The Making of the West, Volume 2
Seventh EditionLynn Hunt; Thomas R. Martin; Barbara Rosenwein; Bonnie Smith
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Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-17.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.
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Contents
Preface: Why This Book This Way
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Maps, Figures, and Special Features
Authors’ Note: The b.c.e./c.e. Dating System
World Map
Chapter 14
Global Encounters and the Shock of the Reformation, 1492–1560
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
Chapter 14 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493)
Contrasting Views: Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic?
Terms of History: Protestant Reformation
Environment Matters: Smallpox Kills Native Peoples
Chapter 15
Wars of Religion and the Clash of Worldviews, 1560–1648
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
Chapter 15 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Sentence Pronounced against Galileo (1633)
Contrasting Views: Political Authority and Religion: What Happened When Subjects Held Different Beliefs?
Terms of History: Scientific Revolution
Environment Matters: Dutch Canals
Chapter 16
Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and the Search for Order, 1640–1700
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
Chapter 16 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Louis XIV, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685)
Contrasting Views: The English Civil War
Terms of History: Absolutism
Environment Matters: Great Fire of London, 1666
Chapter 17
The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1700–1750
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
Chapter 17 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)
Contrasting Views: Peter the Great of Russia
Terms of History: Progress
Environment Matters: The Building of St. Petersburg
Chapter 18
The Promise of Enlightenment, 1750–1789
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
Chapter 18 Review
Primary Source Analysis: "Slavery" in the Encyclopedia (1755)
Contrasting Views: Women and the Enlightenment
Terms of History: Enlightenment
Environment Matters: The Vogue for Classical Ruins
Chapter 19
The Cataclysm of Revolution, 1789–1799
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
Chapter 19 Review
Primary Source Analysis: The Rights of Minorities (1789)
Contrasting Views: Perspectives on the French Revolution
Terms of History: Revolution
Environment Matters: The Destruction of a Symbol of Oppression
Chapter 20
Napoleon and the Revolutionary Legacy, 1800–1830
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
Chapter 20 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Byron’s Poetry (1821)
Contrasting Views: Napoleon: For and Against
Terms of History: Romanticism
Environment Matters: Nature Tourism
Chapter 21
Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1830–1850
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
Chapter 21 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Contrasting Views: The Effects of Industrialization
Terms of History: Socialism
Environment Matters: Joseph M. W. Turner, The Fighting "Téméraire" Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up (1838)
Chapter 22
Politics and Culture of the Nation-State, 1850–1870
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
Chapter 22 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale
Contrasting Views: The Nation-State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Terms of History: Nationalism
Environment Matters: Straightening the Rhine
Chapter 23
Empire, Industry, and Everyday Life, 1870–1890
The New Imperialism
The Scramble for Africa — North and South ■ Imperializing 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
Chapter 23 Review
Primary Source Analysis: An African King Describes His Government
Contrasting Views: Experiences of Migration
Terms of History: Home Rule
Environment Matters: Bushiri
Chapter 24
Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914
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
Chapter 24 Review
Primary Source Analysis: "Going to Battle" (A Turkish Poem)
Contrasting Views: Debating the Revolt in Art, Ideas, and Lifestyles
Terms of History: Modern
Environment Matters: Samoed Family of Russia
Chapter 25
World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1929
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
Chapter 25 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Memory and Battlefield Tourism
Contrasting Views: The Middle East at the End of World War I: Freedom or Subjugation?
Terms of History: Fascism
Environment Matters: War and East African Forests
Chapter 26
The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945
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
Chapter 26 Review
Primary Source Analysis: A Family Copes with Unemployment
Contrasting Views: Nazism and Hitler: For and Against
Terms of History: Civil Disobedience
Environment Matters: Hiroshima, 1945
Chapter 27
The Cold War and the Remaking of Europe, 1945–1960s
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
Chapter 27 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Torture in Algeria
Contrasting Views: Decolonization in Africa
Terms of History: Welfare State
Environment Matters: The Mexican Green Revolution and Its Consequences
Chapter 28
Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989
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
Chapter 28 Review
Primary Source Analysis: A Citizen’s Experience of Gorbachev’s Reforms
Contrasting Views: Feminist Debates
Terms of History: Neoliberalism
Environment Matters: Cherynobyl
Chapter 29
A New Globalism, 1989 to the Present
Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath
The Breakup of Yugoslavia ■ The Soviet Union Comes Apart ■ Toward a Market Economy
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 ■ North versus South? ■ Radical Islam Meets the West ■ Population, Health, and Disease ■ The Promise and Problems of a World Economy ■ International Politics and the New Russia
Global Culture and Society in the Twenty-First Century
Redefining the West: The Impact of Global Migration ■ Global Networks and Social Change ■ Global Culture versus Nationalist Isolationism
Conclusion
Chapter 29 Review
Primary Source Analysis: Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize Lecture, December 7, 2015
Contrasting Views: The Dutch Debate Globalization, Muslim Immigrants, and Turkey’s Admission to the EU
Terms of History: Globalization
Environment Matters: The German Reichstag: Reborn and Green
Glossary of Key Terms G-1
Acknowledgments A-1
Index I-1
About the Authors