Modernism described twentieth-century artistic developments in painting, sculpture, and music.Rapid communications resulted in crosscultural exchanges and the assimilation and transformation of themes and techniques from many different cultures. A popular culture also developed, led by the United States and transmitted by the mass media.

Chapter 1 The Origin of Western Culture
1.1 The Prehistoric Culture of Europe
1.2 The Aegean Culture
1.3 The Ancient Near Eastern Culture
1.4 The Hebrew Culture
Chapter 2 The Prosperity of Western Classical Culture
2.1 Early Greek Culture
2.2 The Flowering of the Classical Greek Culture
2.3 Culture in Hellenistic Age
2.4 Roman Classical Culture
2.5 The Decline of Roman Classical Culture and the Rise of Christian Culture
Chapter 3 Christian Culture in Western Europe of the Middle Ages
3.1 Western Culture in Early Middle Ages
3.2 Christian Church in Medieval Western Europe
3.3 Renaissance of Western Europe in the Twelfth Century
Chapter 4 The Modern Transformation of Western Culture
4.1 The Decline of the Medieval Civilization
4.2 The Age of the Renaissance
4.3 The Age of Reformation
4.4 The Expansion of Western Culture
Chapter 5 Modern Culture in the Age of Enoighenment
5.1 Western Society in the 17th and 18th Century
5.2 The Enlightenment
Chapter 6 Western Culture in Industrialization
6.1 Technological Inventions and Industrialized Society
6.2 Western Thoughts in Industrialization
6.3 Romanticism and Realism
6.4 Music in Romantic Era
6.5 Western Painting in Nineteenth Century
Chapter 7 Western Culture in the First Half of the 20th century
7.1 Great Development of Science and Technology in the Early Time of the 20th Century
7.2 Introvert Philosophy and Positive Philosophy
7.3 The Development of Economics
7.4 Modernist Literature and Art in the West
7.5 Changeable Western Social Science
Chapter 8 Western Culture in Post World War TwO
8.1 Rapid Achievements of Science and Technology
8.2 The Philosophy Schools in the Western Countries
8.3 The Underchanging Sociology in America and the West Europe
8.4 The Western Economics after Keynes
8.5 The Modernist Literature and Art in the Post World War Two
Chapter 9 The Convention of International Communication
9.1 Introduction to Etiquette
9.2 General Rules of Communicating with Foreigners
9.3 Everyday Etiquette
9.4 Etiquette of Welcoming
Chapter 10 Customs and Etiquettes of Some Countries
10.1 Asian Countries
10.2 African, American and Oceanian Countries
10.3 European Countries
后记

东西方之间在文化和礼仪上迥然有别,各国人民在进行文化和礼尚交往时的习惯也各有千秋。本书是培养学生具备基本的西方文化知识、较广阔的文化视野和良好的**礼仪修养的课程,介绍了西方文化与礼仪的历史与发展,理论性与实践性并重,人文性与时代性并存。