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World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500
ISBN: 9780534599232 | 0534599230
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 8/21/2002
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This is Volume II (chapters 26-58) of WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, a text that offers students a comprehensive and balanced overview of the world's major civilizations, spanning from the ancient world to modern times. With more than half of the text devoted to non-Western civilizations, this Third Edition provides increased attention to modern-day Islam, pre-colonial Africa, the role of women throughout history, and the global effects of World War II on the various civilizations. Throughout, Philip Adler describes history as the story of how individual... MORE
| IV | |
| DISEQUILIBRIUM: THE WESTERN ENCOUNTER WITH THE NON-WESTERN WORLD 1500-1850 C | |
| 26. A Larger World Opens | |
| 27. The Protestant Reformation | |
| 28. Foundations of the European States | |
| 29. Eastern European Empires | |
| 30. China from the Ming through the ... MORE | |
| 31. Japan and Colonial Southeast Asia to the Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
| 32. The Rise and Fall of Muslim Empires | |
| 33. Africa in the Colonial Era | |
| 34. Latin America from Colony to Dependent Statehood | |
| V | |
| WESTERN REVOLUTIONS, INDUSTRY, AND IDEOLOGY 1700-1920. 35 | |
| The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath | |
| 36. Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy | |
| 37. The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon | |
| 38. Europe's Industrialization | |
| 39. The Social Impacts of Early Industry | |
| 40. Europe in Ideological Conflict | |
| 41. Consolidation of National States | |
| 42. Advanced Industrial Society | |
| 43. Modern Science and Its Implications | |
| 44. World War I and Its Disputed Settlement | |
| VI | |
| EQUILIBRIUM REESTABLISHED: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD 1920-Present | |
| 45. A Fragile Balance: Europe in the Twenties | |
| 46. The Soviet Experiment to World War II | |
| 47. Totalitarianism: The Nazi State | |
| 48. East Asia in a Century of Change | |
| 49. World War II | |
| 50. High and Low Cultures in the West | |
| 51. Superpower Rivalry and the European Recovery | |
| 52. Decolonization and the Third World | |
| 53. The New Asia | |
| 54. Africa after Independence | |
| 55. Latin America in the Twentieth Century | |
| 56. The Reemergence of the Muslim World | |
| 57. The Marxist Collapse and Its Aftermath | |
| 58. At the Start of a New Millennium | |
| Bibliography | |
| Answers to Test Your Knowledge | |
| Glossary | |
| Index |
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