Chapter 1: Origins, to 1200 b.c.e. Understanding Western History Describing the West What Is Civilization?The Earliest Human Societies From the First Hominids to the Paleolithic Era Planting Crops Implications of Agriculture Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections
Primary Source 1.1: Paleolithic Venus Figures Civilization in Mesopotamia Environment and Mesopotamian Development The Invention of Writing and the First Schools Religion in Mesopotamia Sumerian Politics and Society
Primary Source 1.2: Gilgameshs Quest for ImmortalityEmpires in Mesopotamia The Akkadians and the Babylonians Life Under Hammurabi Cultural Exchange in the Fertile Crescent
Primary Source 1.3: Enheduanas "Exaltation of Inanna" The Egyptians The Nile and the God-King Egyptian Religion Egyptian Society and Work Egyptian Family Life The Hyksos and New Kingdom Revival Conflict and Cooperation with the Hittites
Primary Source 1.4: Morality in the Egyptian
Book of the Dead Primary Source 1.5: Egyptian Home Life Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hatshepsut and Nefertiti
Living in the Past: The Iceman
Mapping the Past: Empires and Migrations in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chapter 2: Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, 1200-510 b.c.e. Iron and the Emergence of New States Iron Technology The Decline of Egypt and the Emergence of Kush The Rise of Phoenicia
Primary Source 2.1: The Report of Wenamun The Hebrews The Hebrew State The Jewish Religion Hebrew Family and Society
Primary Source 2.2: The Covenant Between Yahweh and the Hebrews
Primary Source 2.3: A Jewish Family Contract Assyria, the Military Monarchy Assyrias Long Road to Power Assyrian Rule and Culture The Neo-Babylonian Empire
Primary Source 2.4: Assyrians Besiege a City The Empire of the Persian Kings Consolidation of the Persian Empire Persian Religion Persian Art and Culture
Primary Source 2.5: Zoroasters Teachings in the Avesta Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Cyrus the Great
Mapping the Past: The Assyrian and Persian Empires, ca. 1000-500 b.c.e.
Living in the Past: Assyrian Palace Life and Power
Chapter 3: The Development of Greek Society and Culture, ca. 3000-338 b.c.e. Greece in the Bronze Age Geography and Settlement The Minoans The Mycenaeans Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic
Primary Source 3.1: Hesiod,
Works and DaysThe Development of the Polis in the Archaic Age Organization of the Polis Governing Structures Overseas Expansion The Growth of Sparta The Evolution of AthensWar and Turmoil in the Classical Period The Persian Wars Growth of the Athenian Empire The Peloponnesian War The Struggle for Dominance Philip II and Macedonian Supremacy
Primary Source 3.2: Thucydides on the Great Plague at Athens Classical Greek Life and Culture Athenian Arts in the Age of Pericles Households and Work Gender and Sexuality Public and Personal Religion The Flowering of Philosophy
Primary Source 3.3: The Acropolis of Athens
Primary Source 3.4: Sophocles,
Antigone Primary Source 3.5: Aristotle on Slavery Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Aspasia
Living in the Past: Triremes and Their Crews
Mapping the Past: The Peloponnesian War, 431-404 b.c.e.
Chapter 4: Life in the Hellenistic World, 336-30 b.c.e. Alexanders Conquests and Their Political Legacy Military Campaigns The Political Legacy
Primary Source 4.1: Arrian on Alexander the Great Building a Hellenized Society Urban Life Greeks in Hellenistic Cities Greeks and Non-Greeks
Primary Source 4.2: Theocritus, Idyll 15, "The Women at the Adonis Festival" The Economy of the Hellenistic World Agriculture and Industry Commerce Religion and Philosophy in the Hellenistic World Religion and Magic Hellenism and the Jews Philosophy and the People
Primary Source 4.3: A Hellenistic Spell of Attraction Hellenistic Science and Medicine Science Medicine
Primary Source 4.4: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Primary Source 4.5: Physician with Young Patient Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Alexander the Great
Mapping the Past: The Hellenistic World, ca. 263 b.c.e.
