Story of Civilization

Phillip Campbell

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Children should not just read about history, they should live it. In The Story of Civilization, the stories that have shaped humanity come alive like never before. Author Phillip Campbell uses his historical expertise and story-telling ability together in tandem to present the content in a fresh and thrilling way. The Story of Civilization reflects a new emphasis in presenting the history of the world as a thrilling and compelling narrative. Within each chapter, children will encounter short stories that place them directly in the shoes of historical figures, both famous and ordinary, as they live through legendary battles and invasions, philosophical debates, the construction of architectural wonders, the discovery of new inventions and sciences, and the exploration of the world. Volume III: The Making of the Modern World continues the journey, picking up where Volume II left off amidst the Renaissance and quickly diving into the history-altering events of the Reformation. This fracturing of the Church dramatically altered the course of modern Europe and the world at large.But during the most tumultuous times, God gives us the greatest saints. Children will meet great figures like Sts. Pius V, Thomas More, John Vianney, and Margaret Mary Alacoque, as well as powerful leaders like Napoleon and Kings Henry VIII of England and Louis XIV of France. This volume brings us through present-day Europe, showing us the effects of two world wars and how the Church responded to these changing times.The strength of the content lies not only in the storybook delivery but also in the way it presents history through the faithful prism of the Church. Have you always wanted your children to learn about world history from a Catholic perspective? Here, you'll have the trusted resource you've always wanted.

