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| The Humanities: An Introduction to the Adventure | |
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| Creating a Sense of Self | |
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| Tradition: Nurturing the Creative Spirit | |
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| Modes of Expression and Reflection | |
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| The Arts | |
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| The Pictorial Arts | |
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| Sculpture: the Art of Shaping | |
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| Architecture: the Art of Shelter | |
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| Music: the Art of Sound | |
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| Dance: the Art of Movement | |
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| The Art of Theater | |
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| A Note about Opera | |
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| The Literary Arts | |
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| An Invitation to the Adventure | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| The Ancient World | |
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| The First Humans | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| The Sumerians | |
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| Empires of the Near East | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Myth | |
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| Ancient Egypt | |
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| Egypt: Religion and Society | |
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| The Arts of Egypt | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Death at an Egyptian Banquet | |
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| Asia and America | |
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| The Indus Valley | |
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| Bronze Age China | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Civilizations and Progress | |
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| Ancient America | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| Ancient Greece: the Classical Spirit | |
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| Early Greece | |
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| The Aegean World | |
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| Early Greek Poetry | |
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| Religion and Philosophy in Early Greece | |
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| Art in Early Greece | |
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| The Classical Period | |
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| Athens in its Golden Age | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Plague of Athens | |
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| Classical Greek Art | |
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| The Athenian Acropolis | |
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| Classical Sculpture | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the Classical Ideal | |
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| Greek Theater and Music | |
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| Greek Tragedy | |
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| Greek Comedy | |
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| Greek Music and Dance | |
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| Classical Greek Philosophy | |
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| The Sophists and Socrates | |
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| Plato | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Confucius and Philosophy | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| The Hellenistic Age | |
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| The Hellenistic Legacy | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| Ancient Rome: the Spirit of Empire | |
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| The Drama of Roman History | |
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| The Rise of Republican Rome | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Imperialism | |
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| Imperial Rome | |
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| The Art of an Empire | |
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| Sculpture as Propaganda | |
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| The Forum of Trajan | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the World Citizen | |
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| The Romans as Builders | |
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| Roman Art and Daily Life | |
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| Roman Daily Life | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: A Marriage Contract of the Roman Era | |
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| Roman Theater and Music | |
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| The Romans as Poets and Thinkers | |
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| Early Roman Poets | |
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| Roman Epic and Satire | |
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| Philosophy in the Roman World | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Rise of Buddhism | |
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| Rome's Division and Decline | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| CRITICAL QUESTION 76 | |
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| THE WRITE IDEA 72 | |
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| The Spirit of Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam | |
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| The Judaic Tradition | |
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| History and the Israelites | |
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| The Hebrew Bible | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Monotheism | |
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| Job and the Trials of Israel | |
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| The Rise of Christianity | |
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| Jesus of Nazareth | |
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| The Growth of Christianity | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Siege of Jerusalem | |
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| Christianity in the Late Roman Empire | |
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| Philosophy: Classical and Christian | |
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| From Classical to Christian | |
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| Augustine of Hippo | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Original Sin and Human Nature | |
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| The Christian Empires: Rome and Byzantium | |
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| St. Peter's and the Pope | |
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| Justinian and the Byzantine World | |
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| Ravenna: Showcase of the Christian Arts | |
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| Christianity and the Arts | |
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| Early Christian Music | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Teotihuacà n: Sacred City of Mesoamerica | |
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| Christianity Against the Arts | |
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| The Rise of Islam | |
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| The Foundations of Islam | |
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| Islamic Arts and Science | |
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| Dawn of the Middle Ages | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Early Middle Ages: the Feudal Spirit | |
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| The Age of Charlemagne | |
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| Northern Edge of the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Charlemagne's Empire | |
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| Carolingian Arts | |
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| Feudal Europe | |
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| Feudalism | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Work in Charlemagne's World | |
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| The Arts of Feudalism | |
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| The Bayeux Tapestry | |
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| The Flowering of Muslim Spain | |
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| Monasticism | |
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| The Monastic Ideal | |
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| Hrotsvit and the Classical Tradition | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Blood of Maya Kings | |
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| The Romanesque Style | |
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| Imperial Revival and the Romanesque Style | |
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| The Romanesque Church: Monks and Pilgrims | |
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| Romanesque Sculpture | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Pilgrimage | |
