xxxvi, 373-1005 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
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Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century --;Europe and the world : new encounters, 1500-1800 --;State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century --;Toward a new heaven and a new earth : the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science --;The eighteenth century : an age of enlightenment --;The eighteenth century : European states, international wars, and social change --;A revolution in politics : the era of the French revolution and Napoleon. The industrial revolution and its impact on European society --;Reaction, revolution, and romanticism, 1815-1850 --;An age of nationalism and realism, 1850-1871 --;Mass society in an "age of progress," 1871-1894 --;An age of modernity, anxiety, and imperialism, 1894-1914 --;The beginning of the twentieth-century crisis : war and revolution --;The futile search for stability : Europe between the wars, 1919-1939 --;The deepening of the European crisis : World War II --;Cold war and a new western world, 1945-1965 --;Protest and stagnation : the western world, 1965-1985 --;After the fall : the western world in a global age (since 1985).