Colonial Withdrawal India Further British Retreat from Empire The Turmoil of French Decolonization France and Algeria France and Vietnam Vietnam Drawn into the Cold War Direct U.S. Involvement The Collapse of European Communism Gorbachev Attempts to Reform the Soviet Union 1989: Revolutionin Eastern Europe The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Yelstsin Decade and Putin The Collapse of Yugoslavia and Civil war The Rise of Radical Political Islamism Arab Nationalism The Iranian Revolution Afghanistan and Radical Islamism A Transformed West
CHAPTER 30 The West at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century The Twentieth-Century Movement of People Displacement through War External and Internal Migration The New Muslim Population European Population Trends Toward a Welfare State Society Christian Democratic Parties The Creation of Welfare States Resistance to the Expansion of the Welfare State New Patterns in the Work and Expectations of Women Feminism More Married Women in the Workforce New Work Patterns Women in the New Eastern Europe Transformations in Knowledge and Culture Communism and Western Europe Existentialism Expansion of the University Population and Student Rebellion A Consumer Society Environmentalism Art Since World War II Cultural Divisions and the Cold War Memory of the Holocaust The Christian Heritage Neo-Orthodoxy Liberal Theology Roman Catholic Reform Late-Twentieth-Century Technology: The Arrival of the Computer The Demand for Calculating Machines Early Compter Technology The Development of Desktop Computers The Challenges of European Unification Postwar Cooperation The European Economic Community The European Union Discord over the Union In Perspective
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