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Introduction for Chapter 1
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 1
Understanding Western History
Describing the West
What Is Civilization?
The Earliest Human Societies
From the First Hominids to the Paleolithic Era
Evaluating the Evidence 1.1: Paleolithic Venus Figures
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Planting Crops
Implications of Agriculture
Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections
Living in the Past: The Iceman
Civilization in Mesopotamia
Environment and Mesopotamian Development
The Invention of Writing and the First Schools
Religion in Mesopotamia
Evaluating the Evidence 1.2:
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 1.2: Gilgamesh's Quest for Immortality
Sumerian Politics and Society
Empires in Mesopotamia
The Akkadians and the Babylonians
Thinking Like a Historian: Addressing the Gods
Life Under Hammurabi
Cultural Exchange in the Fertile Crescent
The Egyptians
The Nile and the God-King
Egyptian Religion
Egyptian Society and Work
Egyptian Family Life
Evaluating the Evidence 1.3: Egyptian Home Life
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 1.3: Egyptian Home Life
The Hyksos and New Kingdom Revival
Mapping the Past for Chapter 1
Individuals in Society: Hatshepsut and Nefertiti
Conflict and Cooperation with the Hittites
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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1. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 1
Quiz for Document 1-1: The Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat(ca. 2000–1000 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 1-2: The Epic of Gilgamesh(ca. 2750 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 1-3: The Code of Hammurabi(ca. 1780 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 1-4: The Egyptian Book of the Dead(ca. 2100–1800 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 1-5: Letters Between a Sumerian King and His Prime Minister(ca. 2000–1700 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 1-6: Akhenaten,The Hymn to Aton(ca. 1350 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 1-7: Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur(ca. 2000–1700 B.C.E.)
Introduction for Chapter 2
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 2
Iron and the Emergence of New States
Iron Technology
The Decline of Egypt and the Emergence of Kush
The Rise of Phoenicia
Evaluating the Evidence 2.1: The Report of Wenamun
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The Hebrews
The Hebrew State
The Jewish Religion
Hebrew Family and Society
Evaluating the Evidence 2.2: A Jewish Family Contract
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Thinking Like a Historian: The Moral Life
Assyria, the Military Monarchy
Assyria’s Long Road to Power
Mapping the Past for Chapter 2
Assyrian Rule and Culture
Evaluating the Evidence 2.3: Assyrians Besiege a City
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Living in the Past: Assyrian Palace Life and Power
The Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Empire of the Persian Kings
Consolidation of the Persian Empire
Individuals in Society: Cyrus the Great
Persian Religion
Persian Art and Culture
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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2. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 2
Quiz for Document 2-1: Book of Genesis(ca. 950–450 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 2-2: Exodus and Deuteronomy(ca. 950–450 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 2-3: Assyrian Kings Proclaim Their Greatness(ca. 1220–1070 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 2-4: Cyrus of Persia,Ruling an Empire(ca. 550 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 2-5: Book of Isaiah: Blessings for Cyrus(ca. 550 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 2-6: Zoroaster,Gatha 30: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds(ca. 600 B.C.E.)
Introduction for Chapter 3
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 3
Greece in the Bronze Age
Geography and Settlement
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic
The Development of the Polis in the Archaic Age
Organization of the Polis
Evaluating the Evidence 3.1: Hesiod,Works and Days
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Governing Structures
Overseas Expansion
The Growth of Sparta
The Evolution of Athens
War and Turmoil in the Classical Period
The Persian Wars
Growth of the Athenian Empire
Living in the Past: Triremes and Their Crews
The Peloponnesian War
Mapping the Past for Chapter 3
The Struggle for Dominance
Philip II and Macedonian Supremacy
Classical Greek Life and Culture
Athenian Arts in the Age of Pericles
Evaluating the Evidence 3.2: The Acropolis of Athens
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Evaluating the Evidence 3.3: Sophocles,Antigone
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Households and Work
Individuals in Society: Aristophanes
Gender and Sexuality
Thinking Like a Historian: Gender Roles in Classical Athens
Public and Personal Religion
The Flowering of Philosophy
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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3. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 3
Quiz for Document 3-1: Homer,The Odyssey: Odysseus and the Sirens(ca. 800 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 3-2: Hesiod,Works and Days(ca. 800 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 3-3: Sophocles,Antigone(441 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 3-4: Thucydides,The History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’s Funeral Oration(ca. 400 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 3-5: Plato,The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave(ca. 360 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 3-6: Aristotle,Politics: Democracy(ca. 340 B.C.E.)
Introduction for Chapter 4
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 4
Alexander’s Conquests and Their Political Legacy
Military Campaigns
Evaluating the Evidence 4.1: Arrian on Alexander the Great
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 4.1: Arrian on Alexander the Great
The Political Legacy
Building a Hellenized Society
Urban Life
Mapping the Past for Chapter 4
Greeks in Hellenistic Cities
Greeks and Non-Greeks
The Economy of the Hellenistic World
Agriculture and Industry
Living in the Past: Farming in the Hellenistic World
Commerce
The Past Living Now: Container Shipping
Religion and Philosophy in the Hellenistic World
Religion and Magic
Evaluating the Evidence 4.2: A Hellenistic Spell of Attraction
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Hellenism and the Jews
Philosophy and the People
Hellenistic Science and Medicine
Science
Individuals in Society: Archimedes, Scientist and Inventor
Medicine
Thinking Like a Historian: Hellenistic Medicine
Evaluating the Evidence 4.3: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
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Looking Back Looking Ahead
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4. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 4
Quiz for Document 4-1: Ephippus of Olynthus,On the Burial of Alexander and Hephaestion: Ephippus of Olynthus Remembers Alexander the Great(ca. 323 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 4-2: Plutarch,Life of Cleomenes III(75 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 4-3: Diogenes Laertius,The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic(ca. 300–200 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 4-4: Epicurus,The Principal Doctrines of Epicureanism(ca. 306 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 4-5: Epictetus,Encheiridion, or The Manual(ca. 100 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 4-6: Polybius,A Greek Historian Describes Byzantium’s Contribution to Regional Trade(ca. 170–118 B.C.E.)
