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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Why Study Cultural History? | |
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| A Humanities Primer: How to Understand the Arts | |
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| Prehistory and Near Eastern Civilizations | |
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| Prehistory and Early Cultures | |
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| Paleolithic Period | |
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| The Neolithic Revolution | |
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| The Age of Metals, | |
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| The Rise of Civilization: Mesopotamia | |
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| The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Kingdoms | |
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| The Cradle of Civilization | |
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| Writing | |
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| Religion | |
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| Encounter: The Phoenicians and the Alphabet | |
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| Literature | |
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| Law | |
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| Science, Mathematics, and Medicine | |
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| Slice of Life:"A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son" | |
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| Anonymous, from clay tablets | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| The Civilization of the Nile Rover Valley: Egypt | |
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| Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years | |
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| A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values | |
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| Religion | |
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| Writing and Literature | |
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| Science and Medicine | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Slice of Life: Life's Instruction Book for Egyptians, Anonymous, from A Papyrus Text | |
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| Sculpture, Painting, and Minor Arts | |
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| Heirs to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian Empires | |
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| The Assyrians | |
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| The Neo-Babylonians | |
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| The Medes and the Persians | |
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| The Legacy of Early Near Eastern Civilizations | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Aegean Civilizations: the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age | |
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| Prelude: Minoan Civilization, 3000-1100 B.C.E. | |
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| Beginnings: Mycenaean Civilization, 1900-1100 B.C.E. | |
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| The Greek Dark Ages, 1100-800 B.C.E | |
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| Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae | |
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| The Archaic Age, 800-479 B.C.E. | |
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| Political, Economic, and Social Structures | |
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| The Greek Polis: Sparta and Athens | |
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| Technology in Archaic Greece | |
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| The Emergence of Greek Genius: The Mastery of Form | |
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| Religion | |
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| Literature | |
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| Epic Poetry | |
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| Lyric Poetry | |
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| Interpreting Art: Red Figure Ware: Achilles Killing the Amazon Queen Penthesilea | |
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| Encounter Near Eastern Art and Greek Pottery | |
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| Philosophy and Science | |
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| Natural Philosophy | |
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| Slice of Life The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient | |
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| Greece Sappho, "He Seems to Be a God" and Alcaeus, "Longing for Home" | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| The Legacy of Archaic Greek Civilization | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenic Age | |
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| Domestic and Foreign Affairs: War, Peace, and the Triumph of Macedonia | |
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| Political Phases of the Hellenic Age | |
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| The Arts of Hellenic Greece: The Quest for Perfection | |
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| Encounter: The Representation of Blacks in Greek Art | |
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| Theater | |
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| Tragedy | |
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| Comedy | |
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| History, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | |
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| History | |
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| Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | |
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| The Pre-Socratics | |
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| The Sophists | |
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| The Socratic Revolution | |
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| Plato | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| Medicine | |
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| The Visual Arts | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Slice of Life Xenophon, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage in Ancient Greece", from Oeconomicus | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Painting | |
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| The Legacy of Hellenic Civilization | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Hellenistic Civilization and the Rise of Rome | |
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| The Changing Framework of Politics | |
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| The Hellenistic Monarchies | |
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| The Rise of Rome | |
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| The Nature of Government | |
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| The Tenor of Life | |
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| The Experiences of Women | |
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| Urban Life | |
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| Roman Values | |
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| Hellenistic Cultures | |
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| Slice of Life: Street Scene in Hellenistic Egypt | |
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| Theocritus, from Idylls | |
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| Drama and Literature | |
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| Philosophy and Religion | |
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| Cynicism | |
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| Skepticism | |
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| Epicureanism | |
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| Stoicism | |
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| Religion | |
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| Science and Technology | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Encounter: The Invention of Parchment and the Birth of the Secular Library | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Interpreting Art: Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros | |
