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Brief Table of Contents | |
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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 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 | |