Making of the West, Volume 2: Since 1500

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.

Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-17.

Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Brief Contents

Contents

Maps and Figures

Features

Chapter 14 Review

Primary Source Analysis:

Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493)

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Contrasting Views: Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic?

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Terms of History: Protestant Reformation

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Document 14.1 Worlds Collide: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1567)

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Document 14.2 Illustrating a Native Perspective: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (c. 1560)

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Document 14.3 Defending Native Humanity: Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (c. 1548–1550)

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Document 14.4 Scripture and Salvation: Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)

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Document 14.5 Sources in Conversation: Reforming Christianity: John Calvin, Ordinances for the Regulation of Churches (1547), and Registers of Constitory of Geneva (1542–1543)

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Document 14.6 Responding to Reformation: St. Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553)

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Chapter 15: Wars of Religion and the Clash of Worldviews, 1560–1648

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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

Mapping the West: The Religious Divisions of Europe, c. 1648　

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Conclusion

Chapter 15 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Sentence Pronounced against Galileo (1633)

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Contrasting Views: Political Authority and Religion: What Happened When Subjects Held Different Beliefs?

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Terms of History: The Scientific Revolution

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Document 15.1 Legislating Tolerance: Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)

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Document 15.2 Barbarians All: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580s)

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Document 15.3 Defending Religious Liberty: Apology of the Bohemian Estates (May 25, 1618)

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Document 15.4 Codifying Poverty: City of Norwich Poor Rolls (1570)

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Document 15.5 The Scientific Challenge: Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)

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Document 15.6 Sources in Conversation: The Persecution of Witches: The Witch of Newbury (1643) and The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652)

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Chapter 16. Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Search for Order, 1640–1700

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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

Mapping the West: Europe at the End of the Seventeenth Century

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Conclusion

Chapter 16 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Marie de Sévigné, Letter Describing the French Court (1675)

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Contrasting Views: The English Civil War

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Terms of History: Absolutism

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Document 16.1 The Sun King: Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694–1723)

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Document 16.2 Sources in Conversation: Regime Change: The Trial of Charles I and The Confession of Richard Brandon the Hangman (1649)

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Document 16.3 Civil War and Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)

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Document 16.4 The Consent of the Governed: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (1690)

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Document 16.5 Opposing Serfdom: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670)

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Document 16.6 Genre Painting: Pieter Bruegel the Younger, A Village Kermis (1628)

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Chapter 17. The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1700–1750

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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

Mapping the West: Europe in 1750　

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Conclusion

Chapter 17 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)

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Contrasting Views: The Consumer Revolution

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Terms of History: Progress

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Document 17.1 Captivity and Enslavement: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789)

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Document 17.2 Sources in Conversation A "Sober and Wholesome Drink": A Brief Description of the Excellent Vertues of That Sober and Wholesome Drink, Called Coffee (1674) and The Coffee House Mob (1710)

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Document 17.3 A Domestic Drink: Richard Collins, "A Family at Tea" (c. 1726)

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Document 17.4 Westernizing Russian Culture: Peter I, Decrees and Statutes (1701–1723)

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Document 17.5 Early Enlightenment: Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation (1733)

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Document 17.6 Questioning Women’s Submission: Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706)

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Chapter 18. The Promise of Enlightenment, 1750–1789

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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

Mapping the West: Europe and the World, c. 1780

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Conclusion

Chapter 18 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia" (1755)

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Contrasting Views: Women and the Enlightenment

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Terms of History: Enlightenment

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Document 18.1 Rethinking Modern Civilization: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1753)

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Document 18.2 An Enlightened Worker: Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764–1802)

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Document 18.3 Reforming the Law: Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764)

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Document 18.4 Reforming Commerce: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

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Document 18.5 Enlightened Monarchy: Frederick II, Political Testament (1752)

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Document 18.6 Sources in Conversation: Racism and the Enlightenment: David Hume, "Of National Characters" (1754), and Robert Hancock, "The Tea Party" (1756–1757)

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Chapter 19. The Cataclysm of Revolution, 1789–1799

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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

Mapping the West: Europe in 1799

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Conclusion

Chapter 19 Review

Primary Source Analysis: The Rights of Minorities (1789)

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Contrasting Views: Perspectives on the French Revolution

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Terms of History: Revolution

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Document 19.1 Defining the Nation: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)

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Document 19.2 The People under the Old Regime: Political Cartoon (1815)

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Document 19.3 Establishing Rights: National Assembly, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

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Document 19.4 Sources in Conversation: A Call for Women’s Inclusion: Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791), and Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

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Document 19.5 Defending Terror: Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality (1794)

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Document 19.6 Liberty for All?: Decree of General Liberty (August 29, 1793) and Bramante Lazzary, General Call to Local Insurgents (August 30, 1793)

