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This lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structure, Pavlac uses the joined terms "supremacies and diversities" to develop themes of conflict and creativity. His easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable book covers the basic information that all educated adults should know.
Sommario
List of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Primary Source Projects, Sources on Families, Tables, and Timelines
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
1. History's Story
There's Method
What Is Truth?
Primary Source Project 1: Thucydides versus von Ranke about the Aim of History
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
The Purse of Princes
Man as the Measure
Primary Source Project 9: Witch Hunter versus Confessor about Belief in Witches
Heaven Knows
Sources on Families: Martin Luther, Table Talk
Fatal Beliefs
God, Greed, and Glory
10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
Lost in the Stars
From the Salons to the Streets
Sources on Families: Jean-Jacques Rousseau,E¿mile, or On Education
The State Is He (or She)
(Prosperous) People Power
The Declaration of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
Primary Source Project 10: Declaration of the Rights of Man versus Declaration of the Rights of Woman about Human Rights
Blood and Empires
11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
Facts of Factories
Life in the Jungle
Sources on Families: George Sand on the End of Her Marriage
Cleaning Up the Mess
For the Workers
Primary Source Project 11: Smiles versus Owen about the Good Life
The Machinery of Nature
12. The Westerner's Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
"New and Improved" Imperialism
From Sea to Shining Sea
Nationalism's Curse
Sources on Families: Ethel Howard, Potsdam Princes
The Balkan Cauldron
The Great War
Primary Source Project 12: "In Flanders Fields" versus "Dulce et Decorum Est" about Death in War
13. Rejections of Democracy: The Interwar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
Decline of the West?
Russians in Revolt
Losing Their Grip
Fascist Fury
Hitler's Hatreds
Sources on Families: Joseph Goebbels, "German Womanhood"
The Roads to Global War
Primary Source Project 13: Hitler versus Franklin D. Roosevelt about the Just Society
14. A World Divided: The Early Cold War, 1945 to 1980
From Friends to Foes
Primary Source Project 14: Khrushchev versus Nixon about Competition
Making Money
Sources on Families: Shirley Chisholm, Speech on Equal Rights
To the Brink, Again and Again
Letting Go and Holding On
American Hegemon
The Uneasy Understanding
15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1980 to the Present
The Walls Come Down
Searching for Stability
Different Folks
Haves and Cannots
Sources on Families: Supreme Court of the United States, Obergefell v. Hodges
Values of Violence
The Walls Go Up Again
Primary Source Project 15: The European Central Bank versus the National Front about the EU
Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?
Timelines
Common Abbreviations
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Info autore
By Brian A. Pavlac
Riassunto
This lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structure, Pavlac uses the joined terms "supremacies and diversities" to develop themes of conflict and creativity. His easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable book covers the basic information that all educated adults should know.