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| Early Medieval Music and Drama | |
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| Musical Notation | |
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| Hildegard of Bingen: Musical Mystic | |
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| Drama in the Medieval Church | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Mysticism | |
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| The Medieval Philosopher | |
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| Early Medieval Philosophy | |
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| Abelard | |
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| The Medieval Spirit and the First Crusade | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Late Middle Ages: the Gothic Awakening | |
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| The Gothic Awakening | |
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| The Crusades and the Decline of Feudalism | |
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| The Rise of Towns and Cities | |
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| The Gothic Style | |
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| The Gothic Style and Divine Light | |
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| The Cathedral at Chartres | |
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| Gothic Sculpture | |
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| Music and Theater in the Gothic Age | |
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| The Evolution of Organum | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Buddhism in Asia | |
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| Gothic Theater: From Church to Town | |
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| The New Learning | |
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| The Universities | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Scholasticism | |
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| Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Court and City in the Late Middle Ages | |
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| Courtly Love and Medieval Romance | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Chivalry | |
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| Music in the Late Middle Ages | |
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| Dante's Divine Comedy | |
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| Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Plague and Prosperity | |
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| The Late Gothic | |
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| Reclaiming the Classical Past | |
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| Giotto and the International Gothic | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Renaissance Spirit in Italy | |
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| The Renaissance in Italy | |
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| The Italian City-States | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Renaissance Humanism | |
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| Patronage of the Arts and Learning | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Violence of Renaissance Youth | |
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| The Arts in Early Renaissance Italy | |
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| Florence 1401 A Renaissance Begins | |
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| Brunelleschi's Domes | |
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| Florentine Painting: A Refined Classicism | |
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| Italian Renaissance Music | |
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| Early Renaissance Sculpture | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the Science of Perspective | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Great Zimbabwe | |
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| The Decline of Florence | |
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| Renaissance Genius | |
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| Machiavelli and Humanist Politics | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the Renaissance Man and Woman | |
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| The High Renaissance in Rome | |
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| Josquin des Prÿz | |
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| Raphael | |
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| Michelangelo in Rome | |
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| The New St. Peter's | |
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| An Age of Giants | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| Reformation and Late Renaissance | |
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| The Reformation | |
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| Luther's Challenge | |
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| The Appeal of the Reformation | |
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| Calvinism | |
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| The Rise of Northern Europe | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the "Protestant Ethic": God, Work, and Wealth | |
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| Kings, Commerce, and Columbus | |
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| The Northern Renaissance Courts | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Ottoman Empire | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: A Midwife's Advice | |
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| Art and Humanism in Northern Europe | |
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| Faith and Humanism in Northern Art | |
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| Erasmus and Humanism | |
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| Utopians and Skeptics | |
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| The Elizabethan Age | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Skepticism | |
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| The Reformation in England | |
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| Theater in the Elizabethan Age | |
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| The Genius of Shakespeare | |
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| Elizabethan Music | |
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| The Late Renaissance in Italy and Spain | |
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| Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation | |
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| Renaissance Theater in Italy | |
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| The Renaissance in Venice | |
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| Late Renaissance Painting and Mannerism | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Spirit of Baroque | |
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| The Baroque in Italy | |
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| Bernini and Counter-Reformation Rome | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Taj Mahal | |
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| Italian Baroque Painting | |
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| The Birth of Opera | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Absolutism | |
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| The Baroque in Spain | |
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| Spanish Baroque Architecture | |
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| Velà zquez and Cervantes Masters of Illusion | |
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| The Baroque In France | |
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| The Palace of Versailles | |
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| Theater and Dance at Versailles | |
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| Painting in Baroque France | |
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| The Protestant Baroque | |
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| J. S. Bach Baroque Genius | |
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| Bach's "Well-tempered Clavier" | |
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| Rembrandt and Dutch Baroque Painting | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Empiricism | |
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| The New Science | |
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| Tools of the New Science | |
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| Descartes and Newton | |
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| The English Compromise | |
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| English Baroque Poetry | |
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| Christopher Wren's London | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Fire of London | |
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| Handel and Music in England | |
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| Politics and Philosophy in England | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Spirit of Enlightenment | |
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| The Rococo Style | |
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| The Rococo in France | |
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| The Rococo in Germany and Britain | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Philosophes | |
