Western Civilization II 1500-present: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the emergence of the modern West to the twenty-first century. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copy Right
• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Unit 1: The Emergence of the Modern West
• The Protestant Reformation and Its After-effects
• The Rebirth of Humanism in the West
• Crises of the Medieval World
• Unit 1 Review
• Unit 2: The Growth of Western Civilization
• Commodity Trading and the Birth of an Atlantic Economy
• Spain, Portugal, and the Invention of Western Power
• The Emergence of the National Monarchy
• Unit 2 Review
• Unit 3: From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment
• The Newtonian Cosmos
• The Destabilization of the Spiritual Worldview
• The Copernican Revolution
• Unit 3 Review
• Unit 4: The Enlightenment
• Kant and the Redemption of Enlightenment
• Rousseau and Radicalization
• From Locke to Jefferson
• Unit 4 Review
• Unit 5: An Age of Revolution
• A New Historical Order
• Novus dux Napoleon
• The French Revolution
• Unit 5 Review
• Unit 6: The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness
• Romanticism
• Tradition versus Progress
• The Nation
• Unit 6 Review
• Unit 7: Industrialization and Its After-effects
• From Textiles to Steam Engines
• Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
• Marx and the Communist Manifesto
• Unit 7 Review
• Unit 8: The Apex of Modern Civilization
• New States and Old Problems
• Challenges from Without
• Challenges from Within
• Unit 8 Review
• Unit 9: New Imperialism
• Prelude to War
• Case Studies in New Imperialism
• Origins and Modes
• Unit 9 Review
• Unit 10: World War I
• The Suicide of the West
• Strategies and Operations
• Causes and Contingencies
• Unit 10 Review
• Unit 11: Totalitarianism
• Communism in the Soviet Union
• Fascism in Western Europe
• Totalitarianism as Anti-modernity
• Unit 11 Review
• Unit 12: World War II
• The Restoration of Modern Consciousness
• Expansions and Turning Points
• The Inescapable Path to War
• Unit 12 Review
• Unit 13: The Cold War
• The Concept of a “Third” World
• The Western Response
• An Ideological Showdown
• Unit 13 Review
• Unit 14: The West and the “Global” World
• Crises of Climate, Credit, and Historical Consciousness
• Terrorism and Popular Culture
• Imperialism Redefined
• Unit 14 Review
• Unit 15: Postmodernism and the End of History
• The Meaning of the “End of the World”
• Lack of Credulity
• Post-historical Humanity
• Unit 15 Review