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More copies of this ISBN:The Western Heritage, Volume B (Western Heritage)by Donald Kagan
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Volume B: 1300-1850
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 ContentsTHE WEST AND THE WORLD: THE INVENTION OF PRINTING IN CHINA AND EUROPE
PART 3: EUROPE IN TRANSITION
CHAPTER 9 The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300—1453)
The Black Death Preconditions and Causes of the Plague Popular Remedies Social and Economic Consequences New Conflicts and Opportunities The Hundred Years’ War and the Rise of National Sentiment The Causes of the War Progress of the War Ecclesiastical Breakdown and Revival: The Late Medieval Church The Thirteenth-Century Papacy Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair The Avignon Papacy (1309—1377) John Wycliffe and John Huss The Great Schism (1378—1417) and the Conciliar Movement to 1449 Medieval Russia Politics and Society Mongol Rule (1243—1480) In Perspective
CHAPTER 10 Renaissance and Discovery
The Renaissance in Italy (1375—1527) The Italian City-State Humanism Renaissance Art Slavery in the Renaissance Italy’s Political Decline: The French Invasions (1494—1527) Charles VIII’s March through Italy Pope Alexander VI and the Borgia Family Pope Julius II Niccolò Machiavelli Revival of Monarchy in Northern Europe France Spain England The Holy Roman Empire The Northern Renaissance The Printing Press Erasmus Humanism and Reform Voyages of Discovery and the New Empires in the West and East The Portuguese Chart the Course The Spanish Voyages of Columbus The Spanish Empire in the New World The Church in Spanish America The Economy of Exploitation The Impact on Europe In Perspective
CHAPTER 11 The Age of Reformation
Society and Religion Social and Political Conflict Popular Religious Movements and Criticisms of the Church Martin Luther and German Reformation to 1525 Justification by Faith Alone The Attack on Indulgences Election of Charles V Luther’s Excommunication and the Diet of Worms Imperial Distractions: France and the Turks How the Reformation Spread The Peasants’ Revolt The Reformation Elsewhere Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation Anabaptists and Radical Protestants John Calvin and the Genevan Reformation Political Consolidation of the Lutheran Reformation The Diet of Augsburg The Expansion _of the Reformation Reaction against Protestants The Peace of Augsburg The English Reformation to 1553 The Preconditions of Reform The King’s Affair The “Reform Parliament” Wives of Henry VIII The King’s Religious Conservatism The Protestant Reformation under Edward VI Catholic Reform and Counter-Reformation Sources of Catholic Reform Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits The Council of Trent (1545-1563) The Social Significance of the Reformation in Western Europe The Revolution in Religion: Practices and Institutions The Reformation and Education The Reformation and the Changing Role of Women Family Life in Early Modern Europe Later Marriages Arranged Marriages Family Size Birth Control Wet Nursing Loving Families? Literary Imagination in Transition Miguel De Cervantes Saaavedra: Rejection of Idealism William Shakespeare: Dramatist of the Age In Perspective
CHAPTER 12 The Age of Religious Wars
Renewed Religious Struggle The French Wars of Religion (1562—1598) Appeal of Calvinism Catherine de Medicis and the Guises The Rise to Power of Henry of Navarre The Edict of Nantes Imperial Spain and Philip II (r. 1556—1598) Pillars of Spanish Power The Revolt in the Netherlands England and Spain (1553—1603) Mary I (r. 1553—1558) Elizabeth I (r. 1558—1603) The Thirty Years’ War (1618—1648) Preconditions for War Four Periods of War The Treaty of Westphalia In Perspective
13 European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline Urban Prosperity Economic Decline Two Models of European Political Development Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England James I Charles I The Long Parliament and Civil War Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Republic Charles II and the Restoration of the Monarchy The “Glorious Revolution” The Age of Walpole Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV Years of Personal Rule Versailles King by Divine Right Louis’s Early Wars Louis’s Repressive Religious Policies Louis’s Later Wars France after Louis XIV Central and Eastern Europe Poland: Absence of Strong Central Authority The Habsburg Empire _and the Pragmatic Sanction Prussia and the Hohenzollerns Russia Enters the European Political Arena The Romanor Dynasty Peter the Great The Ottoman Empire Religious Toleration and Ottoman Government The End of Ottoman Expansion In Perspective
14 New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The Scientific Revolution Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler Make New Scientific Discoveries GalileoGalilei Argues for a Universe of Mathematical Laws Isaac Newton Discovers _the Laws of Gravitation Philosophy Responds to Changing Science Nature as Mechanism Francis Bacon: The Empirical Method René Descartes: The Method of Rational Deduction Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolute Government John Locke: Defender of Moderate Liberty and Toleration The New Institutions of Expanding Natural Knowledge Women in the World of the Scientific Revolution The New Science and Religious Faith The Case of Galileo Blaise Pascal: Reason and Faith The English Approach to Science and Religion Continuing Superstition Witch-Hunts and Panic Who Were the Witches? End of the Witch-Hunts Baroque Art In Perspective
15 Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century Major Features of Life in the Old Regime Maintenance of Tradition Hierarchy and Privilege The Aristocracy Varieties of Aristocratic Privilege Aristocratic Resurgence The Land and Its Tillers Peasants and Serfs Aristocratic Domination of the Countryside: the English Game Laws Family Structures and the Family Economy Households The Family Economy Women and the Family Economy Children and the World of the Family Economy The Revolution in Agriculture New Crops and New Methods Expansion of the Population The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century A Revolution in Consumption Industrial Leadership of Great Britain New Methods of Textile Production The Steam Engine Iron Production The Impact of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions on Working Women The Growth of Cities Patterns of Preindustrial Urbanization Urban Classes The Urban Riot The Jewish Population: The Age of the Ghetto In Perspective
16 The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion Periods of European Overseas Empires Mercantile Empires Mercantilist Goals French—British Rivalry The Spanish Colonial System Colonial Government Trade Regulation Colonial Reform under the Spanish Bourbon Monarchs Black African Slavery, the Plantation System, and the Atlantic Economy The African Presence in the Americas Slavery and the Transatlantic Economy The Experience of Slavery Mid-Eighteenth-Century Wars The War of Jenkins’s Ear The War of the Austrian Succession (1740—1748) The “Diplomatic Revolution” of 1756 The Seven Years’ War (1756—1763) The American Revolution and Europe Resistance to the Imperial Search for Revenue The Crisis and Independence American Political Ideas Events in Great Britain Broader Impact of the American Revolution In Perspective
THE WEST AND THE WORLD: THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE, DISEASE, ANIMALS, AND AGRICULTURE
PART 4: ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION
17 The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought Formative Influences on the Enlightenment Ideas of Newton and Locke The Example of British Toleration and Political Stability The Emergence of a Print Culture The Philosophes Voltaire–First among the Philosophes The Enlightenment and Religion Deism Toleration Radical Enlightenment Criticism of Christianity Jewish Thinkers in the Age of Enlightenment Islam in Enlightenment Thought The Enlightenment and Society The Encyclopedia: Freedom and Economic Improvement Beccaria and Reform of Criminal Law The Physiocrats and Economic Freedom Adam Smith on Economic Growth and Social Progress Political Thought of the Philosophes Montesquieu and Spirit of the Laws Rousseau: A Radical Critique of Modern Society Enlightened Critics of European Empires Women in the Thought and Practice of the Enlightenment Rococo and Neoclassical Styles in Eighteenth-Century Art Enlightened Absolutism Frederick the Great of Prussia Joseph II of Austria Catherine the Great of Russia The Partition of Poland The End of the Eighteenth Century in Central and Eastern Europe In Perspective
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 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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