History of Western Society

Plot

Near Eastern Origins, Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, the Legacy of Greece, Hellenistic Diffusion, the Rise of Rome, the Pax Romana, the Making of Europe, the Carilingian World: Europe in the Early Middle Ages, Revival;Recovery;Reform and Expansion, Life in Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages, the Creativity and Vitality of the High Middle Ages, the Crisis of the Later Middle Ages, European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church, the Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion, Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715), Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740, Toward a New World-view, the Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century, the Changing Life of the People, the Revolution in Politics (1775-1815), the Revolution in Energy and Industry, Ideologies and Upheavals (1815-1850), Lige in the Emerging Urban Society, the Age of Nationalism (1850-1914), the West and the World, the Great Break: War and Revolution, The Age of Anxiety, Dictatorships and the Second World War, Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations (1945-1985), Revolution;Reunification and Rebuilding: 1985 to the Present.