Music Card for Humanities, The

Brief Contents

PART IV: EXCESS, INQUIRY, AND RESTRAINT, 1600–1800

The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal
The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation
The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage
The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason
The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason
The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

PART V: ROMANTICISM, REALISM, AND EMPIRE, 1800–1900

The Romantic World View: The Self in Nature and the Nature of Self
Industry and the Working Class: A New Realism
Defining a Nation: American National Identity and the Challenge of Civil War
Global Confrontation and Modern Life: The Quest for Cultural Identity
The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
The Fin de Siècle: Toward the Modern

PART VI: MODERNISM AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF CULTURES, 1900 TO THE PRESENT

The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World
The Great War and Its Impact: A Lost Generation and a New Imagination
New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New
The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, Holocaust and Bomb
After the War: Existential Doubt, Artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption
Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s
Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World