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Western Civilizations Their History & Their Culture by Edward McNall Burns - New York W.W. Norton & Company 1958 - 1022 p.
Includes Index
Part One: The dawn of history -- The earliest beginnings -- Egyptian civilization -- The Mesopotamian and Persian civilizations -- The Hebrew civilization -- The Hittite, Minoan, Mycenaean, and lesser civilizations -- Part Two: The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome -- Greek civilization -- The Hellenistic civilization -- Roman civilization -- Christianity and the transformation of the Roman world -- Part Three: The Middle Ages -- Rome's three heirs: The Byzantine, Islamic, and early Medieval western worlds -- The High Middle Ages (1050-1300): economic, social, and political institutions -- The High Middle Ages (1050-1300): Religious, and intellectual developments -- The Late Middle Ages (1300-1500) -- Part Four: The early-modern world -- The civilization of the Renaissance (c.1350-c.1550) -- Europe expands and divides: overseas discoveries and Protestant Reformation -- A century of crisis for early-modern Europe (c.1560-c.1660) -- The economy and society of early-modern Europe -- The age of absolutism (1660-1789) -- The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment -- Part Five: The French and Industrial Revolutions and their consequences -- The French Revolution -- The Industrial Revolution -- Consequences of industrialization: urbanization and class consciousness (1800-1850) -- The rise of liberalism (1815-1870) -- Nationalism and nation-building (1815-1870) -- Part Six: The west at the world's center -- The progress of international industrialization and competition (1870-1914) -- The middle class challenged -- The search for stability (1870-1914) -- The First World War -- The west between the wars -- The Second World War -- Part Seven: The emergence of world civilization -- New power relationships -- Problems of world civilization -- Rulers of principal European states.
Civilization --Western
Europe --Civilization
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Western Civilizations Their History & Their Culture by Edward McNall Burns - New York W.W. Norton & Company 1958 - 1022 p.
Includes Index
Part One: The dawn of history -- The earliest beginnings -- Egyptian civilization -- The Mesopotamian and Persian civilizations -- The Hebrew civilization -- The Hittite, Minoan, Mycenaean, and lesser civilizations -- Part Two: The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome -- Greek civilization -- The Hellenistic civilization -- Roman civilization -- Christianity and the transformation of the Roman world -- Part Three: The Middle Ages -- Rome's three heirs: The Byzantine, Islamic, and early Medieval western worlds -- The High Middle Ages (1050-1300): economic, social, and political institutions -- The High Middle Ages (1050-1300): Religious, and intellectual developments -- The Late Middle Ages (1300-1500) -- Part Four: The early-modern world -- The civilization of the Renaissance (c.1350-c.1550) -- Europe expands and divides: overseas discoveries and Protestant Reformation -- A century of crisis for early-modern Europe (c.1560-c.1660) -- The economy and society of early-modern Europe -- The age of absolutism (1660-1789) -- The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment -- Part Five: The French and Industrial Revolutions and their consequences -- The French Revolution -- The Industrial Revolution -- Consequences of industrialization: urbanization and class consciousness (1800-1850) -- The rise of liberalism (1815-1870) -- Nationalism and nation-building (1815-1870) -- Part Six: The west at the world's center -- The progress of international industrialization and competition (1870-1914) -- The middle class challenged -- The search for stability (1870-1914) -- The First World War -- The west between the wars -- The Second World War -- Part Seven: The emergence of world civilization -- New power relationships -- Problems of world civilization -- Rulers of principal European states.
Civilization --Western
Europe --Civilization
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