The Essential Guide to Western Civilization (Paperback, 2 ed)

Prologue: The Value of European History? 1. Early Humans and the Dawn of Civilization? 2. Ancient Greece: Politics and War? 3. Ancient Greece: Society, Culture, and Daily Life? 4. Ancient Rome: Politics and War? 5. Ancient Rome: Society, Culture and Daily Life? 6. The Middle Ages: Politics and War, 500?1300? 7. The Middle Ages: Society, Culture and Daily Life? 8. The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance? 9. The Age of Discovery, the Protestant Reformation, and the Wars of Religion, 1492?1648? 10. Politics, Colonialism, and War, 1648?1789? 11. European Society during the Scientific, Agricultural, and Industrial Revolutions, 1600?1800? 12. The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Age of Napoleon, 1700?1815? 13. Challenging the Conservative Order: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socioeconomic Change, 1815?50? 14. Middle Class Europe: The Triumph of Liberalism and Nationalism and the Rise of Socialism, 1850?1914? 15. Industrialization, Imperialism, and Intellectual and Social Change, 1850?1914? 16. World War I, 1914?18? 17. Interwar Europe, 1919?39? 18. World War II, 1939?45? 19. The Cold War and the End of European Dominance, 1945?present? Epilogue: Europe, the United States, and the World in the 21st Century