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| The Laocoon Group | |
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| The Legacy of Hellenistic Civilization and the Rise of Rome | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Judaism and the Rise Christianity | |
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| Judaism | |
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| The People and Their Religion | |
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| Egypt, Exodus, and Moses | |
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| The Kingdom of Israel | |
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| The Babylonian Captivity and the Postexilic Period | |
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| The Hellenistic and Roman Periods | |
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| Societal and Family Relationships | |
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| The Bible | |
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| Slice of Life a Jewish Eyewitness to the Destruction of the Second Temple, Flavius Josephus, from History of the Jewish War (75-59 C.E.) | |
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| Early Jewish Art and Architecture | |
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| Encounter: Baal, a Rival to the Israelites' God | |
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| Christianity | |
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| The Life of Jesus Christ and the New Testament | |
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| Christians and Jews | |
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| Christianity and Greco-Roman Religions and Philosophies | |
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| Christians in the Roman Empire | |
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| Early Christian Literature | |
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| Slice of Life: A Christian Mother Faces Death from Roman Authorities, Vibia Perpetua, A Martyr in the Early Christian Church | |
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| The Legacy of Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Roman Imperial Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity | |
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| The Augustan Principate | |
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| The Principate | |
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| The Pax Romana | |
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| Encounter: Roman Conquests and Romance Languages | |
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| The Crisis of the Third Century | |
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| The Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine | |
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| The Later Roman Empire in West and East | |
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| The End of the Western Empire | |
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| Slice of Life a Roman Delegate at a Barbarian Banquet, Priscus | |
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| The Eastern Empire | |
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| The Triumph of Christianity | |
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| The Growth of the Catholic Church | |
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| Christian Monasticism | |
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| Christianity and the Roman State | |
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| Roman Imperial Civilization | |
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| Secular Latin Literature | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| Science and Medicine | |
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| Law | |
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| From the Secular to the Spiritual: Christian Literature | |
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| The Fathers of the Church | |
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| Church History | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Visual Arts | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Interpreting Art: The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus | |
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| Painting and Mosaics | |
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| Music | |
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| The Legacy of Roman Imperial Civilization | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Heirs of the Roman Empire: Byzantium and the West in the Early Middle Ages | |
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| The Byzantine World | |
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| The Birth of Byzantium: War and Government | |
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| The Birth of Byzantium: Culture and Religion | |
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| The early Medieval West | |
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| The World of Charlemagne | |
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| The Reign of Charlemagne | |
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| The Carolingian Renaissance | |
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| The Post-Carolingian World | |
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| Encounter: Globalization: The Silk Road | |
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| The Literary Arts in the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Byzantine Writers | |
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| The Latin West | |
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| Slice of Life: Marriage Diplomacy Nets a Diplomatic Insult | |
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| The Vernacular Achievement | |
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| The Visual Arts in the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Byzantine Art | |
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| Byzantine Architecture | |
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| Western Art | |
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| Western Architecture | |
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| Technology | |
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| Military Technology: Byzantine | |
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| Military Technology: Western European | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Music | |
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| The Legacy of the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The World of Islam, 630-1517 | |
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| Muhammad, The Prophet | |
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| Imperial Islam | |
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| The Post-Muhammad Years | |
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| The Umayyad Dynasty | |
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| The Abbasid Dynasty | |
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| The Fragmentation of the Caliphate | |
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| Islam as Religion | |
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| Medieval Islamic Culture | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Philosophy and History | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| History | |
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| Technology | |
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| Papermaking | |
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| Hydraulic | |
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| Mechanical Engineering | |
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| Literature | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Prose | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Encounter: An International Community of Scholars | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Painting 0 | |
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| Slice of Life: Fears of Assimilation in a Multicultural Society, Paul Albar | |
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| Interpreting Art: The Night Journey of Muhammad | |
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| Music | |
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| The Legacy of Medieval Islam | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The High Middle Ages: The Christian Centuries | |