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| Enlightenment and Freedom | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Enlightenment | |
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| The Bourgeois Response | |
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| The Bourgeois Style in Painting | |
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| The Rise of the Novel | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Kabuki Theater | |
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| The Bourgeois Theater in Germany | |
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| Music in the Age of Enlightenment | |
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| Mozart and Opera | |
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| The Classical Symphony | |
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| The Neoclassical Style | |
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| Neoclassical Architecture | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Neoclassicism | |
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| Neoclassical Painting | |
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| The Age of Satire | |
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| Swift | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Women Gladiators | |
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| Satire and Society in Art | |
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| Voltaire | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| Revolution and Romanticism | |
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| Revolutions and Rights | |
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| The Revolutionary Wave 1776 and 1789 | |
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| The Napoleonic Era | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Freedom | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Revolution and Philosophy | |
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| The Romantic Hero | |
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| Faust and the Romantics | |
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| Delacroix and the Byronic Hero | |
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| Music and Dance in the Romantic Age | |
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| Beethoven: From Classical to Romantic | |
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| Age of the Virtuoso | |
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| Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony | |
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| Elements of Romanticism | |
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| Romantic Social Protest | |
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| The Romantics and Nature | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Imagination | |
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| Romantic Escapes | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Native Storytellers | |
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| Evil and the Gothic Novel | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Industrial Age: the Spirit of Materialism | |
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| Materialism and Progress | |
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| The Victorians | |
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| Realism in Pictorial Art | |
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| The Realist Novel | |
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| The Modern City | |
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| Music and Modernity | |
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| Verdi's Operas | |
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| Wagner's Musical Revolution | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Modernity | |
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| Late Romantic Music and Dance | |
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| Late Romantics and Early Moderns | |
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| Symbolism and Art Nouveau | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: A Musical Career | |
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| Debussy and Rodin���The Break with Tradition | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Japanese Color Print | |
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| Beyond Impressionism | |
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| The Dark Side of Progress | |
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| The Realist Theater | |
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| The Novel and Modern Philosophy | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Human Will | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Spirit of Modernism | |
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| A Turbulent Century | |
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| A New Science | |
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| The Great War | |
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| Fascism and the Rise of Mass Society | |
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| Modernism in Art | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: War, Fashion, and Feminism | |
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| Picasso and the Revolution in Art | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Primitivism | |
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| Toward Formal Abstraction | |
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| Expressionism and Dada | |
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| The Modern Mind | |
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| Freud and Surrealism | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the Unconscious | |
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| Modernism in Literature | |
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| Modernist Music and Architecture | |
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| Stravinsky and Schoenberg the New Music | |
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| Modernist Building and Design | |
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| Art and Politics | |
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| Brecht's Epic Theater | |
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| Painting and Politics | |
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| Politics and the Cinema | |
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| In the American Grain | |
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| Regionalism and Renaissance | |
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| The American Scene | |
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| The Age of Jazz | |
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| World War and Holocaust | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| The Contemporary Spirit | |
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| The Age of Anxiety | |
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| Post-war America | |
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| Exploring the Absurd | |
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| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Gandhi and | |
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| Colonial Liberation | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: Existentialism | |
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| The Theater of the Absurd | |
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| The Existential Hero | |
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| Art in the Post-war Era | |
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| The New York School | |
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| Pop, Minimalism, and the Avant-garde | |
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| KEY CONCEPT: the Avant-garde | |
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| Sculpture in the Post-war Era | |
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| The Trials of Modern Architecture | |
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| Triumph of the International Style | |
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| Building as Sculpture | |
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| Post-1945 Music | |
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| The Avant-garde in Music | |
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| The Pop Rebellion | |
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| The Post-modern Styles | |
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| Post-modern Architecture | |
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| Minimalism in Music | |
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| The Contemporary Visual Arts | |
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| The New Fiction | |
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| The Global Culture | |
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| Liberated Voices | |
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| AIDS and the Arts | |
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| WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Living and Dying with AIDS | |
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| A New Century���Promise and Challenge | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Critical Question | |
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| The Write Idea | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |