The West in the World Volume 2 with Connect Access Card

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  • Chapter 14. A New World of Reason and Reform: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800

    Questioning Truth and Authority

    Developing a Modern Scientific View

    Supporting and Spreading Science

    Laying the Foundations for the Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment in Full Stride

    Chapter 15. Competing for Power and Wealth: The Old Regime, 1715-1789

    Statebuilding and War

    The Twilight of Monarchies? The Question of Enlightened Absolutism

    Changes in Country and City Life

    The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New

    Culture for the Lower Classes

    Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution

    Global Context Essay, III: Moving into the Modern World

    Chapter 16. Overturning the Political and Social Order: The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815

    "A Great Ferment": Trouble Brewing in France

    The Constitutional Monarchy: Establishing a New Order

    To the Radical Republic and Back

    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Chapter 17. Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850

    The Industrial Revolution Begins

    New Markets, Machines, and Power

    Industrialization Spreads to the Continent

    Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Industrialization

    Life in the Growing Cities

    Public Health and Medicine in the Industrial Age

    Family Ideals and Realities

    Chapter 18. Coping with Change: Ideology, Politics, and Revolution, 1815-1850

    The Congress of Vienna: A Gathering of Victors

    Ideologies: How the World Should Be

    Restoration and Repression

    A Wave of Revolution and Reform

    The Dam Bursts: 1848

    Chapter 19. Nationalism and Statebuilding: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870

    Building Unified Nation-States

    The Drive for Italian Unification

    Germany "By Blood and Iron"

    The Fight for National Unity in North America

    Divided Authority in the Austrian and Ottoman Empires

    Using Nationalism in France and Russia

    Chapter 20. Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914

    Demands for Democracy

    Insiders and Outsiders: Politics of the Extremes

    Emigration: Overseas and Across Continents

    The New Imperialism: The Race for Africa and Asia

    Chapter 21. Modern Life and the Culture of Progress: Western Society, 1850-1914

    The Second Industrial Revolution

    The New Urban Landscape

    City People

    Sports and Leisure in the Cities

    Private Life: Together and Alone at Home

    Science in an Age of Optimism

    Culture: Accepting the Modern World

    From Optimism to Uncertainty

    Chapter 22. Descending Into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution, 1914-1920

    On the Path to Total War

    The Front Lines

    War on the Home Front

    To the Bitter End

    Assessing the Losses

    The Peace Settlement

    Revolutions in Russia

    Chapter 23. Darkening Decades: Recovery, Dictators, and Depression, 1920-1939 00

    Trying to Recover from the Great War, 1919-1929

    Turning Away From Democracy: Dictatorships and Fascism, 1919-1929

    Transforming the Soviet Union: 1920-1939

    The Great Depression: 1929-1939

    Nazism in Germany

    Chapter 24. Into the Fire Again: World War II, 1939-1945

    The Road to War: 1931-1939

    Axis Victories, 1939-1942

    Struggle and Horror Behind the Front Lines

    Turning the Tide of War, 1942-1945

    Peace and the Legacy of War

    Global Context Essay, IV: Forming the Present

    Chapter 25. Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: The Cold War,1945-1980s

    Origins of the Cold War

    East and West: Two Paths to Recovery in Europe

    The Twilight of Colonialism

    A Sense of Relativity in Thought and Culture

    Protests, Problems, and New Politics: The 1960s to the 1980s

    Postindustrial Society

    Breakthroughs in Science

    Chapter 26. Into the Twenty-First Century: The Present in Perspective

    The Collapse of Communism

    Repercussion and Realignments in the West

    The World and the West from a Global Perspective