(P/B) A CONCISE SURVEY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (VOLUME 2)

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This lively text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage after Europe expanded into the rest of the world during the Renaissance, then through revolutions that have created today's technological global society. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian A. Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. "Supremacies" centers on the use of power to dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies. Supremacy seeks stability, order, and incorporation. "Diversities" encompasses the creative impulse that produces new ideas, as well as the efforts of groups of people to define themselves as "different." Diversity creates change, opportunity, and individuality.
These themes of historical tension and change - whether applied to political, economic, technological, social, or cultural trends - offer a bridging explanatory organization. The text is also informed by five topical themes: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. Throughout, judicious "basic principles" present summaries of historical realities and primary source projects offer students the chance to evaluate differing points of view about the past. Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for courses on Western Civilization. (From the publisher)

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1. History's Story
There's Method
What Is True?
Primary Source Project 1: Voltaire versus Macaulay
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
The Purse of Princes
Man as the Measure
Heaven Knows
Fatal Beliefs
God, Greed, and Glory
Primary Source Project 9: Witch Hunter versus Montaigne
10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
Lost in the Stars
From the Salons to the Streets
The State is He (or She)
(Prosperous) People Power
The Declaration of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
Blood and Empires
Primary Source Project 10: Declaration of the Rights of Man versus Declaration of the Rights of Woman
11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
Facts of Factories
Life in the Jungle
Cleaning Up the Mess
For the Workers
The Machinery of Nature
Primary Source Project 11: Smiles versus Owen
12. The Westerner's Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
"New and Improved" Imperialism
From Sea to Shining Sea
Nationalism's Curse
The Balkan Cauldron
The Great War
Primary Source Project 12: "In Flanders Field" versus "Dulce et Decorum Est"
13. Rejections of Democracy: The Interwar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
Decline of the West?
Russians in Revolt
Losing Their Grip
Fascist Fury
Hitler's Hatreds
The Roads to Global War
Primary Source Project 13: Hitler versus Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. A World Divided: The Early Cold War, 1945 to 1980
From Friends to Foes
Making Money
To the Brink, Again and Again
Letting Go and Holding On
American Hegemon
To Uneasy Understanding
Primary Source Project 14: Khrushchev versus Nixon
15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1980 to the Present
A Surprise Ending
Searching for Stability
Different Folks
Haves and Cannots
Value of Violence
Primary Source Project 15: The European Central Bank versus the National Front
Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?
Timelines
Common Abbreviations
Glossary