Living in the Past: Farming in the Hellenistic World
The Past Living Now: Container Shipping
Individuals in Society: Archimedes, Scientist and Inventor
Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome, ca. 1000-27 b.c.e. Romes Rise to Power The Geography of Italy The Etruscans The Founding of Rome The Roman Conquest of Italy
Primary Source 5.1: The Temple of Hercules Victor The Roman Republic The Roman State Social Conflict in RomeRoman Expansion The Punic Wars Rome Turns East
Primary Source 5.2: Polybius on the Roman Division of Spoils in the Punic Wars Roman Society Roman Families Greek Influence on Roman Culture Opposing Views: Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus
Primary Source 5.3: A Womans Actions in the Turia Inscription The Late Republic Reforms for Poor and Landless Citizens Political Violence Civil War
Primary Source 5.4: Plutarch on the Reforms of Gaius Gracchus
Primary Source 5.5: Cicero and the Plot to Kill Caesar Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Queen Cleopatra
Mapping the Past: Roman Expansion During the Republic, ca. 282-44 b.c.e.
Living in the Past: Roman Table Manners
Chapter 6: The Roman Empire, 27 b.c.e.-284 c.e. Augustuss Reign The Principate Roman Expansion The Flowering of Latin Literature Marriage and Morality
Primary Source 6.1: Augustus,
Res Gestae Primary Source 6.2: Ovid,
The Art of Love Primary Source 6.3: Ara Pacis Augustuss Successors The Julio-Claudians and the Flavians The Age of the "Five Good Emperors"
Primary Source 6.4: Pliny the Younger, Letter About the Destruction of Pompeii Rome and the Provinces Life in Imperial Rome Approaches to Urban Problems Popular Entertainment Prosperity in the Roman Provinces Trade and Commerce
Primary Source 6.5: Quintilian,
Institutes of Oratory The Coming of Christianity Factors Behind the Rise of Christianity The Life and Teachings of Jesus The Spread of Christianity The Growing Acceptance and Evolution of ChristianityThe Empire in Disarray Civil Wars and Military Commanders Turmoil in Economic LifeReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Bithus, a Soldier in the Roman Army
Living in the Past: Roman Epitaphs: Death Remembers Life
Mapping the Past: Production and Trade in the Pax Romana, ca. 27 b.c.e.-180 c.e.
Chapter 7: Late Antiquity, 250-600 Reconstruction Under Diocletian and Constantine Political Measures Economic Issues The Acceptance of Christianity
Primary Source 7.1: Recruiting and Training Soldiers in the Roman Army The Growth of the Christian Church The Church and Its Leaders The Development of Christian Monasticism Monastery Life Christianity and Classical Culture Christian Notions of Gender and Sexuality Saint Augustine on Human Nature, Will, and SinBarbarian Society Village and Family Life Tribes and Hierarchies Customary and Written Law Celtic and Germanic Religion
Primary Source 7.2: Tacitus on Germanic Society Migration, Assimilation, and Conflict Celtic and Germanic People in Gaul and Britain Visigoths and Huns Germanic Kingdoms and the End of the Roman Empire
Primary Source 7.3: Battle Between Romans and Goths Christian Missionaries and Conversion Missionaries Actions The Process of Conversion
Primary Source 7.4: Gregory of Tours on the Veneration of Relics The Byzantine Empire Sources of Byzantine Strength The Law Code of Justinian Byzantine Intellectual Life The Orthodox Church
Primary Source 7.5: Slavery in Justinians Law Code Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Theodora of Constantinople
Mapping the Past: The Barbarian Migrations, ca. 340-500
Living in the Past: The Horses of Spain
Chapter 8: Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1000 The Spread of Islam The Arabs The Prophet Muhammad The Teachings and Expansion of Islam Sunni and Shia Divisions Life in Muslim Spain Muslim-Christian Relations Cross-Cultural Influences in Science and Medicine
Primary Source 8.1: The Muslim Conquest of Spain Frankish Rulers and Their Territories The Merovingians The Rise of the Carolingians The Warrior-Ruler Charlemagne Carolingian Government and Society The Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne
Primary Source 8.2: The Capitulary de Villis
Primary Source 8.3: Charlemagne and His Wife Early Medieval Culture The Carolingian Renaissance Northumbrian Learning and Writing
Primary Source 8.4: The Death of Beowulf Invasions and Migrations Vikings in Western Europe Slavs and Vikings in Eastern Europe Magyars and Muslims
Primary Source 8.5: Eiriks Saga Political and Economic Decentralization Decentralization and the Origins of "Feudalism" Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave TradeReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: The Venerable Bede
