THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION VOLUME II
Written by John L. Stipp, Allen W. Dirrim, C. Warren Hollister
Published by John Wiley & Sons
in 1972
ISBN: 0471826219
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THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION VOLUME II
Written by John L. Stipp, Allen W. Dirrim, C. Warren Hollister.
Stock no. 1704073
1st thus.
1972.
Softcover.
Almost very good condition.
Second edition. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0471826219. Cover creased and grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- Prologue (1300-1660)
- A. The Renaissance: 1300-ca. 1520
- B. The Confessional Age: The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century
- C. The Century of Crises: 1560-1600
- CHAPTER I
- Governments and Societies in the Age of Absolutism
- A. The Nature of Absolutism
- B. The Effective Absolutist Regimes
- C. Aristocratic Monarchies
- D. The Maritime States: England and the Dutch Republic
- E. Interpreting Absolutism: A Paradox
- CHAPTER II
- The Secularization of Thought: the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:
- A. The "Scientific Revolution"
- B. Scientific Philosophy and the New Humanism
- C. The Enlightenment
- D. Popular Religious Reactions to Science and Reason
- E. The Impact of Science and Enlightenment
- CHAPTER III
- The Decline of Divine-Right Monarchy: 1720-1787
- A. The Era of Aristocratic Stabilization: 1720-1740
- b. International Conflicts after 1740
- C. The Politics of Enlightenment
- CHAPTER IV
- A Generation of Revolution: 1787-1815
- A. Deepening Revolution in France: From Monarchy to Repulic
- B. Reaction, Militarism and Defeat
- CHAPTER V
- Reaction and Revolution: 1815-1850
- A. The Revolt Against the Enlightenment and Revolution
- B. A Generation of Dissent: 1820-1848
- C. The General Revolutionary Sweep of 1848-1850
- D. The Struggle for Social and Political Power: A Summing Up
- CHAPTER VI
- The Industrialization of Society
- A. The Beginnings of Mechanized Production
- B. An "Open-Ended 'Revolution'"
- CHAPTER VII
- The Ferment of Ideas in the Age of Realism and Science
- A. Responses to Industrialism
- B. Science and "Scientism"
- C. Late-Nineteenth Century Social Thought
- CHAPTER VIII
- The Politics of Emergent Industrial Society: ca. 1850-1914
- A. The Western Democracies: Britain, France and the United States
- B. The Consolidation of Germany and Italy as Nation States
- C. The Eastern Empires: Austria-Hungary and Russia
- CHAPTER IX
- The New Imperialism and the Posture of Aggression
- A. Turbulent Changes: Conditions
- B. Turbulent Changes: Beginnings
- CHAPTER X
- Power Politics, 1875-1914: The Entangling Web
- A. The Pattern of Conflict
- B. Crises
- CHAPTER XI
- World War I and Its Settlement
- A. Coming and Course of the Great War
- B. The Fumbled Peace
- CHAPTER XII
- In the Wake of War: 1919-1930's
- A. The World Scene - Problems and Prospects
- B. National Affairs
- CHAPTER XIII
- The Collectivist Trend Between the War: Russia
- A. Sowing the Wind
- B. Reaping the Whirlwind
- CHAPTER XIV
- The Collectivist Trend between the Wars: Germany; Italy
- A. Nazi Germany
- B. Fascist Italy
- CHAPTER XV
- The World at War Again: 1939-1945
- A. The Coming of the War
- B. The War
- C. The Road to "Peace"
- CHAPTER XVI
- The World in Flux: 1940's -1970's
- A. Domestic Affairs
- B. The Decolonization of Asia and Africa
- C. The Metamorphosis of Europe
- D. The Capitalist-Communist Conflict
- E. Summary of the Flux and Flow of Contemporary Events
- CHAPTER XVII
- A. The Disintegration of Traditional Institutions and Beliefs
- B. The Revolt of the Intellectuals
- C. The Revolt of Youth
- Illustration Credits
- Index