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Chapter 20. Napoleon and the Revolutionary Legacy, 1800–1830

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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

Mapping the West: Europe in 1830　

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Conclusion

Chapter 20 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Wordsworth’s Poetry (1798)

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Contrasting Views: Napoleon: For and Against

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Terms of History: Romanticism

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Document 20.1 Napoleon in Egypt: The Chronicle of Abd al-Rahman al-Jabartî (1798)

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Document 20.2 Codifying French Law: Napoleon Bonaparte, The Civil Code (1804)

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Document 20.3 The Conservative Order: Prince Klemens von Metternich, Results of the Congress at Laybach (1821)
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Document 20.4 Challenge to Autocracy: Peter Kakhovsky, The Decembrist Insurrection in Russia (1825)

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Document 20.5 Sources in Conversation: The Romantic Imagination: Joseph M. W. Turner, Transept of Tintern Abbey (c. 1794), and Wordsworth, "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (1798)

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Document 20.6 Musical Romanticism: Reviews of Beethoven’s Works (1799, 1812)

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Chapter 21. Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1830–1850

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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

Mapping the West: Europe in 1850

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Conclusion

Chapter 21 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

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Contrasting Views: The Effects of Industrialization

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Terms of History: Socialism

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Document 21.1 Establishing New Work Habits: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)

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Document 21.2 New Rules for the Middle Class: Sarah Stickney Ellis, Characteristics of the Women of England (1839)

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Document 21.3 Sources in Conversation: The Division of Labor: Testimony Gathered by Ashley’s Mines Commission (1842) and Punch Magazine, "Capital and Labour" (1843)

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Document 21.4 What Is the Proletariat?: Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)

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Document 21.5 The Promise of Emigration: Gottfried Menzel, The United States of North America, With Special Reference to German Emigration (1853)

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Document 21.6 Demanding Political Freedom: Address by the Hungarian Parliament (March 14, 1848) and Demands of the Hungarian People (March 15, 1848)

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Document 21.7 Imperialism and Opium: Commissioner Lin, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)

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Chapter 22. Politics and Culture of the Nation-State, 1850–1870

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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

Mapping the West: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1871

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Conclusion

Chapter 22 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale

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Contrasting Views: The Nation-State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Terms of History: Nationalism

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Document 22.1 Ending Serfdom in Russia: Peter Kropótkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1861)

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Document 22.2 Fighting for Italian Nationalism: Camillo di Cavour, Letter to King Victor Emmanuel (July 24, 1858)

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Document 22.3 Realpolitik and Otto von Bismarck: Rudolf von Ihering, Two Letters (1866)

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Document 22.4 Social Evolution: Herbert Spencer, Progress: Its Law and Cause (1857)

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Document 22.5 Sources in Conversation: The Science of Man: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871), and Figaro’s London Sketch Book of Celebrities (1874)

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Chapter 23: Empire, Industry, and Everyday Life, 1870–1890

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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

Mapping the West: The West and the World, c. 1890　

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Conclusion

Chapter 23 Review

Primary Source Analysis: An African King Describes His Government

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Contrasting Views: Experiences of Migration

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Terms of History: Home Rule

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Document 23.1 Defending Conquest: Jules Ferry, Speech before the French National Assembly (1883)

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Document 23.2 Subverting Empire: Imperial Federation Map of the World (1886)

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Document 23.3 Resisting Imperialism: Ndansi Kumalo, His Story (1890s)

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Document 23.4 Global Competition: Ernest Edwin Williams, Made in Germany (1896)

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Document 23.5 The Advance of Unionism: Margaret Bondfield, A Life’s Work (1948)

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Document 23.6 Sources in Conversation: Artistic Expression: Edgar Degas, Notebooks (1863–1884)

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Chapter 24. Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914

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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

Mapping the West: Europe at the Outbreak of World War I, August 1914

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Conclusion

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Primary Source Analysis: ""Going to Battle" (A Turkish Poem)

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Contrasting Views: Debating the Revolt in Art, Ideas, and Lifestyles

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Terms of History: Modern

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Document 24.1 The Idealized Family: Sir Francis Galton, "Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims" (1904), and International Eugenics Conference Poster (c. 1921)

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Document 24.2 Tapping the Human Psyche: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

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Document 24.3 The Dreyfus Affair: Émile Zola, "J’accuse!" (January 13, 1898)

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Document 24.4 Militant Suffrage: Emmeline Pankhurst, Speech from the Dock (1908)

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Document 24.5 Sources in Conversation: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden and Editorial from the San Francisco Call (1899)

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Document 24.6 Exalting War: Heinrich von Treitschke, Place of Warfare in the State (1897–1898), and Henri Massis and Alfred de Tarde, The Young People of Today (1912)

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Chapter 25. World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1929

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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

Mapping the West: Europe and the World in 1929　

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Conclusion

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Primary Source Analysis: Memory and Battlefield Tourism

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Contrasting Views: The Middle East at the End of World War I: Freedom or Subjugation?

