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Kagan Textbook Chapter Overview & Outlines

AP PERIOD/UNIT 1
Part 1: Europe in Transition, 1300–1750
Chapter 1: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300–1453)
Chapter 2: Renaissance and Discovery
Chapter 3: The Age of Reformation
Chapter 4: The Age of Religious Wars

AP PERIOD/UNIT 2

Chapter 5: European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Chapter 6: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chapter 7: Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 8: The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion

Part 2: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700–1850
Chapter 9: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
Chapter 10: The French Revolution
Chapter 11: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism

AP PERIOD/UNIT 3
Chapter 12: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815–1832)
Chapter 13: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830–1850)

Part 3: Toward the Modern World, 1850–1939
Chapter 14: The Age of Nation-States
Chapter 15: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I
Chapter 16: The Birth of Modern European Thought
Chapter 17: The Age of Western Imperialism

AP PERIOD/UNIT 4
Chapter 18: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace

Chapter 19: The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression

Part 4: Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions, 1939–2012
Chapter 20: World War II
Chapter 21: The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a New Europe
Chapter 22: Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West through the Present