Chapters

1. History’s Story
2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.
3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135
4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146
5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300
6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453
7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000
8. The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
12. The Westerner’s Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
13. Rejections of Democracy: The InterWar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
14. A World Divided: The Cold War, 1945 to 1993
15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1991 to the Present

• Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?

Links for Chapter 12
The Westerner’s Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918

On Nationalism

The Haitian Revolution: pages from the documentary about Africans in America.

The National Park Service Civil War page: many links to primary and sites of the conflict.

 

On Imperialism

The British Empire: Where the Sun never Sets: has lots of information and illustrations about Great Britain's imperialism from 1497 to 1997.

Canalmuseum.com: historical pictures about the Panama Canal.

 

On World War I

World War I Trenches on the Web: maps, pictures, timelines, art, articles and more about the Great War.

World War I Document Archive: many primary sources organized according to type and date.

Historical Debates: reviews of disagreements concerning World War I.

How the War began: video satire from the series Blackadder.