Viault, Birdsall S. creator text bibliography nyu New York McGraw-Hill c1990 1990 monographic eng

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ix, 549 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Contents: The Struggle for constitutional government in England -- Absolute monarchy in France -- The Emergence of Austria, Prussia, and Russia -- The Eighteenth-century struggle for power -- The Scientific revolution -- The Enlightenment -- Literature, art and music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The French revolution -- Napoleon, France and Europe -- The Congress of Vienna and the concert of Europe -- Romanticism -- Reform and revolution in Great Britain, France and the United States -- The Conservative order in Central and Eastern Europe -- The Agricultural and industrial revolutions -- Liberalism and socialism -- The Revolutions of 1848 -- National Unification in Italy and Germany -- The Advance of democracy in Great Britain, France, Italy and the United States -- Autocratic Europe: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia -- Nineteenth-century European civilization -- The Age of imperialism -- The Coming of the first World War -- The First World War -- Soviet Russia under Lenin and Stalin -- Fascist Italy -- Germany from Weiner to Hitler -- Great Britain, France and the United States between the two World Wars -- The Cold War -- The Western democracies since 1945 -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since 1945 -- The Middle East, Asia and Africa since 1945 -- Western civilization in the twentieth century. Birdsall S. Viault. "An American BookWorks Corporation project." Includes bibliographical references. Civilization, Western Civilization, Modern CB245.V47 909/.09821 0070153965 : 89038598 DLC 890831 20210414113849.0 565637