Reflections on Western Civilization A Reader 1600 to the Present

Preface. I. THE BALANCE LOST: EUROPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 1. Cinderilla and the Blue Beard 2. Occult Studies and the Scientific Revolution in Central Europe 3. Lords of Misrule: The Puritan War on Christmas 1642-60 (Chris Durston) 4. Facing Cancer in the Seventeenth Century: The Last Illness of Anne of Austria, 1664-1666 (Ruth Kleinman) II. STABILITY REGAINED? THE OLD REGIME, 1689-1789. 5. An Eighteenth-Century Bad Man Meets His End (Daniel Defoe) 6. The Cult of Womanhood in Eighteenth-Century Thought (Marlene LeGates) 7. The Pretender Phenomenon in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Philip Longworth) 8. The Code of Honor and its Critis: The Early Opposition to Dueling in England, 1700-1780 (Donna T. Andrew) III. REVOLUTIONARY READJUSTMENT, 1789-1815. 9. A Vindication of The Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) 10. The "New Treatment" of the Insane in Paris (Colin Jones) 11. The Red Cap of Liberty: A Study of Dress Worn by French Revolutionary Partisans (Jennifer Harris) 12. Heat, Ice, Snow, and Disaster: The Russian Campaign (Owen Connelly) IV. THE GROWTH OF MODERNITY: ECONOMIC EXPANSION AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 1750-1870. 13. Treatment of the Slaves (Alexander Falconridge) 14. Cruelty in a Factory Age (James C. Turner) 15. Drink and Industrial Work Discipline in 19 th Century Germany (James S. Roberts) 16. The Making of A Working-Class Football Culture in Victorian England (William J. Baker) 17. Biological Give and Take: The Tragic History of The Potato Famine V. EUROPE'S GOLDEN AGE OF SUPREMACY, 1815-1914. 18. The Last of the Tasmanians (James Morris) 19. The First Modern Olympics (Richard D. Mandell) VI. THE CRISIS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. 20. The Trench Scene (Paul Fussell) 21. The Liquidation of the Kulaks as a Class (Roy Medvedev) 22. The Making of a Madman: The Childhood of Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler) 23. The First Vietnam War, 1946-1954 (James S. Olson and Randy Roberts) 24. Speech to a Joint Session of the United States Congress, November 15, 1989 (Lech Walesa)Fritze, Ronald H. is the author of 'Reflections on Western Civilization A Reader 1600 to the Present' with ISBN 9780673384041 and ISBN 0673384047.