The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

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