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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| The Ancestors of the West | |
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| Origins, to ca. 3000 B.C. | |
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| Mesopotamia, to ca. 1600 B.C. | |
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| Egypt, to ca. 1100 B.C. | |
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| The Global Record: Crossing Borders, for Better and Worse | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Ship, the Sword, and the Book: Western Asia, CA. 1500-400 B.C. | |
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| Traders Invent the Alphabet: Canaanites and Phoenicians, ca. 1400-450 B.C. | |
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| Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians, and Persians, ca. 1200-330 B.C. | |
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| Israel, ca. 1500-400 B.C. | |
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| The Visual Record: The Siege of Lachish | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Greeks in the Polis to CA. 350 B.C. | |
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| Before the Polis: Early Greece, to ca. 725 B.C. | |
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| Society and Politics in Archaic Greece, ca. 750-500 B.C. | |
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| The Written Record: A Woman Wins at the Olympics | |
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| The Culture of Archaic Greece | |
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| Classical Greece | |
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| The Public Culture of Classical Greece | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Alexander the Great and the Spread of Greek Civilization, CA. 350-30B.C. | |
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| Philip and Alexander | |
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| The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 323-30 B.C. | |
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| The Global Record: Egyptians Versus Greeks in a Temple | |
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| Hellenistic Culture | |
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| The Turn Inward: New Philosophies, New Faiths | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Rome, From Republic to Empire | |
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| Before the Republic, 753-509 B.C. | |
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| The Early and Middle Republic at Home, ca. 509-133 B.C. | |
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| The Early and Middle Republic Abroad, ca. 509-133 B.C. | |
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| The Visual Record: Luxury Goods and Gender Wars | |
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| The Late Republic and Its Collapse, 133-31 B.C. | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Imperial Rome, 31 B.C.-A.D. 284 | |
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| Augustus and the Principate, 31 B.C.-A.D. 68 | |
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| The Written Record: Two Views of Augustus | |
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| The Roman Peace and Its Collapse, A.D. 69-284 | |
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| Early Christianity | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The World of Late Antiquity, 284-CA. 600 | |
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| Rebuilding the Roman Empire, 284-395 | |
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| The Catholic Church and the Roman Empire, 313-604 | |
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| The Global Record: Cosmas Indicopleustes Finds Christians in Asia | |
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| The Rise of Germanic Kingdoms in the West, ca. 370-530 | |
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| The Roman Empire in the East, 395-565 | |
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| Society and Culture in Late Antiquity | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Early Medieval Civilizations, 600-900 | |
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| The Islamic East | |
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| The Byzantine Empire | |
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| The Visual Record: Icons | |
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| The Rise of the Carolingian Empire | |
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| Early Medieval Economies and Societies | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Expansion of Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900-1300 | |
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| Economic Expansion | |
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| The Heirs of the Carolingian Empire: Germany, Italy, and France | |
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| The Written Record: The Issues in the Investiture Controversy | |
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| The British Isles | |
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| The Growth of New States | |
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| The Crusades | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Medieval Civilization at Its Height, 900-1300 | |
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| The Traditional Orders of Society | |
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| Social and Religious Movements, ca.1100-1300 | |
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| Latin Culture: From Schools to Universities | |
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| The Global Record: The Making of an Arab Scholar | |
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| The Vernacular Achievement | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Crisis and Recovery in Late Medieval Europe, 1300-1500 | |
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| The Crisis of the Western Christian Church | |
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| War and the Struggle over Political Power, 1300-1450 | |
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| Crisis in Economy and Society | |
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| The Visual Record: A Painting of the Plague | |
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| The Consolidation of Political Power, 1450-1500 | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Humanism and Culture in Italy, 1300-1500 | |
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| The Written Record: The Education of Women | |
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| Painting and the Arts, 1250-1550 | |
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| The Spread of the Renaissance, 1350-1536 | |
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| Politics and Renaissance Culture | |
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| Important Events | |
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| European Overseas Expansion to 1600 | |
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| The European Background, 1250-1492 | |
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| Portuguese Voyages of Exploration, 1350-1515 | |
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| Spanish Voyages of Exploration, 1492-1522 | |
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| Spain's Colonial Empire, 1492-1600 | |
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| The Global Record: An Inca Nobleman Defends His Civilization | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Age of the Reformation | |
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| The Reformation Movements, ca. 1517-1545 | |
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| The Visual Record: A Reformation Woodcut | |
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| The Empire of Charles V (r. 1519-1556) | |
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| The English Reformation, 1520-1603 | |
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| France, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, 1523-1560 | |
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| The Late Reformation, ca. 1545-1600 | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560-1648 | |
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| Imperial Spain and the Limits of Royal Power | |
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| Religious and Political Conflict in France and England | |
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| The Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years' War | |
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| Economic Change and Social Tensions | |
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| The Written Record: A City Official Worries About Witch-Hunting | |
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| Writing, Drama, and Art in an Age of Upheaval | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Europe in the Age of Louis XIV, CA. 1640-1715 | |
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| France in the Age of Absolutism | |
