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This new edition of
The Essential Guide to Western Civilization provides a succinct and engaging overview of European history for students.
List of contents
Prologue: The Value of European History 1. Early Humans and the Dawn of Civilization 2. Ancient Greece: Politics and War 3. Ancient Greece: Society, Culture, and Daily Life 4. Ancient Rome: Politics and War 5. Ancient Rome: Society, Culture and Daily Life 6. The Middle Ages: Politics and War, 500-1300 7. The Middle Ages: Society, Culture and Daily Life 8. The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance 9. The Age of Discovery, the Protestant Reformation, and the Wars of Religion, 1492-1648 10. Politics, Colonialism, and War, 1648-1789 11. European Society during the Scientific, Agricultural, and Industrial Revolutions, 1600-1800 12. The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Age of Napoleon, 1700-1815 13. Challenging the Conservative Order: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socioeconomic Change, 1815-50 14. Middle Class Europe: The Triumph of Liberalism and Nationalism and the Rise of Socialism, 1850-1914 15. Industrialization, Imperialism, and Intellectual and Social Change, 1850-1914 16. World War I, 1914-18 17. Interwar Europe, 1919-39 18. World War II, 1939-45 19. The Cold War and the End of European Dominance, 1945-present Epilogue: Europe, the United States, and the World in the 21st Century
About the author
Nicholas L. Waddy is Associate Professor of History at Alfred State College in Alfred, New York, United States. He teaches courses on Western Civilization, African history, and military history.