Introduction for Chapter 5
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 5
Rome’s Rise to Power
The Geography of Italy
The Etruscans
The Founding of Rome
The Roman Conquest of Italy
Evaluating the Evidence 5.1: The Temple of Hercules Victor
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The Roman Republic
The Roman State
Social Conflict in Rome
Roman Expansion
The Punic Wars
Mapping the Past for Chapter 5
Rome Turns East
Roman Society
Roman Families
Evaluating the Evidence 5.2: A Woman’s Actions in the Turia Inscription
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Greek Influence on Roman Culture
Living in the Past: Roman Table Manners
Opposing Views: Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus
The Late Republic
Reforms for Poor and Landless Citizens
Thinking Like a Historian: Land Ownership and Social Conflict in the Late Republic
Political Violence
Civil War
Evaluating the Evidence 5.3: Cicero and the Plot to Kill Caesar
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Individuals in Society: Queen Cleopatra
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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5. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 5
Quiz for Document 5-1: Livy,The Rape of Lucretia(ca. 27–25 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 5-2: A Roman Wedding(ca. 160 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 5-3: The Law of the Twelve Tables(449 B.C.E.)
Quiz for Document 5-4: Seneca,The Sounds of a Roman Bath(ca. 50 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 5-5: Appian of Alexandria,The Civil Wars(ca. 100 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 5-6: Plutarch,On Julius Caesar, a Man of Unlimited Ambition(ca. 44 B.C.E.)
Introduction for Chapter 6
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 6
Augustus’s Reign
The Principate
Thinking Like a Historian: Army and Empire
Roman Expansion
Evaluating the Evidence 6.1: Augustus,Res Gestae
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 6.1: Augustus, Res Gestae
The Flowering of Latin Literature
Evaluating the Evidence 6.2: Ovid,The Art of Love
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Marriage and Morality
Evaluating the Evidence 6.3: Ara Pacis
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Augustus’s Successors
The Julio-Claudians and the Flavians
The Age of the “Five Good Emperors”
Individuals in Society: Pliny the Elder
Rome and the Provinces
Life in Imperial Rome
Approaches to Urban Problems
Popular Entertainment
Living in the Past: Roman Epitaphs: Death Remembers Life
Prosperity in the Roman Provinces
Mapping the Past for Chapter 6
Trade and Commerce
The Coming of Christianity
Factors Behind the Rise of Christianity
The Life and Teachings of Jesus
The Spread of Christianity
The Growing Acceptance and Evolution of Christianity
The Empire in Disarray
Civil Wars and Military Commanders
Turmoil in Economic Life
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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6. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 6
Quiz for Document 6-1: Tacitus,Germania(ca. 100
Quiz for Document 6-2: Apuleius,The Golden Ass: The Veneration of Isis(ca. 170 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 6-3: The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount(28 C.E.)
Quiz for Document 6-4: Paul of Tarsus,Epistle to the Galatians(ca. 50–60
Quiz for Document 6-5: The Alexamenos Graffito(ca. 100 C.E.)
Introduction for Chapter 7
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 7
Reconstruction Under Diocletian and Constantine
Political Measures
Economic Issues
The Acceptance of Christianity
The Growth of the Christian Church
The Church and Its Leaders
The Development of Christian Monasticism
Monastery Life
Christianity and Classical Culture
Christian Notions of Gender and Sexuality
Saint Augustine on Human Nature, Will, and Sin
Barbarian Society
Village and Family Life
Evaluating the Evidence 7.1: Tacitus on Germanic Society
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Tribes and Hierarchies
Customary and Written Law
Thinking Like a Historian: Slavery in Roman and Germanic Society
Celtic and Germanic Religion
Migration, Assimilation, and Conflict
Celtic and Germanic People in Gaul and Britain
Mapping the Past for Chapter 7
Visigoths and Huns
Evaluating the Evidence 7.2: Battle Between Romans and Goths
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Germanic Kingdoms and the End of the Roman Empire
Living in the Past: The Horses of Spain
Christian Missionaries and Conversion
Missionaries’ Actions
The Process of Conversion
Evaluating the Evidence 7.3: Gregory of Tours on the Veneration of Relics
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The Byzantine Empire
Sources of Byzantine Strength
The Law Code of Justinian
Byzantine Intellectual Life
Individuals in Society:
The Orthodox Church
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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7. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 7
Quiz for Document 7-1: Saint Ambrose of Milan,Emperor Theodosius Brought to Heel(390)
Quiz for Document 7-2: Saint Benedict of Nursia,The Rule of Saint Benedict(529)
Quiz for Document 7-3: Saint Augustine,City of God: The Two Cities(413–426)
Quiz for Document 7-4: The Law of the Salian Franks(ca. 500–600)
Quiz for Document 7-5: Emperor Justinian,The Institutes of Justinian(529–533)
Quiz for Document 7-6: Procopius of Caesarea,The Secret History(ca. 550)
Introduction for Chapter 8
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 8
The Spread of Islam
The Arabs
The Prophet Muhammad
The Teachings and Expansion of Islam
Sunni and Shi’a Divisions
Life in Muslim Spain
Evaluating the Evidence 8.1: The Muslim Conquest of Spain
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Living in the Past: Muslim Technology: Advances in Papermaking
Muslim-Christian Relations
Cross-Cultural Influences in Science and Medicine
Frankish Rulers and Their Territories
The Merovingians
The Rise of the Carolingians
The Warrior-Ruler Charlemagne
Carolingian Government and Society
Evaluating the Evidence 8.2: The Capitulary de Villis
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The Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne
Early Medieval Culture
The Carolingian Renaissance
Northumbrian Learning and Writing
Individuals in Society:
Evaluating the Evidence 8.3: The Death of Beowulf
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Invasions and Migrations
Mapping the Past for Chapter 8
Vikings in Western Europe
Thinking Like a Historian: Vikings Tell Their Own Story
Slavs and Vikings in Eastern Europe
Magyars and Muslims
Political and Economic Decentralization
Decentralization and the Origins of “Feudalism”
Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave Trade
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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8. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 8
Quiz for Document 8-1: Ibn Abd-el-Hakem,The Conquest of Spain(ca. 870)
Quiz for Document 8-2: Willibald,Saint Boniface Destroys the Oak of Thor(ca. 750)
Quiz for Document 8-3: Charlemagne,Capitulary for Saxony(ca. 775–790)
Quiz for Document 8-4: Charlemagne,General Capitulary for the Missi(802)
Quiz for Document 8-5: The Song of Roland(ca. 1100–1300)
Introduction for Chapter 9
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 9
Political Revival and the Origins of the Modern State
England
Evaluating the Evidence 9.1: Marriage and Wardship in the Norman Exchequer
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France
Central Europe
Italy
The Iberian Peninsula
Law and Justice
Local Laws and Royal Courts
The Magna Carta
Law in Everyday Life
Nobles
Origins and Status of the Nobility
Training, Marriage, and Inheritance
Power and Responsibility
Living in the Past: Life in an English Castle
The Papacy
The Gregorian Reforms
Emperor Versus Pope
Criticism and Heresy
The Popes and Church Law
Evaluating the Evidence 9.2: Pope Boniface VIII,Unam Sanctam
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Monks, Nuns, and Friars
Monastic Revival
Life in Convents and Monasteries
Individuals in Society: Hildegard of Bingen
The Friars
Evaluating the Evidence 9.3: Brother Henry as Composer and Singer
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The Crusades and the Expansion of Christianity
Background and Motives of the Crusades