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| Politics and Society | |
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| Lords and Vassals: Those Who Fight | |
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| Those Who Work: Peasants | |
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| The Rise of Towns (and the Rest of Those Who Work) | |
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| Medieval Government | |
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| The French Monarchy | |
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| The English Monarchy | |
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| The German Empire | |
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| The Papal Monarchy | |
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| Medieval Christianity and the Church | |
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| Christian Beliefs and Practices | |
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| Encounter: Pagan Vikings Versus Christian Europeans | |
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| Religious Orders and Lay Piety | |
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| The Crusades | |
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| The Age of Synthesis: Equilibrium between the Spiritual and the Secular | |
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| Theology and Learning | |
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| Slice of Life: When Love Knows No Boundaries, | |
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| Heloise, from a letter | |
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| The Development of Scholasticism | |
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| Peter Abelard | |
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| The Rise of the Universities | |
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| Intellectual Controversy and Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Science and Medicine | |
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| Science | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Literature | |
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| Courtly Writing | |
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| Dante | |
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| Architecture and Art | |
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| Romanesque Churches and Related Arts | |
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| Gothic | |
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| Churches and Related Arts | |
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| Music | |
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| Technology | |
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| The Legacy of the Christian Centuries | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500 | |
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| Hard Times Come to Europe | |
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| Ordeal by Plague, Famine, and War | |
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| The Secular Monarchies | |
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| The Papal Monarchy | |
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| Technology | |
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| The Rise of Industries | |
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| The Printing Press | |
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| The Cultural Flowering of the Late Middle Ages | |
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| Religion | |
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| Theology and Philosophy | |
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| The Via Antiqua Versus the Via Moderna | |
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| Duns Scotus and William of Ockham 0 | |
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| Slice of Life: A Gossip Columnist of the Late Middle Ages, Henry Knighton, from his Chronicle | |
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| Science | |
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| Literature | |
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| Northern Italian Literature: Petrarch and Boccaccio | |
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| Encounter A New Look at the Spread of Byzantine Scholarship in the West | |
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| English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| French Literature: Christine de Pizan | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Late Gothic Architecture | |
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| Late Gothic Sculpture | |
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| Late Gothic Painting and the Rise of New Trends | |
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| New Trends in Italy: Giotto | |
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| Flemish Painting: Jan van Eyck and hans Memling | |
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| Interpreting Art: Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding or Arnolfini Double Portrait | |
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| Music | |
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| The Legacy of the Late Middle Ages | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Early Renaissance: Return to Classical Roots, 1400-1494 | |
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| The Early Renaissance: Schools of Interpretation | |
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| Early Renaissance History and Institutions | |
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| Italian City-States during the Early Renaissance | |
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| Florence, the Center of the Renaissance | |
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| The Resurgent Papacy, 1450-1500 | |
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| International Developments | |
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| The Spirit and Style of the Early Renaissance | |
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| Slice of Life: Battle of the Sexes, Fifteenth-Century Style, Laura Cereta, from a letter | |
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| Humanism, Scholarship, and Schooling | |
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| Thought and Philosophy | |
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| Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting | |
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| Artistic Ideals and Innovations | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Painting | |
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| Encounter The Influence of Islam on the European Renaissance | |
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| Music | |
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| The Legacy of the Early Renaissance | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The High Renaissance and Early Mannerism, 1494-1564 | |
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| The Rise of the Modern Sovereign State | |
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| The Struggle for Italy, 1494-1529 | |
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| Economic Expansion and Social Developments | |
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| Demographics, Prosperity, and the Beginning of a Global World | |
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| Technology | |
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| Sailing | |
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| Warfare | |
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| Science and Medicine | |
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| From High Renaissance to Early Mannerism | |
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| Literature | |
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| Encounter Portuguese Exploration Sets the Stage for a New World 360 | |
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| Castiglione | |
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| Machiavelli | |
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| Painting | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| Michelangelo | |
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| Interpreting Art: Michelangelo, The Libyan Sibyl | |
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| Raphael | |
