Chapter 1: The Ancestors of the West
Chapter 2: The Sword, the Book, and the Myths: Western Asia and Early Greece
Chapter 3: The Age of the Polis: Greece, ca. 750-350 B.C.
Chapter 4: Alexander the Great and the Spread of Greek Civilization, ca 350-30 B.C.
Chapter 5: Rome: From Republic to Empire, ca. 509-31 B.C.
Chapter 6: Imperial Rome, 31 B.C.-A.D. 284
Chapter 7: The World of Late Antiquity, ca. 284-600
Chapter 8: Early Medieval Civilizations, ca. 600-900
Chapter 9: The Expansion of Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900-1300
Chapter 10: Medieval Civilization at Its Height, ca. 900-1300
Chapter 11: Crisis and Recovery in Late Medieval Europe, 1300-1500
Chapter 12: The Renaissance
Chapter 13: European Overseas Expansion to 1600
Chapter 14: The Age of the Reformation
Chapter 15: Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560-1648
Chapter 16: Europe in the Age of Louis XIV, ca 1640-1715
Chapter 17: A Revolution in World View
Chapter 18: Europe on the Threshold of Modernity, ca. 1715-1789
Chapter 19: An Age of Revolution, 1789-1815
Chapter 20: The Industrial Transformation of Europe, 1750-1850
Chapter 21: Restoration, Reform, and Revolution, 1814-1848
Chapter 22: Nationalism and Political Reform, 1850-1880
Chapter 23: The Age of Optimism, 1850-1880
Chapter 24: Escalating Tensions, 1880-1914
Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914-1919
Chapter 26: The Illusion of Stability, 1919-1930
Chapter 27: The Tortured Decade, 1930-1939
Chapter 28: The Era of the Second World War, 1939-1949
Chapter 29: An Anxious Stability: The Age of the Cold War, 1949-1989
Chapter 30: The West and the World Since 1989