Mapping the Past for Chapter 9
The Course of the Crusades
Thinking Like a Historian: Christian and Muslim Views of the Crusades
Consequences of the Crusades
The Expansion of Christianity
Christendom
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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9. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 9
Quiz for Document 9-1: Duke William of Aquitaine,On the Foundation of Cluny(909)
Quiz for Document 9-2: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book(1086)
Quiz for Document 9-3: King John of England,From Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties(1215)
Quiz for Document 9-4: Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV,Mutual Recriminations: The Investiture Controversy Begins(1076)
Quiz for Document 9-5: Robert the Monk of Rheims,Urban II at the Council of Clermont: A Call for Crusade(ca. 1120)
Quiz for Document 9-6: Guibert of Nogent/Anna Comnena,Peter the Hermit and the “People’s Crusade”(ca. 1108–1148)
Quiz for Document 9-7: Anonymous of Mainz,The Slaughter of the Jews(ca. 1096)
Introduction for Chapter 10
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 10
Village Life
Slavery, Serfdom, and Upward Mobility
Thinking Like a Historian: Social and Economic Relations in Medieval English Villages
The Manor
Work
Home Life
Childbirth and Child Abandonment
Living in the Past: Child’s Play
Popular Religion
Christian Life in Medieval Villages
Saints and Sacraments
Muslims and Jews
Rituals of Marriage and Birth
Death and the Afterlife
Evaluating the Evidence 10.1: The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela
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Towns and Economic Revival
The Rise of Towns
Mapping the Past for Chapter 10
Merchant and Craft Guilds
The Revival of Long-Distance Trade
Business Procedures
The Commercial Revolution
Individuals in Society: Francesco Datini
Urban Life
City Life
Servants and the Poor
Popular Entertainment
Medieval Universities
Origins
Legal and Medical Training
Evaluating the Evidence 10.2: Healthy Living
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Theology and Philosophy
University Students
The Past Living Now: University Life
Literature and Architecture
Vernacular Literature and Drama
Evaluating the Evidence 10.3: Courtly Love Poetry
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Churches and Cathedrals
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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10. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 10
Quiz for Document 10-1: Manorial Records of Bernehorne(1307)
Quiz for Document 10-2: On Laborers: A Dialogue Between Teacher and Student(ca. 1000)
Quiz for Document 10-3: The Charter of the Laon Commune(ca. 1100–1120)
Quiz for Document 10-4: The Ordinances of London’s Leatherworkers(1346)
Quiz for Document 10-5: The Commune of Florence,A Sumptuary Law: Restrictions on Dress(1373)
Quiz for Document 10-6: Saint Thomas Aquinas,Summa Theologica: Proof of the Existence of God(1268)
Quiz for Document 10-7: Jacques De Vitry,The Virgin Mary Saves a Monk and His Lover(ca. 1200)
Introduction for Chapter 11
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 11
Prelude to Disaster
Climate Change and Famine
Social Consequences
The Black Death
Pathology
Spread of the Disease
Mapping the Past for Chapter 11
Care of the Sick
Living in the Past: Treating the Plague
Economic, Religious, and Cultural Effects
Evaluating the Evidence 11.1: Dance of Death
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The Hundred Years’ War
Causes
English Successes
Joan of Arc and France’s Victory
Evaluating the Evidence 11.2: The Trial of Joan of Arc
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Aftermath
Challenges to the Church
The Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism
Critiques, Divisions, and Councils
Lay Piety and Mysticism
Individuals in Society: Meister Eckhart
Social Unrest in a Changing Society
Peasant Revolts
Thinking Like a Historian: Popular Revolts in the Late Middle Ages
Urban Conflicts
Evaluating the Evidence 11.3: Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of Artisans
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 11.3: Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of Artisans
Sex in the City
Fur-Collar Crime
Ethnic Tensions and Restrictions
Literacy and Vernacular Literature
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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11. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 11
Quiz for Document 11-1: Giovanni Boccaccio,The Decameron: The Plague Hits Florence(ca. 1350)
Quiz for Document 11-2: Angelo di Tura,Sienese Chronicle(1348–1351)
Quiz for Document 11-3: The Anonimalle Chronicle: The English Peasants’ Revolt(1381)
Quiz for Document 11-4: Petrarca-Meister,The Social Order(ca. 1515)
Quiz for Document 11-5: Catherine of Siena,Letter to Gregory XI(1372)
Quiz for Document 11-6: The Debate Over Joan of Arc’s Clothes(1429)
Introduction for Chapter 12
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 12
Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy
Trade and Prosperity
Communes and Republics of Northern Italy
City-States and the Balance of Power
Evaluating the Evidence 12.1: A Sermon of Savonarola
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 12.1: A Sermon of Savonarola
Intellectual Change
Humanism
Education
Thinking Like a Historian: Humanist Learning
Political Thought
Christian Humanism
Evaluating the Evidence 12.2: Thomas More,Utopia
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The Printed Word
Mapping the Past for Chapter 12
Art and the Artist
Patronage and Power
Changing Artistic Styles
The Renaissance Artist
Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci
Social Hierarchies
Race and Slavery
Wealth and the Nobility
Gender Roles
Living in the Past: Male Clothing and Masculinity
Politics and the State in Western Europe
France
England
Spain
Evaluating the Evidence 12.3: A Gold Coin of Ferdinand and Isabella
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Looking Back Looking Ahead
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12. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 12
Quiz for Document 12-1: Petrarch,Letter to Livy(1350
Quiz for Document 12-2: Niccolò Machiavelli,The Prince(1513)
Quiz for Document 12-3: Baldassare Castiglione,The Book of the Courtier(1528)
Quiz for Document 12-4: Desiderius Erasmus,The Education of a Christian Prince(1516)
Quiz for Document 12-5: Christine de Pizan,The Book of the City of Ladies: Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good for Women to Be Educated(1404)
Quiz for Document 12-6: Artemisia Gentileschi,Susannah and the Elders(1610)
Quiz for Document 12-7: Artemisia Gentileschi,Judith and Holofernes(1610)
Introduction for Chapter 13
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 13
The Early Reformation
The Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth Century
Martin Luther
Protestant Thought
Evaluating the Evidence 13.1: Martin Luther,On Christian Liberty
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 13.1: Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
The Appeal of Protestant Ideas
Living in the Past: Uses of Art in the Reformation
The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War
Individuals in Society: Anna Jansz of Rotterdam
Marriage, Sexuality, and the Role of Women
Evaluating the Evidence 13.2: Domestic Scene
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The Reformation and German Politics
The Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty
Religious Wars in Switzerland and Germany
The Spread of Protestant Ideas
Scandinavia
Henry VIII and the Reformation in England
Upholding Protestantism in England
Evaluating the Evidence 13.3: Elizabethan Injunctions About Religion
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 13.3: Elizabethan Injunctions About Religion
Calvinism
Thinking Like a Historian: Social Discipline in the Reformation
The Reformation in Eastern Europe
The Catholic Reformation
Mapping the Past for Chapter 13
Papal Reform and the Council of Trent
New and Reformed Religious Orders
Religious Violence
French Religious Wars
The Netherlands Under Charles V
The Great European Witch-Hunt
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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13. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 13
