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Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.
List of contents
Chapter 1 The Modernization of the Western World
Chapter 2 Modernization and Social Change
Chapter 3 The Ancient and Classical Inheritance
Chapter 4 Europe in the Middle Ages
Chapter 5 The Late Middle Ages and the Transformation of Medieval Society
Chapter 6 The Italian Renaissance
Chapter 7 The Reformation
Chapter 8 Commerce, Cities, and Capitalism
Chapter 9 The Centralization and Rationalization of the Political State
Chapter 10 The Enlightenment
Chapter 11 The French Revolution
Chapter 12 The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 13 Classical Liberalism and the Bourgeois State
Chapter 14 Karl Marx and the Socialist Response to Capitalism
Chapter 15 Nationalism and Nations
Chapter 16 The Age of Empire
Chapter 17 The Great War
Chapter 18 Europe between Wars
Chapter 19 The Rise of Fascism
Chapter 20 Total War
Chapter 21 The Cold War
Chapter 22 Globalization and Social Change
Chapter 23 Terror and Terrorism
Chapter 24 Arguing About History: Can Modernization Theory Help Us Understand the Perplexing Events of Recent Years?
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About the author
John McGrath is a retired Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Boston University, USA. His publications include The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane (2000).
Kathleen Callanan Martin is a retired Senior Lecturer of Social Sciences at Boston University, USA. Her publications include Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts (2008).
Summary
Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.
