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Heritage of World Civilizations, The: Combined Brief Edition

ISBN: 9780130340658 | 0130340650
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in World History I (to 1500) and World History II (since 1500). Brief yet detailed, this text provides a thoughtful history of human civilizations while maintaining a balance between the Western world and the rest of global civilization. It covers the general intellectual and material history of human societies and cultures that have left some kind of written and/or archeological record behind. The combined edition is organized in a rough chronological order by cultural/ civilization and/or geographical areas.
PART I --- THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION1(28)
Birth of Civilization
2(13)
The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion
15... MORE
PART II --- EMPIRES AND CULTURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD29(70)
Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
32(19)
Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 C.E.
51(10)
Republican and Imperial Rome
61(18)
Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.
79(11)
China's First Empire (221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
90(9)
PART III --- CONSOLIDATION AND INTERACTION OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS99(110)
Imperial China (589-1368)
102(12)
Japan: Early History to 1467
114(13)
Iran and India Before Islam
127(8)
The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622-945)
135(11)
The Early Middle Ages in the West to 1000: The Birth of Europe
146(14)
The High Middle Ages (1000-1300)
160(21)
The Islamic Heartlands and India (ca. 1000-1500)
181(13)
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
194(15)
PART IV --- THE WORLD IN TRANSITION209(118)
The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the West (1300-1527)
212(13)
The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars
225(21)
Africa (ca. 1000-1800)
246(14)
Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transtlantic Economy
260(13)
East Asia in the Late Traditional Era
273(18)
European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict
291(14)
European Society Under the Old Regime
305(12)
The Last Great Islamic Empires (1500-1800)
317(10)
PART V --- ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION IN THE WEST327(40)
The Age of European Enlightenment
330(10)
Revolutions in the Transatlantic World
340(15)
Europe, 1815-1850: Political Reform, Economic Advance, and Social Unrest
355(12)
PART VI --- INTO THE MODERN WORLD367(82)
Political Consolidation in Europe and North America
370(12)
The Building of Northern Transatlantic Supermacy: Society and Politics to World War I
382(15)
The Birth of Contemporary Western Thought
397(11)
Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s
408(12)
India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Encounter with the Modern West (1800-1945)
420(12)
Modern East Asia
432(17)
PART VII --- GLOBAL CONFLICT AND CHANGE449(3)
Imperialism and World War I
452(13)
Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal
465(13)
World War II
478(12)
The West Since World War II
490(14)
East Asia in the Late Twentieth Century
504(10)
The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945
514
Suggested ReadingsSR-1
IndexI-1

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