From the Age of Exploration to the Present

JOHN P.MCKAY Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA BENNETT D. HILL Sometime Chairman and Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA JOHN BUCKLER Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA CLARE HARU CROWSTON Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA MERRY E WIESNER-HANKS UWM Distinguished Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA JOE PERRY Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University, USA

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• European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650 Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725 Toward a New Worldview 1540-1789 The Expansion of Europe 1650-1800 The Changing Life of the People 1700-1800 The Revolution in Politics 1775-1815 The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780-1850 Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850 Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1900 The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914 The West and the World, 1815-1914 War and Revolution, 1914-1919 The Age of Anxiety, ca. 1900-1940 Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945 Cold War Conflict and Consensus 1945-1965 Challenging the Postwar Order 1960-1991 Europe in an Age of Globalization 1990 to the Present