Table of Contents:
(NOTE: Volume I contains Ch. 1-15; Volume II contains Ch. 13-31; Combined contains Ch. 1-31; Volume A contains Ch. 1-10; Volume B contains Ch. 9-20; Volume C contains Ch. 19-31; 1300 To Present contains a Special Introduction Chapter & Ch. 9-31.) 1. The Birth of Civilization. Early Humans and Their Culture. Early Civilizations to About 1000 B.C.E. Ancient Near Eastern Empires. Palestine. General Outlook of Near Eastern Cultures. Toward the Greeks and Western Thought. 2. The Rise of Greek Civilization. The Bronze Age on Crete and on the Mainland to About 1150 B.C.E. The Greek 'Middle Ages' to About 750 B.C.E. The Polis. Expansion of the Greek World. The Major States. Life in Archaic Greece. The Persian Wars. 3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Aftermath of Victory. The First Peloponnesian War: Athens Against Sparta. Classical Greece. The Great Peloponnesian War. Competition for Leadership in the Fourth Century B.C.E. The Culture of Classical Greece. The Hellenistic World. Hellenistic Culture. 4. Rome: From Republic to Empire. Prehistoric Italy. The Etruscans. Royal Rome. The Republic. Civilization in the Early Roman Empire. Roman Imperialism: The Late Republic. Fall of the Republic. 5. The Roman Empire. The Augustan Principate. Civilization of the Ciceronian and Augustan Ages. Imperial Rome 14-180 C.E.. The Rise of Christianity. The Crisis of the Third Century. The Late Empire. 6. The Early Middle Ages (476-1000): The Birth of Europe. On the Eve of the Frankish Ascendancy. The Byzantine Empire. Islam and the Islamic World. Western Society and the Developing Christian Church. The Kingdom of the Franks. Feudal Society. 7. The High Middle Ages (1000-1300): The Ascendancy of the Church and the Rise of States. Otto I and the Revival of the Empire. The Reviving Catholic Church. England and France: Hastings (1066) to Bouvines (1214). France in the Thirteenth Century: The Reign of Louis IX. The Hohenstaufen Empire (r. 1152-1272). Medieval Russia. 8. The High Middle Ages (1000-1300): People, Towns, and Universities. The Traditional Order of Life. Towns and Townspeople. Schools and Universities. Women in Medieval Society. 9. The Late Middle Ages (1300-1527): Centuries of Crisis. Political and Social Breakdown. The Black Death. Ecclesiastical Breakdown and Revival: The Late Medieval Church. 10. Renaissance and Discovery. The Renaissance in Italy (1375-1527). Italys Political Decline: The French Invasions (1494-1527). Revival of Monarchy in Northern Europe. The Northern Renaissance. Voyages of Discovery and the New Empire in the West. 11. The Age of Reformation. Society and Religion. Martin Luther and German Reformation to 1525. The Reformation Elsewhere. Political Consolidation of the Lutheran Reformation. The English Reformation to 1553. Catholic Reform and Counter-Reformation. The Social Significance of the Reformation in Western Europe. 12. The Age of Religious Wars. Renewed Religious Struggle. The French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). Imperial Spain and the Reign of Phillip II (r. 1556-1598). England and Spain (1553-1603). The Thirty Years War (1618-1648). 13. Paths to Constitutionalism and Absolutism: England and France in the Seventeenth Century. Two Models of European Political Development. Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England. Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France. The Years of Louiss Personal Rule. 14. New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Scientific Revolution. Continuing Superstitions: Witch Hunts and Panic. Literacy Imagination in Transition. Philosophy in the Wake of Changing Science. 15. Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power (1686-1740). The Maritime Powers. Central and Eastern Europe. The Entry of Russia into the European Political Arena. 16. Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century. Major Features of Life in the Old Regime. The Aristocracy. The Land and Its Tillers. Family Structures and the Family Economy. The Revolution in Agriculture. The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century. Cities. The Jewish Population: The Age of the Ghetto. 17. Empire, War, and Colonial Rebellion. Periods of European Overseas Empires. Eighteenth-Century Empires. Mid-Eighteenth-Century Wars. The American Revolution and Europe. 18. The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought. Formative Influences. The Philosophes. The Enlightenment and Religion. The Enlightenment and Society. Political Thought of the Philosophes. Enlightened Absolutism. 19. The French Revolution. The Crisis of the French Monarchy. The Revolutions of 1789. The Reconstruction of France. A Second Revolution. Europe at War with the Revolution. The Reign of Terror. The Thermidorian Reaction. 20. The Age of Napolean and the Triumph of Romanticism. The Rise of Napolean Bonaparte. The Consulate in France (1799-1804). Napoleans Empire (1804-1814). European Response to the Empire. The Congress of Vienna and the European Settlement. The Romantic Movement. Romantic Questioning of the Supremacy of Reason. Romantic Literature. Religion in the Romantic Period. Romantic Views of Nationalism and History. 21. The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832). The Challenges of Nationalism and Liberalism. Conservative Governments: The Domestic Political Order. The Conservative International Order. The Conservative Order Shaken in Europe. 22. Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850). Toward an Industrial Society. The Labor Force. Family Structures and the Industrial Revolution. Women in the Early Industrial Revolution. Problems of Crime and Order. Classical Economics. Early Socialism. 1848: Year of Revolutions. 23. The Age of Nation-States. The Crimean War (1853-1856). Italian Unification. German Unification. France: From Liberal Empire to the Third Republic. The Habsburg Empire. Russia: Emancipation and Revolutionary Stirrings. Great Britain: Toward Democracy. 24. The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I. Population Trends and Migration. The Second Industrial Revolution. The Middle Classes in Ascendancy. Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban Life. Varieties of Late-Nineteenth-Century Womens Experiences. Jewish Emancipation. Labor, Socialism, and Politics to World War I. 25. The Birth of Modern European Thought. The New Reading Public. Science at Mid-Century. Christianity and the Church Under Siege. Toward a Twentieth-Century Frame of Mind. Women and Modern Thought. 26. Imperialism, Alliances, and War. Expansion of European Power and the New Imperialism. Emergence of the German Empire and the Alliance Systems (1873-1890). World War I. The Russian Revolution. The End of World War I. The Settlement at Paris. 27. Political Experiments of the 1920s. Political and Economic Factors After the Paris Settlement. Soviet Experiment Begins. The Fascist Experiment in Italy. Joyless Victors. Trials of the Successor States in Eastern Europe. The Weimar Republic in Germany. 28. Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Toward the Great Depression. Confronting the Great Depression in the Democracies. Germany: The Nazi Seizure of Power. Italy: Fascist Economics. The Soviet Union: Central Economic Planning and Party Purges. 29. World War II. Again the Road to War (1933-1939). World War II (1939-1945). The Domestic Fronts. Preparations for Peace. 30. Europe and the Soviet-American Rivalry. The Emergence of the Cold War. The Khrushchev Era in the Soviet Union. The Crises of 1956: The Middle East. The Crises of 1956: Eastern Europe. Later Cold War Confrontations. The European Retreat from Empire. France, the United States, and Vietnam. The Middle East After Suez. Western European Political Developments During the Cold War. Toward Western European Unification. Protest and Repression: The Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 31. Toward a New Europe and the Twenty-first Century. European Society in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. New Patterns in the Work and Expectations of Women. Transformations in Knowledge and Culture. The Christian Heritage. The Collapse of European Communism. Problems in the Wake of the Collapse of European Communism. Combined Volume (Chs. 1-31):