Living in the Past: Muslim Technology: Advances in Papermaking
Mapping the Past: Invasions and Migrations of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Chapter 9: State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300 Political Revival and the Origins of the Modern State England France Central Europe Italy The Iberian Peninsula
Primary Source 9.1: Marriage and Wardship in the Norman Exchequer Law and Justice Local Laws and Royal Courts The Magna Carta Law in Everyday LifeNobles Origins and Status of the Nobility Training, Marriage, and Inheritance Power and ResponsibilityThe Papacy The Gregorian Reforms Emperor Versus Pope Criticism and Heresy The Popes and Church Law
Primary Source 9.2: Pope Boniface VIII,
Unam Sanctam Monks, Nuns, and Friars Monastic Revival Life in Convents and Monasteries The Friars
Primary Source 9.3: Brother Henry as Composer and Singer The Crusades and the Expansion of Christianity Background and Motives of the Crusades The Course of the Crusades Consequences of the Crusades The Expansion of Christianity Christendom
Primary Source 9.4: An Arab View of the Crusades
Primary Source 9.5: The Capture of Jerusalem in 1099 Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hildegard of Bingen
Living in the Past: Life in an English Castle
Mapping the Past: The Crusades
Chapter 10: Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300 Village Life Slavery, Serfdom, and Upward Mobility The Manor Work Home Life Childbirth and Child AbandonmentPopular Religion Christian Life in Medieval Villages Saints and Sacraments Muslims and Jews Rituals of Marriage and Birth Death and the Afterlife
Primary Source 10.1: The Pilgrims Guide to Santiago de Compostela Towns and Economic Revival The Rise of Towns Merchant and Craft Guilds The Revival of Long-Distance Trade Business Procedures The Commercial Revolution
Primary Source 10.2: Contract for a Trading Venture Urban Life City Life Servants and the Poor Popular EntertainmentMedieval Universities Origins Legal and Medical Training Theology and Philosophy University Students
Primary Source 10.3: Healthy Living
Primary Source 10.4: Thomas Aquinas on Reason and Faith Literature and Architecture Vernacular Literature and Drama Churches and Cathedrals
Primary Source 10.5: Courtly Love Poetry Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Life in Medieval Towns
Living in the Past: Childs Play
Mapping the Past: European Population Density, ca. 1300
Individuals in Society: Francesco Datini
The Past Living Now: University Life
Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450 Prelude to Disaster Climate Change and Famine Social ConsequencesThe Black Death Pathology Spread of the Disease Care of the Sick Economic, Religious, and Cultural Effects
Primary Source 11.1: Dance of Death The Hundred Years War Causes English Successes Joan of Arc and Frances Victory Aftermath
Primary Source 11.2: The Trial of Joan of Arc Challenges to the Church The Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism Critiques, Divisions, and Councils Lay Piety and Mysticism
Primary Source 11.3: Raimon de Cornet on the Avignon Papacy Social Unrest in a Changing Society Peasant Revolts Urban Conflicts Sex in the City Fur-Collar Crime Ethnic Tensions and Restrictions Literacy and Vernacular Literature
Primary Source 11.4: The Statute of Laborers
Primary Source 11.5: Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of Artisans Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Meister Eckhart
Mapping the Past: The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century Europe
Living in the Past: Treating the Plague
Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550 Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy Trade and Prosperity Communes and Republics of Northern Italy City-States and the Balance of Power
Primary Source 12.1: A Sermon of Savonarola Intellectual Change Humanism Education Political Thought Christian Humanism The Printed Word
Primary Source 12.2: Cassandra Fedele on Humanist Learning
Primary Source 12.3: Pico della Mirandola, "On the Dignity of Man"
Primary Source 12.4: Thomas More,
Utopia Art and the Artist Patronage and Power Changing Artistic Styles The Renaissance ArtistSocial Hierarchies Race and Slavery Wealth and the Nobility Gender RolesPolitics and the State in Western Europe France England Spain
Primary Source 12.5: Tax Collectors Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci
Mapping the Past: The Growth of Printing in Europe, 1448-1552
Living in the Past: Male Clothing and Masculinity
Chapter 13: Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600 The Early Reformation The Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth Century Martin Luther Protestant Thought The Appeal of Protestant Ideas The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants War Marriage, Sexuality, and the Role of Women
