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Maps
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures
Preface
Supplements0
About the Authors
Introduction
The Idea of Western Civilization 1
Chapter 11
The Italian Renaissance
The Visual Record:
A Dining Al Fresco
Renaissance Society
The Urban Environment
Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500
Production and Consumption
The Experience of Life
The Quality of Life
Renaissance Art
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter
Renaissance Style
Michelangelo
Renaissance Ideals
Humanists and the Liberal Arts
Renaissance Science
Machiavelli and Politics
The Politics of the Italian City-States
Map Discovery: Italy, 1494
The Five Powers
Venice: A Seaborne Empire
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450-1527
A Closer Look
The Fall of Constantinople
Documents
On the Family
The Renaissance Man
The Lion and the Fox
The Siege of Constantinople
Chapter 12
The European Empires
The Visual Record:
Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies
European Encounters
Africa and a Passage to India
Map Discovery: Portuguese Explorations
Mundus Novus
The Spanish Conquests
The Legacy of the Encounters
Map Discovery: Claims of Spain and Portugal to Overseas Empires
Image Discovery
Small box
Geographical Tour:
Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies
Boundaries of Eastern Europe
Central Europe
Western Europe
The Formation of States
Eastern Configurations
The Western Powers
Map Discovery: The Unification of France
The Dynastic Struggles
Power and Glory
The Italian Wars
Documents
A Momentous Discovery
The Halls of Montezuma
Last Words
The Kingdom of France
The West and the Wider World
The Columbian Exchange
Chapter 13
The Reform of Religion
The Visual Record:
Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation
The Intellectual Reformation
The Print Revolution
Map Discovery: The Spread of Printing
Christian Humanism
The Humanist Movement
The Wit of Erasmus
The Lutheran Reformation
The Spark of Reform
Martin Luther's Faith
Lutheranism
The Spread of Lutheranism
Map Discovery: The Spread of Lutheranism
The Protestant Reformation
Geneva and Calvin
The English Reformation
The Reformation of the Radicals
The Catholic Reformation
The Spiritual Revival
Image Discovery
Fishing for Souls
Loyola's Pilgrimage
The Counter-Reformation
Map Discovery: The Religious Divisions of Europe
The Empire Strikes Back
A Closer Look
Utopia
Documents
A Dutch Wit
Luther on Marriage
The Eternal Decree
Heavenly Vision
Chapter 14
Europe at War, 1555-1648
The Visual Record:
The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society
The Crises of the Western States
The French Wars of Religion
Map Discovery: Religious Divisions in France During the Wars of Religion
One King, Two Faiths
The World of Philip II
The Burgundian Inheritance
Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V
The Revolt of the Netherlands
The Struggles in Eastern Europe
Kings and Diets in Poland
Image Discovery
Muscovy's Time of Troubles
The Rise of Sweden
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Bohemia Revolts
The War Widens
Map Discovery: Population Loss in Germany During the Thirty Years' War
The Long Quest for Peace
A Closer Look
The Monstrous Regiment of Women
Documents
The Heart and Stomach of a King
Cannibals
War Is Hell
Fire and Sword
Chapter 15
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650
The Visual Record:
Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community
Economic Life
Rural Life
Image Discovery
Town Life
Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Economic Change
Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600
Social Life
Social Constructs
Social Structure
Social Change
Peasant Revolts
Private and Community Life
The Family
Communities
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches
A Closer Look
Sex and the Married Man
Documents
Living by One's Wits
The Peasants' Revolt
The Devil's Due
Chapter 16
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
The Visual Record:
Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy
The Rise of the Royal State
Divine Kings
The Court and the Courtiers
The Taxing Demands of War
The Crises of the Royal State
The Need to Resist
The Right to Resist
The English Civil War
Image Discovery
Map Discovery: English Civil War
The English Revolutions
The Zenith of the Royal State
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy
Absolutism in the East
Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great
The Origins of French Absolutism
Louis le Grand
Documents
The Divinity That Doth Hedge a King
