Western Civilization - A Concise History III

by Christopher Brooks

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This volume covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.

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Publisher
Portland Community College
Subjects
Humanities, History
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Napoleon
  7. 1.1: The Rise of Napoleon's Empire
  8. 1.2: Military Strategy
  9. 1.3: Civil Life
  10. 1.4: The Fall of Napoleon's Empire
  11. 1.5: Russia, Elba, and Waterloo
  12. 1.6: The Aftermath
  13. 2: The Industrial Revolution
  14. 2.1: Big Changes
  15. 2.2: Geography of the Industrial Revolution
  16. 2.3: Transportation and Communication
  17. 2.4: Social Effects
  18. 2.5: Cultural Effects
  19. 3: Political Ideologies and Movements
  20. 3.1: After the Revolution
  21. 3.2: Conservatism
  22. 3.3: Ideologies
  23. 3.4: Romanticism
  24. 3.5: Nationalism
  25. 3.6: Nationalisms Across Europe
  26. 3.7: Liberalism
  27. 3.8: Socialism
  28. 3.9: Social Classes
  29. 4: The Politics of the Nineteenth Century
  30. 4.1: The Congress of Vienna
  31. 4.2: Revolts and Revolutions
  32. 4.3: The Revolutions of 1848
  33. 4.4: National Unifications
  34. 4.5: Germany
  35. 4.6: Russia
  36. 5: Culture, Science, and Pseudo-Science
  37. 5.1: Victorian Culture
  38. 5.2: Scientific and Pseudo-Scientific Discoveries and Theories
  39. 5.3: Mass Culture
  40. 5.4: Culture Struggles
  41. 5.5: First Wave Feminism
  42. 5.6: Modern Anti-Semitism
  43. 5.7: Conclusion
  44. 6: Imperialism
  45. 6.1: Technology
  46. 6.2: The Second Industrial Revolution
  47. 6.3: The British Empire
  48. 6.4: Africa
  49. 6.5: Effects
  50. 6.6: The Counter-Examples – Ethiopia and Japan
  51. 6.7: Conclusion
  52. 7: World War I
  53. 7.1: Background to the War
  54. 7.2: The Start of the War
  55. 7.3: The Early War
  56. 7.4: The Evolution of the War
  57. 7.5: The Eastern Front and the Ottoman Empire
  58. 7.6: The Late War
  59. 7.7: The Aftermath
  60. 8: The Early Twentieth Century
  61. 8.1: Russian Revolutions
  62. 8.2: Early Twentieth-Century Cultural Change
  63. 8.3: Modernism
  64. 8.4: Freud
  65. 8.5: The Great Depression
  66. 8.6: Summing Up
  67. 9: Fascism
  68. 9.1: Disappointment
  69. 9.2: Fascism
  70. 9.3: Italian Fascism
  71. 9.4: The Weimar Republic
  72. 9.5: The Nazis
  73. 9.6: The Spanish Civil War
  74. 10: World War II
  75. 10.1: Leading up to War
  76. 10.2: The Early War
  77. 10.3: The War in the East
  78. 10.4: The Turn of the Tide
  79. 10.5: The Aftermath
  80. 11: The Holocaust
  81. 11.1: Before the Holocaust
  82. 11.2: The Holocaust Begins
  83. 11.3: The Peak Killing Period
  84. 11.4: The Aftermath
  85. 11.5: Conclusion
  86. 12: The Soviet Union and the Cold War
  87. 12.1: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  88. 12.2: Stalinism
  89. 12.3: World War II and its Aftermath
  90. 12.4: The Cold War
  91. 12.5: The USSR During the Cold War
  92. 12.6: Conclusion- What Went Wrong with the USSR
  93. 13: Postwar Conflict
  94. 13.1: Major Cold War Conflicts
  95. 13.2: Independence Movements and Colonization
  96. 13.3: Africa
  97. 13.4: The Non-Aligned Movement and Immigration
  98. 14: Postwar Society
  99. 14.1: Social Democracy
  100. 14.2: The Postwar Boom and Cultural Change
  101. 14.3: Philosophy and Art
  102. 14.4: The Youth Movement and Cultural Revolution
  103. 14.5: Conclusion
  104. 15: Toward the Present
  105. 15.1: The End of Postwar Compromise
  106. 15.2: Eastern Europe
  107. 15.3: The European Union
  108. 15.4: Toward the Present
  109. Back Matter
  110. Index
  111. Glossary
  112. Detailed Licensing