Western Civilization

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Volume one, To 1715. Documents -- Maps -- Features -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1, The Ancient Near East : the first civilizations -- 2, The Ancient Near East : peoples and empires -- 3, The civilization of the Greeks -- 4, The Hellenistic world -- 5, The Roman Republic -- 6, The Roman Empire -- 7, Late Antiquity and the emergence of the Medieval World. The Late Roman Empire -- The Germanic kingdoms -- Development of the Christian church. The Church Fathers -- The power of the Pope -- Church and state -- Pope Gregory the Great -- The monks and their missions -- Christian intellectual life in the Germanic kingdoms -- The Byzantine Empire. The reign of Justinian (527-565) -- From Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire -- The rise of Islam. Muhammad -- The teachings of Islam -- The spread of Islam -- 8, European civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000 -- 9, The recovery and growth of European society in the High Middle Ages -- 10, The rise of kingdoms and the growth of church power -- 11, The Later Middle Ages : crisis and disintegration in the fourteenth century -- 12, Recovery and rebirth : the age of the Renaissance -- 13, Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century -- 14, Europe and the world : new encounters, 1500-1800 -- 15, State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century -- 16, Toward a new heaven and a new earth : the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index. Film & history. Luther (2003) -- Elizabeth (1998) -- The Mission (1986) -- Amadeus (1984) -- Marie Antoinette (2006) -- The Young Victoria (2009) -- Paths of glory (1957) -- Triumph of the Will (1934) -- Europa, Europa (1990) -- The Third Man (1949) -- The Iron Lady (2011) -- The Lives of Others (2006). Volume two, Since 1500. Documents -- Maps -- Features -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to students of Western Civilization -- Western Civilization to 1500 -- 13, Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century. Prelude to Reformation -- Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany -- The spread of the Protestant Reformation -- The social impact of the Protestant Reformation -- The Catholic Reformation -- Politics and the wars of religion in the sixteenth century. Luther (2003) -- Elizabeth (1998) -- 14, Europe and the world : new encounters, 1500-1800 -- 15, State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century -- 16, Toward a new heaven and a new earth : the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science -- 17, The eighteenth century : an age of enlightenment -- 18, The eighteenth century : European states, international wars, and social change -- 19, A revolution in politics : the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon -- 20, The Industrial Revolution and its impact on European society -- 21, Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism : 1815-1850 -- 22, An age of nationalism and realism, 1850-1871 -- 23, Mass society in an "Age of Progress", 1871-1895 -- 24, An Age of Modernity, anxiety, and imperialism, 1894-1914 -- 25, The beginning of the twentieth-century crisis : war and revolution -- 26, The futile search for stability : Europe between the wars, 1919-1939 -- 27, The deepening of the European crisis World WAr II -- 28, Cold War and a new Western world, 1965-1985 -- 30, After the fall : the Western World in a global age (since 1985) -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index. Film & history. 300 (2007) -- Alexander (2004) -- Spartacus (1960) -- Gladiator (2000) -- The lion in winter (1968) -- Vision (2009) -- Joan of Arc (1948) -- The messenger : the story of Joan of Arc (1999) -- Luther (2003) -- Elizabeth (1998) -- The mission (1986).