Quiz for Document 13-1: Martin Luther,Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences(1517)
Quiz for Document 13-2: Hans Holbein the Younger,Luther as the German Hercules(ca. 1519)
Quiz for Document 13-3: Jean Bodin,On the Demon-Mania of Witches(1580)
Quiz for Document 13-4: Elizabeth Fox Confesses to Witchcraft(1566)
Quiz for Document 13-5: John Calvin,The Institutes of Christian Religion(1559)
Quiz for Document 13-6: Ignatius of Loyola,Rules for Right Thinking(1548)
Introduction for Chapter 14
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 14
World Contacts Before Columbus
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean
The Trading States of Africa
The Ottoman and Persian Empires
Genoese and Venetian Middlemen
The European Voyages of Discovery
Causes of European Expansion
Technology and the Rise of Exploration
The Portuguese Overseas Empire
Mapping the Past for Chapter 14
Spain’s Voyages to the Americas
Evaluating the Evidence 14.1: Columbus Describes His First Voyage
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Spain “Discovers” the Pacific
Early Exploration by Northern European Powers
Conquest and Settlement
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires
Thinking Like a Historian: Who Was Doña Marina?
Portuguese Brazil
Colonial Empires of England and France
Colonial Administration
The Era of Global Contact
Indigenous Population Loss and Economic Exploitation
Evaluating the Evidence 14.2: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives
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Life in the Colonies
The Columbian Exchange
Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange
Sugar and Slavery
Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja
Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects
The Birth of the Global Economy
Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Religious Conversion
Evaluating the Evidence 14.3: Tenochtitlan Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries
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European Debates About Indigenous Peoples
New Ideas About Race
Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity
William Shakespeare and His Influence
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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14. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 14
Quiz for Document 14-1: Christopher Columbus,Diario(1492)
Quiz for Document 14-2: Hernando Cortés,Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs(1521)
Quiz for Document 14-3: Alvise da Ca’ da Mosto,Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade in West Africa(1455–1456)
Quiz for Document 14-4: King Nzinga Mbemba Affonso of Congo,Letters on the Slave Trade(1526)
Quiz for Document 14-5: Saint Francis Xavier,Missionaries in Japan(1552)
Quiz for Document 14-6: Michel de Montaigne,Of Cannibals(1580)
Introduction for Chapter 15
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 15
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding
The Social Order and Peasant Life
Famine and Economic Crisis
The Thirty Years’ War
Achievements in State-Building
Warfare and the Growth of Army Size
Popular Political Action
Absolutism in France and Spain
The Foundations of French Absolutism
Louis XIV and Absolutism
Thinking Like a Historian: What Was Absolutism?
Life at Versailles
Living in the Past: The Absolutist Palace
Evaluating the Evidence 15.1: Letter from Versailles
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 15.1: Letter from Versailles
The French Economic Policy of Mercantilism
Louis XIV’s Wars
Mapping the Past for Chapter 15
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
Absolutism in Austria and Prussia
The Return of Serfdom in the East
The Austrian Habsburgs
Prussia in the Seventeenth Century
The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism
The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire
Mongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of Moscow
Building the Russian Empire
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Evaluating the Evidence 15.2: Peter the Great and Foreign Experts
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The Ottoman Empire
Individuals in Society: Hürrem
Constitutional Rule in England and the Dutch Republic
Religious Divides and Civil War
The Puritan Protectorate
The Restoration of the English Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
Evaluating the Evidence 15.3: John Locke,Two Treatises of Government
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 15.3: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Baroque Art and Music
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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15. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 15
Quiz for Document 15-1: Henry IV,Edict of Nantes(1598)
Quiz for Document 15-2: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet,Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture(1679)
Quiz for Document 15-3: The Bill of Rights(1689)
Quiz for Document 15-4: Peter the Great,Edicts and Decrees(1699–1723)
Quiz for Document 15-5: Thomas Hobbes,Leviathan(1651)
Quiz for Document 15-6: John Locke,Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution(1690)
Introduction for Chapter 16
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 16
The Scientific Revolution
Why Europe?
Scientific Thought to 1500
The Copernican Hypothesis
Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus Right
Evaluating the Evidence 16.1: Galileo Galilei,The Sidereal Messenger
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 16.1: Galileo Galilei, The Sidereal Messenger
Newton’s Synthesis
Natural History and Empire
Evaluating the Evidence 16.2: “An Account of a Particular Species of Cocoon”
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 16.2: “An Account of a Particular Species of Cocoon”
Magic and Alchemy
Important Changes in Scientific Thinking and Practice
The Methods of Science: Bacon and Descartes
Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry
Science and Religion
Science and Society
The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment Thought
The Early Enlightenment
The Influence of the Philosophes
Thinking Like a Historian: The Enlightenment Debate on Religious Tolerance
Enlightenment Movements Across Europe
The Social Life of the Enlightenment
Global Contacts
Enlightenment Debates About Race
Evaluating the Evidence 16.3: Denis Diderot, “Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage”
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 16.3: Denis Diderot, “Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage”
Women and the Enlightenment
Urban Culture and Life in the Public Sphere
Living in the Past: Coffeehouse Culture
Enlightened Absolutism
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Catherine the Great of Russia
Mapping the Past for Chapter 16
The Austrian Habsburgs
Jewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened Absolutism
Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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16. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 16
Quiz for Document 16-1: Nicolaus Copernicus,On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres(1542)
Quiz for Document 16-2: Francis Bacon,On Superstition and the Virtue of Science(1620)
Quiz for Document 16-3: Frederick the Great,Essay on the Forms of Government(ca. 1740)
Quiz for Document 16-4: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, FromThe Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers(1748)
Quiz for Document 16-5: Jean-Jacques Rousseau,The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will(1762)
Quiz for Document 16-6: Voltaire,A Treatise on Toleration(1763)
Introduction for Chapter 17
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 17
Working the Land
The Legacy of the Open-Field System
New Methods of Agriculture
The Leadership of the Low Countries and England
Evaluating the Evidence 17.1: Arthur Young on the Benefits of Enclosure
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 17.1: Arthur Young on the Benefits of Enclosure
The Beginning of the Population Explosion
Long-Standing Obstacles to Population Growth
The New Pattern of the Eighteenth Century
The Growth of Rural Industry
The Putting-Out System
Mapping the Past for Chapter 17
The Lives of Rural Textile Workers
Thinking Like a Historian: Rural Industry: Progress or Exploitation?
