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Western Civilization, Seventh Edition
Jackson Spielvogel
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CHAPTER1
The Code of Hammurabi
A Creation Myth: “Let Man Carry the Labor-Basket of the Gods”
A Sumerian Schoolboy
The Great Flood
Significance of the Nile River and the Pharaoh
*Opposing Viewpoints: Akhenaten’s Hymn to Aten and Psalm 104 of the Hebrew Bible
Respect for Women
A Father’s Advice
CHAPTER2
The Covenant and the Law: The Book of Exodus
The Hebrew Prophets: Micah, Isaiah, and Amos
The Assyrian Military Machine
The Fall of Babylon
A Dinner of the Persian King
CHAPTER3
Homer’s Ideal of Excellence
The Lycurgan Reforms
The Lyric Poetry of Sappho
The Battle of Marathon
Athenian Democracy: The Funeral Oration of Pericles
Disaster in Sicily
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Athenian Comedy: Sex as an Antiwar Instrument
The Politics of Aristotle
*Opposing Viewpoints: Women in Athens and Sparta
CHAPTER4
*Opposing Viewpoints: Demosthenes and Isocrates Address Philip of Macedonia
Alexander Meets an Indian King
A New Autonomy for Women
Treatment of Slaves in the Egyptian Gold Mines
The Pastoral Idyll of Theocritus
Miraculous Cures
The Stoic Ideal of Harmony with God
CHAPTER5
The Twelve Tables
Cincinnatus Saves Rome: A Roman Morality Tale
The Destruction of Carthage
The Vestal Virgins
Cato the Elder on Women
Roman Comedy
The Decline of the Roman Republic
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
CHAPTER6
The Achievements of Augustus
Ovid and the Art of Love
The Fate of Cremona in the Year of the Four Emperors
The Daily Life of an Upper-Class Roman
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The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The Roman Fear of Slaves
Christian Ideals: The Sermon on the Mount
*Opposing Viewpoints: Roman Authorities and a Christian on Christianity
CHAPTER7
*Opposing Viewpoints: Two Views of The Huns
Theodoric and Ostrogothic Italy
Germanic Customary Law: The Ordeal
The Confessions of Augustine
The Life of Saint Anthony
Irish Monasticism and the Penitential
An Anglo-Saxon Abbess: Hilda of Whitby
The Qur’an: The Pilgrimage
CHAPTER8
The Achievements of Charlemagne
Advice from a Carolingian Mother
Medical Practices in the Early Middle Ages
The Vikings Invade England
Lords, Vassals, and Fiefs
The Manorial Court
A Western View of the Byzantine Empire
A Muslim’s Description of the Rus
CHAPTER9
The Elimination of Medieval Forests
Women in Medieval Thought
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*Opposing Viewpoints: Two Views of Trade and Merchants
A Communal Revolt
Pollution in a Medieval City
University Students and Violence at Oxford
The Dialectical Method of Thomas Aquinas
The Song of Roland
CHAPTER10
Magna Carta
The Deeds of Emperor Frederick II
The “Gregorian Revolution”: Papal Claims
A Monk: A Miracle of Saint Bernard
*A Nun: The Mystical Visions of Hildegard of Bingen
Treatment of the Jews
Pope Urban II Proclaims a Crusade
Opposing Viewpoints: The Siege of Jerusalem: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
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The Black Death
The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jews
A Revolt of French Peasants
The Hundred Years’ War
A Feminist Heroine: Christine de Pizan on Joan of Arc
Boniface VIII’s Defense of Papal Supremacy
Dante’s Vision of Hell
The Legal Rights of Women
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CHAPTER12
A Renaissance Banquet
Marriage Negotiations
The Letters of Isabella d’Este
*Opposing Viewpoints: The Renaissance Prince: The Views of Machiavelli and Erasmus
Petrarch: Mountain Climbing and the Search for Spiritual Contentment
Pico della Mirandola and the Dignity of Man
A Woman’s Defense of Learning
The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
CHAPTER13
Erasmus: In Praise of Folly
Luther and the Ninety-Five Theses
Luther and the “Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants”
*Opposing Viewpoints: A Reformation Debate: Conflict at Marburg
The Role of Discipline in the “Most Perfect School of Christ on Earth”
A Protestant Woman
Loyola and Obedience to “Our Holy Mother, The Hierarchical Church”
Queen Elizabeth Addresses Parliament (1601)
CHAPTER14
The Portuguese Conquest of Malacca
Columbus Lands in the New World
The Spanish Conquistador: Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico
Las Casas and the Spanish Treatment of the American Natives
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Opposing Viewpoints: West Meets East: An Exchange of Royal Letters
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An Imperial Edict to the King of England
The Mission
CHAPTER15
A Witchcraft Trial in France
The Face of War in the Seventeenth Century
Louis XIV: Kingly Advice
Travels with the King
Peter the Great Deals with a Rebellion
The Bill of Rights
William Shakespeare: In Praise of England
CHAPTER16
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Kepler and the Emerging Scientific Community
The Starry Messenger
*Opposing Viewpoints: A New Heaven?: Faith versus Reason
Newton’s Rules of Reasoning
The “Natural” Inferiority of Women
The Father of Modern Rationalism
Pascal: “What Is a Man in the Infinite?”
