Civilization in the West blends social and political history with an exceptional map and image program to engage students and bring history to life.   The authors tell a compelling story of Western Civilization that is enhanced by an image-based approach.   “The Visual Record” chapter openers draw students in by using illustrations that underscore a dominant theme of the chapter. New “Image Discovery” features guide students to interrogate images, understand their contexts, and unpack their multiple meanings. The dramatic, changing contours of the West are explored through an exceptional map program, throughMap Discovery features, and through Geographical Tours of Europe.  

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Detailed Contents Documents Maps Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures Preface Supplements0 About the Authors Introduction The Idea of Western Civilization 1 Chapter 20 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789—1815 The Visual Record: The Tennis Court Oath: The Beginning of the French Revolution The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy The Political and Fiscal Crisis of Eighteenth-Century France Convening the Estates-General The Outbreak of Revolutionary Action in 1789 Map Discovery: Revolutionary France Declaring Political Rights The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy Experimenting with Democracy, 1792—1799 The Revolution of the People “Terror Is the Order of the Day” The End of the Revolution The Reign of Napoleon, 1799—1815 Bonaparte Seizes Power Napoleon at War with the European Powers The First Empire and Domestic Reforms Map Discovery: Napoleon’s Empire Decline and Fall A Closer Look The Guillotine: Revolutionary Justice Documents “What Is the Third Estate?” Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen The Civil Code of the Code Napoléon (1804) Chapter 21 Industrial Europe The Visual Record: Portrait of an Age: The Railroad The Traditional Economy Farming Families Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800—1850 Rural Manufacture The Agricultural Revolution Image Discovery: $$$ The Industrial Revolution in Britain Britain First Map Discovery: Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources Minerals and Metals Cotton Is King The Iron Horse Entrepreneurs and Managers The Wages of Progress The Industrialization of the Continent Map Discovery: Industrial Revolution on the Continent France: Industrialization Without Revolution Germany: Industrialization and Union The Lands That Time Forgot A Closer Look Industry and the Environment Documents The Wealth of Britain The Sin of Wages Exploiting the Young The Slavery of Labor Chapter 22 Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815—1850 The Visual Record: Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies Geographical Tour: Europe in 1815 The Congress of Vienna The Alliance System The New Ideologies The New Politics of Preserving Order Romanticism and Change Reshaping State and Society Protest and Revolution Causes of Social Instability The Revolutions of 1830 Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action Reform in Great Britain Image Discovery: $$$ Map Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action Workers Unite Revolutions Across Europe, 1848—1850 Map Discovery: The Revolutions of 1848 A Closer Look The Birth of the Prison Documents Young Italy (1832) The Communist Manifesto Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women Chapter 23 State Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850—1871 The Visual Record: The Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851: Symbols of a New Age Building Nations: The Politics of Unification The Crimean War Map Discovery: The Crimean War Unifying Italy Unifying Germany Image Discovery: $$$ Map Discovery: The Unification of Germany The United States: Civil War and Reunification Nationalism and Force Reforming European Society The Second Empire in France, 1852—1870 Victorian Political Reforms Reforming Russia The Politics of Leadership Changing Values and the Force of New Ideas The Politics of Homemaking Realism in the Arts Charles Darwin and the New Science Karl Marx and the Science of Society A New Revolution? A Closer Look A Working Woman Documents The Russian Emancipation Proclamation, 1861 Mistress of the House On the Origin of Species, 1859 Chapter 24 The Crisis of European Culture, 1871—1914 The Visual Record: Speeding to the Future: Mass Society and the Rejection of Tradition European Economy and the Politics of Mass Society Regulating Boom and Bust Challenging Liberal England Political Struggles in Germany Political Scandals and Mass Politics in France Defeating Liberalism in Austria Outsiders in Mass Politics Feminists and Politics The Jewish Question and Zionism Map Discovery: Jewish Migration Workers and Minorities on the Margins Shaping the New Consciousness The Authority of Science Establishing the Social Sciences The “New Woman” and the New Consciousness The New Consumption A Closer Look Sigmund Freud, Explorer of Dreams The West and the Wider World African Art and European Artists Documents “J’Accuse” Constance Lytton “Angel” or Woman? Chapter 25 Europe and the World, 1870—1914 The Visual Record: The Politics of Mapmaking: The First Standardized Map of the World The European Balance of Power, 1870—1914 Upsetting the European Balance of Power The Instability of the Alliance