The Western heritage /
Stewart C. Easton.
- 2nd edition.
- x, 945 pages ; illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
I. BEFORE HISTORY - The foundations of an organized society - Prehistoric man II. THE ANCIENT WORLD - The heritage of the ancient Near east - The heritage of Greek civilization - From republic to Empire-the evolution of Roman Civilization III. THE CENTURIES OF TRANSITION - The rise of Christianity - The fall of Rome and the establishment of successor states in the west - Successor states of the East- Byzantine and Muslin empires IV. THE MIDDLE AGES - Political, social, and economic structure of the middle ages - The church to the end of the thirteenth century - The evolution of national states in the Middle ages - Medieval culture V. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - Nationalism in the nineteenth century - The industrial revolution and its consequences - Liberalism and democracy in the nineteenth century - Romanticism and realism of the nineteenth century - The expansion of Europe in the nineteenth century VII. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - The Epoch of world war I - The Ebbing of democratic initiative and the drift toward war - The global and the foundation of the United nations - Power and influence in the Postwar world - Social and cultural changes in the western world in the twentieth century