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| The English Civil War and Its Aftermath | |
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| New Powers in Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| The Expansion of Overseas Trade and Settlement | |
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| The Global Record: Dutch Colonies in the Americas: The Challenges of a Trading Empire | |
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| Important Events | |
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| A Revolution in Worldview | |
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| The Revolution in Astronomy, 1543-1632 | |
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| The Scientific Revolution Expands, ca. 1600-1700 | |
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| The Visual Record: Modern Maps | |
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| The New Science in Context: Society, Politics, and Religion | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Europe on the Threshold of Modernity, CA. 1715-1789 | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Written Record: Condorcet's Optimism about Human Progress | |
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| European States in the Age of Enlightenment | |
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| The Widening World of Trade and Production | |
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| The Widening World of Warfare | |
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| Important Events | |
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| An Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
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| The Origins of Revolution, 1775-1789 | |
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| The Phases of the Revolution, 1789-1799 | |
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| The Napoleonic Era and the Legacy of Revolution, 1799-1815 | |
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| The Global Record: Freeing of Slaves on Guadeloupe, 1794 | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Industrial Transformation of Europe, 1750-1850 | |
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| Preconditions for Industrialization | |
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| New Modes of Production | |
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| Social, Cultural, and Environmental Impacts | |
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| The Visual Record: St. Giles | |
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| Responses to Industrialization | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Restoration, Reform, and Revolution, 1814-1848 | |
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| Restoration and Reaction, 1814-1830 | |
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| Ideological Confrontations | |
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| The Quest for Reform, 1830-1848 | |
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| The Written Record: Alexis de Tocqueville's Argument Against Slavery in the Colonies | |
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| The Revolutions of 1848 | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Nationalism and Political Reform, 1850-1880 | |
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| The Changing Nature of International Relations | |
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| Forging New Nation-States, 1850-1871 | |
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| Fragile Empires | |
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| The Development of Western Democracies | |
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| The Global Record: A Japanese View of the British Parliament | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Age of Optimism, 1850-1880 | |
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| Industrial Growth and Acceleration | |
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| Social Impacts of Economic Growth | |
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| Urban Problems and Solutions | |
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| Culture in an Age of Optimism | |
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| The Visual Record: The Modern City and Photography | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Imperialism and Escalating Tensions, 1880-1914 | |
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| The New Imperialism and the Spread of Europe's Influence | |
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| From Optimism to Anxiety: Politics and Culture | |
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| Vulnerable Democracies | |
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| Autocracies in Crisis | |
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| The Written Record: Pankhurst Testifies on Women's Rights | |
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| The Coming War | |
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| Important Events | |
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| War and Revolution, 1914-1919 | |
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| The Unforeseen Stalemate, 1914-1917 | |
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| The Experience of Total War | |
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| The Two Russian Revolutions of 1917 | |
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| The New War and the Allied Victory, 1917-1918 | |
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| The Outcome and the Impact | |
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| The Global Record: Prince Faisal at the Peace Conference | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Illusion of Stability, 1919-1930 | |
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| The West and the World After the Great War | |
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| Communism, Fascism, and the New Political Spectrum | |
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| Toward Mass Society | |
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| The Visual Record: Advertising | |
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| The Trials of the New Democracies | |
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| The Search for Meaning in a Disordered World | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Tortured Decade, 1930-1939 | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| The Written Record: The Government's Role in Managing a Free-Market Economy | |
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| The Stalinist Revolution in the Soviet Union | |
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| Hitler and Nazism in Germany | |
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| Fascist Challenge and Antifascist Response, 1934-1939 | |
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| The Coming of World War II, 1935-1939 | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Era of the Second World War, 1939-1949 | |
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| German Military Successes, 1939-1941 | |
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| The Assault on the Soviet Union and the Nazi New Order | |
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| A Global War, 1941-1944 | |
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| The Global Record: Japan's "Pan-Asian" Mission | |
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| The Shape of the Allied Victory, 1944-1945 | |
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| Into the Postwar World | |
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| Important Events | |
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| The Age of the Cold War, 1949-1989 | |
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| The Search for Cultural Bearings | |
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| Prosperity and Democracy in Western Europe | |
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| The Visual Record: Pop Art | |
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| The Communist Bloc: From Consolidation to Stagnation | |
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| Europe, the West, and the World | |
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| The Collapse of the Soviet System, 1975-1991 | |
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| Important Events | |
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| A Continuing Experiment: The West and the World Since 1989 | |
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| The Changing International Framework after the Cold War | |
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| The Uncertainties of Democratic Capitalism | |
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| Lifestyles and Identities | |
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| The West in a Global Age | |
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| The Written Record: Questioning the State of Western Civilization | |
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| Important Events | |
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| Index | |