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1 The Origins of Western Civilizations
2 Gods and Empires in the Ancient Near East
3 The Greek Experiment
4 Expansion of Greece
5 Roman Civilization
6 Christianity and the Transformation of the Roman World
7 Rome's Three Heirs: The Byzantine, Islamic, and Early Medieval Worlds
8 The Expansion of Europe: Economy, Society, and Politics in the High Middle Ages
9 The High Middle Ages: Religious and Intellectual Developments
10 The Later Middle Ages
11 Commerce, Conquest, and Colonization
12 The Civilization of the Renaissance
13 Reformations of Religion
14 Religious Wars and State Building
15 Age of Absolutism and Empire
16 Scientific Revolution
17 Enlightenment
18 The French Revolution
19 Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth Century Society
20 From Restoration to Revolution, 1815-1848
21 What is a Nation? Territories, States, and Citizens, 1848-1871
22 Imperialism and Colonialism
23 The Challenge of the Modern West
24 The First World War
25 Turmoil Between the Wars
26 The Second World War
27 The Cold War World: Global Politics, Economic Recovery, and Cultural Change
28 Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960-1990
29 Globalization and the Twenty-First-Century World

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Joseph Goebbels: "We Demand" from Der Angriff, July 25, 1927, translated by Randall Bytwerk. Reprinted by permission of German Propaganda Archive (http://www.calvin.edu/cas/gpa).

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Julius Streicher: "Guilty" from Der Sturmer, March 1933, translated by Randall Bytwerk. Reprinted by permission of German Propaganda Archive (http://www.calvin.edu/cas/gpa).

 


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