Primary Source 13.1: Martin Luther,
On Christian Liberty Primary Source 13.2: Domestic Scene The Reformation and German Politics The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty Religious Wars in Switzerland and GermanyThe Spread of Protestant Ideas Scandinavia Henry VIII and the Reformation in England Upholding Protestantism in England Calvinism The Reformation in Eastern Europe
Primary Source 13.3: Elizabethan Injunctions About Religion
Primary Source 13.4: 1547 Ordinances in Calvins Geneva The Catholic Reformation Papal Reform and the Council of Trent New and Reformed Religious Orders Primary Source 13.5: Saint Teresa of Ávila,
The Life Religious Violence French Religious Wars The Netherlands Under Charles V The Great European Witch-HuntReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Anna Jansz of Rotterdam
Living in the Past: Uses of Art in the Reformation
Mapping the Past: Religious Divisions in Europe, ca. 1555
Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650 World Contacts Before Columbus The Trade World of the Indian Ocean The Trading States of Africa The Ottoman and Persian Empires Genoese and Venetian MiddlemenThe European Voyages of Discovery Causes of European Expansion Technology and the Rise of Exploration The Portuguese Overseas Empire The Problem of Christopher Columbus Later Explorers Spanish Conquest in the New World Early French and English Settlement in the New World
Primary Source 14.1: A Portuguese Traveler Describes Swahili City-States of East Africa
Primary Source 14.2: Columbus Describes His First Voyage
Primary Source 14.3: Doña Marina Translating for Hernando Cortés During His Meeting with Montezuma
Primary Source 14.4: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives The Impact of Conquest Colonial Administration Impact of European Settlement on Indigenous Peoples Life in the Colonies The Columbian Exchange
Primary Source 14.5: Tenochtitlán Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries Europe and the World After Columbus Sugar and Slavery Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects The Birth of the Global EconomyChanging Attitudes and Beliefs New Ideas About Race Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity William Shakespeare and His InfluenceReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja
Mapping the Past: Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange
Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725 Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding The Social Order and Peasant Life Famine and Economic Crisis The Thirty Years War Achievements in State-Building Warfare and the Growth of Army Size Popular Political ActionAbsolutism in France and Spain The Foundations of Absolutism Louis XIV and Absolutism Life at Versailles French Financial Management Under Colbert Louis XIVs Wars The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Source 15.1: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1701
Primary Source 15.2: Letter from Versailles Absolutism in Austria and Prussia The Return of Serfdom in the East The Austrian Habsburgs Prussia in the Seventeenth Century The Consolidation of Prussian AbsolutismThe Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow The Tsar and His People The Reforms of Peter the Great The Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Primary Source 15.3: A German Account of Russian Life Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic Absolutist Claims in England Religious Divides and the English Civil War Cromwell and Puritanical Absolutism in England The Restoration of the English Monarchy Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Source 15.4: Diary of an English Villager
Primary Source 15.5: John Locke,
Two Treatises of Government Baroque Art and Music Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Hürrem
Living in the Past: The Absolutist Palace
Mapping the Past: Europe After the Peace of Utrecht, 1715
Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789 Major Breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution Scientific Thought in 1500 Origins of the Scientific Revolution The Copernican Hypothesis Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus Right Newtons Synthesis
Primary Source 16.1: Galileo Galilei, The Sidereal Messenger Important Changes in Scientific Thinking Bacon, Descartes, and the Scientific Method Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry Empire and Natural History Science and Society
Primary Source 16.2: "An Account of a Particular Species of Cocoon" The Enlightenment The Emergence of the Enlightenment The Influence of the Philosophes Jean-Jacques Rousseau The International Enlightenment Urban Culture and Life in the Public Sphere Race and the Enlightenment
Primary Source 16.3: Du Châtelet, Foundations of Physics
Primary Source 16.4: Enlightenment Culture
Primary Source 16.5: Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainvilles Voyage" Enlightened Absolutism Frederick the Great of Prussia Catherine the Great of Russia The Austrian Habsburgs Jewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened AbsolutismReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment
Living in the Past: Coffeehouse Culture
Mapping the Past: The Partition of Poland, 1772-1795
Chapter 17: The Expansion of Europe, 1650-1800 Working the Land The Legacy of the Open-Field System New Methods of Agriculture The Leadership of the Low Countries and England
Primary Source 17.1: Arthur Young on the Benefits of Enclosure The Beginning of the Population Explosion Long-Standing Obstacles to Population Growth The New Pattern of the Eighteenth CenturyThe Growth of Rural Industry The Putting-Out System The Lives of Rural Textile Workers The Industrious Revolution
Primary Source 17.2: Contrasting Views on the Effects of Rural Industry The Debate over Urban Guilds Urban Guilds Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism
Primary Source 17.3: Adam Smith on the Division of Labor The Atlantic World and Global Trade Mercantilism and Colonial Competition The Atlantic Economy The Atlantic Slave Trade Identities and Communities of the Atlantic World The Colonial Enlightenment Trade and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Primary Source 17.4: Olaudah Equianos Economic Arguments for Ending Slavery
Primary Source 17.5: Mulatto Painting Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Rebecca Protten
Mapping the Past: Industry and Population in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Living in the Past: The Remaking of London
Chapter 18: Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650-1800 Marriage and the Family Late Marriage and Nuclear Families Work Away from Home Premarital Sex and Community Controls New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy Sex on the Margins of SocietyChildren and Education Child Care and Nursing Foundlings and Infanticide Attitudes Toward Children The Spread of Elementary Schools
Primary Source 18.1: Parisian Boyhood
Primary Source 18.2: The Catechism of Health Popular Culture and Consumerism Popular Literature Leisure and Recreation New Foods and Appetites Toward a Consumer Society
Primary Source 18.3: A Day in the Life of Paris
Primary Source 18.4: The Fashion Merchant Religious Authority and Beliefs Church Hierarchy Protestant Revival Catholic Piety Marginal Beliefs and Practices
Primary Source 18.5: Advice to Methodists Medical Practice Faith Healing and General Practice Improvements in Surgery Midwifery The Conquest of SmallpoxReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT The Inner Life of the Individual
Mapping the Past: Literacy in France, ca. 1789
The Past Living Now: The Commercialization of Sports
Individuals in Society: Rose Bertin, "Minister of Fashion"
Living in the Past: Improvements in Childbirth
Chapter 19: Revolutions in Politics, 1775-1815 Background to Revolution Social Change Growing Demands for Liberty and Equality The Seven Years WarThe American Revolutionary Era, 1775-1789 The Origins of the Revolution Independence from Britain Framing the Constitution Limitations of Liberty and Equality
Primary Source 19.1: Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies" Revolution in France, 1789-1791 Breakdown of the Old Order The Formation of the National Assembly Popular Uprising and the Rights of Man A Constitutional Monarchy and Its Challenges
Primary Source 19.2: Abbé Sieyès,
What Is the Third Estate? Primary Source 19.3: Petition of the French Jews World War and Republican France, 1791-1799 The International Response The Second Revolution and the New Republic Total War and the Terror The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory
Primary Source 19.4: Contrasting Visions of the Sans‑Culottes The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 Napoleons Rule of France Napoleons Expansion in Europe The Grand Empire and Its End
Primary Source 19.5: Napoleons Proclamation to the French People The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue The Outbreak of Revolt The War of Haitian IndependenceReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Toussaint LOuverture
Living in the Past: A Revolution of Culture and Daily Life
Mapping the Past: Napoleonic Europe in 1812