The Industrious Revolution
The Debate over Urban Guilds
Urban Guilds
Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism
Evaluating the Evidence 17.2: Adam Smith on the Division of Labor
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 17.2: Adam Smith on the Division of Labor
The Atlantic World and Global Trade
Mercantilism and Colonial Competition
The Atlantic Economy
Living in the Past: The Remaking of London
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Evaluating the Evidence 17.3: Olaudah Equiano’s Economic Arguments for Ending Slavery
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 17.3: Olaudah Equiano’s Economic Arguments for Ending Slavery
Identities and Communities of the Atlantic World
Individuals in Society: Rebecca Protten
The Atlantic Enlightenment
Trade and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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17. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 17
Quiz for Document 17-1: The Guild System in Germany(1704–1719)
Quiz for Document 17-2: Thomas Mun,England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade(1664)
Quiz for Document 17-3: Adam Smith,The Wealth of Nations(1776)
Quiz for Document 17-4: Olaudah Equiano,A Description of the Middle Passage(1789)
Quiz for Document 17-5: Robert, First Baron Clive,Speech in the House of Commons on India(1772)
Introduction for Chapter 18
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 18
Marriage and the Family
Late Marriage and Nuclear Families
Work Away from Home
Premarital Sex and Community Controls
New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy
Sex on the Margins of Society
Children and Education
Child Care and Nursing
Foundlings and Infanticide
Attitudes Toward Children
Evaluating the Evidence 18.1: Parisian Boyhood
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 18.1: Parisian Boyhood
The Spread of Elementary Schools
Popular Culture and Consumerism
Popular Literature
Mapping the Past for Chapter 18
Leisure and Recreation
The Past Living Now: The Commercialization of Sports
New Foods and Appetites
Evaluating the Evidence 18.2: A Day in the Life of Paris
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 18.2: A Day in the Life of Paris
Toward a Consumer Society
Individuals in Society: Rose Bertin, “Minister of Fashion”
Thinking Like a Historian: A New Subjectivity
Religious Authority and Beliefs
Church Hierarchy
Protestant Revival
Evaluating the Evidence 18.3: Advice to Methodists
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 18.3: Advice to Methodists
Catholic Piety
Marginal Beliefs and Practices
Medical Practice
Faith Healing and General Practice
Improvements in Surgery
Midwifery
Living in the Past: Improvements in Childbirth
The Conquest of Smallpox
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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18. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 18
Quiz for Document 18-1: Edmond Williamson,Births and Deaths in an English Gentry Family(1709–1720)
Quiz for Document 18-2: Mary Wortley Montagu,On Smallpox Inoculations(ca. 1717)
Quiz for Document 18-3: John Locke,Some Thoughts Concerning Education(1693)
Quiz for Document 18-4: John Wesley,The Ground Rules for Methodism (1749)
Quiz for Document 18-5: Thomas Paine,The Age of Reason(1794)
Introduction for Chapter 19
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 19
Background to Revolution
Social Change
Growing Demands for Liberty and Equality
The Seven Years’ War
The American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789
The Origins of the Revolution
Independence from Britain
Framing the Constitution
Limitations of Liberty and Equality
Evaluating the Evidence 19.1: Abigail Adams, “Remember the Ladies”
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 19.1: Abigail Adams, “Remember the Ladies”
Revolution in France, 1789–1791
Breakdown of the Old Order
The Formation of the National Assembly
Evaluating the Evidence 19.2: Abbé Sieyès,What Is the Third Estate?
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 19.2: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?
Popular Uprising and the Rights of Man
A Constitutional Monarchy and Its Challenges
Thinking Like a Historian: The Rights of Which Men?
World War and Republican France, 1791–1799
The International Response
The Second Revolution and the New Republic
Evaluating the Evidence 19.3: Contrasting Visions of the Sans-Culottes
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 19.3: Contrasting Visions of the Sans-Culottes
Total War and the Terror
Living in the Past: A Revolution of Culture and Daily Life
The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory
The Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815
Napoleon’s Rule of France
Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe
The Grand Empire and Its End
Mapping the Past for Chapter 19
The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804
Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue
The Outbreak of Revolt
Individuals in Society: Toussaint L’Ouverture
The War of Haitian Independence
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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19. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 19
Quiz for Document 19-1: Commissioners of the Third Estate of the Carcassonne,Notebooks of Grievances(1789)
Quiz for Document 19-2: Abbé Sieyès,What Is the Third Estate?(1789)
Quiz for Document 19-3: National Assembly of France,Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen(1789)
Quiz for Document 19-4: The Law of 22 Prairial(1794)
Quiz for Document 19-5: Napoleon Bonaparte,The Napoleonic Code(1804)
Quiz for Document 19-6: Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792)
Quiz for Document 19-7: François Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture,A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti(1797)
Introduction for Chapter 20
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 20
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
Why Britain?
