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| Part I: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF EMPIRES | |
| 1. The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and Europe | |
| 2. Ancient India | |
| 3. China in Antiquity | |
| 4. The Civilization of the Greeks | |
| 5. The World of the Romans | |
| Part II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION | ... MORE |
| 6. The New World | |
| 7. The World of Islam | |
| 8. Early Civilizations in Africa | |
| 9. The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia | |
| 10. From the Tang to the Mongols: The Flowering of Traditional China | |
| 11. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam | |
| 12. The Making of Europe, 500-1300 | |
| 13. The Byzantine World and Crisis and Rebirth in Europe | |
| Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500-1800) | |
| 14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market | |
| 15. Religious Reform and State Building in Europe | |
| 16. The Muslim Empires | |
| 17. The East Asian World | |
| 18. Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West | |
| 19. Europe on the Eve of a New World Order | |
| Part IV: MODERN PATTERNS OF WORLD HISTORY (1800-1945) | |
| 20. The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism: 1800-1870 | |
| 21. The Emergence of Mass Society in the Western World | |
| 22. The High Tide of Imperialism | |
| 23. Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge | |
| 24. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution | |
| 25. Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939 | |
| 26. The Crisis Deepens: World War II | |
| Part V: TOWARD A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION? THE WORLD SINCE 1945. 27 | |
| In the Grip of the Cold War: The Breakdown of the Yalta System | |
| 28. Brave New World: Communism | |
| 29. Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945 | |
| 30. Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East | |
| 31. Nationalism Triumphant: The Emergence of Independent States in South and Southeast Asia | |
| 32. Toward the Pacific Century: Japan and the Little Tigers | |
| Glossary | |
| Index |