Brief Contents List of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Primary Source Projects, Tables, and Timelines Acknowledgments How to Use This Book Chapter One: History's Story There's Method What Is Truth? Primary Source Project 1: Voltaire versus Macaulay Chapter Two: Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 BCThe Apes' CousinsBound to the SoilThe Price of CivilizationThe Rise and Fall of Practically All Middle Eastern EmpiresPrimary Source Project 2: Xenophon versus HerodorusChapter Three: The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 BC to AD 135Between and under EmpiresThe Tie That BindsPrimary Source Project 3: Prophecy of Micah versus Prophecy of JoelChapter Four: Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 BC to AD 146To the SeaThe Political AnimalMetamorphosisThe Cultural ConquestPrimary Source Project 4: The Melian DialogueChapter Five: Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 BC to AD 300World Conquest in Self-DefenseThe Price of PowerThe Absolutist SolutionThe Roads to KnowledgePrimary Source Project 5: Galgacus versus AgricolaChapter Six: The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 BC to AD 1253The Son of ManThe Cultural WarRoma Delenda EstStruggle for the Realm of SubmissionPrimary Source Project 6: Paul versus Pliny and TrajanChapter Seven: From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, AD 500 to 1000Goths in the GardenCharles in ChargeThe Cavalry to the RescuePrimary Source Project 7: Bad Bishops versus BenedictChapter Eight: The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500Return of the KingsDiscipline and DominationPlenty of Papal PowerThe Age of Faith and ReasonA New EstateNot the End of the WorldPrimary Source Project 8: Gregory VII versus Henry IVChapter Nine: Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648 The Purse of Princes Man as the Measure Heaven Knows Fatal Beliefs God, Greed, and Glory Primary Source Project 9: Witch Hunter versus Montaigne Chapter Ten: Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815 Lost in the Stars From the Salons to the Streets The State Is He (or She) (Prosperous) People Power The Declaration of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity Blood and Empires Primary Source Project 10: Declaration of the Rights of Man versus Declaration of the Rights of Woman Chapter Eleven: Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914 Facts of Factories Life in the Jungle Cleaning Up the Mess For the Workers The Machinery of Nature Primary Source Project 11: Smiles versus Owen Chapter Twelve: The Westerner's Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918 ''New and Improved'' Imperialism From Sea to Shining Sea Nationalism's Curse The Balkan Cauldron The Great War Primary Source Project 12: ''In Flanders Fields'' versus ''Dulce et Decorum Est'' Chapter Thirteen: Rejections of Democracy: The Interwar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945Decline of the West? Russians in Revolt Losing Their Grip Fascist Fury Hitler's Hatreds The Roads to Global War Primary Source Project 13: Hitler versus Franklin D. Roosevelt Chapter Fourteen: A World Divided: The Early Cold War, 1945 to 1980 From Friends to Foes Making Money To the Brink, Again and Again Letting Go and Holding On American Hegemon The Uneasy Understanding Primary Source Project 14: Khrushchev versus Nixon Chapter Fifteen: Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1980 to the Present A Surprise Ending Searching for Stability Different Folks Haves and Cannots Values of Violence Primary Source Project 15: The European Central Bank versus the National Front Epilogue: Why Western Civilization? Timelines Common Abbreviations Glossary Suggested Readings Index About the Author.