Technological Innovations and Early Factories
Individuals in Society: Samuel Crompton
The Steam Engine Breakthrough
Steam-Powered Transportation
Living in the Past: The Steam Age
Industry and Population
Industrialization in Europe and the World
National and International Variations
Industrialization in Continental Europe
Mapping the Past for Chapter 20
Agents of Industrialization
The Global Picture
New Patterns of Working and Living
Work in Early Factories
Working Families and Children
Evaluating the Evidence 20.1: Debate over Child Labor Laws
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 20.1: Debate over Child Labor Laws
The New Sexual Division of Labor
Evaluating the Evidence 20.2: The Testimony of Young Mine Workers
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 20.2: The Testimony of Young Mine Workers
Living Standards for the Working Class
Relations Between Capital and Labor
Thinking Like a Historian: Making the Industrialized Worker
The New Class of Factory Owners
Evaluating the Evidence 20.3: Advice for Middle-Class Women
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 20.3: Advice for Middle-Class Women
Responses to Industrialization
The Early British Labor Movement
The Impact of Slavery
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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20. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 20
Quiz for Document 20-1: Thomas Malthus,An Essay on the Principle of Population(1798)
Quiz for Document 20-2: Friedrich Engels,The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844(1844)
Quiz for Document 20-3: Factory Rules in Berlin(1844)
Quiz for Document 20-4: Ned Ludd,Yorkshire Textile Workers Threaten a Factory Owner(ca. 1811–1812)
Quiz for Document 20-5: Robert Owen,A New View of Society(1813)
Quiz for Document 20-6: The Child of the Factory(1842)
Introduction for Chapter 21
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 21
The Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars
Mapping the Past for Chapter 21
The European Balance of Power
Metternich and Conservatism
Repressing the Revolutionary Spirit
Evaluating the Evidence 21.1: The Karlsbad Decrees: Conservative Reaction in the German Confederation
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 21.1: The Karlsbad Decrees: Conservative Reaction in the German Confederation
Limits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South America
The Spread of Radical Ideas
Liberalism and the Middle Class
Thinking Like a Historian: The Republican Spirit in 1848
The Growing Appeal of Nationalism
The Foundations of Modern Socialism
The Birth of Marxist Socialism
The Romantic Movement
The Tenets of Romanticism
Romantic Literature
Evaluating the Evidence 21.2: English Romantic Poets
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 21.2: English Romantic Poets
Individuals in Society: Germaine de Staël
Evaluating the Evidence 21.3: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,Children’s Stories and Household Tales
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Romanticism in Art and Music
Reforms and Revolutions Before 1848
National Liberation in Greece
Liberal Reform in Great Britain
Ireland and the Great Famine
The Revolution of 1830 in France
The Revolutions of 1848
A Democratic Republic in France
Living in the Past: Revolutionary Experiences in 1848
Revolution and Reaction in the Austrian Empire
Prussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National Parliament
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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21. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 21
Quiz for Document 21-1: David Ricardo, On Wages(1817)
Quiz for Document 21-2: Klemens von Metternich,Political Confession of Faith(1820)
Quiz for Document 21-3: John Stuart Mill,On Liberty(1859)
Quiz for Document 21-4: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,The Communist Manifesto(1848)
Quiz for Document 21-5: Eugène Delacroix,Liberty Leading the People(1830)
Quiz for Document 21-6: The People’s Charter(1838)
Quiz for Document 21-7: William Steuart Trench,Realities of Irish Life(1847)
Introduction for Chapter 22
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 22
Taming the City
Industry and the Growth of Cities
Mapping the Past for Chapter 22
Evaluating the Evidence 22.1: First Impressions of the World’s Biggest City
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 22.1: First Impressions of the World’s Biggest City
The Advent of the Public Health Movement
The Past Living Now: Modern Sewage Systems
The Bacterial Revolution
Improvements in Urban Planning
Public Transportation
Rich and Poor and Those in Between
The Distribution of Income
The People and Occupations of the Middle Classes
Middle-Class Culture and Values
Living in the Past: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Fashion
The People and Occupations of the Working Classes
Working-Class Leisure and Religion
Changing Family Lifestyles
Middle-Class Marriage and Courtship Rituals
Middle- and Working-Class Sexuality
Evaluating the Evidence 22.2: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 22.2: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality
Prostitution
Separate Spheres and the Importance of Homemaking
Child Rearing
The Feminist Movement
Individuals in Society: Franziska Tiburtius
Science and Thought
The Triumph of Science in Industry
Thinking Like a Historian: The Promise of Electricity
Darwin and Natural Selection
The Modern University and the Social Sciences
Realism in Art and Literature
Evaluating the Evidence 22.3: Émile Zola and Realism in Literature
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 22.3: Émile Zola and Realism in Literature
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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22. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 22
Quiz for Document 22-1: Edwin Chadwick,Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Poor(1842)
Quiz for Document 22-2: Jack London,The People of the Abyss(1902)
Quiz for Document 22-3: Isabella Beeton,Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management(1861)
Quiz for Document 22-4: Dressing the Respectable Woman(ca. 1890)
Quiz for Document 22-5: Clara Zetkin,Women’s Work and the Trade Unions(1887)
Quiz for Document 22-6: Charles Darwin,The Descent of Man(1871)
Quiz for Document 22-7: Herbert Spencer,Social Statics: Survival of the Fittest Applied to Humankind(1851)
Introduction for Chapter 23
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 23
Napoleon III in France
France’s Second Republic
Napoleon III’s Second Empire
Nation Building in Italy, Germany, and the United States
Italy to 1850
Evaluating the Evidence 23.1: The Struggle for the Italian Nation
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 23.1: The Struggle for the Italian Nation
Cavour and Garibaldi in Italy
Growing Austro-Prussian Rivalry
Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian War
Mapping the Past for Chapter 23
Taming the German Parliament
The Franco-Prussian War
Slavery and Nation Building in the United States
The Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman Empire
The “Great Reforms” in Russia
Living in the Past: Peasant Life in Post-Reform Russia
The Russian Revolution of 1905
Evaluating the Evidence 23.2: Eyewitness Accounts of Bloody Sunday
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Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman Empire
The Responsive National State, 1871–1914
The German Empire
Republican France
Great Britain and Ireland
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Nation and the People
Making National Citizens
Thinking Like a Historian: How to Build a Nation
Nationalism and Racism
Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism
Individuals in Society: Theodor Herzl
Marxism and the Socialist Movement
