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| List of Maps, Tables, and Charts | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Absolutism and Political Revolution in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Assassination of Henry IV and the Rise of French Absolutism | |
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| Absolutism in France Under Louis XIV | |
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| The Habsburgs in Spain and Austria | |
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| Absolute Government in Prussia and Russia | |
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| Absolute Government in East and West: Manchu China and Monarchical Europe | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Execution of Charles I and the Struggle Against Absolute Government in Britain | |
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| Political Conflict and Development in the Netherlands | |
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| War and Political Consciousness in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Scientific Revolution and Changes in Thought and Society in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: Copernicus's On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies and the Scientific Revolution | |
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| Political Thought in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Art and Literature in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Everyday Life and Social Conditions in Seventeenth-Century Europe | |
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| Early Modern India: Thought, Culture, and Social Change | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Enlightenment, 1715-1789 | |
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| Changing Attitudes Toward Religion and the Church | |
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| Changing Attitudes Toward Political Authority and the State | |
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| Changing Attitudes Toward Society and Women | |
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| Changing Attitudes Toward Nature and Art | |
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| Changing Attitudes Toward Human Nature and Slavery | |
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| Africa and the Slave Trade | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: Population Growth and Social Change in England | |
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| Social, Economic, and Political Discontent in France | |
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| Enlightened Despotism in the Austrian Empire | |
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| Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia | |
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| Catherine the Great and Enlightened Despotism in Russia | |
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| Enlightened Despotism: A Contradiction in Terms? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Age of Revolution in France and the Americas, 1775-1815 | |
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| The Shaping of the American Revolution | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Storming of the Bastille and the Early Stages of the French Revolution | |
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| Popular Participation in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror | |
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| The Rise of Napoleon and the Impact of the French Revolution on Europe | |
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| Napoleonic Rule in France and the Napoleonic Wars in Europe | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: Napoleon's Decision to Invade Russia | |
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| Colonial Empire in Latin America | |
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| Rebellion and Revolution in Latin America | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Revolution, Reaction, and Ideology, 1815-1848 | |
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| The Congress of Vienna | |
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| The Legacy of the French Revolution and Napoleon | |
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| The Shaping of the Industrial Revolution in Britain | |
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| The Spread of the Industrial Revolution | |
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| India in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Cultural and Ideological Movements of the Post-Napoleonic Period | |
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| The Revolutions of 1848 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Cultural Interaction Between Europe and the World in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Imperialism in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Foundations of British Rule in India | |
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| War and Conflict in India | |
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| Imperialism and Indian Society in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| China's Intellectual and Political Response to Europe | |
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| The Opium War | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Taiping Rebellion | |
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| China's Resistance to Change | |
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| The New Treaty System and the Further Opening of China | |
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| The Rise of Modern Japan | |
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| Russian Expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia | |
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| The Emergence of the United States as a National Power | |
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| Africa and the West | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Europe and the West in the Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1848-1914 | |
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| Italian and German Unification | |
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| French Nationalism Under Napoleon III and the Third French Republic | |
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| The Effects of Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire, the United States, and Ireland | |
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| Social Change, Political Reform, and the Struggle for Women's Rights | |
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| The Decline of Serfdom and Slavery | |
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| European Thought and Culture | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War I and the Russian Revolution, ca. 1900-1924 | |
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| Systems of Alliances | |
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| Crises in North Africa and the Balkans | |
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| Early Twentieth-Century Russia | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: August 1914 | |
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| The Nature of the War in Europe | |
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| The Home Fronts | |
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| The Russian Revolutions of 1917 | |
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| The Russian Civil War and Lenin's New Economic Policy | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Aftermath of World War I, 1919-1929 | |
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| The Economic Consequences of the War | |
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| The Peace Settlement and Its Consequences | |
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| The Acceleration of Political Change | |
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| Political Change, Nationalism, and Revolution in Latin America | |
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| Literary Responses to World War I | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: Cubism and the Artistic Response to the War | |
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| Society, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life in the 1920s | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Crisis of the Interwar Years, 1919-1939 | |
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| Fascist Rule and Society in Italy | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Crash of 1929 and the Beginnings of the Great Depression | |
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| The Shaping of Soviet Communism Under Stalin | |
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| The Shaping of National Socialism Under Hitler | |
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| Social Change and Political Revolution in China | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War H and Its Aftermath, 1939-1949 | |
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| The Beginnings of World War II | |
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| German Conquests and the Treatment of Subject Populations | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Battle of Britain and the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | |
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| The German Invasion of the Soviet Union | |
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| The Impact of the War on the Home Front and the Nature of the War | |
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| Effects of Total War: Civilian Casualties and the Holocaust | |
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| The Impact of World War II on India | |
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| Postwar Uncertainties | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Cold War and the Postwar Era, 1945-1960 | |
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| The Impact of the Marshall Plan | |
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| European Reconstruction and Unification | |
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| The Shaping of the Cold War | |
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| The Korean War and McCarthyism in the United States | |
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| Three Crises of 1956 | |
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| New Directions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | |
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| Everyday Life in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Critique of the Soviet Union | |
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| Life in Dictatorships and Democracies in Latin America | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Pivotal 1960s | |
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| Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| The Arms Race and the Space Race | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement in the United States | |
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| Women in the Postwar World | |
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| Cultural Change and the Challenges of Youth | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| Protests in East and West in 1968 | |
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| The Beginning of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland | |
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| Jews in Postwar Europe and Israel | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Democracies and Dictatorships, 1970-1989 | |
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| Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | |
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| The Evolution of the European Community | |
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| The Problems, Survival, and Revival of Western Europe | |
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| The Shaping of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 | |
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| Brezhnev, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and D�tente | |
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| Reagan and the Evil Empire | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: The Accession of Mikhail Gorbachev | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| After the Cold War: The West and the Contemporary World | |
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| The Shaping of the Past: Lech Walesa and the Fall of Communism in Poland | |
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| Revolutions in Eastern Europe, the Democracy Movement, and the Decline of the Soviet Union | |
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| Social, Cultural, and Political Changes in Western Europe | |
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| Environmental and Health Issues in Diverse Countries: India, Russia, Japan, and Germany | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue: The Shaping of the Past and the Challenge of the Future | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |