《西方文明史》既紧紧把握了政治发展的线索，同时又兼顾了经济、文化等诸多领域，并运用“新史学”的方法，将底层大众的日常社会生活也囊括其中，力求多层次、多角度地揭示西方文明起源、发展、演进、更新的漫长历程和整体图景。

正是基于这样的新理念，该书囊括了历史地理、政治制度、经济样式、地区冲突与战争、宗教、思想观念、文化艺术、社会生活等诸多的内容，让读者对西方文明史的整体轮廓与丰厚积淀有了一个比较清晰的认识。

Detailed Contents

Preface

Supplements

About the Authors

INTRODUCTION: The Idea of Western Civilization

1 The First Civilizations

2 Early Greece,2500-500 B.C.E.

3 Classical and Hellenistic Greece,500-100 B.C.E.

4 Eady Rome and the Roman Republic,800-146 B.C.E.

5 Imperial Rome,146 B.C.E.-192 C.E.

6 The Transformation of the Classical World,192-500

7 The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam

8 The West in the Early Middle Ages,500-900

9 The High Middle Ages,900-1300

10 The Later Middle Ages,1300-1500

11 The Italian Renaissance

12 The European Empires

13 The Reform of Religion

14 Europeat War,I555-I648

15 The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe,1500-1650

16 The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century

17 Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe

18 The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe

19 Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe

20 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era,1789-1815

21 Industrial Europe

22 Political Upheavals and Social Transformations,1815-1850

23 State Building and Social Change in Europe,1850-1871

24 The Crisis ofEuropean Culture,1871-1914

25 Europe and the World,1870-1914

26 War and Revolution,1914-1920

27 The European Search for Stability,1920-1939

28 Global Conflagration: Wodd War Ⅱ,/939-1945

29 The Cold War and Postwar Economic Recovery,1945-1970

30 The End of the Cold War and New Global Challenges,1970 to the Present

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