The Socialist International
Evaluating the Evidence 23.3: Adelheid Popp, the Making of a Socialist
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Labor Unions and Marxist Revisionism
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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23. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 23
Quiz for Document 23-1: The First Meeting Between Mazzini and Garibaldi(1833)
Quiz for Document 23-2: Giorgio Asproni,Reflections on the Death of Cavour(1860)
Quiz for Document 23-3: Otto von Bismarck,Speech Before the Reichstag: On the Law for Workers’ Compensation(1884)
Quiz for Document 23-4: John Leighton,Paris Under the Commune(1871)
Quiz for Document 23-5: Émile Zola,“J’Accuse” the French Army(1898)
Introduction for Chapter 24
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 24
Industrialization and the World Economy
The Rise of Global Inequality
The World Market
The Opening of China
Japan and the United States
Western Penetration of Egypt
Global Migration Around 1900
The Pressure of Population
European Emigration
Living in the Past: The Immigrant Experience
Asian Emigration
Evaluating the Evidence 24.1: Nativism in the United States
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 24.1: Nativism in the United States
Western Imperialism, 1880–1914
The European Presence in Africa Before 1880
The Scramble for Africa After 1880
Mapping the Past for Chapter 24
Individuals in Society: Cecil Rhodes
Imperialism in Asia
Causes of the New Imperialism
A “Civilizing Mission”
Evaluating the Evidence 24.2: The White Man’s Burden
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 24.2: The White Man’s Burden
Thinking Like a Historian: Women and Empire
Orientalism
Critics of Imperialism
Evaluating the Evidence 24.3: The Brown Man’s Burden
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 24.3: The Brown Man’s Burden
Responding to Western Imperialism
The Pattern of Response
Empire in India
The Example of Japan
Toward Revolution in China
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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24. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 24
Quiz for Document 24-1: Commissioner Lin Zexu,Letter to Queen Victoria(1839)
Quiz for Document 24-2: Jules Ferry,Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies(1884)
Quiz for Document 24-3: The Rhodes Colossus(1892)
Quiz for Document 24-4: Henry Morton Stanley,Autobiography(1909)
Quiz for Document 24-5: Mark Twain,King Leopold’s Soliloquy(1905)
Quiz for Document 24-6: J. A. Hobson,Imperialism(1902)
Introduction for Chapter 25
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 25
The Road to War
Growing International Conflict
The Mood of 1914
The Outbreak of War
Waging Total War
Stalemate and Slaughter on the Western Front
Living in the Past: Life and Death on the Western Front
Evaluating the Evidence 25.1: Poetry in the Trenches
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 25.1: Poetry in the Trenches
The Widening War
The Home Front
Mobilizing for Total War
The Social Impact
Individuals in Society: Vera Brittain
Growing Political Tensions
Evaluating the Evidence 25.2: Wartime Propaganda Posters
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 25.2: Wartime Propaganda Posters
The Russian Revolution
The Fall of Imperial Russia
The Provisional Government
Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution
Trotsky and the Seizure of Power
Evaluating the Evidence 25.3: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian People
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 25.3: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian People
Dictatorship and Civil War
The Peace Settlement
The End of the War
Revolution in Austria-Hungary and Germany
Mapping the Past for Chapter 25
The Treaty of Versailles
The Peace Settlement in the Middle East
Thinking Like a Historian: The Partition of the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate System
The Human Costs of the War
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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25. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 25
Quiz for Document 25-1: Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg,Telegram to the German Ambassador at Vienna(July 6, 1914)
Quiz for Document 25-2: Klaxon Horn Used to Warn of Gas Attacks(1917)
Quiz for Document 25-3: Baron Manfred von Richthofen(1917)
Quiz for Document 25-4: Helena Swanwick,The War in Its Effect Upon Women(1916)
Quiz for Document 25-5: Vladimir I. Lenin,What Is to Be Done?(1902)
Quiz for Document 25-6: Woodrow Wilson,The Fourteen Points(1918)
Quiz for Document 25-7: A Defeated Germany Contemplates the Peace Treaty(1919)
Introduction for Chapter 26
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 26
Uncertainty in Modern Thought
Modern Philosophy
Evaluating the Evidence 26.1: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of God
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 26.1: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of God
The Revival of Christianity
The New Physics
Freudian Psychology
Modernism in Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music
Architecture and Design
Living in the Past: Modern Design for Everyday Use
New Artistic Movements
Evaluating the Evidence 26.2: The Futurist Manifesto
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 26.2: The Futurist Manifesto
Twentieth-Century Literature
Modern Music
An Emerging Consumer Society
Mass Culture
The Appeal of Cinema
Thinking Like a Historian: The Radio Age
The Arrival of Radio
The Search for Peace and Political Stability
Germany and the Western Powers
Individuals in Society: Gustav Stresemann
Hope in Foreign Affairs
Hope in Democratic Government
The Great Depression, 1929–1939
The Economic Crisis
Mapping the Past for Chapter 26
Mass Unemployment
Evaluating the Evidence 26.3: George Orwell on Life on the Dole
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 26.3: George Orwell on Life on the Dole
The New Deal in the United States
The Scandinavian Response to the Depression
Recovery and Reform in Britain and France
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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26. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 26
Quiz for Document 26-1: Sigmund Freud,The Interpretation of Dreams(1900)
Quiz for Document 26-2: Mary Cassatt,Reading Le Figaro(1878)
Quiz for Document 26-3: John Maynard Keynes,The Economic Consequences of the Peace(1920)
Quiz for Document 26-4: Hyperinflation in Germany(1923)
Quiz for Document 26-5: Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart,Parliament Addresses the Great Depression in Britain(1934)
Quiz for Document 26-6: Heinrich Hauser,With the Unemployed in Germany(1933)
Quiz for Document 26-7: German Communist Party Poster (1932)
Introduction for Chapter 27
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 27
Authoritarian States
Conservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships
Communism and Fascism
Individuals in Society: Primo Levi
Stalin’s Soviet Union
From Lenin to Stalin
The Five-Year Plans
Evaluating the Evidence 27.1: Stalin Justifies the Five-Year Plan
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 27.1: Stalin Justifies the Five-Year Plan
Evaluating the Evidence 27.2: Famine and Recovery on a Soviet Collective Farm
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 27.2: Famine and Recovery on a Soviet Collective Farm
Life and Culture in Soviet Society
Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
The Seizure of Power
The Regime in Action
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
The Roots of National Socialism
Hitler’s Road to Power
State and Society in Nazi Germany
Thinking Like a Historian: Normalizing Eugenics and “Racial Hygiene” in Nazi Germany
Popular Support for National Socialism
