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Tables of Contents for The Western Experience With Powerweb
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
xv
List of Boxes
xvii
Preface
xix
Introduction
xxix
Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague
341
60
Population Catastrophes
362
3
Demographic Decline
362
1
Plague
363
2
Economic Depression and Recovery
365
12
Agricultural Specialization
366
1
Protectionism
367
1
Technological Advances
368
4
The Standard of Living
372
5
Popular Unrest
377
2
Rural Revolts
377
1
Urban Revolts
377
2
The Seeds of Discontent
379
1
Challenges to the Governments of Europe
379
13
Roots of Political Unrest
379
1
The Nobility and Factional Strife
380
2
England, France, and the Hundred Years' War
382
1
The Tides of Battle
383
3
The Effects of the Hundred Years' War
386
2
The States of Italy
388
4
The Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire
392
9
The Fall of Constantinople
394
1
The Ottoman Empire
394
7
Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300---1500
401
34
The New Learning
402
6
The Founding of Humanism
402
2
Humanism in the Fifteenth Century
404
3
The Florentine Neoplatonists
407
1
The Heritage of the New Learning
407
1
Art and Artists in the Italian Renaissance
408
10
Three Friends
408
2
The High Renaissance
410
5
Status and Perception
415
3
The Culture of the North
418
5
Chivalry and Decay
418
3
Contemporary Views of Northern Society
421
1
Art and Music
421
2
Scholastic Philosophy, Religious Thought, and Piety
423
2
The ``Modern Way''
423
1
Social and Scientific Thought
424
1
The State of Christendom
425
10
The Revival of the Papacy
426
2
Styles of Piety
428
2
Movements of Doctrinal Reform
430
5
Reformations in Religion
435
38
Piety and Dissent
436
10
Doctrine and Reform
436
2
Causes of Discontent
438
1
Popular Religion
439
3
Piety and Protest in Literature and Art
442
2
Christian Humanism
444
2
The Lutheran Reformation
446
10
The Conditions for Change
446
1
Martin Luther
447
1
The Break with Rome
447
3
Lutheran Doctrine and Practice
450
2
The Spread of Lutheranism
452
2
Lutheranism Established
454
2
The Spread of Protestantism
456
6
Zwingli and the Radicals
456
1
Persecution of the Radicals
457
1
John Calvin
458
1
Calvinism
459
2
The Anglican Church
461
1
The Catholic Revival
462
11
Strengths and Weaknesses
462
2
The Council of Trent
464
1
The Aftermath of Trent
465
2
Ignatius Loyola
467
1
The Jesuits
468
2
Religion and Politics
470
3
Economic Expansion and a New Politics
473
40
Expansion at Home
474
6
Population Increase
474
1
Economic Growth
474
3
Social Change
477
3
Expansion Overseas
480
8
The Portuguese
481
1
The Spaniards
482
2
The First Colonial Empire
484
4
The Centralization of Political Power
488
12
Tudor England
488
3
Valois France
491
1
Louis XI and Charles VIII
492
2
The Growth of Government Power
494
1
United Spain
495
3
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
498
2
The Splintered States
500
7
The New Statecraft
507
6
New International Relations
507
1
Machiavelli and Guicciardini
507
6
War and Crisis
513
38
Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II
514
8
Philip II of Spain
514
1
Elizabeth I of England
515
1
The Dutch Revolt
516
3
Civil War in France
519
3
From Unbounded War to International Crisis
522
6
The Thirty Years' War
523
2
The Peace of Westphalia
525
3
The Military Revolution
528
3
Weapons and Tactics
528
1
The Organization and Support of Armies
529
1
The Life of the Soldier
530
1
Revolution in England
531
7
Pressures for Change
531
2
Parliament and the Law
533
1
Rising Antagonisms
534
1
Civil War
534
2
England under Cromwell
536
2
Revolts in France and Spain
538
6
The France of Henry IV
538
1
Louis XIII
539
1
Political and Social Crisis
540
1
Sources of Discontent in Spain
541
2
Revolt and Secession
543
1
Political Change in an Age of Crisis
544
7
The United Provinces
544
2
Sweden
546
1
Eastern Europe and the Crisis
547
4
Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
551
38
Scientific Advance from Copernicus to Newton
552
7
Origins of the Scientific Revolution
552
2
The Breakthroughs
554
1
Kepler and Galileo Address the Uncertainties
555
3
The Climax of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton
558
1
The Effects of the Discoveries
559
6
