Stella & Rose's Books

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