The West: Encounters & Transformations, Chapters 14-29
by Levack, Brian P.; Muir, Edward; Maas, Michael; Veldman, MeredithEdition: 1st
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley
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Summary
This new text takes a new approach to telling the story of Western civilization as simply the history of mainly Europe from ancient times to present. This book examines the changing nature of the West how the definition of the West has evolved and changed throughout history. It examines how the definition of western civilization has changed through a series of cultural encounters with different cultures, beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples both outside of the West and within it.
Table of Contents
| "What is the West? | |
| "The Contraditction of Western Values | |
| The West as Place | |
| Western Civilization? Asking the Right Questions | |
| Absolutism and State-Building in Europe, 1618-1715 | |
| The Nature of Absolutism | |
| The Absolutist State in France and Spain | |
| Absolutism and State Building in Central and Eastern Europe | |
| Resistance to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic | |
| Conclusion: The Western State in the Age of Absolutism | |
| Justice in History: The Trial of Charles I | |
| The Human Body in History: Mutilation and Royal Power | |
| Science and Culture in the Seventeenth Century | |
| The Scientific Revolution | |
| The Search for Scientific Knowledge | |
| The Causes of the Scientific Revolution | |
| The Intellectual Effects of the Scientific Revolution | |
| Humans and the Natural World | |
| Conclusion: Science and Western Culture | |
| Justice in History: The Trial of Galileo | |
| The Human Body in History: Dissecting the Human Corpse | |
| Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture | |
| The Aristocracy | |
| Challenges to Aristocratic Dominance | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| The Impact of the Enlightenment | |
| Conclusion: Stability and Change in the Eighteenth Century | |
| Justice in History: A Case of Infanticide During the Enlightenment | |
| Places of Encounters: The Salon | |
| The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
| The First French Revolution 1789-1791 | |
| The French Republic, 1792-1799 | |
| Cultural Change in France During the Revolution | |
| The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 | |
| The Legacy of the French Revolution | |
| Conclusion: The French Revolution and the West | |
| Justice in History: The Trial of Louis XI | |
| The West and the World: Empire, Trade and War in the Eighteenth Century | |
| European Empires in America and Asia | |
| Warfare in Europe, America, and Asia | |
| The Wars of the Spanish and Austrian Successions, 1701-1748 | |
| The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | |
| The American and French Revolutionary Wars, 1775-1815 | |
| The Atlantic World | |
| Encounters between Europeans and Asians | |
| The Crisis of Empire and the Atlantic Revolutions | |
| Conclusion: The Rise and Reshaping of the West | |
| Justice in History: The Court-Martial of the Mutineers on the Bounty | |
| The Human Body in History: Bathing in the East and West | |
| The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850 | |
| The Nature of the Industrial Revolution | |
| The Prerequisites of Industrial Growth | |
| The Spread of Industrialization | |
| The Effects of Industrialization | |
| Industry, Trade and Empire | |
| Conclusion: Industrialization and the West | |
| Justice in History: The Sadler Committee on Child Labor | |
| Ideological Encounters and National Unification, 1815-1871 | |
| New Ideologies in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
| Scientific Rationalism | |
| Romanticism | |
| Ideological Encounters in Europe, 1815-1848 | |
| Liberals, Nationalists, and Republicans in Italy | |
| The Failure of the Revolutions of | |
| National Unification in Europe and America, 1848-1871 | |
| Ideology, Empire, and the Balance of Power | |
| Conclusion: Ideological Encounters in the West | |
| Justice in History: Prostitution, Corporal Punishment, and Liberalism in Germany | |
| The Human Body in History: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Body in Romantic Literature | |
| The Coming of Mass Politics: Industrialization, Emancipation, and Instability, 1870-1914. Economic Transformation. Defining the Political Nation. Broadening the Political Nation. Outside the Political Nation? The Experience of Women. Conclusion: The West in an Age of Mass Politics. Justice in History: The Dreyfus Affair—Defining National Identity in France. The Human Body in History: Men in Black | |
| The West and the World: Cultural Crisis and New Imperialism, 1870-1914 | |
| Scientific Transformations | |
| Cultural Crisis and the Birth of Modernism | |
| The West and the World: The New Imperialism | |
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