Western Civilization 3e: A Concise History III

by Christopher A 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: The Idea of Western Civilization
  7. 1.1: Introduction
  8. 1.2: Where is the West?
  9. 1.3: Mesopotamia and Civilization
  10. 1.4: Greece and Rome
  11. 1.5: The Middle Ages and Christianity
  12. 1.6: The Renaissance and European Expansion
  13. 1.7: The Modern Era
  14. 1.8: Western Civilization Is Reinvented
  15. 1.9: The West- The Problems of the Concept
  16. 1.10: This Textbook
  17. 2: Napoleon
  18. 2.1: Introduction
  19. 2.2: The Rise of Napoleon's Empire
  20. 2.3: The Fall of Napoleon's Empire
  21. 3: The Industrial Revolution
  22. 3.1: Big Changes
  23. 3.2: Geography of the Industrial Revolution
  24. 3.3: Transportation and Communication
  25. 3.4: Social Effects
  26. 3.5: Gender
  27. 3.6: Cultural Effects
  28. 4: Political Ideologies and Movements
  29. 4.1: Introduction
  30. 4.2: Ideologies
  31. 5: The Politics of the Nineteenth Century
  32. 5.1: Introduction
  33. 5.2: The Congress of Vienna
  34. 5.3: The Revolutions of 1848
  35. 5.4: National Unifications
  36. 5.5: Russia
  37. 6: Culture, Science, and Pseudo-Science
  38. 6.1: Introduction
  39. 6.2: Culture Struggles
  40. 6.3: Conclusion
  41. 7: Imperialism
  42. 7.1: Introduction
  43. 7.2: Technology
  44. 7.3: The Second Industrial Revolution
  45. 7.4: The British Empire
  46. 7.5: Africa
  47. 7.6: Effects
  48. 7.7: The Decline of the Ottoman Empire
  49. 7.8: Qajar Persia
  50. 7.9: The Counter-Examples – Ethiopia and Japan
  51. 7.10: Conclusion
  52. 8: World War I
  53. 8.1: Introduction
  54. 8.2: Background to the War
  55. 8.3: The Start of the War
  56. 8.4: The Early War
  57. 8.5: The Evolution of the War
  58. 8.6: Women in the War (and Afterwards)
  59. 8.7: The Late War
  60. 9: The Early Twentieth Century
  61. 9.1: Introduction
  62. 9.2: Early Twentieth-Century Cultural Change
  63. 10: Fascism
  64. 10.1: Introduction
  65. 10.2: Fascism
  66. 10.3: The Weimar Republic
  67. 10.4: The Nazis
  68. 10.5: The Spanish Civil War
  69. 11: World War II
  70. 11.1: Introduction
  71. 11.2: Leading up to War
  72. 11.3: The Early War
  73. 11.4: The Japanese Empire and the United States
  74. 11.5: The Home Front
  75. 11.6: The Aftermath
  76. 12: The Holocaust
  77. 12.1: Introduction
  78. 12.2: Before the Holocaust
  79. 12.3: The Aftermath
  80. 12.4: Conclusion
  81. 13: The Soviet Union and the Cold War
  82. 13.1: Introduction
  83. 13.2: Stalinism
  84. 13.3: The USSR During the Cold War
  85. 13.4: Conclusion- What Went Wrong with the USSR
  86. 14: Postwar Conflict
  87. 14.1: Introduction
  88. 14.2: Major Cold War Conflicts
  89. 14.3: Independence Movements and Decolonization
  90. 14.4: The Non-Aligned Movement and Immigration
  91. 15: Postwar Society
  92. 15.1: Introduction
  93. 15.2: Social Democracy
  94. 15.3: The Postwar Boom and Cultural Change
  95. 15.4: The Youth Movement and Cultural Revolution
  96. 15.5: Second-Wave Feminism
  97. 15.6: Conclusion
  98. 16: Toward the Present
  99. 16.1: Introduction
  100. 16.2: The “End of History”
  101. 16.3: The End of the Postwar Compromise in Europe
  102. 16.4: The Collapse of Soviet Communism
  103. 16.5: The Middle East
  104. 16.6: Climate Change
  105. 16.7: Toward the Present
  106. Back Matter
  107. Index
  108. Glossary
  109. Detailed Licensing