Sujets

• Open learning
• History of education
• Homeschooling
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: TAN Books
• Date de parution: 13 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781505109849
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
VOLUME III: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
T HE S TORY OF C IVILIZATION
Volume I: The Ancient World Text Book Test Book Teacher’s Manual Activity Book Audio Dramatization Video Lecture Series Timeline
Volume II: The Medieval World Text Book Test Book Teacher’s Manual Activity Book Audio Dramatization Video Lecture Series Timeline
Volume III: The Making of the Modern World Text Book Test Book Teacher’s Manual Activity Book Audio Dramatization Video Lecture Series Timeline
THE STORY OF
CIVILIZATION
VOLUME III:
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Phillip Campbell
The Story of Civilization: Volume III, The Making of the Modern World © 2018 Phillip Campbell.
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical reviews, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, printed or electronic, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Cover and illustrations by Chris Pelicano
ISBN: 978-1-5051-0982-5
Published in the United States by
TAN Books
P.O. Box 410487
Charlotte, NC 28241
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Printed and bound in the United States of America
CONTENTS
Foreword: A Note to Parents
Introduction: Coming Into the Present Age
Chapter 1: The Glory of the Renaissance
Chapter 2: Columbus and the New World
Chapter 3: Martin Luther
Chapter 4: Germany on Fire
Chapter 5: Henry VIII and Anglicanism
Chapter 6: The French Wars of Religion
Chapter 7: Mary, Queen of Scots
Chapter 8: The Counter-Reformation
Chapter 9: Pope St. Pius V and the Battle of Lepanto
Chapter 10: The Age of Elizabeth
Chapter 11: King Philip II
Chapter 12: The Thirty Years’ War
Chapter 13: Roundheads and Cavaliers
Chapter 14: The Restoration and the Not-So-Glorious Revolution
Chapter 15: The Age of the Sun King
Chapter 16: The Turkish Threat
Chapter 17: The Jacobites
Chapter 18: Light and Darkness
Chapter 19: A World at War
Chapter 20: The French Revolution
Chapter 21: The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Chapter 22: Peace Returns
Chapter 23: Reforms and Revolutions
Chapter 24: The Unification of Italy and Germany
Chapter 25: The Popes Against the World
Chapter 26: Europe Conquers the Globe
Chapter 27: The Great War
Chapter 28: The Rise of the Dictators
Chapter 29: The Second World War
Chapter 30: The Third Reich Collapses
Chapter 31: The Cold War
Chapter 32: Changes in the Modern World
Chapter 33: The Second Vatican Council
Chapter 34: The End of the Cold War
Chapter 35: An Uncertain Future
Index
About the Author
FOREWORD
A Note to Parents
There can be no doubt that the central claims of the Christian faith are deeply intertwined with historical events—a Christian ignorant of history is a Christian without any sense of his own identity. Nevertheless, ignorance of our past has never been more widespread among educated westerners than it is today; despite the technological marvels of modernity, the post-Christian West has lost its memory and thus stands in danger of losing its very soul.
As with all educational problems, this crisis has its foundations in childhood education, which has moved resolutely over the past three decades away from teaching “history” in the traditional sense, substituting the social sciences and mere cultural exposure in history’s place. In many school curricula for children, the only appearance “history” makes is as a form of trivia—arbitrary facts about far-away times and places that are unlikely to make a radical impact on the young student’s understanding of the world and his place in it. Catholic children are left without a robust sense of identity as Catholics; instead, the media and prevailing culture fill the vacuum, providing students with, at best, a poor understanding of their Church’s history and of the civilizations and societies shaped by Catholic culture.
Thus there is a tremendous responsibility imposed on the Catholic parents and educators of today. I would even argue that they are tasked with providing historical training as surely as they are tasked with providing moral and religious formation. Without the former, the latter will always rest on an imperfect foundation, for a young person without a proper historical education is liable to be swept away when confronted with false or tendentious narratives or with slanders against the history of the Church.
False historical narratives are not far to seek; in fact, many of them are embedded in the fabric of our culture, saturating our minds with prejudices and preconceptions that are hostile to our Church and its traditions and hostile to historical fact. The prevalence of anti-Catholic historical narratives is especially marked in the English-speaking world, where the legacy of Reformation-era propaganda and confessional history is enduringly anti-Catholic. The crude slanders of John Foxe in his sixteenth-century Book of Martyrs gave way, over the centuries, to the more sophisticated (and more decidedly anti-Christian) rationalism of Edward Gibbon in the eighteenth century and to the casual, socially respectable anti-Catholicism of Henry Charles Lea in the nineteenth. English-language historiography is thus leavened with anti-Catholicism in a way that has unavoidably influenced English-speaking Catholics. One can detect the echoes of this tradition even today, as many otherwise fine school textbooks retain an anti-Catholic tone, even to the point of including myths that have been long since debunked by professional historical scholarship.
Outside the English-speaking world, moreover, the aggressive secularism of our time has taken a similar toll, even in countries that were devoutly Catholic in their former days. Famously, the 2004 proposed constitution for the European Union neglected to mention Christianity at all, even among the historically shared values of Europeans. Thus we live in a time of great need; parents and educators have to be able to turn somewhere for materials to educate their children on the history of the Western world.
Into this gaping breach steps TAN Books, which for decades has been fighting a lonely and increasingly desperate battle against the misinformation about the Church that dominates the press and the airwaves. Over the years, TAN has sought to publish both new works and reprinted classics on Catholic devotional life, dogma, liturgy, theology, and history. Now TAN has accepted a new challenge in response to the needs of the time: providing the materials that homeschooling parents desperately need. I can personally attest to the timeliness of TAN’s new mission; as a homeschooling father, I know how hard it can be to find materials that are trustworthy, intellectually stimulating, and engaging for children. Phillip Campbell’s The Story of Civilization series is all of the above and more. Both he and TAN deserve enormous praise for bringing this project to fruition. More so than any other academic field, history has had an unfulfilled need for materials of this kind for many, many years.
Here in volume 3, you possess a work of ambitious scope, as Phillip Campbell takes the reader from the turmoil of early modernity all the way down through contemporary European history, emphasizing the connections among the great movements and developments of the period.
Momentous change characterizes the European experience of early modernity: The rise of Renaissance humanism, the Age of Discovery, and the shattering of Europe’s medieval religious consensus transformed society in a myriad of ways that resist easy summary and were, moreover, not confined to Europe itself. During what historians call the “long sixteenth century” (1492–1648), new continents were opened up to European exploration, while new intellectual and religious vistas were explored in the Old World with various consequences, none of them small. The Protestant Reformation transformed more than just religious culture—politics and economics would never be the same. Moreover, as historian Brad Gregory has argued, Protestantism gave rise to an “unintended reformation” as the intellectual culture of European elites became decidedly and increasingly secularized. Old movements were replaced by new as the Enlightenment and secular nationalism transformed European outlooks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ultimately giving rise to the great wars of the twentieth. Through it all, Catholic religious culture remained vibrant and innovative, responding to new challenges in the complex ways demanded by the times. In the next several hundred pages, your children will encounter all this and more and be awoken to the wonder and excitement of history.
Brendan J. McGuire, PhD Associate Professor of History, Christendom College
INTRODUCTION
Coming Into the Present Age
In the past two volumes of this series, you have taken a journey through history. We have come a long way since reading about the early nomads, but as you’ll soon see, we still have a long way to go. Believe it or not, by the time you finish this book, you’ll have taken this journey through history all the way up to the present age. But before we get to what you’ll discover in this volume of The Story of Civilization , let’s review what you’ve learned so far.
As just mentioned, it all began with the early nomads who roamed the earth seeking food and shelter wherever they could find it. This way of life was difficult, but there’s something adventurous about the wandering life of a nomad, don’t you think? You probably enjoy taking trips with your family; well, the nomads were essentially on one long trip for their entire lives!
Of course, people eventually began to settle down. With the discovery of farming, people saw that they could grow their food from the earth in one place rather than traveling around all the time. So they settled down together and created civilizations where they coul