Clifford Backman

Cultures of the West

A History, Volume 2: Since 1350

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 928
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 168mm x 235mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1334g
• ISBN-13: 9780197668528
• ISBN-10: 0197668526
• Artikelnr.: 69188244

Autorenporträt

Clifford R. Backman is Associate Professor of History at Boston University, where he has been a member of the department since 1989. He is currently at work on a book that traces the development of toleration and interpersonal forgiveness in medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Maps
Preface
About the Author
Note on Dates
12. Renaissances and Reformations
1350-1563
Rebirth or Culmination?
The Political and Economic Matrix
The Renaissance Achievement
Christian Humanism
Erasmus: Humanist Scholar and Social Critic
Martin Luther: The Gift of Salvation
Luther's Rebellion against the Church
The Reformation Goes International
Calvin and "the Elect"
Strife and Settlement in England
Catholic Reform and the Council of Trent
The Society of Jesus
What About the Catholic and Orthodox East?
13. Worlds Old and New
1450-1700
European Voyages of Discovery
New Continents and Profits
Conquest and Epidemics
The Copernican Drama
Galileo and the Truth of Numbers
Inquisition and Inquiry
The Revolution Broadens
The Ethical Costs of Science
The Islamic Retreat from Science
Thinking About Truth
Newton's Mathematical Principles
14. The Wars of All against All
1540-1648
The Godly Society
From the Peace of Augsburg to the Edict of Nantes: The French Wars of Religion
Dutch Ascendancy and Spanish Eclipse
The Thirty Years' War
Enemies Within: The Hunt for Witches
The Jews of the East and West
The Waning of the Sultanate
New Centers of Intellectual and Cultural Life
Wars of Religion: The Eastern Front
Economic Change in an Atlantic World
15. From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New
1648-1750
The Peace of Westphalia: 1648
The Argument for Tyranny
The Social Contract
Absolute Politics
Police States
Self-Indulgence with a Purpose: The Example of Versailles
Paying for Absolutism
Mercantilism and Poverty
International Trade in a Mercantilist Age
The Slave Trade and Domestic Subjugation
Domesticating Dynamism: Regulating Culture
The Control of Private Life
England's Separate Path: The Rise of Constitutional Monarchy
Ottoman and Persian Absolutism
The Return of Uncertainty
16. The Enlightened
1690-1789
The Enlightenment Enterprise
Learning from Our Worst Mistakes
A New World of Ideas
Voltaire and the Limits of Optimism
The Radical Thought of Rousseau
Can Women Be Enlightened?
The Jewish Enlightenment
The Jews and Europe's Ambivalence
The Enlightened East
The Unenlightened
Assessing the Enlightenment
17. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
1789-1815
A Revolution in Western History?
Revolutionary Road
The Enlightened Revolution
The Revolution Turns Radical
How to Judge a Revolution
Napoleon
The Rush to Empire
The Continental System
Downfall
Revolutions in the Colonies
18. Industrialization and Its Discontents
1750-1850
Britain's Head Start
Innovation and Infrastructure
Trying to Catch Up to Britain
Trying to Catch Up to Europe: The Ottoman Empire
Life in the Industrial Age
Riots and Repression
Women and Children Last
Reaction: The Romantic Generation
19. The Birth of Modern Politics
1815-1848
Conservatism in Power
Royalism and Its Opponents
The Moral Component of Conservatism
The Challenge of Liberalism
Rebellion and Reform
Responses to Liberal Capitalism
The Revolutions of 1848
Karl Marx and Revolution
The Collapse of the Concert of Europe
Women in a Conservative Age
20. Nationalism and Identity
1800-1900
Nationalism in Theory
Nationalism in Practice: France, Italy, and Germany
Frustrated Nationalism: Hungary and Ireland
Jewish Identities
Islamic Nationalisms
Reforming Islam
21. The Modern Woman
1860-1914
The Appetite for Reform
Whose Rights Come First?
Suffragists and Suffragettes
Love and Sex
Exploring Female Identity
Education and Work
The "Woman Question" for Muslims
22. The Challenge of Secularism
1800-1914
Who Killed God?
The Theory of Creation
Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection
A Secular Universe
Nietzsche and the Will to Power
Art for Art's Sake
The Illness of Western Society
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Modernism: The First Wave
The Catholic Counterattack
Modernism, Secularism, and the Jews
The Islamic Exception
23. The Great Land Grab
1870-1914
"The White Man's Burden"
The Second Industrial Revolution
Looking Overseas
Missionary Europe
Industrial Warfare and Command Economies
Western Ways: Emulation and Resistance
24. The World at War (Part I)
1914-1918
The Run-Up to War
The Balance of Power
A New Map of Hell
The Way of the War
The Home Fronts
Officers and Gentlemen
Russia's Revolutions
Bolshevism and the Laws of History
How Not to End a War
Young Turks
25. Radical Realignments
1919-1939
History for Beginners
Parceling out Nations
New Rights and New Economies
The Great Depression
The Search for Someone to Blame
Modernism: The Second Wave
The Rise of Fascism: Italy and Spain
Nazism in Germany
Oppression and Terror in Russia
A New Deal?
Appeasement and Pacifism
26. The World at War (Part II)
1937-1945
The War in Europe
War in the Pacific
Atomic Fissures
Women in, and against, Fascism
Atrocities and Holocaust
Making Amends
The United Nations and Human Rights
World War II and the Middle East
Arab Nationalism and Growing Zionism
27. Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World
1945-1968
Setting to Work
Alienation and the Absurd
The Cold War
Decolonization in a Cold War World
Rise of the Welfare State
Social Conservatism and Economic Liberalism
The Postwar Boom
Turning Point: 1967-1968
The Female Factor
Women, Islam, and the State
28. Something to Believe In
1960-1988
A Generation of Rebellion
Big Science and Expanding Secularism
Another Catholic Reformation
Postwar Protestantism
Jewish Revival and Conflict
International Judaism and the State of Israel
Islamic Revolutions
Ba'athism and Brotherhood
29. Global Warmings
Since 1989
1989: A Year of Crises
The United States of Europe?
Economic Globalization
A Viral Age
War and Peace, from the Balkans to Ukraine
Why Terrorism?
Israel, Palestine, and the Arab Spring
Women and the Global World
Debt, Taxes, and Liberty
Free Market? What Free Market?
What Is the Greater West Now?
Reference Maps
Appendix: Table of Contents for Sources for Cultures of the West
Glossary
Credits
Index