Civilization Past and Present: To 1650 Book

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	Foreword: Retrospective/Prospective 1942-1992
	Preface
	Prologue: Perspective on Humanity
Ch. 1	Along the Banks of Rivers: The Civilizations of the Ancient Near East	1
Ch. 2	The Glory That Was Greece: Aegean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations	36
Ch. 3	The Grandeur That Was Rome: The Roman World, 509 B.C. to A.D. 180	69
Ch. 4	The Asian Way of Life: Ancient India and China to A.D. 220	98
Ch. 5	The City of God: The Fall of Rome and the Rise of Christianity	129
Ch. 6	Islam from the Beginning to 1300	150
Ch. 7	The Byzantine Empire, Eastern Europe, and Russia to 1600	170
Ch. 8	The Rising Flood of Asian Culture, 300-1300	194
Ch. 9	Europe's Search for Stability: The Early Middle Ages, 500-1000	223
Ch. 10	The High Middle Ages, 1000-1300: Medieval Politics, Economics, Religion, and Learning	245
Ch. 11	Europe in Transition: Religion, Politics, and Culture, 1300-1500	281
Ch. 12	"Man Is the Measure": Renaissance Thought and Art, 1300-1600	305
Ch. 13	"Here I Take My Sand": The Protestant and Catholic Reformations	337
Ch. 14	The Transition to Modern Times in Asia, 1300-1650	364
Ch. 15	Emerging Civilizations in Sub-Sahara Africa - and the New World	390
Ch. 16	European Expansion: Exploration and Colonization, 1400-1650	420
Ch. 17	The Strife of States and Kings: European Religion, Politics, and Art in a Century of Strife, 1560-1660	449
Ch. 18	L'Etat, C'Est Moi: European Absolutism and Power Politics	473
Ch. 19	The Crisis of the Old Regime, 1714-1774	497
Ch. 20	The European Dream of Progress and Enlightenment: Science, Art, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century	522
Ch. 21	The Rights of Man: Revolution in the Western World	546
Ch. 22	The European Shadow over Africa and Asia: Developments in the Non-Western World, 1650-1815	570
Ch. 23	Europe Transformed: The Napoleonic and Industrial Revolutions	593
Ch. 24	Revolution, Reaction, and Reform: Political Change, 1815-1871	625
Ch. 25	Society, Politics, and Culture, 1871-1914	649
Ch. 26	The Foundations of European Global Dominance	675
Ch. 27	Europe Transplanted: The British Dominions, the United States, and Latin America	691
Ch. 28	The Middle East and Africa, 18721[sic]-1914	721
Ch. 29	South and East Asia, 1815-1914	740
Ch. 30	Tragic War and Futile Peace: World War I	760
Ch. 31	The Eclipse of the Democracies: Economic Crises and Political Retreat, 1918-1939	791
Ch. 32	The Quest for Total Power: The USSR, Italy, and Germany	816
Ch. 33	Asia and Africa in the Interwar World	846
Ch. 34	Troubled Peace and World War II, 1920-1945	873
Ch. 35	The Bipolar "North," 1945-1991: Soviet and American Spheres	905
Ch. 36	The Emerging "South" Since 1945	940
Ch. 37	Toward the Third Millennium: Integration and Diversity	972
	Epilogue: Toward the Twenty-First Century	E1
	Chronological Tables	T1
	Credits	C1
	Index	I1
	Reference Maps	M1