Western Civilizations, Brief Edition : W. W. Norton College Books

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

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