Chapter 20: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780-1850 The Industrial Revolution in Britain Origins of the British Industrial Revolution Technological Innovations and Early Factories The Steam Engine Breakthrough The Coming of the Railroads Industry and PopulationIndustrialization Beyond Britain National and International Variations Industrialization in Continental Europe Agents of Industrialization Government Support and Corporate Banking The Situation Outside of EuropeNew Patterns of Working and Living Work in Early Factories Working Families and Children The New Sexual Division of Labor
Primary Source 20.1: Debate over Child Labor Laws
Primary Source 20.2: Living Conditions of the Working Classes
Primary Source 20.3: The Testimony of Young Mine Workers Relations Between Capital and Labor The New Class of Factory Owners Debates over Industrialization The Early British Labor Movement The Impact of Slavery
Primary Source 20.4: Ford Maddox Brown,
Work Primary Source 20.5: Advice for Middle-Class Women Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Josiah Wedgwood
Living in the Past: The Steam Age
Mapping the Past: Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850
Chapter 21: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850 The Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars The European Balance of Power Metternich and Conservatism Repressing the Revolutionary Spirit Limits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South America
Primary Source 21.1: Metternich: Conservative Reaction in the German Confederation The Spread of Radical Ideas Liberalism and the Middle Class The Growing Appeal of Nationalism The Foundations of Modern Socialism The Birth of Marxist SocialismThe Romantic Movement The Tenets of Romanticism Literature Art and Music
Primary Source 21.2: English Romantic Poets
Primary Source 21.3: Adam Mickiewicz and Romantic Nationalism in Poland Reforms and Revolutions Before 1848 National Liberation in Greece Liberal Reform in Great Britain Ireland and the Great Famine The Revolution of 1830 in FranceThe Revolutions of 1848 A Democratic Republic in France Revolution and Reaction in the Austrian Empire Prussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National Parliament
Primary Source 21.4: The Republican Spirit in Paris, 1848
Primary Source 21.5: The Triumph of Democratic Republics Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Germaine de Staël
Mapping the Past: Europe in 1815
Living in the Past: Revolutionary Experiences in 1848
Chapter 22: Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1914 Taming the City Industry and the Growth of Cities The Advent of the Public Health Movement The Bacterial Revolution Improvements in Urban Planning Public Transportation
Primary Source 22.1: First Impressions of the Worlds Biggest City Rich and Poor and Those in Between Middle-Class Culture and Values The Distribution of Income The People and Occupations of the Middle Classes The People and Occupations of the Working Classes Working-Class Leisure and Religion
Primary Source 22.2: Apartment Living in Paris Changing Family Lifestyles Middle-Class Marriage and Courtship Rituals Middle and Working-Class Sexuality Prostitution Separate Spheres and the Importance of Homemaking Child Rearing The Feminist Movement
Primary Source 22.3: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality Science and Thought The Triumph of Science in Industry Darwin and Natural Selection The Modern University and the Social Sciences Realism in Art and Literature
Primary Source 22.4: Max Weber Critiques Industrial Capitalism
Primary Source 22.5: Émile Zola and Realism in Literature Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Life in the Modern City on Film
Mapping the Past: European Cities of 100,000 or More, 1800-1900
The Past Living Now: Modern Sewage Systems
Living in the Past: Nineteenth-Century Womens Fashion
Individuals in Society: Franziska Tiburtius
Chapter 23: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914 Napoleon III in France Frances Second Republic Napoleon IIIs Second EmpireNation Building in Italy, Germany, and the United States Italy to 1850 Cavour and Garibaldi in Italy Growing Austro-Prussian Rivalry Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian War Taming the German Parliament The Franco-Prussian War Slavery and Nation Building in the United States
Primary Source 23.1: The Struggle for the Italian Nation The Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman Empire The "Great Reforms" in Russia The Russian Revolution of 1905 Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman Empire