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| The Venetian School: Giorgione and Titian | |
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| The School of Parma: Parmigianino | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Slice of Life: Artists and Their Critics: Michelangelo's Strategy, Giorgio Vasari, from Life of Michelangelo | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Music | |
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| Choral Music | |
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| Other Developments | |
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| The Legacy of the High Renaissance and Early Mannerism | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, and Late Mannerism, 1500-1603 | |
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| Northern Humanism | |
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| The Northern Renaissance | |
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| Northern Renaissance Thought and Science | |
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| Jean Bodin | |
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| Andreas Vesalius | |
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| Northern Renaissance Literature | |
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| Michel de Montaigne | |
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| William Shakespeare | |
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| Northern Renaissance Painting | |
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| Albrecht Durer | |
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| Matthias Grunewald | |
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| Hieronymus Bosch | |
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | |
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| The Breakup of Christendom: Causes of the Religious Reformations | |
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| The Protestant Order | |
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| Luther's Revolt | |
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| Encounter: Indigenous Peoples and New Spain | |
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| Luther's Beliefs | |
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| Social and Political Implications of Luther's Revolt | |
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| Slice of Life: The Conscience of Sixteenth-Century Christian Europe, Bartolome de las Casas from A Short | |
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| Account of the Destruction of the Indies | |
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| The Reforms of John Calvin | |
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| The Reform of the English Church | |
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| The Counter-Reformation | |
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| The Revitalized Papacy | |
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| New Monastic Orders | |
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| The Council of Trent | |
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| Warfare as a Response to Religious Dissent, 1520-1603 | |
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| Late Mannerism | |
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| Spanish Painting | |
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| Spanish Literature | |
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| Late Mannerist Painting in Italy: Tintoretto | |
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| Music in Late-Sixteenth-Century Italy and England | |
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| The Legacy of Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, and Late Mannerism | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Baroque Age I: Glamour and Grandiosity, 1600-1715 | |
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| Absolutism, Monarchy, and the Balance of Power | |
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| France: The Supreme Example of Absolutism | |
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| England: From Monarchy to Republic to Limited Monarchy | |
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| Warfare in the Baroque Period: Maintaining the Balance of Power | |
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| The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 | |
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| The Wars of Louis XIV, 1665-1713 | |
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| Slice of Life: Two Views of Power: Master (Louis XIV) and Servant (Duke of Saint-Simon) | |
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| Technology | |
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| Warfare Technology | |
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| Household Technology | |
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| The Baroque: Variations on an International Style | |
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| The Florid Baroque | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Encounter: Japan Closes Its Door, Nearly | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Painting | |
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| The Classical Baroque | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Painting | |
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| The Restrained Baroque | |
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| Painting | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Literature | |
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| Interpreting Art: Christopher Wren, St. Paul's Cathedral | |
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| Baroque Literature in France | |
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| Baroque Literature in England | |
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| Music | |
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| Opera | |
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| Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi | |
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| The Legacy of the Baroque Age | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Baroque Age II: Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought, 1600-1715 | |
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| Theories of the Universe before the Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Magical and the Practical in the Scientific Revolution | |
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| Astronomy and Physics: From Copernicus to Newton | |
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| Nicolas Copernicus | |
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| Johannes Kepler | |
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| Galileo Galilei | |
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| Isaac Newton | |
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| Medicine and Chemistry | |
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| Technology | |
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| The Impact of Science on Philosophy | |
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| Francis Bacon | |
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| Rene Descartes | |
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| Blaise Pascal | |
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| Ironies and Contradictions of the Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Revolution in Political Philosophy | |
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| Natural Law and Divine Right: Grotius and Bossuet | |
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| Absolutism and Liberalism: Hobbes and Locke | |
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| Slice of Life: Innocent or Guilty? A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial, Suzanne Gaudry: Trial Court Records, June, 1652 | |
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| European Exploration and Expansion | |
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| Responses to the Revolutions in Thought | |
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| The Spread of Ideas | |
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| Encounter: The Sinews of Trade | |
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| Impact on the Arts | |
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| The Legacy of the Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Age of Reason, 1700-1789 | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Philosophes and Their Program | |
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| Religion | |
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| Deism | |
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| Popular Religion | |
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| The Encyclopedie | |
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| The Physiocrats | |
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| The Great Powers During the Age of Reason | |
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| Society: Continuity and Change Absolutism, Limited Monarchy, and Enlightened Despotism | |
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| France: The Successors to the Sun King | |
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| Great Britain and the Hanoverian Kings | |
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| Enlightened Despotism in Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| Cultural Trends in the Eighteenth Century: From Rococo to Neoclassical | |
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| The Rococo Style in the Arts | |
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| Rococo Painting | |
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| Rococo Interiors | |
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| The English Response | |
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| The Challenge of Neoclassicism | |
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| Neoclassical Painting | |
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| Interpreting Art: Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii | |
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| Encounter: Chinoiserie: Fantasy of the East | |
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| The Print | |
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| Neoclassical Architecture | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| Political Philosophy | |
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| David Hume | |
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| Literature | |
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| French Writers: The Development of New Forms | |
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| Neoclassicism in English Literature | |
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| The Rise of the Novel | |
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| Music | |
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| Slice of Life: "How to Manipulate the System: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu," Letter, March 25, 1744 | |
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| The Legacy of the Age of Reason | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Revolution, Reaction, and Cultural Response, 1760-1830 | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Industrialization in England | |
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| Classical Economics: The Rationale for Industrialization | |
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| Slice of Life: Life Inside a "Satanic Mill" in 1815: Elizabeth Bentley, Report of Parliamentary Committee on the Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children in Mills and Factories, 1832 | |
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| Political Revolutions, 1760-1815 | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| Technology | |
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| Changes in Military Weaponry | |
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| Composition of Armies | |
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| Changes to Naval Warfare | |
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| Reaction, 1815-1830 519 | |
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| Encounter: Slavery and the French Revolution | |
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| Revolutions in Art and Ideas: From Neoclassicism and Romanticism | |
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| Neoclassicism in Literature after 1789 | |
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| Neoclassical Painting and Architecture after 1789 | |
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| Romanticism: Its Spirit and Expression | |
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| The Romantic Movement in Literature | |
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| Romantic Painting | |
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| England | |
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| Germany | |
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| Spain | |
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| France | |
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| Science and Philosophy | |
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| Science | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| The Birth of Romantic Music | |
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| The Legacy of the Age of Revolution and Reaction | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie, 1830-1871 | |
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| The Political and Economic Scene: Liberalism and Nationalism | |
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| The Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 | |
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| European Affairs in the Grip of Realpolitik | |
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| Limited Reform in France and Great Britain | |
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| Wars and Unification in Central Europe | |
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| Civil War in the United States | |
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| Industrialism, Technology, and Warfare | |
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| Industrialism: The Shrinking Globe | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| The Spread of Industrialism | |
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| Symbols of the Bourgeois Age: The Crystal Palace and the Suez Canal | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Thought: Philosophy, Religion, and Science | |
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| Liberalism Redefined | |
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| Socialism | |
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| Encounter: The Tragedy of the Cherokee Nation | |
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| Religion and the Challenge of Science | |
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| Cultural Trends: From Romanticism to Realism | |
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| Literature | |
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| Slice of Life: Observing Human Behavior: The Classes and the Masses, Charlotte Bronte, The First World's Fair, 1851; Hippolyte Taine, A Day at the Races, 28 May 1861 | |
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| The Height of French Romanticism | |
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| Romanticism in the English Novel | |
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| Interpreting Art: Edouard Manet | |
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| A Bar at the Folies-Bergere | |
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| Romanticism in American Literature | |
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| Realism in French and English Novels | |
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| The Russian Realists | |
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| Realism among African American Writers | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Neoclassicism and Romanticism after 1830 | |
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| The Rise of Realism in Art | |
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| Photography | |
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| Music | |
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| The Legacy of the Bourgeois Age | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Age of Early Modernism, 1871-1914 | |
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| Europe's Rise to World Leadership | |
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| The Second Industrial Revolution, New Technologies, and the Making of Modern Life | |
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| Response to Industrialism: Politics and Crisis | |
