Volume One Book One Introduction: Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization 1 Egypt: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order 2 Mesopotamia: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order 3 India and China: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order 4 Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap 5 The Classical Style 6 Rome: The Rise to Empire 7 China: The Rise to Empire Book Two 8 A Flowering of Faith: Christianity and Buddhism 9 The Language of Faith: Symbolism and the Arts 10 The Islamic World: Religion and Culture 11 Patterns of Medieval Life 12 Christianity and the Medieval Mind 13 The Medieval Synthesis in the Arts Book Three 14 Asian Civilizations: The Artistic Record 15 Adversity and Challenge: The Fourteenth-Century Transition 16 Classical Humanism in the Age of the Renaissance 17 Renaissance Artists: Disciples of Nature, Masters of Invention 18 Africa, the Americas, and Cross-Cultural Encounter 19 Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order Volume Two Book Four 20 The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style 21 Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style 22 The Baroque in the Protestant North 23 The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning 24 The Promise of Reason 25 The Limits of Reason 26 Eighteenth-Century Art, Music, and Society Book Five 27 The Romantic View of Nature 28 The Romantic Hero 29 The Romantic Style in Art and Music 30 Industry, Empire, and the Realist Style 31 The Move Toward Modernism Book Six 32 The Modernist Assault 33 The Freudian Revolution 34 Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Arts 35 The Quest for Meaning 36 Identity and Liberation 37 The Information Age: Message and Meaning 38 Image and Sound in the Information Age | 
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