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A History of Western Society
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Seventh Edition
John P. McKay, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bennett D. Hill, Georgetown University
John Buckler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Chapter 1: Origins
Chapter 2: Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East
Chapter 3: The Legacy of Greece
Chapter 4: Hellenistic Diffusion
Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome
Chapter 6: The Pax Romana
Chapter 7: The Making of Europe
Chapter 8: The Carolingian World: Europe in the Early Middle Ages
Chapter 9: Revival, Recovery, Reform, and Expansion
Chapter 10: Life in Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages
Chapter 11: The Creativity and Vitality of the High Middle Ages
Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages
Chapter 13: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance
Chapter 14: Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church
Chapter 15: The Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion
Chapter 16: Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715)
Chapter 17: Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740
Chapter 18: Toward a New World-view
Chapter 19: The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 20: The Changing Life of the People
Chapter 21: The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815
Chapter 22: The Revolution in Energy and Industry
Chapter 23: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850
Chapter 24: Life in the Emerging Urban Society
Chapter 25: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914
Chapter 26: The West and the World
Chapter 27: The Great Break: War and Revolution
Chapter 28: The Age of Anxiety
Chapter 29: Dictatorships and the Second World War
Chapter 30: Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985
Chapter 31: Revolution, Reunification, and Rebuilding, 1985 to the Present