Western Heritage, The

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Explore the changing nature of the West

Rather than looking at Western civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West—how the definition of the West has evolved and has been transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West.

MyHistoryLab is an integral part of the Levack program. Key learning applications include Closer Looks, MyHistoryLibrary, and writing assessment.

A better teaching and learning experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how:

• Personalize Learning– MyHistoryLab is online learning. MyHistoryLab engages students through personalized learning and helps instructors from course preparation to delivery and assessment.
• Improve Critical Thinking–Critical thinking questions throughout the text help students focus on what they need to learn.
• Engage Students–Fine art and photos engage students in the material.
• Support Instructors– A full set of supplements, including MyHistoryLab, provides instructors with all the resources and support they need.

Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text.

Explore the changing nature of the West

Rather than looking at Western civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West—how the definition of the West has evolved and has been transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West.

MyHistoryLab is an integral part of the Levack program. Key learning applications include Closer Looks, MyHistoryLibrary, and writing assessment.

A better teaching and learning experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how:

• Personalize Learning– MyHistoryLab is online learning. MyHistoryLab engages students through personalized learning and helps instructors from course preparation to delivery and assessment.
• Improve Critical Thinking–Critical thinking questions throughout the text help students focus on what they need to learn.  
• Engage Students–Fine art and photos engage students in the material.
• Support Instructors– A full set of supplements, including MyHistoryLab, provides instructors with all the resources and support they need.

Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Documents Maps Preface About the Authors What Is the Western Heritage? PART 4: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700—1850 Chapter 18: The French Revolution Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815—1832) Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830—1850) PART 5: Toward the Modern World, 1850—1939 Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression PART 6: Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions, 1939—2012 Chapter 28: World War II Chapter 29: The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a New Europe Chapter 30: Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West through the Present Glossary Index
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS Documents Maps Preface About the Authors What Is the Western Heritage? PART 4: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700—1850 Chapter 18: The French Revolution The Crisis of the French Monarchy The Monarchy Seeks New Taxes Necker’s Report Calonne’s Reform Plan and the Assembly of Notables Deadlock and the Calling of the Estates General The Revolution of 1789 The Estates General Becomes the National Assembly Fall of the Bastille The “Great Fear” and the Night of August 4 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen The Parisian Women’s March on Versailles The Reconstruction of France Political Reorganization Economic Policy The Civil Constitution of the Clergy Counterrevolutionary Activity The End of the Monarchy: A Second Revolution Emergence of the Jacobins The Convention and the Role of the Sans-culottes Europe at War with the Revolution Edmund Burke Attacks the Revolution Suppression of Reform in Britain The Second and Third Partitions of Poland, 1793, 1795 The Reign of Terror War with Europe The Republic Defended The “Republic of Virtue” and Robespierre’s Justification of Terror Repression of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women De-Christianization Revolutionary Tribunals The End of the Terror The Thermidorian Reaction Establishment of the Directory Removal of the Sans-culottes from Political Life In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments CHALLENGING THE FRENCH POLITICAL ORDER The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Opens the Door for Disadvantaged Groups to Demand Equal Civic Rights The Metric System Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Early Military Victories The Constitution of the Year VIII The Consulate in France (1799—1804) Suppressing Foreign Enemies and Domestic Opposition Concordat with the Roman Catholic Church The Napoleonic Code Establishing a Dynasty The Haitian Revolution (1791—1804) Napoleon’s Empire (1804—1814) Conquering an Empire The Continental System European Response to the Empire German Nationalism and Prussian Reform The Wars of Liberation The Invasion of Russia European Coalition The Congress of Vienna and the European Settlement Territorial Adjustments The Hundred Days and the Quadruple Alliance The Romantic Movement Romantic Questioning of the Supremacy of Reason Rousseau and Education Kant and Reason Romantic Literature English Romantic Writers The German Romantic Writers Romantic Art The Cult of the Middle Ages and Neo-Gothicism Nature and the Sublime Religion in the Romantic Period Methodism New Directions in Continental Religion Romantic Views of Nationalism and History Herder and Culture Hegel and History Islam, the Middle East, and Romanticism In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE CORONATION OF NAPOLEON Sailors and Canned Food The Experience of War in the Napoleonic Age Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815—1832) The Conservative Order The Congress System The Domestic Political Order Conservative Outlooks The Emergence of Nationalism and Liberalism Nationalism Early-Nineteenth-Century Political Liberalism Classical Economics Relationship of Liberalism to Nationalism Conservative Restoration in Europe Liberalism and Nationalism Resisted in Austria and the Germanies Postwar Repression in Great Britain Bourbon Restoration in France The Spanish Revolution of 1820 The Conservative Order Shaken in Europe Revolt Against Ottoman Rule in the Balkans Russia: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 Revolution in France (1830) Belgium Becomes Independent (1830) The Great Reform Bill in Britain (1832) The Wars of Independence in Latin America Wars of Independence on the South American Continent Independence in New Spain Brazilian Independence In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Mazzini and Lord Acton Debate the Political Principles of Nationalism Gymnastics and German Nationalism AN UNSUCCESSFUL MILITARY COUP IN RUSSIA Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830—1850) Toward an Industrial Society Population and Migration Railways The Labor Force The Emergence of a Wage-Labor Force Working-Class Political Action: The Example of British Chartism Family Structures and the Industrial Revolution The Family in the Early Factory System Women in the Early Industrial Revolution Opportunities and Exploitation in Employment Changing Expectations in the Working-Class Marriage Problems of Crime, Order, and Poverty New Police Forces Prison Reform Government Policies Based on Classical Economics Early Socialism Utopian Socialism Anarchism Marxism 1848: Year of Revolutions France: The Second Republic and Louis Napoleon The Habsburg Empire: Nationalism Resisted Italy: Republicanism Defeated The German Confederation: Liberalism Frustrated In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Potato and the Great Hunger in Ireland Andrew Ure and John Ruskin Debate the Conditions of Factory Production THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN LONDON The Abolition of Slavery in the Transatlantic Economy PART 5: Toward the Modern World, 1850—1939 Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States The Crimean War (1853—1856) Peace Settlement and Long-Term Results Reforms in the Ottoman Empire Italian Unification Romantic Republicans Cavour’s Policy The New Italian State German Unification Bismarck The Franco-Prussian War and the German Empire (1870—1871) France: From Liberal Empire to the Third Republic The Paris Commune The Third Republic The Habsburg Empire Formation of the Dual Monarchy Unrest of Nationalities Russia: Emancipation and Revolutionary Stirrings Reforms of Alexander II Revolutionaries Great Britain: Toward Democracy The Second Reform Act (1867) Gladstone’s Great Ministry (1868—1874) Disraeli in Office (1874—1880) The Irish Question In Perspective Key Term Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE SUEZ CANAL Nineteenth-Century Nationalism: Two Sides The Arrival of Penny Postage Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I Population Trends and Migration The Second Industrial Revolution New Industries Economic Difficulties The Middle Classes in Ascendancy Social Distinctions within the Middle Classes Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban Life The Redesign of Cities Urban Sanitation Housing Reform and Middle-Class Values Varieties of Late-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Experiences Women’s Social Disabilities New Employment Patterns for Women Working-Class Women Poverty and Prostitution Women of the Middle Class The Rise of Political Feminism Jewish Emancipation Differing Degrees of Citizenship Broadened Opportunities Labor, Socialism, and Politics to World War I Trade Unionism Democracy and Political Parties Karl Marx and the First International Great Britain: Fabianism and Early Welfare Programs France: “Opportunism” Rejected Germany: Social Democrats and Revisionism Russia: Industrial Development and the Birth of Bolshevism In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Bicycles: Transportation, Freedom, and Sport Bernstein and Lenin Debate the Tactics of European Socialism BLOODY SUNDAY, ST. PETERSBURG, 1905 Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought The New Reading Public Advances in Primary Education Reading Material for the Mass Audience Science at Midcentury Comte, Positivism, and the Prestige of Science New Theories of Evolution: Lamarck, Lyell, Darwin, Wallace Science and Ethics: Social Darwinism Christianity and the Church Under Siege Intellectual Skepticism Conflict Between Church and State Areas of Religious Revival The Roman Catholic Church and the Modern World Islam and Late-Nineteenth-Century European Thought Toward a Twentieth-Century Frame of Mind Science: The Revolution in Physics Literature: Realism and Naturalism Modernism in Literature The Coming of Modern Art Friedrich Nietzsche and the Revolt Against Reason The Birth of Psychoanalysis Retreat from Rationalism in Politics Racism Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Zionism Women and Modern Thought Antifeminism in Late-Century Thought New Directions in Feminism In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Birth of Science Fiction The Debate over Social Darwinism POPULAR RELIGION AND PILGRIMAGE Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism The Close of the Age of Early Modern Colonization The Age of British Imperial Dominance The Imperialism of Free Trade British Settler Colonies India–The Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire The “New Imperialism,” 1870—1914 Motives for the New Imperialism The Partition of Africa Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya Egypt and British Strategic Concern about the Upper Nile West Africa The Belgian Congo German Empire in Africa Southern Africa Russian Expansion in Mainland Asia Western Powers in Asia France in Asia The United States’ Actions in Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America The Boxer Rebellion Tools of Imperialism Steamboats Conquest of Tropical Diseases Firearms The Missionary Factor Missionary Movements Tensions Between Missionaries and Imperial Administrators Missionaries and Indigenous Religious Movements Science and Imperialism Botany Zoology Medicine Anthropology In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO Two Views of Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Imperial Expansion Submarine Cables Imperialism: Ancient and Modern Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace Emergence of the German Empire and the Alliance Systems (1873—1890) Bismarck’s Leadership Forging the Triple Entente (1890—1907) World War I The Road to War (1908—1914) Sarajevo and the Outbreak of War (June—August 1914) Strategies and Stalemate: 1914—1917 The Russian Revolution The Provisional Government Lenin and the Bolsheviks The Communist Dictatorship The End of World War I Germany’s Last Offensive The Armistice The End of the Ottoman Empire The Settlement at Paris Obstacles the Peacemakers Faced The Peace World War I and Colonial Empires Evaluating the Peace In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Outbreak of World War I THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARMORED TANK War Propaganda and the Movies: Charlie Chaplin Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression