Skip to Main Content
  • Instructor Catalog
  • Student Store
  • United States StoreUnited States
Student Store Student Store
    • I'M AN INSTRUCTOR

    • I'M A STUDENT
  • Help
  • search

    Find what you need to succeed.

    search icon
  • Shopping Cart
    0
    • United States StoreUnited States
  • Who We Are

    Who We Are

    back
    • Who We Are
  • Student Benefits

    Student Benefits

    back
    • Rent and Save
    • Flexible Formats
    • College Quest Blog
  • Discipline

    Discipline

    back
    • Astronomy Biochemistry Biology Chemistry College Success Communication Economics Electrical Engineering English Environmental Science Geography Geology History Mathematics Music & Theater Nutrition and Health Philosophy & Religion Physics Psychology Sociology Statistics Value
  • Digital Products

    Digital Products

    back
    • Achieve
    • E-books
    • LaunchPad
    • iClicker Student App (Student Response System)
    • FlipIt
    • WebAssign
  • Support

    Support

    back
    • Get Help
    • Rental Returns
    • Student Options Explained
    • Support Community
Making of the West, Value Edition, Volume 2 by Lynn Hunt; Thomas R. Martin; Barbara H. Rosenwein; Bonnie G. Smith - Fifth Edition, 2017 from Macmillan Student Store
Rental FAQs

Making of the West, Value Edition, Volume 2

Fifth  Edition|©2017  Lynn Hunt; Thomas R. Martin; Barbara H. Rosenwein; Bonnie G. Smith

  • About
  • Contents
  • Authors

About

Peoples, cultures, and their global context.

The Making of the West features a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context and tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped western history. This two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, all maps and select images from the comprehensive text. LaunchPad, available free when packaged with the book or discounted standalone, features all of the contents of the comprehensive edition in full color plus a wealth of primary documents, comparative analysis, visual analysis, and quantitative analysis in every chapter. With the addition of LaunchPad, the Value Edition offers more value and options than ever before.

Contents

Table of Contents

14. Global Encounters and the Shock of the Reformation, 1492–1560
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Discovery of New Worlds
Portuguese Explorations
The Voyages of Columbus
A New Era in Slavery
Conquering the New World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Reformation
The Invention of Printing
Popular Piety and Christian Humanism
Martin Luther’s Challenge
Protestantism Spreads and Divides
The Contested Church of England
Reshaping Society through Religion
Protestant Challenges to the Social Order
New Forms of Discipline
Catholic Renewal
Striving for Mastery
Courtiers and Princes
Dynastic Wars
Financing War
Divided Realms
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Reformation Europe, c. 1560
LaunchPad
Chapter 14 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 14 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

14. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14.1: Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493)
Document 14.2: Ordinances for Calvinist Churches (1547)
SEEING HISTORY: Expanding Geographic Knowledge: World Maps in an Age of Exploration
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic?
TAKING MEASURE: The Printing Press in Europe ca. 1500

14. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14-1 Worlds Collide: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1567)
Document 14-2 Illustrating a Native Perspective: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (c. 1560)
Document 14-3 Defending Native Humanity: Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (c. 1548–1550)
Document 14-4 Scripture and Salvation: Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Document 14-5 Reforming Christianity: John Calvin, Articles Concerning Predestination (c. 1560) and The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543)
Document 14-6 Responding to Reformation: St. Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 14

15. Wars of Religion and the Clash of Worldviews, 1560–1648
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
Religious Conflicts Threaten State Power, 1560–1618
French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598
Dutch Revolt against Spain
Elizabeth I’s Defense of English Protestantism
The Clash of Faiths and Empires in Eastern Europe
The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648
Origins and Course of the War
The Effects of Constant Fighting
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
Economic Crisis and Realignment
From Growth to Recession
Consequences for Daily Life
The Economic Balance of Power
The Rise of Science and a Scientific Worldview
The Scientific Revolution
The Natural Laws of Politics
The Arts in an Age of Crisis
Magic and Witchcraft
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The Religious Divisions of Europe, c. 1648 LaunchPad
Chapter 15 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 15 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

15. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15.1: The Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War, 1626
Document 15.2: Sentence Pronounced against Galileo (1633)
SEEING HISTORY: Religious Differences in Painting of the Baroque Period: Rubens and Rembrandt
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Political Authority and Religion: What Happened When Subjects Held Different Beliefs?
TAKING MEASURE: Precious Metals and the Spanish Colonies, 1550–1800
15. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15-1 Legislating Tolerance: Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)
Document 15-2 Barbarians All: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580s)
Document 15-3 Defending Religious Liberty: Apology of the Bohemian Estates (May 25, 1618)
Document 15-4 The Scientific Challenge: Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Document 15-5 The Persecution of Witches: The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 15

16. Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Search for Order, 1640–1700
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Louis XIV: Absolutism and Its Limits
The Fronde, 1648–1653
Court Culture as an Element of Absolutism
Enforcing Religious Orthodoxy
Extending State Authority at Home and Abroad
Constitutionalism in England
England Turned Upside Down, 1642–1660
Restoration and Revolution Again
Social Contract Theory: Hobbes and Locke
Outposts of Constitutionalism
The Dutch Republic
Freedom and Slavery in the New World
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe
Poland-Lithuania Overwhelmed
Brandenburg-Prussia: Militaristic Absolutism
An Uneasy Balance: Austrian Habsburgs and Ottoman Turks
Russia: Setting the Foundations of Bureaucratic Absolutism
The Search for Order in Elite and Popular Culture
Freedom and Constraint in the Arts and Sciences
Women and Manners
Reforming Popular Culture
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe at the End of the Seventeenth Century LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

16. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 16 LaunchPad
Document 16.1:
Marie de Sévigné, Letter Describing the French Court (1675)
Document 16.2: John Milton, Defense of Freedom of the Press (1644)
SEEING HISTORY: Symbols and Power in the Age of Louis XIV
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The English Civil War
TAKING MEASURE: The Seventeenth-Century Army
16. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 16 LaunchPad
Document 16-1 Mercantilism in the Colonies: Instructions from Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1667, 1668) and a Royal Ordinance (1669)
Document 16-2 Regime Change: The Trial of Charles I (January 1649)
Document 16-3 Civil War and Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
Document 16-4 The Consent of the Governed: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (1690)
Document 16-5 Opposing Serfdom: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 16

17. The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1700–1750
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Atlantic System and the World Economy
Slavery and the Atlantic System
World Trade and Settlement
The Birth of Consumer Society
New Social and Cultural Patterns
Agricultural Revolution
Social Life in the Cities
New Tastes in the Arts
Religious Revivals
Consolidation of the European State System
A New Power Alignment
British Rise and Dutch Decline
Russia’s Emergence as a European Power
Continuing Dynastic Struggles
The Power of Diplomacy and the Importance of Population
The Birth of the Enlightenment
Popularization of Science and Challenges to Religion
Travel Literature and the Challenge to Custom and Tradition
Raising the Woman Question
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe in 1750 LaunchPad
Chapter 17 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

17. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 17 LaunchPad
Document 17.1: European Views of Indian Religious Practices (1731)
Document 17.2: Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)
SEEING HISTORY: The "Invisibility" of Slavery
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Consumer Revolution
TAKING MEASURE: Relationship of Crop Harvested to Seed Used, 1400–1800
Terms of History: Progress
17. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 17 LaunchPad
Document 17-1 Captivity and Enslavement: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789)
Document 17-2 A "Sober and Wholesome Drink": A Brief Description of the Excellent Vertues of That Sober and Wholesome Drink, Called Coffee (1674)
Document 17-3 Westernizing Russian Culture: Peter I, Decrees and Statutes (1701-1723)
Document 17-4 Early Enlightenment: Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733)
Document 17-5 Questioning Women’s Submission: Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Source of The Making of the West, Chapter 17

18. The Promise of Enlightenment, 1750–1789
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Enlightenment at Its Height
Men and Women of the Republic of Letters
Conflicts with Church and State
The Individual and Society
Spreading the Enlightenment
The Limits of Reason: Roots of Romanticism and Religious Revival
Society and Culture in an Age of Enlightenment
The Nobility’s Reassertion of Privilege
The Middle Class and the Making of a New Elite
Life on the Margins
State Power in an Era of Reform
War and Diplomacy
State-Sponsored Reform
Limits of Reform
Rebellions against State Power
Food Riots and Peasant Uprisings
Public Opinion and Political Opposition
Revolution in North America
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe and the World, c. 1780
LaunchPad
Chapter 18 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 18 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

18. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 18 LaunchPad
Document 18.1: Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia" (1755)
Document 18.2: Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
SEEING HISTORY: Pottery and Social Distinction: Josiah Wedgwood’s "China"
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Women and the Enlightenment
TAKING MEASURE: European Urbanization, 1750–1800
Terms of History: Enlightenment
18. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 18 LaunchPad
Document 18-1 Rethinking Modern Civilization: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1753)
Document 18-2 An Enlightened Worker: Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764–1802)
Document 18-3 Reforming the Law: Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764)
Document 18-4 Reforming Commerce: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Document 18-5 Enlightened Monarchy: Frederick II, Political Testament (1752)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 18

19. The Cataclysm of Revolution, 1789–1799
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Revolutionary Wave, 1787–1789
Protesters in the Low Countries and Poland
Origins of the French Revolution, 1787–1789
From Monarchy to Republic, 1789–1793
The Revolution of Rights and Reason
The End of Monarchy
Terror and Resistance
Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety
The Republic of Virtue, 1793–1794
Resisting the Revolution
The Fall of Robespierre and the End of the Terror
Revolution on the March
Arms and Conquests
Poland Extinguished, 1793–1795
Revolution in the Colonies
Worldwide Reactions to Revolutionary Change
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe in 1799
LaunchPad
Chapter 19 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 19 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

19. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 19 LaunchPad
Document 19.1: The Rights of Minorities (1789)
Document 19.2: Address on Abolishing the Slave Trade (February 5, 1790)
SEEING HISTORY: The Cutting Edge of Caricature
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Perspectives on the French Revolution
TAKING MEASURE: Naval Power
Terms of History: Revolution
19. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 19 LaunchPad
Document 19-1 Defining the Nation: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)
Document 19-2 The People under the Old Regime: Political Cartoon (1815)
Document 19-3 Establishing Rights: National Assembly, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
Document 19-4 A Call for Women’s Inclusion: Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
Document 19-5 Defending Terror: Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality (1794)
Document 19-6 Liberty for All?: Decree of General Liberty (August 29, 1793) and Bramante Lazzary, General Call to Local Insurgents (August 30, 1793)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 19

20. Napoleon and the Revolutionary Legacy, 1800–1830
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
A General Takes Over
From Republic to Empire
The New Paternalism: The Civil Code
Patronage of Science and Intellectual Life
"Europe Was at My Feet": Napoleon’s Conquests
The Grand Army and Its Victories, 1800–1807
The Impact of French Victories
From Russian Winter to Final Defeat, 1812–1815
The "Restoration" of Europe
The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
The Emergence of Conservatism
The Revival of Religion
Challenges to the Conservative Order
Romanticism
Political Revolts in the 1820s
Revolution and Reform, 1830–1832
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe in 1830
LaunchPad
Chapter 20 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 20 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

20. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 20 LaunchPad
Document 20.1: Napoleon’s Army Retreats from Moscow (1812)
Document 20.2: Wordsworth’s Poetry (1798)
SEEING HISTORY: The Clothing Revolution: The Social Meaning of Changes in Post-revolutionary Fashion
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Napoleon: For and Against
TAKING MEASURE: Power Capability of the Leading States, 1816-1830
20. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 20 LaunchPad
Document 20-1 Napoleon in Egypt: The Chronicle of Abd al-Rahmanal-Jabarti (1798)
Document 20-2 The Conservative Order: Prince Klemens von Metternich, Results of the Congress at Laybach (1821) Document 20-3 Challenge to Autocracy: Peter Kakhovsky, The Decembrist Insurrection in Russia (1825) Document 20-4 The Romantic Imagination: William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Document 20-5 Musical Romanticism: Reviews of Beethoven’s Works (1799, 1812)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 20

21. Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1830–1850
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Industrial Revolution
Roots of Industrialization
Engines of Change
Urbanization and Its Consequences
Agricultural Perils and Prosperity
Reforming the Social Order
Cultural Responses to the Social Question
The Varieties of Social Reform
Abuses and Reforms Overseas
Ideologies and Political Movements
The Spell of Nationalism
Liberalism in Economics and Politics
Socialism and the Early Labor Movement
The Revolutions of 1848
The Hungry Forties
Another French Revolution
Nationalist Revolution in Italy
Revolt and Reaction in Central Europe
Aftermath to 1848: Reimposing Authority
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe in 1850
LaunchPad
Chapter 21 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 21 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

21. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 21 LaunchPad
Document 21.1: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Document 21.2: Alexis de Tocqueville Describes the June Days in Paris (1848)
SEEING HISTORY: Visualizing Class Differences
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Effects of Industrialization
TAKING MEASURE: Railroad Lines, 1830–1850
21. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 21 LaunchPad
Document 21-1 Establishing New Work Habits: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)
Document 21-2 New Rules for the Middle Class: Sarah Stickney Ellis, Characteristics of the Women of England (1839)
Document 21-3 The Division of Labor: Testimony Gathered by Ashley’s Mines Commission (1842) and Punch Magazine, "Capital and Labour" (1843)
Document 21-4 What Is the Proletariat?: Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)
Document 21-5 Demanding Political Freedom: Address by the Hungarian Parliament (March 14, 1848) and Demands of the Hungarian People (March 15, 1848)
Document 21-6 Imperialism and Opium: Commissioner Lin, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 21

22. Politics and Culture of the Nation-State, 1850–1870
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The End of the Concert of Europe
Napoleon III and the Quest for French Glory
The Crimean War, 1853–1856: Turning Point in European Affairs
Reform in Russia
War and Nation Building
Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Process of Italian Unification
Bismarck and the Realpolitik of German Unification
Francis Joseph and the Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Political Stability through Gradual Reform in Great Britain
Nation Building in North America
Nation Building through Social Order
Bringing Order to the Cities
Expanding Government Bureaucracy
Schooling and Professionalizing Society
Spreading National Power and Order beyond the West
Contesting the Nation-State’s Order at Home
The Culture of Social Order
The Arts Confront Social Reality
Religion and National Order
From the Natural Sciences to Social Science
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1871
LaunchPad
Chapter 22 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 22 Summative Quiz

22. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 22 LaunchPad
Document 22.1: Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale
Document 22.2: Education of a Mathematical Genius in Russia
Document 22.3: Bismarck Tricks the Public to Get His War
SEEING HISTORY: Photographing the Nation: Domesticity and War
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Nation-State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
TAKING MEASURE: Literacy and Illiteracy in the Nineteenth Century
Terms of History: Nationalism
22. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 22 LaunchPad
Document 22-1 Ending Serfdom in Russia: Peter Kropótkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1861)
Document 22-2 Fighting for Italian Nationalism: Camillo di Cavour, Letter to King Victor Emmanuel (July 24, 1858)
Document 22-3 Realpolitik and Otto von Bismarck: Rudolf von Ihering, Two Letters (1866)
Document 22-4 Social Evolution: Herbert Spencer, Progress: Its Law and Cause (1857)
Document 22-5 The Science of Man: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West

23. Empire, Industry, and Everyday Life, 1870–1890
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The New Imperialism
The Scramble for Africa — North and South
Acquiring Territory in Asia
Japan’s Imperial Agenda
The Paradoxes of Imperialism
The Industry of Empire
Industrial Innovation
Facing Economic Crisis
Revolution in Business Practices
Imperial Society and Culture
The "Best Circles" and the Expanding Middle Class
Working People’s Strategies
National Fitness: Reform, Sports, and Leisure
Artistic Responses to Empire and Industry
The Birth of Mass Politics
Workers, Politics, and Protest
Expanding Political Participation in Western Europe
Power Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The West and the World, c. 1890 LaunchPad
Chapter 23 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 23 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

23. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 23 LaunchPad
Document 23.1: An African King Describes His Government
Document 23.2: Henrik Ibsen, From A Doll’s House
SEEING HISTORY: Anglo-Indian Polo Team
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Experiences of Migration
TAKING MEASURE: European Emigration, 1870–1890
23. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 23 LaunchPad
Document 23-1 Defending Conquest: Jules Ferry, Speech before the French National Assembly (1883)
Document 23-2 Resisting Imperialism: Ndansi Kumalo, His Story (1890s)
Document 23-3 Global Competition: Ernest Edwin Williams, Made in Germany (1896)
Document 23-4 The Advance of Unionism: Margaret Bondfield, A Life’s Work (1948)
Document 23-5 Artistic Expression: Edgar Degas, Notebooks (1863–1884)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 23

24. Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
Public Debate over Private Life
Population Pressure
Reforming Marriage
New Women, New Men, and the Politics of Sexual Identity
Sciences of the Modern Self
Modernity and the Revolt in Ideas
The Opposition to Positivism
The Revolution in Science
Modern Art
The Revolt in Music and Dance
Growing Tensions in Mass Politics
The Expanding Power of Labor
Rights for Women and the Battle for Suffrage
Liberalism Tested
Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and Zionism in Mass Politics
European Imperialism Challenged
The Trials of Empire
The Russian Empire Threatened
Growing Resistance to Colonial Domination
Roads to War
Competing Alliances and Clashing Ambitions
The Race to Arms
1914: War Erupts
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe at the Outbreak of World War I, August 1914 LaunchPad
Chapter 24 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 24 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

25. World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1929
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Great War, 1914–1918
Blueprints for War
The Battlefronts
The Home Front
Protest, Revolution, and War’s End, 1917–1918
War Protest
Revolution in Russia
Ending the War, 1918
The Search for Peace in an Era of Revolution
Europe in Turmoil
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1920
Economic and Diplomatic Consequences of the Peace
A Decade of Recovery: Europe in the 1920s
Changes in the Political Landscape
Reconstructing the Economy
Restoring Society
Mass Culture and the Rise of Modern Dictators
Culture for the Masses
Cultural Debates over the Future
The Communist Utopia
Fascism on the March in Italy
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe and the World in 1929
LaunchPad
Chapter 25 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 25 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

25. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 25 LaunchPad
Document 25.1: Outbreak of the Russian Revolution
Document 25.2: Memory and Battlefield Tourism
SEEING HISTORY: Portraying Soldiers in World War I
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Middle East at the End of World War I: Freedom or Subjugation?
TAKING MEASURE: The Victims of Influenza, 1918–1919
25. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 25 LaunchPad
Document 25-1 The Horrors of War: Fritz Franke and Siegfried Sassoon, Two Soldiers’ Views (1914–1918)
Document 25-2 Mobilizing for Total War: L. Doriat, Women on the Home Front (1917)
Document 25-3 Revolutionary Marxism Defended: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Document 25-4 Establishing Fascism in Italy: Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)
Document 25-5 A New Form of Anti-Semitism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 25
26. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Great Depression
Economic Disaster Strikes
Social Effects of the Depression
The Great Depression beyond the West
Totalitarian Triumph
The Rise of Stalinism
Hitler’s Rise to Power
The Nazification of German Politics
Nazi Racism
Democracies on the Defensive
Confronting the Economic Crisis
Cultural Visions in Hard Times
The Road to Global War
A Surge in Global Imperialism
The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Hitler’s Conquest of Central Europe, 1938–1939
World War II, 1939–1945
The German Onslaught
War Expands: The Pacific and Beyond
The War against Civilians
Societies at War
From Resistance to Allied Victory
An Uneasy Postwar Settlement
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe at War’s End, 1945 LaunchPad
Chapter 26 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 26 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

26. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 26 LaunchPad
Document 26.1: A Family Copes with Unemployment
Document 26.2: The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
SEEING HISTORY: Militarization of the Masses
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Nazism and Hitler: For and Against
TAKING MEASURE: Wartime Production of the Major Powers, 1939-1945
Terms of History: Fascism
26. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 26 LaunchPad
Document 26-1 Socialist Nationalism: Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet (1930)
Document 26-2 The Spanish Civil War: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombing of Guernica (1937)
Document 26-3 Seeking a Diplomatic Solution: Neville Chamberlain, Speech on the Munich Crisis (1938)
Document 26-4 The Final Solution: Sam Bankhalter and Hinda Kibort, Memories of the Holocaust (1938–1945)
Document 26-5 Atomic Catastrophe: Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary (August 7, 1945)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 26

27. The Cold War and the Remaking of Europe, 1945–1960s
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
World Politics Transformed
Chaos in Europe
New Superpowers: The United States and the Soviet Union
Origins of the Cold War
The Division of Germany
Political and Economic Recovery in Europe
Dealing with Nazism
Rebirth of the West
The Welfare State: Common Ground East and West
Recovery in the East
Decolonization in a Cold War Climate
The End of Empire in Asia
The Struggle for Identity in the Middle East
New Nations in Africa
Newcomers Arrive in Europe
Daily Life and Culture in the Shadow of Nuclear War
Restoring "Western" Values
Cold War Consumerism and Shifting Gender Norms
The Culture of Cold War
The Atomic Brink
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The Cold War World, c. 1960 LaunchPad
Chapter 27 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 27 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

27. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 27 LaunchPad
Document 27.1: The Schuman Plan on European Unity (1950)
Document 27.2: Torture in Algeria
Document 27.3: Popular Culture, Youth Consumerism, and the Birth of the Generation Gap
SEEING HISTORY: The Soviet System and Consumer Goods
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Decolonization in Africa
TAKING MEASURE: Military Spending and the Cold War Arms Race, 1950–1970
27. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 27 LaunchPad
Document 27-1 Stalin and the Western Threat: The Formation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) (1947)
Document 27-2 Truman and the Soviet Threat: National Security Council, Paper Number 68 (1950)
Document 27-3 Throwing Off Colonialism: Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam (1945)
Document 27-4 The Condition of Modern Women: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
Document 27-5 Cold War Anxieties: "How You Can Survive Fallout": Life Magazine Cover and Letter from President John F. Kennedy (1961)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 27
28. Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Revolution in Technology
The Information Age: Television and Computers
The Space Age
The Nuclear Age
Revolutions in Biology and Reproductive Technology
Postindustrial Society and Culture
Multinational Corporations
The New Worker
The Boom in Education and Research
Changing Family Life and the Generation Gap
Art, Ideas, and Religion in a Technocratic Society
Protesting Cold War Conditions
Cracks in the Cold War Order
The Growth of Citizen Activism
1968: Year of Crisis
The Testing of Superpower Domination and the End of the Cold War
A Changing Balance of World Power
The Western Bloc Meets Challenges with Reform
Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The Collapse of Communism in Europe, 1989–1990 LaunchPad
Chapter 28 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 28 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

28. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 28 LaunchPad
Document 28.1: Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Vision
Document 28.2: A Citizen’s Experience of Gorbachev’s Reforms
SEEING HISTORY: Critiquing the Soviet System: Dissident Art in the 1960s and 1970s
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Feminist Debates
TAKING MEASURE: Postindustrial Occupational Structure, 1984
28. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 28 LaunchPad
Document 28-1 Prague Spring: Josef Smrkovsky´, What Lies Ahead (February 9, 1968)
Document 28-2 A Revolutionary Time: Student Voices of Protest (1968)
Document 28-3 Children Fleeing Napalm Attack in South Vietnam: Nick Ut, Photograph (June 8, 1972)
Document 28-4 The Rising Power of OPEC: U.S. Embassy, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Ban on Oil Shipments to the United States (October 23, 1973)
Document 28-5 Facing Terrorism: Jacques Chirac, New French Antiterrorist Laws (September 14, 1986)
Document 28-6 Debating Change in the Soviet Union: Glasnost and the Soviet Press (1988)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 28

29: A New Globalism, 1989 to the Present
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath
The Breakup of Yugoslavia
The Soviet Union Comes Apart
Toward a Market Economy
International Politics and the New Russia
The Nation-State in a Global Age
Europe Looks beyond the Nation-State
Globalizing Cities and Fragmenting Nations
Global Organizations
An Interconnected World’s New Challenges
The Problems of Pollution
Population, Health, and Disease
North versus South?
Radical Islam Meets the West
The Promise and Problems of a World Economy
Global Culture and Society in the Twenty-First Century
Redefining the West: The Impact of Global Migration
Global Networks and Social Change
A New Global Culture?
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The World’s Top Fifteen Economies as of 2015 LaunchPad
Chapter 29 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 29 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

29. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 29 LaunchPad
DOCUMENT 29.1: Václav Havel, "Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe"
Document 29.2: The Green Parties Unite Transnationally and Announce Common Goals (2006)
Seeing History: World Leaders Gather after Attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Dutch Debate Globalization, Muslim Immigrants, and Turkey’s Admission to the EU
Taking Measure: World Population Growth, 1950–2015
Terms of History: Globalization
29. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 29 LaunchPad
Document 29-1 Ethnic Cleansing: The Diary of Zlata Filipovic´ (October 6, 1991–June 29, 1992)
Document 29-2 The Challenges of EU Expansion: Paresh Nath, EU Membership Prospect Cartoon (February 23, 2009)
Document 29-3 Addressing Climate Change in the Euro Zone: The European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050 (2011)
Document 29-4 An End to Apartheid: The African National Congress, Introductory Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 19, 1996)
Document 29-5 China in the Global Age: Chinese Olympic Committee, Announcements on Preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games (2004–2007)
Document 29-6. The Post-9/11 Era: Amartya Sen, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 29


Glossary of Key Terms and People
Index
About the Authors

Authors

Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt (PhD., Stanford University) is Distinguished Research Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Writing History in the Global Era; The French and Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World and History: Why It Matters.


Thomas R. Martin

Thomas R. Martin (PhD., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of several books including Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and most recently Pericles: A Biography in Context. He was one of the originators of the Perseus Digital Library (www.perseus.tufts.edu).


Barbara H. Rosenwein

Barbara H. Rosenwein (PhD., University of Chicago) is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Utrecht (Netherlands), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Oxford (Trinity College, England). She is the author or editor of many books, including A Short History of the Middle Ages; with co-author Elina Gertsman, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects; and most recently, Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion.