Primary Source 23.2: Eyewitness Accounts of Bloody Sunday The Responsive National State, 1871-1914 The German Empire Republican France Great Britain and Ireland The Austro-Hungarian EmpireThe Nation and the People Making National Citizens Nationalism and Racism Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism
Primary Source 23.3: Ernest Renan on National Identity
Primary Source 23.4: Building Nationalism Marxism and the Socialist Movement The Socialist International Unions and Revisionism
Primary Source 23.5: Adelheid Popp, the Making of a Socialist Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Theodor Herzl
Mapping the Past: The Unification of Germany, 1864-1871
Living in the Past: Peasant Life in Post-Reform Russia
Chapter 24: The West and the World, 1815-1914 Industrialization and the World Economy The Rise of Global Inequality The World Market The Opening of China Japan and the United States Western Penetration of Egypt
Primary Source 24.1: Lin Zexu and Yamagata Aritomo on Western Imperialism Global Migration Around 1900 The Pressure of Population European Emigration Asian Emigration
Primary Source 24.2: Nativism in the United States Western Imperialism, 1880-1914 The European Presence in Africa Before 1880 The Scramble for Africa After 1880 Imperialism in Asia Causes of the New Imperialism A "Civilizing Mission" Orientalism Critics of Imperialism
Primary Source 24.3: The White Mans Burden
Primary Source 24.4: Orientalism in Art and Everyday Life
Primary Source 24.5: The Brown Mans Burden Responding to Western Imperialism The Pattern of Response Empire in India The Example of Japan Toward Revolution in ChinaReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Cecil Rhodes
Living in the Past: The Immigrant Experience
Mapping the Past: The Partition of Africa
Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914-1919 The Road to War Growing International Conflict The Mood of 1914 The Outbreak of War
Primary Source 25.1: German Diplomacy and the Road to War Waging Total War Stalemate and Slaughter on the Western Front The Widening War
Primary Source 25.2: Poetry in the Trenches The Home Front Mobilizing for Total War The Social Impact Growing Political Tensions
Primary Source 25.3: Wartime Propaganda Posters The Russian Revolution The Fall of Imperial Russia The Provisional Government Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution Trotsky and the Seizure of Power Dictatorship and Civil War
Primary Source 25.4: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian People The Peace Settlement The End of the War Revolution in Austria-Hungary and Germany The Treaty of Versailles The Peace Settlement in the Middle East The Human Costs of the War
Primary Source 25.5: Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Vera Brittain
Living in the Past: Life and Death on the Western Front
Mapping the Past: Territorial Changes After World War I
Chapter 26: The Age of Anxiety, 1880-1940Uncertainty in Modern Thought Modern Philosophy The Revival of Christianity The New Physics Freudian Psychology
Primary Source 26.1: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of God Modernism in Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music Architecture and Design New Artistic Movements Twentieth-Century Literature Modern Music
Primary Source 26.2: The Futurist Manifesto An Emerging Consumer Society Mass Culture The Appeal of Cinema The Arrival of Radio
Primary Source 26.3: The Modern Girl: Image or Reality? The Search for Peace and Political Stability Germany and the Western Powers Hope in Foreign Affairs Hope in Democratic Government
Primary Source 26.4: Keynes on German Reparations After World War I The Great Depression, 1929-1939 The Economic Crisis Mass Unemployment The New Deal in the United States The Scandinavian Response to the Depression Recovery and Reform in Britain and France
Primary Source 26.5: George Orwell on Life on the Dole Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Gustav Stresemann
Living in the Past: Modern Design for Everyday Use
Mapping the Past: The Great Depression in the United States and Europe, 1929-1939
Chapter 27: Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945 Authoritarian States Conservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships Communism and Fascism
Primary Source 27.1: The Appeal of Propaganda Stalins Soviet Union From Lenin to Stalin The Five-Year Plans Life and Culture in Soviet Society Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges
Primary Source 27.2: Stalin Justifies the Five-Year Plan
Primary Source 27.3: Famine and Recovery on a Soviet Collective Farm Mussolini and Fascism in Italy The Seizure of Power The Regime in ActionHitler and Nazism in Germany The Roots of National Socialism Hitlers Road to Power State and Society in Nazi Germany Popular Support for National Socialism Aggression and Appeasement
