Research Catalog

Title

Modern civilization; a history of the last five centuries [by] Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher [and] Robert Lee Wolff.

Author

Brinton, Crane, 1898-1968

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1957.

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Additional Authors

• Christopher, John B.
• Wolff, Robert Lee

Description

xxv, 868 p. illus.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Prentice-Hall history series

Subject

Civilization, Modern

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The background of modern Western civilization -- The renaissance -- The Protestant Reformation -- Dynastic and religious wars -- The expansion of Europe: Fifteenth through seventeenth centuries -- Divine-right monarch and revolution -- The Eastern outposts -- The eighteenth century: The international balance -- The eighteenth century: The Enlightenment -- Revolution in America and France -- Napoleon -- Revolution and counter-revolution, 1815-1850 -- The impact of the economic revolutions -- The Western democracies in the nineteenth centuries -- Central and Eastern Europe: To the outbreak of World War I -- The intellectual revolution -- Nineteenth-century imperialism -- The First World War -- Communist Russia, 1917-1941 -- The rise of fascism, 1918-1939 -- The democracies, 1919-1939: Domestic and imperial problems -- The Second World War -- The revolt against imperialism -- The Western world since 1945.

LCCN

^^^57008703^/L

OCLC

• 5267259
• SCSB-13125294

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library