A Short, Sharp Shock
The Nature of Man
A Close Shave
The West and the Wider World
The Siege of Vienna
Chapter 17
Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
The Visual Record:
Rembrandt's Lessons: Anatomy and the New Science
The New Science
Heavenly Revolutions
The Natural World
Science Enthroned
Empires of Goods
The Marketplace of the World
Map Discovery: Dutch Trade Routes, ca. 1650
Consumption Choices
Image Discovery:
The Symbols of Trade
Dutch Masters
Mercantile Organization
The Wars of Commerce
The Mercantile Wars
The Wars of Louis XIV
Map Discovery: The Treaty of Utrecht
The Colonial Wars
Map Discovery: The Seven Years' War
The West and the Wider World
The Nutmeg Wars
Documents
Stargazing
The Telescope
Descartes Experiments
Defining Commerce
Chapter 18
The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The Visual Record:
A Dashing Officer: The Rise of Militarism
Geographical Tour:
A Grand Tour of Europe in 1714
Expansion of Western Europe
Realignment in Eastern Europe
The Rise of Russia
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Life in Rural Russia
The Enlightened Empress Catherine
The Two Germanies
The Rise of Prussia
Map Discovery:
The Expansion of Prussia
Austria Survives
The Politics of Power
Map Discovery:
The Partitions of Poland
The Greatness of Great Britain
The British Constitution
Parties and Ministers
America Revolts
Image Discovery
The West and the Wider World
The British Raj in India
Documents
Captain Cook Encounters the Tahitians
A King's-Eye View
Military Discipline
Unalienable Rights
Chapter 19
Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The Visual Record:
Happy Families: An Enlightenment Institution
Eighteenth-Century Culture
The Enlightenment
The Spirit of the Enlightenment
Image Discovery
The Impact of the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Society
The Nobility
The Bourgeoisie
The Masses
Map Discovery:
Cereal Crops in Europe
A Closer Look
Giving Birth in the Eighteenth Century
Documents
The All-Knowing
Candide
The Good of All
Love and Marriage
Chapter 20
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815
The Visual Record:
The Tennis Court Oath: The Beginning of the French Revolution
The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy
The Political and Fiscal Crisis of Eighteenth-Century France
Convening the Estates-General
The Outbreak of Revolutionary Action in 1789
Map Discovery:
Revolutionary France
Declaring Political Rights
The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy
Experimenting with Democracy, 1792-1799
The Revolution of the People
“Terror Is the Order of the Day”
The End of the Revolution
The Reign of Napoleon, 1799-1815
Bonaparte Seizes Power
Napoleon at War with the European Powers
The First Empire and Domestic Reforms
Map Discovery:
Napoleon's Empire
Decline and Fall
A Closer Look
The Guillotine: Revolutionary Justice
Documents
“What Is the Third Estate?”
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
The Civil Code of the Code Napoléon (1804)
Chapter 21
Industrial Europe
The Visual Record:
Portrait of an Age: The Railroad
The Traditional Economy
Farming Families
Map Discovery:
Population Growth in Europe, 1800-1850
Rural Manufacture
The Agricultural Revolution
Image Discovery
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
Britain First
Map Discovery:
Great Britain: Canals and Natural Resources
Minerals and Metals
Cotton Is King
The Iron Horse
Entrepreneurs and Managers
The Wages of Progress
The Industrialization of the Continent
Map Discovery:
Industrial Revolution on the Continent
France: Industrialization Without Revolution
Germany: Industrialization and Union
The Lands That Time Forgot
A Closer Look
Industry and the Environment
Documents
The Wealth of Britain
The Sin of Wages
Exploiting the Young
The Slavery of Labor
Chapter 22
Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850
The Visual Record:
Potato Politics: The Plight of the Poor in European Societies
Geographical Tour:
Europe in 1815
The Congress of Vienna
The Alliance System
The New Ideologies
The New Politics of Preserving Order
Romanticism and Change
Reshaping State and Society
Protest and Revolution
Causes of Social Instability
The Revolutions of 1830
Map Discovery:
Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action
Reform in Great Britain
Image Discovery
Map Discovery:
Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary Action
Workers Unite
Revolutions Across Europe, 1848-1850
Map Discovery:
The Revolutions of 1848
A Closer Look
The Birth of the Prison
Documents
Young Italy (1832)
The Communist Manifesto
Flora Tristan and the Rights of Working Women
Glossary
Credits
Index