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INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

STUDYING FROM PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS

1 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST:THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

2 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST:PEOPLES AND EMPIRES

3 THE CIVILIZATION OF THE GREEKS

4 THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

5 THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

6 THE ROMAN EMPIRE

7 LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

8 EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES,750–1000

9 THE RECOVERY AND GROWTH OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

10 THE RISE OF KINGDOMS AND THE GROWTH OF CHURCH POWER

11 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES:CRISIS AND DISINTEGRATION IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

12 RECOVERY AND REBIRTH:THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE

13 REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS WARFARE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

14 EUROPE AND THE WORLD:NEW ENCOUNTERS,1500–1800

15 STATE BUILDING AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

16 TOWARD A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH:THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE

17 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:AN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

18 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:EUROPEAN STATES,INTERNATIONAL WARS,AND SOCIAL CHANGE

19 A REVOLUTION IN POLITICS:THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON

20 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON EUROPEAN SOCIETY

21 REACTION,REVOLUTION,AND ROMANTICISM,1815–1850

22 AN AGE OF NATIONALISM AND REALISM,1850–1871

23 MASS SOCIETY IN AN“AGE OF PROGRESS,”1871–1894

24 AN AGE OF MODERNITY,ANXIETY,AND IMPERIALISM,1894–1914

25 THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRISIS:WAR AND REVOLUTION

26 THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR STABILITY:EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARS,1919–1939

27 THE DEEPENING OF THE EUROPEAN CRISIS:WORLD WAR Ⅱ

28 COLD WAR AND A NEW WESTERN WORLD,1945–1965

29 PROTEST AND STAGNATION:THE WESTERN WORLD,1965–1985

30 AFTER THE FALL:THE WESTERN WORLD IN A GLOBAL AGE(SINCE 1985)

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