Bonnie G. Smith

Bonnie G. Smith (PhD., University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor most recently of Modern Empires: A Reader; Women in World History since 1450; and a new version of Europe in the Contemporary World since 1900, among other works.


Peoples, cultures, and their global context.

The Making of the West features a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context and tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped western history. This two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, all maps and select images from the comprehensive text. LaunchPad, available free when packaged with the book or discounted standalone, features all of the contents of the comprehensive edition in full color plus a wealth of primary documents, comparative analysis, visual analysis, and quantitative analysis in every chapter. With the addition of LaunchPad, the Value Edition offers more value and options than ever before.

Table of Contents

14. Global Encounters and the Shock of the Reformation, 1492–1560
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Discovery of New Worlds
Portuguese Explorations
The Voyages of Columbus
A New Era in Slavery
Conquering the New World
The Columbian Exchange
The Protestant Reformation
The Invention of Printing
Popular Piety and Christian Humanism
Martin Luther’s Challenge
Protestantism Spreads and Divides
The Contested Church of England
Reshaping Society through Religion
Protestant Challenges to the Social Order
New Forms of Discipline
Catholic Renewal
Striving for Mastery
Courtiers and Princes
Dynastic Wars
Financing War
Divided Realms
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Reformation Europe, c. 1560
LaunchPad
Chapter 14 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 14 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

14. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14.1: Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493)
Document 14.2: Ordinances for Calvinist Churches (1547)
SEEING HISTORY: Expanding Geographic Knowledge: World Maps in an Age of Exploration
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic?
TAKING MEASURE: The Printing Press in Europe ca. 1500

14. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 14 LaunchPad
Document 14-1 Worlds Collide: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1567)
Document 14-2 Illustrating a Native Perspective: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (c. 1560)
Document 14-3 Defending Native Humanity: Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (c. 1548–1550)
Document 14-4 Scripture and Salvation: Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Document 14-5 Reforming Christianity: John Calvin, Articles Concerning Predestination (c. 1560) and The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543)
Document 14-6 Responding to Reformation: St. Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 14

15. Wars of Religion and the Clash of Worldviews, 1560–1648
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
Religious Conflicts Threaten State Power, 1560–1618
French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598
Dutch Revolt against Spain
Elizabeth I’s Defense of English Protestantism
The Clash of Faiths and Empires in Eastern Europe
The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648
Origins and Course of the War
The Effects of Constant Fighting
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
Economic Crisis and Realignment
From Growth to Recession
Consequences for Daily Life
The Economic Balance of Power
The Rise of Science and a Scientific Worldview
The Scientific Revolution
The Natural Laws of Politics
The Arts in an Age of Crisis
Magic and Witchcraft
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The Religious Divisions of Europe, c. 1648 LaunchPad
Chapter 15 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 15 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

15. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15.1: The Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War, 1626
Document 15.2: Sentence Pronounced against Galileo (1633)
SEEING HISTORY: Religious Differences in Painting of the Baroque Period: Rubens and Rembrandt
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Political Authority and Religion: What Happened When Subjects Held Different Beliefs?
TAKING MEASURE: Precious Metals and the Spanish Colonies, 1550–1800
15. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 15 LaunchPad
Document 15-1 Legislating Tolerance: Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)
Document 15-2 Barbarians All: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580s)
Document 15-3 Defending Religious Liberty: Apology of the Bohemian Estates (May 25, 1618)
Document 15-4 The Scientific Challenge: Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Document 15-5 The Persecution of Witches: The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 15

16. Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Search for Order, 1640–1700
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Louis XIV: Absolutism and Its Limits
The Fronde, 1648–1653
Court Culture as an Element of Absolutism
Enforcing Religious Orthodoxy
Extending State Authority at Home and Abroad
Constitutionalism in England
England Turned Upside Down, 1642–1660
Restoration and Revolution Again
Social Contract Theory: Hobbes and Locke
Outposts of Constitutionalism
The Dutch Republic
Freedom and Slavery in the New World
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe
Poland-Lithuania Overwhelmed
Brandenburg-Prussia: Militaristic Absolutism
An Uneasy Balance: Austrian Habsburgs and Ottoman Turks
Russia: Setting the Foundations of Bureaucratic Absolutism
The Search for Order in Elite and Popular Culture
Freedom and Constraint in the Arts and Sciences
Women and Manners
Reforming Popular Culture
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe at the End of the Seventeenth Century LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

16. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 16 LaunchPad
Document 16.1:
Marie de Sévigné, Letter Describing the French Court (1675)
Document 16.2: John Milton, Defense of Freedom of the Press (1644)
SEEING HISTORY: Symbols and Power in the Age of Louis XIV
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The English Civil War
TAKING MEASURE: The Seventeenth-Century Army
16. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 16 LaunchPad
Document 16-1 Mercantilism in the Colonies: Instructions from Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1667, 1668) and a Royal Ordinance (1669)
Document 16-2 Regime Change: The Trial of Charles I (January 1649)
Document 16-3 Civil War and Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
Document 16-4 The Consent of the Governed: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (1690)
Document 16-5 Opposing Serfdom: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 16

17. The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1700–1750
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Atlantic System and the World Economy
Slavery and the Atlantic System
World Trade and Settlement
The Birth of Consumer Society
New Social and Cultural Patterns
Agricultural Revolution
Social Life in the Cities
New Tastes in the Arts
Religious Revivals
Consolidation of the European State System
A New Power Alignment
British Rise and Dutch Decline
Russia’s Emergence as a European Power
Continuing Dynastic Struggles
The Power of Diplomacy and the Importance of Population
The Birth of the Enlightenment
Popularization of Science and Challenges to Religion
Travel Literature and the Challenge to Custom and Tradition
Raising the Woman Question
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe in 1750 LaunchPad
Chapter 17 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

17. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 17 LaunchPad
Document 17.1: European Views of Indian Religious Practices (1731)
Document 17.2: Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)
SEEING HISTORY: The "Invisibility" of Slavery
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Consumer Revolution
TAKING MEASURE: Relationship of Crop Harvested to Seed Used, 1400–1800
Terms of History: Progress
17. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 17 LaunchPad
Document 17-1 Captivity and Enslavement: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789)
Document 17-2 A "Sober and Wholesome Drink": A Brief Description of the Excellent Vertues of That Sober and Wholesome Drink, Called Coffee (1674)
Document 17-3 Westernizing Russian Culture: Peter I, Decrees and Statutes (1701-1723)
Document 17-4 Early Enlightenment: Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733)
Document 17-5 Questioning Women’s Submission: Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Source of The Making of the West, Chapter 17

18. The Promise of Enlightenment, 1750–1789
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Enlightenment at Its Height
Men and Women of the Republic of Letters
Conflicts with Church and State
The Individual and Society
Spreading the Enlightenment
The Limits of Reason: Roots of Romanticism and Religious Revival
Society and Culture in an Age of Enlightenment
The Nobility’s Reassertion of Privilege
The Middle Class and the Making of a New Elite
Life on the Margins
State Power in an Era of Reform
War and Diplomacy
State-Sponsored Reform
Limits of Reform
Rebellions against State Power
Food Riots and Peasant Uprisings
Public Opinion and Political Opposition
Revolution in North America
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe and the World, c. 1780
LaunchPad
Chapter 18 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 18 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

18. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 18 LaunchPad
Document 18.1: Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia" (1755)
Document 18.2: Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
SEEING HISTORY: Pottery and Social Distinction: Josiah Wedgwood’s "China"
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Women and the Enlightenment
TAKING MEASURE: European Urbanization, 1750–1800
Terms of History: Enlightenment
18. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 18 LaunchPad
Document 18-1 Rethinking Modern Civilization: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1753)
Document 18-2 An Enlightened Worker: Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764–1802)
Document 18-3 Reforming the Law: Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764)
Document 18-4 Reforming Commerce: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Document 18-5 Enlightened Monarchy: Frederick II, Political Testament (1752)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 18

19. The Cataclysm of Revolution, 1789–1799
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Revolutionary Wave, 1787–1789
Protesters in the Low Countries and Poland
Origins of the French Revolution, 1787–1789
From Monarchy to Republic, 1789–1793
The Revolution of Rights and Reason
The End of Monarchy
Terror and Resistance
Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety
The Republic of Virtue, 1793–1794
Resisting the Revolution
The Fall of Robespierre and the End of the Terror
Revolution on the March
Arms and Conquests
Poland Extinguished, 1793–1795
Revolution in the Colonies
Worldwide Reactions to Revolutionary Change
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe in 1799
LaunchPad
Chapter 19 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 19 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

19. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 19 LaunchPad
Document 19.1: The Rights of Minorities (1789)
Document 19.2: Address on Abolishing the Slave Trade (February 5, 1790)
SEEING HISTORY: The Cutting Edge of Caricature
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Perspectives on the French Revolution
TAKING MEASURE: Naval Power
Terms of History: Revolution
19. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 19 LaunchPad
Document 19-1 Defining the Nation: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)
Document 19-2 The People under the Old Regime: Political Cartoon (1815)
Document 19-3 Establishing Rights: National Assembly, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
Document 19-4 A Call for Women’s Inclusion: Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
Document 19-5 Defending Terror: Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality (1794)
Document 19-6 Liberty for All?: Decree of General Liberty (August 29, 1793) and Bramante Lazzary, General Call to Local Insurgents (August 30, 1793)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 19

20. Napoleon and the Revolutionary Legacy, 1800–1830
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
A General Takes Over
From Republic to Empire
The New Paternalism: The Civil Code
Patronage of Science and Intellectual Life
"Europe Was at My Feet": Napoleon’s Conquests
The Grand Army and Its Victories, 1800–1807
The Impact of French Victories
From Russian Winter to Final Defeat, 1812–1815
The "Restoration" of Europe
The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
The Emergence of Conservatism
The Revival of Religion
Challenges to the Conservative Order
Romanticism
Political Revolts in the 1820s
Revolution and Reform, 1830–1832
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe in 1830
LaunchPad
Chapter 20 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 20 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

20. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 20 LaunchPad
Document 20.1: Napoleon’s Army Retreats from Moscow (1812)
Document 20.2: Wordsworth’s Poetry (1798)
SEEING HISTORY: The Clothing Revolution: The Social Meaning of Changes in Post-revolutionary Fashion
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Napoleon: For and Against
TAKING MEASURE: Power Capability of the Leading States, 1816-1830
20. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 20 LaunchPad
Document 20-1 Napoleon in Egypt: The Chronicle of Abd al-Rahmanal-Jabarti (1798)
Document 20-2 The Conservative Order: Prince Klemens von Metternich, Results of the Congress at Laybach (1821) Document 20-3 Challenge to Autocracy: Peter Kakhovsky, The Decembrist Insurrection in Russia (1825) Document 20-4 The Romantic Imagination: William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Document 20-5 Musical Romanticism: Reviews of Beethoven’s Works (1799, 1812)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 20

21. Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1830–1850
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Industrial Revolution
Roots of Industrialization
Engines of Change
Urbanization and Its Consequences
Agricultural Perils and Prosperity
Reforming the Social Order
Cultural Responses to the Social Question
The Varieties of Social Reform
Abuses and Reforms Overseas
Ideologies and Political Movements
The Spell of Nationalism
Liberalism in Economics and Politics
Socialism and the Early Labor Movement
The Revolutions of 1848
The Hungry Forties
Another French Revolution
Nationalist Revolution in Italy
Revolt and Reaction in Central Europe
Aftermath to 1848: Reimposing Authority
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe in 1850
LaunchPad
Chapter 21 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 21 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

21. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 21 LaunchPad
Document 21.1: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Document 21.2: Alexis de Tocqueville Describes the June Days in Paris (1848)
SEEING HISTORY: Visualizing Class Differences
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Effects of Industrialization
TAKING MEASURE: Railroad Lines, 1830–1850
21. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 21 LaunchPad
Document 21-1 Establishing New Work Habits: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)
Document 21-2 New Rules for the Middle Class: Sarah Stickney Ellis, Characteristics of the Women of England (1839)
Document 21-3 The Division of Labor: Testimony Gathered by Ashley’s Mines Commission (1842) and Punch Magazine, "Capital and Labour" (1843)
Document 21-4 What Is the Proletariat?: Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)
Document 21-5 Demanding Political Freedom: Address by the Hungarian Parliament (March 14, 1848) and Demands of the Hungarian People (March 15, 1848)
Document 21-6 Imperialism and Opium: Commissioner Lin, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 21

22. Politics and Culture of the Nation-State, 1850–1870
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The End of the Concert of Europe
Napoleon III and the Quest for French Glory
The Crimean War, 1853–1856: Turning Point in European Affairs
Reform in Russia
War and Nation Building
Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Process of Italian Unification
Bismarck and the Realpolitik of German Unification
Francis Joseph and the Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Political Stability through Gradual Reform in Great Britain
Nation Building in North America
Nation Building through Social Order
Bringing Order to the Cities
Expanding Government Bureaucracy
Schooling and Professionalizing Society
Spreading National Power and Order beyond the West
Contesting the Nation-State’s Order at Home
The Culture of Social Order
The Arts Confront Social Reality
Religion and National Order
From the Natural Sciences to Social Science
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1871
LaunchPad
Chapter 22 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 22 Summative Quiz

22. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 22 LaunchPad
Document 22.1: Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale
Document 22.2: Education of a Mathematical Genius in Russia
Document 22.3: Bismarck Tricks the Public to Get His War
SEEING HISTORY: Photographing the Nation: Domesticity and War
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Nation-State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
TAKING MEASURE: Literacy and Illiteracy in the Nineteenth Century
Terms of History: Nationalism
22. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 22 LaunchPad
Document 22-1 Ending Serfdom in Russia: Peter Kropótkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1861)
Document 22-2 Fighting for Italian Nationalism: Camillo di Cavour, Letter to King Victor Emmanuel (July 24, 1858)
Document 22-3 Realpolitik and Otto von Bismarck: Rudolf von Ihering, Two Letters (1866)
Document 22-4 Social Evolution: Herbert Spencer, Progress: Its Law and Cause (1857)
Document 22-5 The Science of Man: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West

23. Empire, Industry, and Everyday Life, 1870–1890
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The New Imperialism
The Scramble for Africa — North and South
Acquiring Territory in Asia
Japan’s Imperial Agenda
The Paradoxes of Imperialism
The Industry of Empire
Industrial Innovation
Facing Economic Crisis
Revolution in Business Practices
Imperial Society and Culture
The "Best Circles" and the Expanding Middle Class
Working People’s Strategies
National Fitness: Reform, Sports, and Leisure
Artistic Responses to Empire and Industry
The Birth of Mass Politics
Workers, Politics, and Protest
Expanding Political Participation in Western Europe
Power Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The West and the World, c. 1890 LaunchPad
Chapter 23 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 23 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

23. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 23 LaunchPad
Document 23.1: An African King Describes His Government
Document 23.2: Henrik Ibsen, From A Doll’s House
SEEING HISTORY: Anglo-Indian Polo Team
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Experiences of Migration
TAKING MEASURE: European Emigration, 1870–1890
23. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 23 LaunchPad
Document 23-1 Defending Conquest: Jules Ferry, Speech before the French National Assembly (1883)
Document 23-2 Resisting Imperialism: Ndansi Kumalo, His Story (1890s)
Document 23-3 Global Competition: Ernest Edwin Williams, Made in Germany (1896)
Document 23-4 The Advance of Unionism: Margaret Bondfield, A Life’s Work (1948)
Document 23-5 Artistic Expression: Edgar Degas, Notebooks (1863–1884)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 23

24. Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
Public Debate over Private Life
Population Pressure
Reforming Marriage
New Women, New Men, and the Politics of Sexual Identity
Sciences of the Modern Self
Modernity and the Revolt in Ideas
The Opposition to Positivism
The Revolution in Science
Modern Art
The Revolt in Music and Dance
Growing Tensions in Mass Politics
The Expanding Power of Labor
Rights for Women and the Battle for Suffrage
Liberalism Tested
Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and Zionism in Mass Politics
European Imperialism Challenged
The Trials of Empire
The Russian Empire Threatened
Growing Resistance to Colonial Domination
Roads to War
Competing Alliances and Clashing Ambitions
The Race to Arms
1914: War Erupts
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe at the Outbreak of World War I, August 1914 LaunchPad
Chapter 24 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 24 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

25. World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1929
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Great War, 1914–1918
Blueprints for War
The Battlefronts
The Home Front
Protest, Revolution, and War’s End, 1917–1918
War Protest
Revolution in Russia
Ending the War, 1918
The Search for Peace in an Era of Revolution
Europe in Turmoil
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1920
Economic and Diplomatic Consequences of the Peace
A Decade of Recovery: Europe in the 1920s
Changes in the Political Landscape
Reconstructing the Economy
Restoring Society
Mass Culture and the Rise of Modern Dictators
Culture for the Masses
Cultural Debates over the Future
The Communist Utopia
Fascism on the March in Italy
Conclusion
Mapping the West: Europe and the World in 1929
LaunchPad
Chapter 25 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 25 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

25. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 25 LaunchPad
Document 25.1: Outbreak of the Russian Revolution
Document 25.2: Memory and Battlefield Tourism
SEEING HISTORY: Portraying Soldiers in World War I
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Middle East at the End of World War I: Freedom or Subjugation?
TAKING MEASURE: The Victims of Influenza, 1918–1919
25. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 25 LaunchPad
Document 25-1 The Horrors of War: Fritz Franke and Siegfried Sassoon, Two Soldiers’ Views (1914–1918)
Document 25-2 Mobilizing for Total War: L. Doriat, Women on the Home Front (1917)
Document 25-3 Revolutionary Marxism Defended: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Document 25-4 Establishing Fascism in Italy: Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)
Document 25-5 A New Form of Anti-Semitism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 25
26. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Great Depression
Economic Disaster Strikes
Social Effects of the Depression
The Great Depression beyond the West
Totalitarian Triumph
The Rise of Stalinism
Hitler’s Rise to Power
The Nazification of German Politics
Nazi Racism
Democracies on the Defensive
Confronting the Economic Crisis
Cultural Visions in Hard Times
The Road to Global War
A Surge in Global Imperialism
The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Hitler’s Conquest of Central Europe, 1938–1939
World War II, 1939–1945
The German Onslaught
War Expands: The Pacific and Beyond
The War against Civilians
Societies at War
From Resistance to Allied Victory
An Uneasy Postwar Settlement
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
Europe at War’s End, 1945 LaunchPad
Chapter 26 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 26 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

26. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 26 LaunchPad
Document 26.1: A Family Copes with Unemployment
Document 26.2: The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
SEEING HISTORY: Militarization of the Masses
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Nazism and Hitler: For and Against
TAKING MEASURE: Wartime Production of the Major Powers, 1939-1945
Terms of History: Fascism
26. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 26 LaunchPad
Document 26-1 Socialist Nationalism: Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet (1930)
Document 26-2 The Spanish Civil War: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombing of Guernica (1937)
Document 26-3 Seeking a Diplomatic Solution: Neville Chamberlain, Speech on the Munich Crisis (1938)
Document 26-4 The Final Solution: Sam Bankhalter and Hinda Kibort, Memories of the Holocaust (1938–1945)
Document 26-5 Atomic Catastrophe: Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary (August 7, 1945)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 26

27. The Cold War and the Remaking of Europe, 1945–1960s
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
World Politics Transformed
Chaos in Europe
New Superpowers: The United States and the Soviet Union
Origins of the Cold War
The Division of Germany
Political and Economic Recovery in Europe
Dealing with Nazism
Rebirth of the West
The Welfare State: Common Ground East and West
Recovery in the East
Decolonization in a Cold War Climate
The End of Empire in Asia
The Struggle for Identity in the Middle East
New Nations in Africa
Newcomers Arrive in Europe
Daily Life and Culture in the Shadow of Nuclear War
Restoring "Western" Values
Cold War Consumerism and Shifting Gender Norms
The Culture of Cold War
The Atomic Brink
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The Cold War World, c. 1960 LaunchPad
Chapter 27 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 27 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

27. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 27 LaunchPad
Document 27.1: The Schuman Plan on European Unity (1950)
Document 27.2: Torture in Algeria
Document 27.3: Popular Culture, Youth Consumerism, and the Birth of the Generation Gap
SEEING HISTORY: The Soviet System and Consumer Goods
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Decolonization in Africa
TAKING MEASURE: Military Spending and the Cold War Arms Race, 1950–1970
27. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 27 LaunchPad
Document 27-1 Stalin and the Western Threat: The Formation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) (1947)
Document 27-2 Truman and the Soviet Threat: National Security Council, Paper Number 68 (1950)
Document 27-3 Throwing Off Colonialism: Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam (1945)
Document 27-4 The Condition of Modern Women: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
Document 27-5 Cold War Anxieties: "How You Can Survive Fallout": Life Magazine Cover and Letter from President John F. Kennedy (1961)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 27
28. Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
The Revolution in Technology
The Information Age: Television and Computers
The Space Age
The Nuclear Age
Revolutions in Biology and Reproductive Technology
Postindustrial Society and Culture
Multinational Corporations
The New Worker
The Boom in Education and Research
Changing Family Life and the Generation Gap
Art, Ideas, and Religion in a Technocratic Society
Protesting Cold War Conditions
Cracks in the Cold War Order
The Growth of Citizen Activism
1968: Year of Crisis
The Testing of Superpower Domination and the End of the Cold War
A Changing Balance of World Power
The Western Bloc Meets Challenges with Reform
Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The Collapse of Communism in Europe, 1989–1990 LaunchPad
Chapter 28 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 28 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

28. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 28 LaunchPad
Document 28.1: Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Vision
Document 28.2: A Citizen’s Experience of Gorbachev’s Reforms
SEEING HISTORY: Critiquing the Soviet System: Dissident Art in the 1960s and 1970s
CONTRASTING VIEWS: Feminist Debates
TAKING MEASURE: Postindustrial Occupational Structure, 1984
28. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 28 LaunchPad
Document 28-1 Prague Spring: Josef Smrkovsky´, What Lies Ahead (February 9, 1968)
Document 28-2 A Revolutionary Time: Student Voices of Protest (1968)
Document 28-3 Children Fleeing Napalm Attack in South Vietnam: Nick Ut, Photograph (June 8, 1972)
Document 28-4 The Rising Power of OPEC: U.S. Embassy, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Ban on Oil Shipments to the United States (October 23, 1973)
Document 28-5 Facing Terrorism: Jacques Chirac, New French Antiterrorist Laws (September 14, 1986)
Document 28-6 Debating Change in the Soviet Union: Glasnost and the Soviet Press (1988)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 28

29: A New Globalism, 1989 to the Present
Guided Reading Exercise
LaunchPad
Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath
The Breakup of Yugoslavia
The Soviet Union Comes Apart
Toward a Market Economy
International Politics and the New Russia
The Nation-State in a Global Age
Europe Looks beyond the Nation-State
Globalizing Cities and Fragmenting Nations
Global Organizations
An Interconnected World’s New Challenges
The Problems of Pollution
Population, Health, and Disease
North versus South?
Radical Islam Meets the West
The Promise and Problems of a World Economy
Global Culture and Society in the Twenty-First Century
Redefining the West: The Impact of Global Migration
Global Networks and Social Change
A New Global Culture?
Conclusion
Mapping the West:
The World’s Top Fifteen Economies as of 2015 LaunchPad
Chapter 29 Review
LearningCurve
LaunchPad
Chapter 29 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

29. LaunchPad Features for Chapter 29 LaunchPad
DOCUMENT 29.1: Václav Havel, "Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe"
Document 29.2: The Green Parties Unite Transnationally and Announce Common Goals (2006)
Seeing History: World Leaders Gather after Attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris
CONTRASTING VIEWS: The Dutch Debate Globalization, Muslim Immigrants, and Turkey’s Admission to the EU
Taking Measure: World Population Growth, 1950–2015
Terms of History: Globalization
29. Documents from Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 29 LaunchPad
Document 29-1 Ethnic Cleansing: The Diary of Zlata Filipovic´ (October 6, 1991–June 29, 1992)
Document 29-2 The Challenges of EU Expansion: Paresh Nath, EU Membership Prospect Cartoon (February 23, 2009)
Document 29-3 Addressing Climate Change in the Euro Zone: The European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050 (2011)
Document 29-4 An End to Apartheid: The African National Congress, Introductory Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 19, 1996)
Document 29-5 China in the Global Age: Chinese Olympic Committee, Announcements on Preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games (2004–2007)
Document 29-6. The Post-9/11 Era: Amartya Sen, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Quiz for Sources of The Making of the West, Chapter 29


Glossary of Key Terms and People
Index
About the Authors

Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt (PhD., Stanford University) is Distinguished Research Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Writing History in the Global Era; The French and Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World and History: Why It Matters.


Thomas R. Martin

Thomas R. Martin (PhD., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of several books including Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and most recently Pericles: A Biography in Context. He was one of the originators of the Perseus Digital Library (www.perseus.tufts.edu).


Barbara H. Rosenwein

Barbara H. Rosenwein (PhD., University of Chicago) is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Utrecht (Netherlands), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Oxford (Trinity College, England). She is the author or editor of many books, including A Short History of the Middle Ages; with co-author Elina Gertsman, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects; and most recently, Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion.


Bonnie G. Smith

Bonnie G. Smith (PhD., University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor most recently of Modern Empires: A Reader; Women in World History since 1450; and a new version of Europe in the Contemporary World since 1900, among other works.


Related Titles

Find Your School

Select Your Discipline

Select Your Course

search icon
No schools matching your search criteria were found !
No active courses are available for this school.
No active courses are available for this discipline.
Can't find your course?

Find Your Course

Confirm Your Course

Enter the course ID provided by your instructor
search icon

Find Your School

Select Your Course

No schools matching your search criteria were found.
(Optional)
Select Your Course
No Courses found for your selection.
  • macmillanlearning.com
  • // Privacy Notice
  • // Ads & Cookies
  • // Terms of Purchase/Rental
  • // Terms of Use
  • // Piracy
  • // Products
  • // Site Map
  • // Customer Support
  • macmillan learning facebook
  • macmillan learning twitter
  • macmillan learning youtube
  • macmillan learning linkedin
  • macmillan learning linkedin
We are processing your request. Please wait...