Making Europe: People, Politics, and Culture
By Frank L. Kidner
Houghton Mifflin | December 2007 | PDF | ISBN10: 0618004793 | 895 pages | 77 mb
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Designed for students without a strong background in history, Making Europe is organized around a political chronology to help inexperienced students get a sense of the story of western civilization. Themes of religion, social history, biography and personality, and individual and collective identity enable students to grasp the "big picture." The text's attention to Eastern Europe and thorough coverage of religious history extends right up to the present. The authors' collective experience teaching Western Civilization is evident in the text's carefully designed system of pedagogy that promotes understanding of events and figures of the western past. Focus and review questions, chronologies, key terms and definitions, and chapter summaries help students engage with the material step-by-step, chapter-by-chapter.
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CONTENTS
Maps xix
Features xxi
Preface xxv
About the Authors xxxi
Chapter 1 The Origins of Western Civilization in the Ancient Near East,
3000–1200 B.C.E.2
Chapter 2 Iron Age Civilizations, 1200–500 B.C.E.32
Chapter 3 The Rise of Greek Civilization, 1100–387 B.C.E. 58
Chapter 4 From Polis to Cosmopolis: The Hellenistic World, 387–30 B.C.E.88
Chapter 5 The Rise of Rome, 753–27 B.C.E. 114
Chapter 6 The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E.–284 C.E. 144
Chapter 7 Late Antiquity, 284–527 174
Chapter 8 The Eastern Mediterranean, 500–1000 204
Chapter 9 The Kingdoms of Western Europe, 500–1000 234
Chapter 10 The High Middle Ages, 1000–1300 262
Chapter 11 Reversals and Disasters, 1300–1450 292
Chapter 12 The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe, 1350–1550 322
Chapter 13 Europe’s Age of Expansion, 1450–1550 348
Chapter 14 Reform in the Western Church, 1490–1570 380
Chapter 15 A Century of War and Wonder, 1550–1650 410
Chapter 16 State Building and the European State System 1648–1789 442
Chapter 17 The Scienti?c Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1550–1790 476
Chapter 18 Trade and Empire, 1700–1800 506
Chapter 19 Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Europe, 1775–1815 536
Chapter 20 Restoration and Reform: Conservative and Liberal Europe, 1814–1847 566
Chapter 21 Industrialization and Society, 1800–1850 594
Chapter 22 The Triumph of the Nation-State, 1848–1900 622
Chapter 23 The Culture of Industrial Europe, 1850–1914 654
Chapter 24 The Age of Imperialism, 1870–1914 682
Chapter 25 War and Revolution, 1900–1918 714
Chapter 26 A Decade of Revolutionary Experiments, 1918–1929 742
Chapter 27 Democracy Under Siege, 1929–1945 772
Chapter 28 Europe Divided, 1945–1968 804
Chapter 29 Lifting the Iron Curtain, 1969–1991 836
Chapter 30 Europe in a Globalizing World, 1991 to the Present 866
