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: Persians, Hebrews, and Greeks: The Foundations of Western Culture, 1100-336 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World and the Roman Republic, 336-31 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 5: Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors: 31 BCE-235 C.E.
 
Chapter 6: Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600
 
Chapter 7: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: Byzantium and Islam
 
Chapter 8: Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
 
Chapter 9: Medieval Civilization: The Rise of Western Europe
 
Chapter 10: The Medieval West in Crisis
 
Chapter 11: The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture
 
Chapter 12: The West and the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650
 
Chapter 13: The Reformation of Religion
 
Chapter 14: The Age of Confessional Division
 
Chapter 15: Absolutism and State-Building in Europe, 1618-1715
 
Chapter 16: The Scientific Revolution
 
Chapter 17: The West and the World: Empire, Trade and War, 1650-1815
 
Chapter 18: Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture
 
Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
 
Chapter 20: The Industrial Revolution
 
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 II
 
Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II
 
Chapter 28: The West in the Contemporary Era: New Encounters and Transformations
 

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