Chapter 1 THE RISE OF EUROPE

• Ancient Times: Greece, Rome, and Christianity
• The Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Europe
• The High Middle Ages: Secular Civilization
• The High Middle Ages: The Church

Chapter 2 THE UPHEAVAL IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM, 13–1560

• Disasters of the Fourteenth Century
• The Renaissance in Italy
• The Renaissance outside Italy
• The New Monarchies
• The Protestant Reformation
• Catholicism Reformed and Reorganized

Chapter 3 ECONOMIC RENEWAL AND WARS OF RELIGION, 1560–1648

• The Opening of the Atlantic
• The Commercial Revolution
• Changing Social Structures
• The Wars of Catholic Spain : The Netherlands and England
• The Disintegration and Reconstruction of France
• The Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648: The Disintegration of Germany

Chapter 4 THE GROWING POWER OF WESTERN EUROPE, 1640–1715

• The Grand Monarque and the Balance of Power
• The Dutch Republic
• Britain: The Civil War
• Britain: The Triumph of Parliament
• The France of Louis XIV, 1643–1715: The Triumph of Absolutism
• The Wars of Louis XIV: The Peace of Utrecht, 1713

Chapter 5 THE TRANSFORMATION OF EASTERN EUROPE, 1648–1740

• Three Aging Empires
• The Formation of an Austrian Monarchy
• The Formation of Prussia
• The “Westernizing” of Russia

Chapter 6 THE SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF THE WORLD

• Prophets of a Scientific Civilization: Bacon and Descartes
• The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal Gravitation
• New Knowledge of Human Beings and Society
• Political Theory: The School of Natural Law

Chapter 7 THE STRUGGLE FOR WEALTH AND EMPIRE

• Elite and Popular Cultures
• The Global Economy of the Eighteenth Century
• Western Europe after the Peace of Utrecht, 1713–1740
• The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763

Chapter 8 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

• The Philosophes—And Others
• Enlightened Despotism: France, Austria, Prussia
• Enlightened Despotism: Russia
• The Partitions of Poland
• New Stirrings; The British Reform Movement
• The American Revolution

Chapter 9 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• Backgrounds
• The Revolution and the Reorganization of France
• The Revolution and Europe : The War and the “Second” Revolution, 1792
• The Emergency Republic, 1792–1795: The Terror
• The Constitutional Republic: The Directory, 1795–1799
• The Authoritarian Republic: The Consulate, 1799–1804

Chapter 10 NAPOLEONIC EUROPE

• The Formation of the French Imperial System
• The Grand Empire: Spread of the Revolution
• The Continental System: Britain and Europe
• The National Movements: Germany
• The Overthrow of Napoleon: The Congress of Vienna

Chapter 11 INDUSTRIES, IDEAS, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REFORM, 1815–1848

• The Industrial Revolution in Britain
• The Advent of the “Isms”
• The Dike and the Flood: Domestic
• The Dike and the Flood: International
• The Breakthrough of Liberalism in the West: Revolutions of 1830–1832
• Triumph of the West European Bourgeoisie

Chapter 12 REVOLUTIONS AND THE REIMPOSITION OF ORDER, 1848–1870

• Paris: The Specter of Social Revolution in the West
• Vienna: The Nationalist Revolution in Central Europe and Italy
• Frankfurt and Berlin: The Question of a Liberal Germany
• The New European “Isms”: Realism, Positivism, Marxism
• Bonapartism: The Second French Empire, 1852–1870

Chapter 13 THE GLOBAL CONSOLIDATION OF LARGE NATION-STATES, 1859–1871

• Backgrounds: The Idea of the Nation-State
• Cavour and the Italian War of 1859: The Unification of Italy
• The Founding of a German Empire and the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
• Liberalization in Tsarist Russia: Alexander II
• The United States: The American Civil War
• The Dominion of Canada, 1867
• Japan and the West

Chapter 14 EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871–1914: ECONOMY AND POLITICS

• The Modern “Civilized World”
• Basic Demography: The Increase of the Europeans
• The World Economy of the Nineteenth Century
• The Advance of Democracy: Third French Republic, United Kingdom, German Empire

Chapter 15 EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871–1914: SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• The Advance of Democracy: Socialism, Labor Unions, and Feminism
• Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion
• The Waning of Classical Liberalism

Chapter 16 EUROPE 'S WORLD SUPREMACY, 1871–1914

• Imperialism: Its Nature and Causes
• The Americas
• The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
• The Partition of Africa
• Imperialism in Asia: The Dutch, the British, and the Russians
• Imperialism in Asia: China and the West
• The Russo-Japanese War and Its Consequences

Chapter 17 THE FIRST WORLD WAR

• The International Anarchy
• The Armed Stalemate
• The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention of the United States
• The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires
• The Economic, Social, and Cultural Impact of the War
• The Peace of Paris, 1919

Chapter 18 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION

• Backgrounds
• The Revolution of 1905
• The Revolution of 1917
• The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges
• The International Impact of Communism, 1919–1939

Chapter 19 DEMOCRACY, ANTI-IMPERIALISM, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR

• The Advance of Democracy after 1919
• The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno
• Anti-Imperialist Movements in Asia
• The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy

Chapter 20 DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP IN THE 1930s

• The United States: Depression and New Deal
• Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in Britain and France
• Italian Fascism
• Totalitarianism: Germany 's Third Reich

Chapter 21 THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War
• The Years of Axis Triumph
• The Western-Soviet Victory
• The Foundations of the Peace

Chapter 22 THE COLD WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• The Cold War: The Opening Decade, 1945–1955
• Western Europe: Economic Reconstruction
• Western Europe: Political Reconstruction
• Reshaping the Global Economy
• The Communist World: The U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
• The Communist World: Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China

Chapter 23 POSTCOLONIAL NATIONS IN ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA

• The Emergence of Independent Nations in South Asia
• The Emergence of Independent Nations in Southeast Asia
• Changing Latin America

Chapter 24 EMPIRES INTO NATIONS: AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• The African Revolution
• Ferment in the Middle East
• Revolution and War in the Persian Gulf
• The “Developing” World

Chapter 25 COEXISTENCE, CONFRONTATION, AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY

• Confrontation and Détente, 1955–1975
• Collapse and Recovery of the Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s
• The Cold War Rekindled
• China after Mao

Chapter 26 THE INTERNATIONAL REVOLT AGAINST SOVIET COMMUNISM

• The Crisis in the Soviet Union
• The Collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe
• The Collapse of the Soviet Union
• After Communism

Chapter 27 THE CHANGING MODERN WORLD

• Western Europe After the Cold War
• Nation-States and Economies in the Age of Globalization
• Intellectual and Social Transitions in Modern Cultures
• International Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
• Social Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

Appendix Rulers and Regimes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index