System The New Imperialism The Technology of Empire Motives for Empire The Search for Territory and Markets The Scramble for Africa: Diplomacy and Conflict Gold, Empire Building, and the Boer War Map Discovery: Africa, 1914 Imperialism in Asia The Imperialism of the United States Results of a European-Dominated World Map Discovery: World Colonial Holdings A World Economy Race and Culture Women and Imperialism Ecology and Imperialism Documents Leopold II of Belgium, Speech to an International Conference of Geographers, 12 September 1876 Joseph Chamberlain’s Speech to the Birmingham Relief Association Karl Pearson and the Defense of Eugenics The West and the Wider World? Babylon Discovered Chapter 26 War and Revolution, 1914—1920 The Visual Record: Selling the Great War The War Europe Expected Separating Friends from Foes Military Timetables Image Discovery: Chain of Friendship Map Discovery: The Schlieffen Plan and France’s Plan XVII Assassination at Sarajevo A New Kind of Warfare Technology and the Trenches The German Offensive Map Discovery: World War I War on the Eastern Front War on the Western Front War on the Periphery Adjusting to the Unexpected: Total War Mobilizing the Home Front Silencing Dissent The Russian Revolution and Allied Victory Revolution in Russia The United States Enters the Great War Settling the Peace Wilson’s Fourteen Points Treaties and Territories A Closer Look The Women Who Started the Russian Revolution Documents All Quiet on the Western Front “Dulce et Decorum Est” War at Home The Treaty of Versailles Chapter 27 The European Search for Stability, 1920—1939 The Visual Record: The Hard Lessons of Inflation Geographical Tour: Europe After 1918 New Nation-States, New Problems German Recovery France’s Search for Security The United States in Europe Crisis and Collapse in a World Economy International Loans and Trade Barriers The Great Depression The Soviet Union’s Separate Path The Soviet Regime at the End of the Civil War The New Economic Policy, 1921—1928 Stalin’s Rise to Power The First Five-Year Plan The Comintern, Economic Development, and the Purges Women and the Family in the New Soviet State The Rise of Fascist Dictatorship in Italy Mussolini’s Italy Mussolini’s Plans for Empire Hitler and the Third Reich Hitler’s Rise to Power Nazi Goals Propaganda, Racism, and Culture Democracies in Crisis The Failure of the Left in France Map Discovery: Europe: Types of Government Muddling Through in Great Britain The Spanish Republic as Battleground Image Discovery: $$$ A Closer Look The Screams from Guernica Documents The Depression for Women The Results of the First Five-Year Plan The Law on the Abolition of Legal Abortion, 1936 Adolf Hitler on “Racial Purity” Chapter 28 Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939—1945 The Visual Record: Precursor of War: The Annexation of Austria Aggression and Conquest Hitler’s Foreign Policy and Appeasement Hitler’s War, 1939—1941 Map Discovery: World War II in Europe Collaboration and Resistance Racism and Destruction Enforcing Nazi Racial Policies The Destruction of Europe’s Jews Image Discovery: $$$ Allied Victory The Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War The United States Enters the War Winning the War in Europe Japanese War Aims and Assumptions Winning the War in the Pacific Map Discovery: World War II in the Pacific, 1941—1945 The Fate of Allied Cooperation: 1945 A Closer Look The Atomic Wasteland Documents Manifesto of the Jewish Resistance in Vilna, September 1943 President Franklin Roosevelt’s Request for a Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941 Japan’s Declaration of War on the United States and Great Britain, 8 December 1941 “Glittering Fragments” Chapter 29 The Cold War and Postwar Economic Recovery: 1945—1970 The Visual Record: Europe in Ruins: Warsaw, 1946 The Origins of the Cold War The World in Two Blocs Map Discovery: The Division of Germany Map Discovery: The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc The Nuclear Club Image Discovery: Decolonization and the Cold War Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union The Economic Challenge The Economic Solution: The Marshall Plan Image Discovery: The Marshall Plan Western European Economic Integration Japan’s Recovery The Soviet Path to Economic Recovery The Welfare State and Social Transformation Prosperity and Consumption in the West Family Strategies Youth Culture and Dissent The West and the Wider World Mahatma Gandhi’s Legacy Documents The Iron Curtain The Marshall Plan Report to the Twentieth Party Congress The Second Sex “Subterranean Homesick Blues” Chapter 30 The End of the Cold War and New Global Challenges, 1970 to the Present The Visual Record: The Berlin Wall Comes Down The End of the Cold War and the Emergence of a New Europe The Brezhnev Doctrine and Détente The New Direction in Soviet Politics Reform in Eastern Europe The Unification of Germany Russia and the New Republics Map Discovery: Republics of the Soviet Union Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism The Chechen Challenge War in the Balkans The West in the Global Community European Union and the American Superpower A New Working Class: Foreign Workers Women’s Changing Lives Terrorism: The “New Kind of War” The West and the Wider World: Made in Japan Documents President Vaclav Havel’s Address to Czechoslovakia, 1 January 1990 Cities as Environmental Leaders, 2005 Glossary Credits Index