A New Epistemology
559
1
The Wider Influence of Scientific Thought
560
1
Bacon and Descartes
560
2
Pascal's Protest Against the New Science
562
1
Science Institutionalized
562
3
The Arts and Literature
565
12
Unsettling Arts
565
1
Unsettling Writers
565
2
The Return of Assurance in the Arts
567
6
Stability and Restraint in the Arts
573
4
Social Patterns and Popular Culture
577
12
Population Trends
577
1
Social Status
578
1
Mobility and Crime
578
1
Change in the Villages and Cities
579
1
Belief in Magic and Rituals
580
3
Forces of Restraint
583
6
The Emergence of the European State System
589
44
Absolutism in France
590
10
The Rule of Louis XIV
590
2
Government
592
1
Foreign Policy
593
3
Domestic Policy
596
2
The End of An Era
598
1
France after Louis XIV
598
2
Other Patterns of Absolutism
600
12
The Habsburgs at Vienna
601
1
The Hohenzollerns at Berlin
602
2
Rivalry and State Building
604
1
The Prussia of Frederick William I
604
1
Frederick the Great
605
1
The Habsburg Empire
606
2
Habsburgs and Bourbons at Madrid
608
2
Peter the Great at St. Petersburg
610
2
Alternatives to Absolutism
612
12
Aristocracy in the United Provinces, Sweden, and Poland
612
2
The Triumph of the Gentry in England
614
4
Politics and Prosperity
618
2
The Growth of Stability
620
2
Contrasts in Political Thought
622
2
The International System
624
9
Diplomacy and Warfare
624
1
Armies and Navies
625
2
The Seven Years' War
627
6
The Wealth of Nations
633
34
Demographic and Economic Growth
634
4
A New Demographic Era
634
2
Profit Inflation: The Movement of Prices
636
1
Protoindustrialization
637
1
The New Shape of Industry
638
5
Toward a New Economic Order
638
2
The Roots of Economic Transformation in England
640
2
Cotton: The Beginning of Industrialization
642
1
Innovation and Tradition in Agriculture
643
9
Convertible Husbandry
645
1
The Enclosure Movement in Britain
645
2
Serfs and Peasants on the Continent
647
5
Eighteenth-Century Empires
652
15
Mercantile and Naval Competition
652
2
The Profits of Empire
654
1
Slavery, the Foundation of Empire
655
3
Mounting Colonial Conflicts
658
1
The Great War for Empire
658
3
The British Foothold in India
661
6
The Age of Enlightenment
667
32
The Enlightenment
668
12
The Broadening Reverberations of Science
668
2
Beyond Christianity
670
2
The Philosophes
672
3
Diderot and the Encyclopedia
675
2
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
677
3
Eighteenth-Century Elite Culture
680
9
Cosmopolitan High Culture
680
3
Publishing and Reading
683
2
Literature, Music, and Art
685
4
Popular Culture
689
10
Popular Literature
690
1
Literacy and Primary Schooling
691
2
Sociability and Recreation
693
6
The French Revolution
699
38
Reform and Political Crisis
700
5
Enlightened Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe
700
1
Joseph II and the Limits of Absolutism
701
1
Constitutional Crises in the West
702
1
Upheavals in the British Empire
703
2
1789: The French Revolution
705
9
Origins of the Revolution
705
1
Fiscal Crisis and Political Deadlock
706
3
From the Estates General to the National Assembly
709
2
The Convergence of Revolutions
711
3
The Reconstruction of France
714
7
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
714
2
The New Constitution
716
3
The Revolution and the Church
719
1
Counterrevolution, Radicalism, and War
719
2
The Second Revolution
721
16
The National Convention
721
2
The Revolutionary Crisis
723
1
The Jacobin Dictatorship
724
3
The Sans-culottes: Revolution from Below
727
3
The Revolutionary Wars
730
7
The Age of Napoleon
737
From Robespierre to Bonaparte
738
7
The Thermidorian Reaction (1794--1795)
738
1
The Directory (1795--1799)
739
3
The Rise of Bonaparte
742
2
The Brumaire Coup
744
1
The Napoleonic Settlement in France
745
4
The Napoleonic Style
745
1
Political and Religious Settlements
745
2
The Era of the Notables
747
2
Napoleonic Hegemony in Europe
749
7
Military Supremacy and the Reorganization of Europe
749
3
Naval War with Britain
752
2
The Napoleonic Conscription Machine
754
2
Opposition to Napoleon
756
The ``Spanish Ulcer''
756
4
The Russian Debacle
760
3
German Resistance and the Last Coalition
763
1
The Napoleonic Legend
764
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Index
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