Table of Contents

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Chapter 1 The Beginnings of Civilizations, 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 2 The International Bronze Age and Its Aftermath: Trade, Empire, and Diplomacy, 1600–550 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 3 Building the Classical World: Hebrews, Persians, and Greeks, 1100–336 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 4 The Hellenistic Age, 336–31 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 5 Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors: 31 B.C.E.–235 C.E.
 
Chapter 6 Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250–600
 
Chapter 7 Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West: The Foundations of Medieval Europe, 550–750
 
Chapter 8 Empires and Borderlands: The Early Middle Ages, 750–1050
 
Chapter 9 The West Asserts Itself: The High Middle Ages, 1050–1300
 
Chapter 10 The West in Crisis: The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450
 
Chapter 11 The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture, 1350–1550
 
Chapter 12 The West and the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450–1650
 
Chapter 13 The Reformation of Religion, 1500–1560
 
Chapter 14 The Age of Confessional Division, 1550–1618
 
Chapter 15 Absolutism and State Building in Europe, 1618–1715
 
Chapter 16 The Scientific Revolution
 
Chapter 17 Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture
 
Chapter 18 The Age of the French Revolution, 1789–1815
 
Chapter 19 The West and the World: Empire, Trade and War, 1650–1850
 
Chapter 20 The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1850
 
Chapter 21 Ideological Conflicts and National Unification, 1815–1871
 
Chapter 22 The Coming of Mass Politics: Industrialization, Emancipation, and Instability, 1870–1914
 
Chapter 23 The West and the World: Cultural Crisis and New Imperialism, 1870–1914
 
Chapter 24 The First World War
 
Chapter 25 Reconstruction, Reaction, and Continuing Revolution: The 1920s and 1930s
 
Chapter 26 World War and Its Aftermath, 1931–1949
 
Chapter 27 The Holocaust, the Bomb, and the Legacy of Mass Killing
 
Chapter 28 Redefining the West After World War II
 
Chapter 29 The Contemporary Era, 1973 to the Present
 

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