Living in the Past: Nazi Propaganda and Consumer Goods
Aggression and Appeasement
The Second World War
German Victories in Europe
Evaluating the Evidence 27.3: Everyday Life in the London Blitz
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 27.3: Everyday Life in the London Blitz
Mapping the Past for Chapter 27
Europe Under Nazi Occupation
The Holocaust
Japanese Empire and the War in the Pacific
The “Hinge of Fate”
Allied Victory
Looking Back Looking Ahead
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27. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 27
Quiz for Document 27-1: Richard Washburn Child,Foreword to the Autobiography of Benito Mussolini(1928)
Quiz for Document 27-2: Vladimir Tchernavin,I Speak for the Silent(1930)
Quiz for Document 27-3: Adolf Hitler,Mein Kampf: The Art of Propaganda(1924)
Quiz for Document 27-4: Soviet Propaganda Posters (1941 and 1945)
Quiz for Document 27-5: Winston Churchill,Speech Before the House of Commons(June 18, 1940)
Quiz for Document 27-6: The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation (1935)
Quiz for Document 27-7: Alfred Rosenberg,The Jewish Question as a World Problem(1941)
Introduction for Chapter 28
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 28
Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War
The Legacies of the Second World War
Mapping the Past for Chapter 28
The Peace Settlement and Cold War Origins
West Versus East
Big Science in the Nuclear Age
The Western Renaissance/Recovery in Western Europe
The Search for Political and Social Consensus
Evaluating the Evidence 28.1: Western European Recovery and the Promise of Prosperity
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 28.1: Western European Recovery and the Promise of Prosperity
Toward European Unity
The Consumer Revolution
Developments in the Soviet Union and the East Bloc
Postwar Life in the East Bloc
Living in the Past: A Model Socialist Steel Town
Reform and De-Stalinization
Evaluating the Evidence 28.2: The Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate”
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 28.2: The Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate”
Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion
The Limits of Reform
The End of Empires
Decolonization and the Global Cold War
Evaluating the Evidence 28.3: Frantz Fanon on Violence, Decolonization, and Human Dignity
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 28.3: Frantz Fanon on Violence, Decolonization, and Human Dignity
The Struggle for Power in Asia
Independence and Conflict in the Middle East
Decolonization in Africa
Thinking Like a Historian: Violence and the Algerian War
Postwar Social Transformations
Changing Class Structures
Patterns of Postwar Migration
Individuals in Society: Armando Rodrigues
New Roles for Women
Youth Culture and the Generation Gap
Looking Back Looking Ahead
Review & Explore
Identify Key Terms
Review the Main Ideas
Suggested Reading and Media Resources
28. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 28
Quiz for Document 28-1: George C. Marshall,An American Plan to Rebuild a Shattered Europe(June 5, 1947)
Quiz for Document 28-2: Alexander Solzhenitsyn,One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich(1962)
Quiz for Document 28-3: Joseph Stalin,Interview Regarding Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech(March 14, 1946)
Quiz for Document 28-4: Frantz Fanon,The Wretched of the Earth(1961)
Quiz for Document 28-5: Simone de Beauvoir,The Second Sex(1949)
Introduction for Chapter 29
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 29
Reform and Protest in the 1960s
Cold War Tensions Thaw
Evaluating the Evidence 29.1: Human Rights Under the Helsinki Accords
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 29.1: Human Rights Under the Helsinki Accords
The Affluent Society
Living in the Past: The Supermarket Revolution
The Counterculture Movement
The United States and Vietnam
Student Revolts and 1968
The 1960s in the East Bloc
Crisis and Change in Western Europe
Economic Crisis and Hardship
The New Conservatism
Individuals in Society: Margaret Thatcher
Challenges and Victories for Women
Evaluating the Evidence 29.2: Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Critique of Marriage
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 29.2: Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Critique of Marriage
The Rise of the Environmental Movement
Thinking Like a Historian: The New Environmentalism
Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism
The Decline of “Developed Socialism”
State and Society in the East Bloc
Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland
Evaluating the Evidence 29.3: Dissent in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 29.3: Dissent in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
From Détente Back to Cold War
Gorbachev’s Reforms in the Soviet Union
The Revolutions of 1989
Mapping the Past for Chapter 29
The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc
German Unification and the End of the Cold War
The Disintegration of the Soviet Union
Looking Back Looking Ahead
Review & Explore
Identify Key Terms
Review the Main Ideas
Suggested Reading and Media Resources
29. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 29
Quiz for Document 29-1: Solidarity Union,Twenty-One Demands: A Call for Workers’ Rights and Freedoms(1980)
Quiz for Document 29-2: Mikhail Gorbachev,Perestroika: A Soviet Leader Calls for Change(1987)
Quiz for Document 29-3: Jeff Widener,Tank Man(1989)
Quiz for Document 29-4: Betty Friedan,Statement of Purpose of the National Organization of Women: Defining Full Equality(1966)
Quiz for Document 29-5: Vaclav Havel,New Year’s Address to the Nation(1990)
Introduction for Chapter 30
Guided Reading Exercise for Chapter 30
Reshaping the Soviet Union and the Former East Bloc
Economic Shock Therapy in Russia
Russian Revival Under Vladimir Putin
Evaluating the Evidence 30.1: President Putin on Global Security
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 30.1: President Putin on Global Security
Coping with Change in the Former East Bloc
Tragedy in Yugoslavia
Instability in the Former Soviet Republics
The New Global System
The Global Economy
The New European Union
Mapping the Past for Chapter 30
Living in the Past: The Euro
Supranational Organizations
The Human Side of Globalization
Life in the Digital Age
Individuals in Society: Edward Snowden
Ethnic Diversity in Contemporary Europe
The Prospect of Population Decline
Changing Immigration Flows
Toward a Multicultural Continent
Europe and Its Muslim Population
Thinking Like a Historian: The Conservative Reaction to Immigration and Islamist Terrorism
Evaluating the Evidence 30.2: William Pfaff, Will the French Riots Change Anything?
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 30.2: William Pfaff, Will the French Riots Change Anything?
Confronting Long-Term Challenges
Growing Strains in U.S.-European Relations
Turmoil in the Muslim World
The Global Recession and the Viability of the Eurozone
Evaluating the Evidence 30.3: The Thessaloniki Programme
Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 30.3: The Thessaloniki Programme
Dependence on Fossil Fuels
Climate Change and Environmental Degradation
Promoting Human Rights
The Past Living Now: Remembering the Holocaust
Looking Back Looking Ahead
Review & Explore
Identify Key Terms
Review the Main Ideas
Suggested Reading and Media Resources
30. Documents from Sources for Western Society, Chapter 30
Quiz for Document 30-1: Amartya Sen,A World Not Neatly Divided(November 23, 2001)
Quiz for Document 30-2: Tariq Ramadan,Western Muslims and the Future of Islam(2004)
Quiz for Document 30-3: A Greenpeace Activist at the G8 Summit(2001)
Quiz for Document 30-4: A Tunisian Woman Casts Her Vote (2011)
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Acknowledgments
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