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Terms of History: Fascism

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Document 25.1 The Horrors of War: Fritz Franke and Siegfried Sassoon, Two Soldiers’ Views (1914–1918)

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Document 25.2 Mobilizing for Total War: L. Doriat, Women on the Home Front (1917)

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Document 25.3 Sources in Conversation: Revolutionary Marxism Defended: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917), and "He Who Does Not Work Does Not Eat" Plate (1921)

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Document 25.4 Establishing Fascism in Italy: Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

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Document 25.5 A New Form of Anti-Semitism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)

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Chapter 26. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945

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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

Mapping the West: Europe at War’s End, 1945　

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Conclusion

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Primary Source Analysis: A Family Copes with Unemployment

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Contrasting Views: Nazism and Hitler: For and Against

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Terms of History: Civil Disobedience

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Document 26.1 Collectivizing Farming: Antonina Solovieva, Sent by the Komsomol (1930s)

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Document 26.2 Socialist Nationalism: Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet (1930)

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Document 26.3 Sources in Conversation: The Spanish Civil War: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombing of Guernica and Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)

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Document 26.4 Seeking a Diplomatic Solution: Neville Chamberlain, Speech on the Munich Crisis (1938)

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Document 26.5 The Final Solution: Sam Bankhalter and Hinda Kibort, Memories of the Holocaust (1938–1945)

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Document 26.6 Atomic Catastrophe: Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary (August 7, 1945)

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Chapter 27. The Cold War and the Remaking of Europe, 1945–1960s

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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

Mapping the West: The Cold War World, c. 1960

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Conclusion

Chapter 27 Review

Primary Source Analysis: Torture in Algeria

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Contrasting Views: Decolonization in Africa

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Terms of History: Welfare State

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Document 27.1 Stalin and the Western Threat: The Formation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) (1947)

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Document 27.2 Truman and the Soviet Threat: National Security Council, Paper Number 68 (1950)

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Document 27.3 Throwing Off Colonialism: Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam (1945)

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Document 27.4 The Psychology of Colonialism: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

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Document 27.5 Sources in Conversation: The Condition of Modern Women: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) and Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)

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Document 27.6 Cold War Anxieties: "How You Can Survive Fallout": Life Magazine Cover and Letter from President John F. Kennedy (1961)

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Chapter 28. Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989

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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

Mapping the West: The Collapse of Communism in Europe, 1989–1990　

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Conclusion

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Primary Source Analysis: A Citizen’s Experience of Gorbachev’s Reforms

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Contrasting Views: Feminist Debates

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Terms of History: Neo-liberalism

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Document 28.1 Prague Spring: Josef Smrkovský, What Lies Ahead (February 9, 1968)

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Document 28.2 A Revolutionary Time: Student Voices of Protest (1968)

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Document 28.3 Children Fleeing from a Napalm Attack in South Vietnam: Nick Ut, Photograph (June 8, 1972) and Vanity Fair Interview (2015)

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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)

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Document 28.5 Facing Terrorism: Jacques Chirac, New French Antiterrorist Laws (September 14, 1986)

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Document 28.6 Sources in Conversation: Glasnost and the Soviet Press: Nina Andreyeva, Polemics, and Pravda Editorial, Principles of Perestroika (1988)

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Chapter 29: A New Globalism, 1989 to the Present

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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 Earth and Its People Threatened

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?

Mapping the West: The World’s Top Fifteen Economies as of 2017

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Conclusion

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Primary Source Analysis: Václav Havel, "Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe"

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Contrasting Views: The Dutch Debate Globalization, Muslim Immigrants, and Turkey’s Admission to the EU

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Terms of History: Globalization

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Document 29.1 Sources in Conversation: Ethnic Cleansing: The Diary of Zlata Filipović (March 5, 1992–June 29, 1992), and Aida Šehović, ŠTO TE NEMA (Why are you not here?) (2017)

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Document 29.2 An End to Apartheid: The African National Congress, Introductory Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 19, 1996)

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Document 29.3 Changing Global Economies: World Bank, World Development Indicators (2010)

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Document 29.4 Combating Climate Change: European Commission, "Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: The Road from Paris" (2016), and Reactions to the Paris Climate Agreement

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Document 29.5 Nationalism and the EU: Paresh Nath, European Nationalism Cartoon (2017)

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Document 29.6 Remembering European History: Tony Judt, "What Have We Learned, If Anything?" (2008)

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