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Tables of Contents for A Short History of Western Civilization
PART I: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, 4000-300 B.C.CHAPTER 1: The River Valley Civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt, 4000-1750CHAPTER 2: The Diffusion of Near Eastern Civilization, 1750-800 B.C.CHAPTER 3: The Great Empires: Assyria and Persia, 800-300 B.CPART II: GRECO-ROMAN CIVILIZATION, 1200 B.C.- A.D. 500CHAPTER 4: The Origins and the Development of the Greek City-State PoliticsCHAPTER 5: The Greek Golden Age, 500-336 B.C.: Life, War, and PoliticsCHAPTER 6: Greek Thought and ExpressionCHAPTER 7: Greek Imperialism: The Hellenistic World, 336-31 B.C.CHAPTER 8: The Rise of Rome to Domination of the Mediterranean World, 800 B.C.-1313B.CCHAPTER 9: The Failure of the Roman Republic, 133-31 B.CCHAPTER 10: The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana, 31 B.C.- A.D. 18CHAPTER 11: Roman Thought and ExpressionCHAPTER 12: Crisis in the Roman World, A.D. 180-284: Conflict, Change, and ChristianityCHAPTER 13: Late Antiquity, A.D. 284-500: End of Greco-Roman CivilizationPART III: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES, 500-1000: TOWARD NEW ORDERCHAPTER 14: Heirs of the Roman Empire: The Byzantine and Moslem EmpiresCHAPTER 15: Heirs to the Roman Empire: Latin Western EuropeCHAPTER 16: The First Europe: The Carolingian Age, 750-900CHAPTER 17: Lordship and Dependency; Feudalism and MonorialismPART IV: THE CENTRAL AND LATER MIDDLE AGES, 1000-1450: THE RESURGENCE OF EUROPECHAPTER 18: Economic and Social Revival, 1000-1300CHAPTER 19: The Restoration of Political Order: The Revival of Monarchy, 1000-1300CHAPTER 20: The Medieval Expansion of EuropeCHAPTER 21: Religious Renewal, 1000-1300CHAPTER 22: Intellectual and Artistic Revival, 1000-1300CHAPTER 23: Transition in Economic, Social, and Political Institutions, 1300-1500CHAPTER 24: Transition in Religion and Thought, 1300-1500PART V: EARLY MODERN TIMES: THE RENAISSANCE TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYCHAPTER 25: The Renaissance: ItalyCHAPTER 26: The Renaissance: The NorthCHAPTER 27: The Rise of National StatesCHAPTER 28: European Expansion, Commercial Capitalism, and Social ChangeCHAPTER 29: The ReformationCHAPTER 30: Politics and the Wars of ReligionCHAPTER 31: Society, Faith, and Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesCHAPTER 32: Royal Absolutism in Western and Eastern EuropeCHAPTER 33: The Challenge to Absolutism: England and the Dutch NetherlandsCHAPTER 34: Overseas Colonization and Competition for EmpiresCHAPTER 35: The Scientific RevolutionCHAPTER 36: The EnlightenmentPART VI: REVOLUTION, INDUSTRIALIZATION, AND NATIONALISM, 1776-1914CHAPTER 37: The American RevolutionCHAPTER 38: The French Revolution, 1789-1799CHAPTER 39: The Era of Napoleon, 1799-1815CHAPTER 40: The Industrial RevolutionCHAPTER 41: Romanticism in Philosophy, Literature, and the ArtsCHAPTER 42: Conservatism, Restoration, and Reaction, 1815-1830CHAPTER 43: Liberalism and Revolution, 1830-1850CHAPTER 44: Nationalism and the Nation-State, 1850-1871CHAPTER 45: Industrial Society, Social Classes and WomenCHAPTER 46: Science and the Challenge to ChristianityCHAPTER 47: Thought and Culture in an Age of Nationalism and IndustrializationCHAPTER 48: Politics, Democracy, and Nationalism, 1871-1914CHAPTER 49: Democracy, Expansion, Civil War, and Reform in the United States, 1800-1920CHAPTER 50: ImperialismPART VII: WAR AND GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1914-PRESENTCHAPTER 51: World War I, 1914-1918CHAPTER 52: Revolution and Communism in RussiaCHAPTER 53: The Rise of Fascism and AuthoritarianismCHAPTER 54: Paralysis of the Democratic WestCHAPTER 55: World War II, 1939-1945CHAPTER 56: The Recovery of Europe and the Superpowers, 1945-1980sCHAPTER 57: Society and Culture in the Twentieth CenturyCHAPTER 58: Decolonization and the Non-Western World, 1945-PresentCHAPTER 59: The Collapse of Communism and New Realities