About the Book
Conceived and written as a history of the modern world rather than a truncated Western Civilization book, this text is one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages. Lloyd Kramer joins the author team for this ninth edition that includes two new color inserts highlighting fine art, additional pedagogy to guide students through challenging material, and full, up-to-date inclusion of current events. Now packaged with PowerWeb, a dynamic course-specific rather than book-specific supplement that engages your students in three levels of resource materials and provides a true avenue to extending learning about a subject, "A History of the Modern World" is a necessity in any world history course.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY 11. REACTION VERSUS PROGRESS, 1815-1848 52. The Industrial Revolution in Britian 53. The Advent of the "Isms" 54. The Dike and the Flood: Domestic 55. The Dike and the Flood: International 56. The Breakthrough of Liberalism in the West: Revolutions of 1830-1832 57. Triumph of the West-European Bourgeoisie 12. REVOLUTION AND THE REIMPOSITION OF ORDER, 1848-1870 58. Paris: The Spector of Social Revolution in the West 59. Vienna: The Nationalist Revolution in Central Europe and Italy 60. Frankfurt and berlin: The Question of a Liberal Germany 61. The New Toughness of Mind: Realism, Positivism, Marxism 62. Bonapartism: The Second French Empire, 1852-'870 13. THE CONSOLIDATION OF LARGE NATION-STATES, 1859-1871 63. Backgrounds: The Idea of the Nation-State 64. Cavour and the Italian War of 1859: The Unification of Italy 65. Bismarck: The Founding of a German Empire 66. The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary 67. Liberalization in Tsarist Russia: Alexander II 68. The United States: The American Civil War 69. The Dominion of Canada, 1867 70. Japan and the West 14.EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871-1914: ECONOMY AND POLITICS 71. The "Civilized World" 72. Basic Demography: The Increase of the Europeans 73. The World Economy of the Nineteenth Century 74. The Advance of Democracy: Third French Republic, United Kingdom, German Empire 15. EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871-1914: SOCIETY AND CULTURE 75. The Advance of Democracy: Socialism, Labor Unions, and Feminism 76. Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion 77. The Waning Classical Liberalism 16. EUROPE'S WORLD SUPREMACY, 1871-1914 78. Imperialism: Its Nature and Causes 79. The Americas 80. The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire 81. The Partition of Africa 82. Imperialism in Asia: The Dutch, the British, and the Russians 83. Imperialism in Asia: China and the West 84. The Russo-Japanese War and its Consequences 17. THE FIRST WORLD WAR 85. The International Anarchy 86. The Armed Stalemate 87. The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention of the United States 88. The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires 89. The Economic, Social, and Cultural Impact of the War 90. The Peace of Paris, 1919 18. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION 91. Backgrounds 92. The Revolution of 1905 93. The Revolution of 1917 94. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 95. Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges 96. The International Impact of Communism, 1919-1939 19. THE APPARENT VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY 97. The Advance of Democracy after 1919 98. The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno 99. Anti-Imperialist Movements in Asia 100. The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy 20. DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP 101. The United States: Depression and the New Deal 102. Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in Britian and France 103. Italian Fascism 104. Totalitarianism: Germany's Third Reich 21. THE SECOND WORLD WAR 105. The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War 106. The Years of Axis Triumph 107. The Western-Soviet Victory 108. The Foundations of the Peace 22. THE POSTWAR ERA: COLD WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 109. The Cold War: The Opening Decade, 1945-1955 110. Western Europe: Economic Reconstruction 111. Western Europe: Political Reconstruction 112. Reshaping the Global Economy 113. The Communist World: The U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe 114. The Communist World: Mao Zedong and The People's Republic of China 23. EMPIRES INTO NATIONS: THE DEVELOPING WORLD 115. End of the European Empires in Asia 116. The African Revolution 118. Changing Latin America 119. The Developing World 24. A WORLD ENDANGERED: COEXISTENCE AND CONFRONTATION IN THE COLD WAR 120. Confrontation and Detente, 1955-1975 121. Collapse and Recovery of the Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s 122. The Cold War Rekindled 123. China after Mao 25. A WORLD TRANSFORMED 124. The Crisis in the Soviet Union 125. The Collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe 126. The Collapse of the Soviet Union 127. After Communism 128. Intellectual and Social Currents 129. Facing the Twenty-First Century Appendix I: Rulers and Regimes Suggestions for Further Readings Index
About the Author :
R.R. Palmer received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, his PhD from Cornell University, and honorary degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Toulouse. He taught at Princeton University, Washington University, and Yale University before retiring in 1977. The author of Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution, Age of the Democratic Revolution, The World of the French Revolution, and The Improvement of Humanity: Education and the French Revolution, Palmer has also translated such books as Georges Lefebvre's, Coming of the French Revolution, Louis Bergeron's, France Under Napoleon, and Jean-Paul Bertaud's, Army of the French Revolution and has served as editor and translator of From Jacobin to Liberal: Marc-Antoine Jullian, 1775-1848. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 1970 and has been the recipient of the Bancroft Prize, 1960 and The Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for History in Rome, 1990. Joel Colton received his B.A. from City College of New York and his PhD from Columbia University. He served as Professor of History at Duke University from 1947-1989, as the Director of Research and Fellowship Programs in Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation and as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include Compulsory Labor Arbitration in France, 1936-1939, Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics(for which he won the Mayflower Award), and Twentieth Century and he has made numerous contributions to journals, encyclopedias and collaborative volumes. Lloyd Kramer received his M.A. from Boston College and his PhD from Cornell University. He is currently Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on 19th century France, Global History and cross-cultural exchanges in Modern World History. His publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848; Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions; Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865. He is co-editor of Learning History in America: Schools Cultures and Politics and has contributed "Literature, Criticism, and Historical Imagination: The Literacy Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra" to The New Cultural History.
