西方文明史(第5版精编普及版英文影印版高级英语选修课系列教材)/历史与文化系列

《西方文明史(第五版) 》试图从世界文明彼此联 系互动的视角，全方位地 展示西方文明繁复曲折的 发展历程。本书是其精编 普及改编版。作为介绍西 方文明发展史的一本简明 教材，本版保留原书经典 内容和插图、框架结构、 章节设计以及一些成功的 特点的同时，把原书章节 压缩改编成较为适合教学 使用。无论是学术性、知 识性，还是内容的可读性 ，本书都堪称一部学习西 方文明的一流入门教材。

PREFACE ABOUT THE AUTHORS INTRODUCTION THE IDEA OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION CHAPTER 1 THE FIRSTCIVILIZATIONS INTRODUCTION BEFORE CIVILIZATION The Dominance of Culture Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion MESOPOTAMIA The Ramparts of Uruk Tools: Technology and Writing Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire THE GIFT OF THENILE 10 Tending the Cattle of God Democratization of the Afterlife BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Hebrew Alternative A King Like All the Nations Exile NINEVEH AND BABYLON The Assyrian Empire The New Babylonian Empire CONCLUSION QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW VOCABULARY DISCOVERING WESTERN CIVILIZATION ONLINE SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING CHAPTER 2 GREEK PERIOD INTRODUCTION 18 GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE TO 700 B.C.E. Islands of Peace 20 Mainland of War 21 The Dark Age 21 ARCHAIC GREECE, 700-500 B.C.E. Ethnos and Polls Technology of Writing Gods and Mortals Myth and Reason Art and the Individual Democratic Athens CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC GREECE, 500-100 B.C.E. ALEXANDER AT ISSUS ATHENIAN CULTURE IN THE HELLENIC AGE The Examined Life Understanding the Past Athenian Drama Philosophy and the Polis The Rise of Macedon The Empire of Alexander the Great Binding Together an Empire THE HELLENISTIC WORLD Urban Life and Culture Alexandria Architecture and Art Hellenistic Philosophy Mathematics and Science CONCLUSION QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW VOCABULARY DISCOVERING WESTERN CIVILIZATION ONLINE SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING CHAPTER 3 THE ROMAN PERIOD INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 4 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD, 192–500 CHAPTER 5 THE CLAS S ICAL L EGACY IN THE EAST:BYZANTIUM AND ISLAM CHAPTER 6 THE WEST IN THE MIDDLE AGES CHAPTER 7 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CHAPTER 8 THE REFORM OF RELIGION CHAPTER 9 THE PERIOD OF MODERN EUROPE CHAPTER 10 THE ENLIGHTENMENT, FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC ERA CHAPTER 11 EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER 12 EUROPE AND THE WORLD, 1870–1914 CHAPTER 13 WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1914–1920 CHAPTER 14 THE SECOND WORLD WAR CHAPTER 15 THE COLD WAR AND POS-COLD WAR PERIOD, 1945 TO THE PRESENT GLOSSARY