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<h2>Brief Contents</h2> <div class="c-section-headers-non-traditional-number-list_container"> <h3>PART IV: EXCESS, INQUIRY, AND RESTRAINT, 1600–1800</h3> <ol start="21"> <li>The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal</li> <li>The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation</li> <li>The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage</li> <li>The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason</li> <li>The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason</li> <li>The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style</li> </ol> <h3>PART V: ROMANTICISM, REALISM, AND EMPIRE, 1800–1900</h3> <ol start="27"> <li>The Romantic World View: The Self in Nature and the Nature of Self</li> <li>Industry and the Working Class: A New Realism</li> <li>Defining a Nation: American National Identity and the Challenge of Civil War</li> <li>Global Confrontation and Modern Life: The Quest for Cultural Identity</li> <li>The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe</li> <li>The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America</li> <li>The Fin de Siècle: Toward the Modern</li> </ol> <h3>PART VI: MODERNISM AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF CULTURES, 1900 TO THE PRESENT</h3> <ol start="34"> <li>The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World</li> <li>The Great War and Its Impact: A Lost Generation and a New Imagination</li> <li>New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New</li> <li>The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, Holocaust and Bomb</li> <li>After the War: Existential Doubt, Artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption</li> <li>Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s</li> <li>Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World</li> </ol> </div>