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PublisherWadsworth
ISBN-100534545432
ISBN-139780534545437
eBay Product ID (ePID)1120821
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameWestern Civilization : a History of European Society from the Renaissance to the French Revolution
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCivilization, Europe / General
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam S. Maltby, Steven C. Hause
Subject AreaHistory
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight27.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.2
Table Of ContentPART THREE: EARLY MODERN EUROPE. 13. PLAGUE, WAR, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE LONG FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Famine Economic Decline, and the Black Death (1315-50). The Economic Consequences of the Black Death. Social Disorder form the Jaqueries to the Bundschuh Revolts. The Transformation of Warfare: the Emergence of the Soldier. The New Military Technology: Artillery, Fortifications, and Shipbuilding. Centers of Conflict: The Eastern Frontiers. The Hundred Years' War in the West. Political Turbulence and Dynastic Collapse: France, Castile, and England. Art and Literature: The Measure of Discontent. Conclusion. 14. THE RENAISSANCE: POLITICAL RENEWAL AND INTELLECTUAL CHANGE. The Consolidation of the State (c. 1350-1500). The New Learning: Learned Culture in the Late Medieval Italian City-State. Conclusion. 15. THE RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Late Medieval Demands for Religious Reform. Martin Luther and the Outbreak of the Protestant Reformation. Other Forms of Protestantism: The Radicals, Zwingli, and Calvin. The English Reformation. The Catholic Reformation. The Political, Economic, and Social Consequences of Reform. Conclusion. 16. OVERSEAS CONQUEST AND RELIGIOUS WAR TO 1648. The Portuguese Voyages to Africa, India, and Brazil. Columbus and the Opening of America. The First Colonial Empire: Portugal. The Spanish Empire in Mexico and Peru. The Biological and Economic Legacy of the Conquests. A Clash of Empires: The Ottoman Challenge and the Emperor Charles V. The Crisis of the Early Modern State. The Price of Conflict: Fiscal Crisis and Administrative. Devolution. Conclusion. 17. PREINDUSTRIAL EUROPE: SCIENCE, THE ECONOMY, AND POLITICAL REORGANIZATION. Medieval Science and the Scientific Revolution. The Expansion of the Northern Powers: France, England, and the Netherlands. The Golden Age of the Netherlands. The Reorganization of War and Government: France Under Louis XIV. Preindustrial Economy and Society. Conclusion. PART FOUR: MODERN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1715-1815. 18. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF THE OLD REGIME. The Population of Europe in the Old Regime. The Economic Structures of the Rural World. Corporative Society and the Standestaat. The Social and Economic Structure of Urban Europe. National Economies: The Doctrine of Mercantilism. Global Economies: Slavery and Triangular Trade. Conclusion. 19. DAILY LIFE IN THE OLD REGIME. People and Space: Population Density, Travel, and Communication. Life Expectancy in the Old Regime. Disease and the Biological Old Regime. Subsistence Diet and the Biological Old Regime. The Life Cycle: Birth. Conclusion. 20. THE POLITICAL EVOLUTION OF THE OLD REGIME, 1715-1789. The Structures of Government: Monarchy. The Rise of Parliamentary Government in Hanoverian England. The Vulnerable Monarchy of Bourbon France. The Hapsburg Empire in the Age of Maria Theresa. The Army, the Bureaucracy, and the Rise of Hohenzollern. Catherine the Great and Despotism in Romanov Russia. Conclusion. 21. THE CULTURE OF THE OLD REGIME EUROPE. High Culture: From the Baroque to the Classical. Religion and Eighteenth Century Culture. The Enlightenment and Its Origins. The Enlightenment and Christianity. The Enlightenment and Government. The Spread of Rationalism. Conclusion. 22. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON, 1789-1815. The Origins of the French Revolution. The Estates General and the Beginning of Revolution. The Revolutionary Crowd: The Bastille and the Great Fear. The Legislative Revolution of the National Assembly, 1789-1791. Europe and the Revolution. The Legislative Assembly and the Wars of the Revolution. The First Republic: The Convention. Civil War and The Reign of Terror. The Thermidorean Reaction and the Directory, 1794-1799. The Revolutionary Wars and the Rise of Napoleon. France Under Napoleon. The Napoleonic Wars. Conclusion. DOCUMENT SOURCES. PHOTO CREDITS. INDEX.
