An edition of The European world
(1966)
The European world
a history
by Jerome Blum, Rondo Cameron, and Thomas Garden Barnes
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The intermixture in our own time of European, or Western, civilization with non-Western civilizations and cultures is producing a new, global civilization. It is the purpose of this book to tell the story of Western civilization from the "Dark Ages" when Europe emerged as a cultural entity up to the transmutation of Western civilization in the 20th century. It is not a story of continual progress. Throughout its history the European world has experienced fluctuations of fortune and circumstance, periods of harmony and periods of strife and discord. Nor does the story have a simple, obvious moral. The attentive reader, however, can learn much about his own cultural heritage and so arrive at a better understanding of the world in which he lives and his own place in it. - Preface.
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Table of Contents
Part one : The emergence of the European world.
1. The heritage of the European world. The legacy of ancient civilization
The birth of Europe
Medieval civilization in its prime
The crisis of the medieval order
2. Economic change and the expansion of Europe.
The Great Depression of the Later Middle Ages
The rise of modern capitalism
The great discoveries
Overseas expansion and the feedback to Europe
3. The Renaissance.
The Renaissance in Italy
Italian humanism
Italian art
The northern Renaissance
Renaissance science
4. The politics of the Renaissance.
Political theory
Italian politics
The rise of the nation-states
The Italian wars
5. Reformations, Protestant and Catholic.
The eleventh hour of the Medieval church
Luther and the German Reformation
The Swiss Reformation and the rise of Calvinism
The Reformation in England
The Catholic Reformation
6. The Age of Reformation.
The empire of Charles V
The wars of religion in France
The Spanish predominance
Elizabethan England
7. The borderlands of Europe.
The creation of the Russian state
Poland to 1660
Scandinavia to 1660
The Ottoman Empire to 1656
8. Social, intellectual, and cultural dynamism, 1500-1600.
Society and social dynamics
The Scientific Revolution
Political theory
The Baroque
9. The age of crisis, 1600-1660 : absolutist solution.
The Thirty Years' War
The decline of Spain, 1598-1665
The reconstruction of France
The emergence of absolutism
10. Absolutism versus oligarchy : England and the Dutch Republic.
England's constitutional crisis, 1603-1640
"Another Protestant Republic"
The rise of the Dutch Republic
The flowering of Dutch culture
Part two : Absolutism, enlightenment, and revolution (1660-1815).
11. The pinnacle of French absolutism. "I am the State"
Absolutism in economics and religion
French predominance
Cultural glory of France
12. Absolutism in Austria, Spain, and Prussia.
The rise of the Austrian Hapsburgs
The rise of the Spanish Bourbons
The rise of Hohenzollern Prussia
Frederick the Great of Prussia
13. Absolutism and oligarchy in the East.
Russia becomes a great power
The decline and disappearance of Poland
Scandinavia
The Ottoman Empire, 1656-1792
14. Constitutionalism and oligarchy in the West.
The Dutch oligarchy, 1660-1766
Triumph of the English oligarchy, 1660-1689
The Augustan age of English oligarchy, 1689-1760
Dutch and British oligarchy beset, 1760-1790
15. Wealth, war, and empire.
Power and plenty : the policies of economic nationalism
Europe overseas : colonies and commerce
Dynastic and imperial statecraft, 1700-1763
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
16. The age of science.
The scientific community of intellect
The physical world
The psychic world
The social world
17. The Enlightenment.
The circles of Enlightenment
The philosophies
The encyclopedists and the progress of science
Counter-Enlightenment
18. The crisis of absolutism.
Enlightened despotism
The failure to renovate France
France on the eve of revolution
19. The French Revolution.
The coming of the Revolution, 1788-1791
The constitutional monarchy, 1791-1792
The republic of virtue, 1792-1794
Reaction and irresolution, 1794-1799
Impact of the French Revolution
20. The Napoleonic era.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The domestic reformer
The empire builder
The Napoleonic legacy
Part three : The zenith of the European world (1815-1918).
Introduction : Social forces and social change
21. Romanticism and reaction.
The Vienna Settlement and the concert of Europe
Romanticism in literature and the arts
Romanticism in philosophy, politics, and religion
Restoration politics
22. The rising tide of revolution.
Revolutionary currents : liberalism and nationalism
Revolution and self-government in the Americas
Romantic revolution, 1820-1829
The revolutions of 1830-1834
Parliamentary reform in Great Britain
23. The revolution in economic life.
The rise of modern industry
Early industrialism in Europe and America
Social aspects of early industrialism
Economic liberalism, laissez faire, and free trade
24. Revolution at floodtide.
Contrasting liberalisms in the West
The growth of social protest
The revolution of 1848 in France
Other revolutionary movements
25. The realist reaction.
Ebb tide of revolution, 1848-1851
Realism in literature and the arts
The progress of science
The warfare of science with theology
Materialism and positivism
26. The politics of power, 1852-1871.
Napoleon III and the Second French Empire
The Risorgimento and Italian unity
Foundations of German unity
The clash of power in North America
The watershed of 1867-1871
27. The spread of modern industry.
Technological bases of the new industrialism
Business organization and the world market system
National economic styles
Organized labor and the revival of socialism
28. Democratic reform and social strife, 1871-1914.
The triumph of democracy in Britain
The Third French Republic
The Second German Reich
The lesser states of Western Europe
29. Three decaying empires.
Russia
Austria : the multinational empire
The Ottoman Empire
30. The Indian summer of European culture.
Fin-de-Siècle literature and art
Positivism and its critics
The new revolution in science
European society at the end of its golden age
31. The revival of Western imperialism.
The Second British Empire
The opening of Asia
The partition of Africa
Interpretations and perspectives
32. Diplomacy, militarism, and war.
The diplomatic shuffle, 1871-1914
From the Eastern question to the Balkan wars
The First World War
Part four : The twentieth century : from Western civilization to world civilization.
33. Disintegration and collapse.
The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
The Peace of Paris and its aftermath
Economic disintegration and collapse
34. Liberal attempts at reconstruction.
The League of Nations and collective security
The Weimar Republic in Germany
The democracies of Western Europe
The United States : new era and New Deal
35. Authoritarian attempts at reconstruction.
Communism in Russia, 1921-1938
Fascism in Italy, 1922-1938
Nazism in Germany, 1933-1938
Other authoritarian regimes
The common elements
36. The Second World War.
The origins of totalitarian aggression
Blitzkrieg, 1939-1941
Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific
The grand alliance
37. The aftermath of war.
Exhausted victors
Defeated enemies
The fate of Eastern Europe
The United Nations
Divided Allies
38. The end of Western hegemony.
New nationalisms
The Chinese revolutions
The emergence of independent Africa
Latin America in ferment
39. The struggle for a new world order.
Recovery and reintegration in Western Europe
The Atlantic Alliance
Communism after Stalin
Birth pangs of world civilization
40. Tendencies of twentieth-century civilization.
Science, technology, and industry
Social trends
The arts in twentieth-century civilization
The European mind in the twentieth century
Epilogue : The emergence of world civilization
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 1025-1082.
Published also, without general title, in two separate vols. under the following titles: The emergence of the European world. The European world since 1815.
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