Vol. 1: Prehistory to the Early Modern World

Book 1: The First Civilizations and the Classical Legacy

Introduction: Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization

PART 1: The First Civilizations

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

PART 2: The Classical Legacy

4 Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap

5 The Classical Style

6 Rome: The Rise to Empire

7 China: The Rise to Empire

Book 2: Medieval Europe and the World Beyond

PART 1: The Shaping of the Middle Ages

8 A Flowering of Faith: Christianity and Buddhism

9 The Language of Faith: Symbolism and the Arts

10 The Islamic World: Religion and Culture

PART 2: The Medieval West

11 Patterns of Medieval Life

12 Christianity and the Medieval Mind

13 The Medieval Synthesis in the Arts

PART 3: The World Beyond the West

14 Asian Civilizations: The Artistic Record

Book 3: The European Renaissance, the Reformation, and Global Encounter

PART 1: The Age of the Renaissance

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

PART 2: A Brave New World

18 Africa, the Americas, and Cross-Cultural Encounter

19 Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order

Vol 2: The Early Modern World to the Present

19 Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order

Book 4: Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World

PART 1: The Age of the Baroque

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

PART 2: The Age of Enlightenment

24 The Promise of Reason

25 The Limits of Reason

26 Eighteenth-Century Art, Music, and Society

Book 5: Romanticism, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World

PART 1: The Romantic Era

27 The Romantic View of Nature

28 The Romantic Hero

29 The Romantic Style in Art and Music

PART 2: Realism and the Modernist Turn

30 Industry, Empire, and the Realist Style

31 The Move Toward Modernism

Book 6: Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age

PART 1: The Triumph of Modernism

32 The Modernist Assault

33 The Freudian Revolution

34 Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Arts

35 The Quest for Meaning

PART 2: The Postmodern Turn

36 Liberation and Equality

37 The Information Age: Global Perspectives

38 Image and Sound in the Information Age