The Mainstream of civilization / Joseph R. Strayer, Hans W. Gatzke, and E. Harris Harbison

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Origins of Civilization: The Ancient Middle East to Ca. 500 B.C. -- 2. Greek Civilization -- 3. Hellenistic Civilization, Rome and the Mediterranean World -- 4. The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.-A.D. 476 -- 5. The Transformation of the Western Roman Empire -- 6. India and China in Antiquity -- 7. The Byzantine Empire -- 8. Islam and the Rise of the Arab Empire -- 9. The Emergence of Western European Civilization -- 10. Revival and Reform in Western Europe -- 11. Medieval Civilization at Its Height -- 12. The Rise of the Secular State -- 13. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages -- 14. The Late Middle Ages -- 15. South and East Asia, Ca. A.D. 600-1600 -- 16. The Revival of Europe -- 17. Religious Reform and Revolution in Western Christendom -- 18. The Age of Discovery -- 19. Political and Economic Crises: The Seventeenth Century -- 20. Absolutism and Constitutionalism, 1660-1715 -- 21. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment -- 22. The Twilight of the Old Regime, 1715-1789. 23. The French Revolution and Europe, 1789-1815. 24. The Demographic and Industrial Revolutions, 1750-1914. 25. The Nineteenth Century Revolution of Ideas -- 26. The Breakthrough of the Nation State, 1815-71 -- 27. Europe and the World in the Nineteenth Century -- 28. Europe in the Long Peace, 1871-1914 -- 29. War and Revolution, 1914-1929 -- 30. The World Between the Wars, 1919-1939 -- 31. The Totalitarian States -- 32. From Second World War to Cold War, 1939-49 -- 33. The Age of Containment, 1949-75 -- 34. The Non-Western World from the Forties to the Nineties -- 35. The End of the Cold War Era.