List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Preface to the Third Edition
Notes on References, Further Reading, and Dates
Introduction
1 The Early Modern West I: The Reformation, the Great Consolidation, and the End of Christendom
Introduction
Fundamentals: Protestant Doctrine and the Middle Ages
A Catholic Reformation?
The Sexes and the Family
Fragmentation and Further Reform
Complications: Political and Social
Political Results: The Consolidation of Royal Authority
A Crisis of Authority and the End of Christendom
Early Modern Western Expansion
2 The Early Modern West II: Science, Society, and the State
Introduction
Fundamentals I: A Society of Orders, Estates, and Corporations
Fundamentals II: The Universe ca. 1600
Absolutism I: Motives, Means, and Implications
Absolutism II: Successes and Failures
Germany
France
Poland
Russia
England, Scotland, and Ireland
The United States
The Scientific Revolution I: Nature
Empiricism
The Scientific Revolution II: Society
Labor
3 The Early Modern West III: Enlightenment, Industrialization, and an Unraveled Compromise
Fundamentals
The Enlightenment I: Attitudes
The Enlightenment II: Continuity with the Past?
The Enlightenment III: Equality and Gender
The Enlightenment IV: Race and Slavery
The Crisis of the Ancien Regime: Rebellion and Revolution
The American Revolution
The Habsburg Lands
The French Revolution
Latin America
Counterrevolutions: Thermidor, Napoleon,
and the Congress of Vienna
The Industrial Revolution
4 The West, 1815–1914: The Search for Community, and Responses to the Enlightenment and Revolution
Fundamentals: The Search for Community
Change and Geist I: Romanticism
Nationalism: Thinking about the Nation in the
First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Nationalism and Politics: Movements of National Unification and Independence
Greece
Serbia and Bulgaria
Hungary
Germany
Italy
The United States
Change and Geist II: Marxism
Change and Geist III: Darwinism
The New Toughness of Mind
Imperialism I: Means
Imperialism II: Motives and Attitudes
Reform, State, and People
The Crisis of the Fin de Siècle: Modernism and Postmodernism
5 From ca. 1914 to the Present: The Search for Community, Global Conflict, and the Harvest of the Modern West
Fundamentals: State and Community
The Great War
The Great Depression
Communism
Fascism
General Considerations
Italy
Brazil
Germany
World War II
Cold War: The Pax Americana and Pax Communista
The Fall of Western Empires
Movements of Liberation in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Economy and Education: The Young
Ideology and the Search for Community
Women and Men
Race
Sexual Orientation
Multiculturalism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A Conservative Turn
A Global Community?
6 Coda: The Shaping of Western Civilization
Sources
Index