Primary Source 27.4: The "Reich Citizenship Law" and the Nazi Volk The Second World War German Victories in Europe Europe Under Nazi Occupation The Holocaust Japanese Empire and the War in the Pacific The "Hinge of Fate" Allied Victory
Primary Source 27.5: Everyday Life in the London Blitz Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Primo Levi
Living in the Past: Nazi Propaganda and Consumer Goods
Mapping the Past: World War II in Europe and Africa, 1939-1945
Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945-1965 Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War The Legacies of the Second World War The Peace Settlement and Cold War Origins West Versus East Big Science in the Nuclear Age
Primary Source 28.1: A Soviet View of the Arms RaceThe Western Renaissance/Recovery in Western Europe The Search for Political and Social Consensus Toward European Unity The Consumer Revolution
Primary Source 28.2: Western European Recovery and the Promise of Prosperity
Primary Source 28.3: The Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate" Developments in the Soviet Union and the East Bloc Postwar Life in the East Bloc Reform and De‑Stalinization Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion The Limits of Reform
Primary Source 28.4: The Hungarian Communist Party Calls for Reforms The End of Empires Decolonization and the Global Cold War The Struggle for Power in Asia Independence and Conflict in the Middle East Decolonization in Africa
Primary Source 28.5: Frantz Fanon on Violence, Decolonization, and Human Dignity Postwar Social Transformations Changing Class Structures Patterns of Postwar Migration New Roles for Women Youth Culture and the Generation GapReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Armando Rodrigues
Mapping the Past: The Aftermath of World War II in Europe, ca. 1945-1950
Living in the Past: A Model Socialist Steel Town
Chapter 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960-1991 Reform and Protest in the 1960s Cold War Tensions Thaw The Affluent Society The Counterculture Movement The United States and Vietnam Student Revolts and 1968 The 1960s in the East Bloc
Primary Source 29.1: Human Rights Under the Helsinki Accords
Primary Source 29.2: Counterculture Graffiti from Paris, 1968 Crisis and Change in Western Europe Economic Crisis and Hardship The New Conservatism Challenges and Victories for Women The Rise of the Environmental Movement Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism
Primary Source 29.3: Simone de Beauvoirs Feminist Critique of Marriage
Primary Source 29.4: Green Party Representatives Enter Parliament The Decline of "Developed Socialism" State and Society in the East Bloc Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland From Détente Back to Cold War Gorbachevs Reforms in the Soviet Union
Primary Source 29.5: Dissent in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic The Revolutions of 1989 The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc German Unification and the End of the Cold War The Disintegration of the Soviet UnionReview and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Margaret Thatcher
Living in the Past: The Supermarket Revolution
Mapping the Past: Democratic Movements in Eastern Europe, 1989
Chapter 30: Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present Reshaping Russia and the Former East Bloc Economic Shock Therapy in Russia Russian Revival Under Vladimir Putin Coping with Change in the Former East Bloc Tragedy in Yugoslavia
Primary Source 30.1: President Putin on Global Security The New Global System The Global Economy The New European Union Supranational Organizations The Human Side of Globalization Life in the Digital Age
Primary Source 30.2: The Slow Food Manifesto Toward a Multicultural Continent The Prospect of Population Decline Changing Immigration Flows Ethnic Diversity in Contemporary Europe Europe and Its Muslim Citizens
Primary Source 30.3: National Front Campaign Poster Confronting Twenty-First-Century Challenges Growing Strains in U.S.-European Relations Turmoil in the Muslim World The Global Recession and the Viability of the Eurozone Dependence on Fossil Fuels Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Promoting Human Rights
Primary Source 30.4: William Pfaff, Will the French Riots Change Anything?
Primary Source 30.5: Osama bin Laden Calls for Global Jihad Review and Explore —
LearningCurveONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Contesting Globalization
Mapping the Past: The European Union, 2013
Living in the Past: The Euro
Individuals in Society: Tariq Ramadan
The Past Living Now: Remembering the Holocaust