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| Domestic Policies in the Heavily Industrialized West | |
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| Slice of Life Winning the Right to Vote: Lady Constance Lytton, Notes from a diary | |
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| Domestic Policies in Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe | |
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| Imperialism and International Relations | |
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| The Scramble for Colonies | |
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| The Outbreak of World War I | |
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| Early Modernism | |
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| Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion | |
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| Nietzsche | |
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| Freud and Jung | |
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| Religious Developments | |
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| Literature | |
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| Naturalistic Literature | |
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| Decadence in Literature | |
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| Expressionist Literature | |
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| The Advance of Science | |
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| The Modernist Revolution in Art | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| Post-Impressionism | |
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| Encounter The French Impressionists Meet Ukiyo-e Art | |
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| Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism | |
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| New Directions in Sculpture and Architecture | |
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| Music: From Impressionism to Jazz | |
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| The Legacy of Early Modernism | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Age of the Masses and the Zenith of Modernism: 1914-1945 | |
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| The Collapse of Old Certainties and the Search for New Values | |
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| World War I and Its Aftermath | |
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| The Great Depression of the 1930s | |
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| Encounter: Civil Disobedience and the Campaign for Indian Independence | |
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| The Rise of Totalitarianism | |
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| Russian Communism | |
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| European Fascism | |
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| World War II: Origins and Outcome | |
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| The Zenith of Modernism | |
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| Mass Culture, Technology, and Warfare Mass Culture and New Technologies | |
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| Warfare | |
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| Experimentation in Literature | |
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| The Novel | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Drama | |
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| Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| Science | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Slice of Life: The Face of Evil: A Nazi Death Camp, Elie Wiesel, from Night | |
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| Art, Architecture, Photography, and Film | |
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| Painting | |
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| Interpreting Art: Piet Mondrian, Composition with Blue and Yellow | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Photography | |
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| Film | |
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| Music: Atonality, Neoclassicism, and an American Idiom | |
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| The Legacy of the Age of the Masses and High Modernism | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism, 1945-1970 | |
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| Transformations in the Postwar World | |
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| The Era of the Superpowers, 1945-1970 | |
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| Postwar Recovery and the New World Order | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Emergence of the Third World | |
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| Mass Culture | |
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| The End of Modernism | |
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| Philosophy and Religion | |
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| Political and Social Movements | |
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| Science and Technology | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Slice of Life: Humans in Space: "One Giant Leap for Mankind," Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, astronauts, voice transmittal from the Moon | |
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| The Literature of Late Modernism: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Drama | |
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| Late Modernism and the Arts | |
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| Painting | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Happenings | |
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| Late Modern Music | |
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| Encounter: The Globalization of Popular Music | |
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| Film | |
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| The Legacy of the Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| The Contemporary World: Globalization, Terror, and Post-Modernism, 1970- | |
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| Toward a New Global Order, 1970-2001 | |
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| Economic, National, and International Developments | |
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| The Fall of Communism | |
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| The Post-Cold War World | |
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| The Age of Terror, 2001- | |
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| The Birth of Post-Modernism | |
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| Medicine, Science, and Technology | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Science | |
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| Technology | |
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| Philosophy and Religion | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| Religion and Religious Thought | |
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| The Literature of Post-Modernism | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Encounter: Continental Drift: Demography and Migration | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Drama | |
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| Post-Modernism and the Arts | |
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| Painting | |
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| Interpreting Art: Anselm Kiefer, Osiris and Isis | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Installation Art | |
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| Environmental Art | |
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| Video Art | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Film | |
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| Post-Modern Music | |
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| Performance Art | |
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| Mass Culture | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Slice of Life "How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?" Amin Maalouf, from Origins | |
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| The Legacy of the Contemporary World | |
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| Key Cultural Terms | |
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| Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |