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| Brief Table of Contents | |
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| The Beginnings of Civilization, 10,000-1150 B.C.E. | |
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| The Age of Empires: The International Bronze Age and Its Aftermath, ca. 1500-550 B.C.E. | |
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| Greek Civilization | |
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| Hellenistic Civilization | |
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| The Roman Republic | |
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| Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors, 31 B.C.E.-235 C.E. | |
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| Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600 | |
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| Medieval Empires and Borderlands: Byzantium and Islam | |
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| Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West | |
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| Medieval Civilization: The Rise of Western Europe | |
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| The Medieval West in Crisis | |
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| The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture | |
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| The West and the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650 | |
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| The Reformations of Religion | |
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| The Age of Confessional Division | |
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| Absolutism and State Building in Europe, 1618-1715 | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| The West and the World: Empire, Trade, and War, 1650-1815 | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture | |
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| The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Ideological Conflict and National Unification, 1815-1871 | |
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| The Coming of Mass Politics: Industrialization, Emancipation, and Instability, 1870-1914 | |
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| The West and the World: Cultural Crisis and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 | |
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| The First World War | |
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| Reconstruction, Reaction, and Continuing Revolution: The 1920s and 1930s | |
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| World War II | |
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| Redefining the West After World War II | |
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| The West in the Contemporary Era: New Encounters and Transformations | |
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| The Beginnings of Civilization, 10,000-1150 B.C.E. | |
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| Defining Civilization, Defining Western Civilization | |
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| Mesopotamia: Kingdoms, Empires, and Conquests | |
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| Egypt: The Empire of the Nile | |
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| The Age of Empires: The International Bronze Age and Its Aftermath, ca. 1500-550 B.C.E. | |
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| The Dynamism of the International Bronze Age | |
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| Recovery and Rebuilding: Empires and Societies in the Aftermath of the International Bronze Age | |
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| The Civilization of the Hebrews | |
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| Greek Civilization | |
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| Greece Rebuilds, 1100-479 B.C.E. | |
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| The Greek Encounter with the Persian Empire | |
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| The Classical Age of Greece, 479-336 B.C.E. | |
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| Hellenistic Civilization | |
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| The Impact of Alexander the Great | |
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| Hellenism in the East and West | |
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| Hellenistic Society and Culture | |
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| Hellenistic Philosophy and Science | |
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| The Roman Republic | |
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| The Nature of the Roman Republic | |
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| Roman Territorial Expansion | |
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| The Culture of the Roman Republic | |
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| Social Life in Republican Rome | |
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| The End of the Roman Republic | |
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| Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors, 31 B.C.E.-235 C.E. | |
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| The Imperial Center | |
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| Life in the Roman Provinces: Assimilation, Resistance, and Romanization | |
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| The Frontier and Beyond | |
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| Society and Culture in the Imperial Age | |
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| Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600 | |
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| Crisis and Recovery in the Third Century | |
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| Toward a Christian Empire | |
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| New Christian Communities and Identities | |
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| The Breakup of the Roman Empire | |
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| Medieval Empires and Borderlands: Byzantium and Islam | |
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| Byzantium: The Survival of the Roman Empire | |
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| The New World of Islam | |
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| Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West | |
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| The Birth of Latin Christendom | |
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| The Carolingians | |
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| Invasions and Recovery in the Latin West | |
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| The West in the East: The Crusades | |
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| Medieval Civilization: The Rise of Western Europe | |
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| Two Worlds: Manors and Cities | |
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| The Consolidation of Roman Catholicism | |
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| Strengthening the Center of the West | |
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| Medieval Culture: The Search for Understanding | |
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| The Medieval West in Crisis | |
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| A Time of Death | |
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| A Cold Wind from the East | |
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| Economic Depression and Social Turmoil | |
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| An Age of Warfare | |
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| A Troubled Church and the Demand for Religious Comfort | |
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| The Culture of Loss | |
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| The Italian Renaissance and Beyond: The Politics of Culture | |
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| The Cradle of the Renaissance: The Italian City-States | |
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| The Influence of Ancient Culture | |
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| The Early Modern European State System | |
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| The West and the World: The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650 | |
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| Europeans in Africa | |
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| Europeans in the Americas | |
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| Europeans in Asia | |
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| The Beginnings of the Global System | |
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| The Reformations of Religion | |
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| Causes of the Reformation | |
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| The Lutheran Reformation | |
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| The Diversity of Protestantism | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| The Age of Confessional Division | |
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| The Peoples of Early Modern Europe | |
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| Disciplining the People | |
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| Hunting Witches | |
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| The Confessional States | |
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| States and Confessions in Eastern Europe | |
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| Absolutism and State Building in Europe, 1618-1715 | |
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| The Nature of Absolutism | |
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| The Absolutist State in France and Spain | |
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| Absolutism and State Building in Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| Resistance to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Discoveries and Achievements of the Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Search for Scientific Knowledge | |
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| The Causes of the Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Intellectual Consequences of the Scientific Revolution | |
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| Humans and the Natural World | |
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| The West and the World: Empire, Trade, and War, 1650-1815 | |
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| European Empires in the Americas and Asia | |
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| Warfare in Europe, North America, and Asia | |
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| The Atlantic World | |
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| Encounters Between Europeans and Asians | |
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| The Crisis of Empire and the Atlantic Revolutions | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture | |
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| The Aristocracy | |
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| Challenges to Aristocratic Dominance | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Impact of the Enlightenment | |
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| The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
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| The First French Revolution, 1789-1791 | |
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| The French Republic, 1792-1799 | |
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| Cultural Change in France during the Revolution | |
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| The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 | |
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| The Legacy of the French Revolution | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Nature of the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Conditions Favoring Industrial Growth | |
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| The Spread of Industrialization | |
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| The Effects of Industrialization | |
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| Industry, Trade, and Empire | |
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| Ideological Conflict and National Unification, 1815-1871 | |
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| New Ideologies in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Ideological Encounters in Europe, 1815-1848 | |
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| National Unification in Europe and America, 1848-1871 | |
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| International Conflict and Domestic Politics, 1853-1871 | |
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| The Coming of Mass Politics: Industrialization, Emancipation, and Instability, 1870-1914 | |
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| Economic Transformation | |
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| Defining the Nation | |
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| The New Mass Politics | |
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| The Women's Revolt | |
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| The West and the World: Cultural Crisis and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 | |
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| Scientific Transformations | |
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| Cultural Crisis: The Fin-de-Si�cle and the Birth of Modernism | |
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| The New Imperialism | |
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| The First World War | |
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| The Origins of the First World War | |
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| The Experience of Total War | |
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| The Home Fronts | |
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| War and Revolution | |
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| Reconstruction, Reaction, and Continuing Revolution: The 1920s and 1930s | |
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| Cultural Despair and Desire | |
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| The Appeal of Authoritarianism and the Rise of Fascism | |
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| Nazism and the Defeat of Democracy in Germany | |
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| The Soviet Alternative and the Democracies' Response | |
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| The Reconstruction of Gender | |
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| The West and the World: Imperialism in the Interwar Era | |
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| World War II | |
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| The Coming of War | |
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| Europe at War, 1939-1941 | |
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| The World at War, 1941-1945 | |
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| The Wars Within the War | |
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| The Home Front: The Other Wars | |
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| Redefining the West After World War II | |
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| A Dubious Peace, 1945-1949 | |
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| The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War | |
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| The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1950s and 1960s | |
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| The West: Consensus, Consumption, and Culture | |
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| The West in the Contemporary Era: New Encounters and Transformations | |
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| Economic Stagnation and Political Change: The 1970s and 1980s | |
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| Revolution in the East | |
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| In the Wake of Revolution | |
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| Rethinking the West | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |