The importance of the West -- Geography is destiny -- Culture is destiny -- Renaissance humanism--1350-1650 -- Renaissance princes--1450-1600 -- The new world & the old--1400-1650 -- The Protestant Reformation--1500-22 -- The wars of religion--1523-1648 -- Rational & scientific revolutions--1450-1650 -- French absolutism--1589-1715 -- English constitutionalism--1603-49 -- English constitutionalism--1649-89 -- War, trade, empire--1688-1702 -- War, trade, empire--1702-14 -- War, trade, empire--1714-63 -- Life under the ancien régime--1689-1789 -- Enlightenment & despotism -- The American Revolution -- The French Revolution--1789-92 -- The French Revolution--1792-1803 -- The Napoleonic Empire--1803-15 -- Beginnings of industrialization--1760-1850 -- Consequences of industrialization--1760-1850 -- The liberal response--1776-1861 -- The Romantic response--1789-1870 -- The socialist response--1813-1905 -- Descent of man; rise of woman--1830-90 -- Nationalism--1815-48 -- Nationalism--1848-71 -- Imperial rivalry--1870-1914 -- Industrial rivalry--1870-1914 -- The Alliance System--1872-1914 -- Decadence & malaise--circa 1900 -- The Great War begins--1914-16 -- Breaking the deadlock--1915-17 -- The Russian Revolution--1917-22 -- The end of the war--1917-22 -- Recovery & depression in the West--1919-36 -- Totalitarian Russia--1918-39 -- Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany--1922-36 -- The Holocaust--1933-45 -- The failure of diplomacy--1935-39 -- World War II--1939-42 -- World War II--1942-45 -- American hegemony, Soviet challenge--1945-75 -- Rebuilding Europe--1945-85 -- The new Europe--1985-2001 -- The meaning of Western civilization.