Western Society: A Brief History

JOHN P. MCKAY is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.BENNETT D. HILL (deceased) was Chairman and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA, and also Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA.JOHN BUCKLER is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.CLARE HARU CROWSTON is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.MERRY E. WEISNER-HANKS is UWM Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

• Maps .- Listening to the Past .- Preface .- Origins, ca 400,000-1100 B.C..- Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East (ca. 1100-513 B.C.).- Classical Greece (ca 1650-338 B.C.).- The Hellenistic World (336-146 B.C.).- The Rise of Rome, ca 750-44 B.C..- The Pax Romana (31 B.C.-A.D. 450).- Late Antiquity: 350-600.- Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1000.- State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300.- The Changing Life of the People in the High Middle Ages.- The Creativity and Challenges of Medieval Cities.- The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450.- European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550.- Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600.- European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650.- Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe, ca 1589-1715.- Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe to 1740.- Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789.- 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 (ca 1780-1860).- Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850.- Life in the Emerging Urban Society in the Nineteenth Century.- The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914.- The West and the World, 1815-1914.- The Great Break: War and Revolution, 1914-1919.- The Age of Anxiety (ca 1900-1940).- Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945.- Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985.- Revolution, Rebuilding, and New Challenges: 1985 to the Present .- Index.