CHAPTER17
The Separation of Powers
The Attack on Religious Intolerance
Diderot Questions Christian Sexual Standards
A Social Contract
*Opposing Viewpoints: Women in Age of the Enlightenment: Rousseau & Wollstonecraft
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Gibbon and the Idea of Progress
The Punishment of Crime
The Conversion Experience in Wesley’s Methodism
CHAPTER18
The French King’s Bedtime
Frederick the Great and His Father
The Childhood of Catherine the Great
British Victory in India
Marital Arrangements
Propaganda for the New Agriculture
The Beginnings of Mechanized Industry: The Attack on New Machines
Poverty in France
CHAPTER19
The Argument for Independence
The Fall of the Bastille
Opposing Viewpoints: The Natural Rights of the French People: Two Views
Justice in the Reign of Terror
Robespierre and Revolutionary Government
*Dechristianization
Napoleon and Psychological Warfare
CHAPTER20
The Traits of the British Industrial Entrepreneur
Discipline in the New Factories
“S-t-e-a-m-boat a-coming!”
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The Great Irish Famine
Child Labor: Discipline in the Textile Mills
Child Labor: The Mines
Political Demands of the Chartist Movement
CHAPTER21
The Voice of Conservatism: Metternich of Austria
University Students and German Unity
The Voice of Liberalism: John Stuart Mill on Liberty
*Opposing Viewpoints: Response to Revolution: Two Perspectives
The Voice of Italian Nationalism: Giuseppe Mazzini and Young Italy
The New British Police: “We Are Not Treated as Men”
Gothic Literature: Edgar Allan Poe
CHAPTER22
Louis Napoleon Appeals to the People
Garibaldi and Romantic Nationalism
Bismarck “Goads” France into War
Emancipation: Serfs and Slaves
The Classless Society
Darwin and the Descent of Man
Anesthesia and Modern Surgery
Realism: Charles Dickens and an Image of Hell on Earth
CHAPTER23
The Department Store and the Beginnings of Mass Consumerism
The Voice of Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein
The Housing Venture of Octavia Hill
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Opposing Viewpoints: Advice to Women: Two Views
The Fight Song: Sports in the English Public School
A Leader of the Paris Commune
Bismarck and the Welfare of the Workers
CHAPTER24
Freud and the Concept of Repression
Symbolist Poetry: Art for Art’s Sake
*Struggle for the Right to Vote
The Voice of Zionism: Theodor Herzl and the Jewish State
Bloody Sunday
Opposing Viewpoints: White Man’s Burden vs. Black Man’s Burden
The Emperor’s Big Mouth
CHAPTER25
“You Have to Bear the Responsibility for War or Peace”
The Excitement of War
The Reality of War: Trench Warfare
The Songs of World War I
Women in the Factories
War and the Family
Soldier and Peasant Voices
*Opposing Viewpoints: Three Voices of Peacemaking
CHAPTER26
The Great Depression: Unemployed and Homeless in Germany
The Struggles of a Democracy: Unemployment and Slums in Great Britain
The Voice of Italian Fascism
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Adolf Hitler’s Hatred of the Jews
Propaganda and Mass Meetings in Nazi Germany
The Formation of Collective Farms
Mass Leisure: Strength Through Joy
Hesse and the Unconscious
CHAPTER27
Hitler’s Foreign Policy Goals
Opposing Viewpoints: The Munich Conference: Two Views
A German Soldier at Stalingrad
Hitler’s Plans for a New Order in the East
The Holocaust: The Camp Commandant and the Camp Victims
The Bombing of Civilians
Emergence of the Cold War: Churchill and Stalin
CHAPTER28
*Opposing Viewpoints: Who Started the Cold War?: American and Soviet Perspectives
The Truman Doctrine
The Cuban Missile Crisis from Khrushchev’s Perspective
Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth
Khrushchev Denounces Stalin
Soviet Repression in Eastern Europe: Hungary, 1956
The Voice of the Women’s Liberation Movement
CHAPTER29
“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: The Music of Youthful Protest
1968: The Year of Student Revolts
*The Brezhnev Doctrine
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Margaret Thatcher: Entering a Man’s World
*The Fury of the Red Guards
The Limits of Modern Technology
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: “The Message”
CHAPTER30
Gorbachev and Perestroika
Vaclav Havel: The Call for a New Politics
*A Child’s Account of the Shelling of Sarajevo
Violence Against Foreigners in Germany
Pope John Paul II: An Appeal for Peace
*A Warning to Humanity
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