Rent 9780130987969 | Heritage of World Civilizations : Combined Volume | Craig, Albert M.; Graham, William A.; Kagan, Donald M.; Ozment, Steven; Turner, Frank M. @knetbooks.com

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For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, Heritage of World Civilizations, 6/e, combines unusually strong and thorough coverage of the unique heritage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilizations, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions.

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Part I --- The Coming of Civilization

Birth of Civilization

(38)

Art and the World: A Monument to a King's Triumph: The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

(32)

The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion

(32)

Art and the World: Chou Dynasty Bronze Bell

(22)

Religions of the World: Judaism

(2)

Part II --- Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World

(148)

Greek and Hellenistic Civilization

(40)

Art and the World: Victory and Nobility in Bronze: ``The Charioteer of Delphi''

(30)

Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 C.E.

116

(22)

Art and the World: The Oxus Treasure

122

(14)

Religions of the World: Hinduism

136

(2)

Republican and Imperial Rome

138

(38)

Art and the World: Portrait of a Young Woman From Pompeii

162

(14)

Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.

176

(26)

Art and the World: Nok Sculpture

186

(16)

China's First Empire (221 B.C.E.--220 C.E.)

202

(18)

Art and the World: The Terra Cotta Soldiers of the Ch'in Dynasty

206

(14)

Part III --- Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilizations

220

(196)

Imperial China (589--1368)

224

(28)

Art and the World: Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight

243

(9)

Japan: Early History to 1467

252

(30)

Art and the World: The Seasons

274

(6)

Religions of the World: Buddhism

280

(2)

Iran and India before Islam

282

(14)

Art and the World: The Ajanta Caves

289

(7)

The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622--945)

296

(18)

Art and the World: The Art of the Qur'an

306

(8)

The Early Middle Ages in the West to 1000: The Birth of Europe

314

(22)

And The World: Hagia Sophia: A Temple Surpassing That of Solomon

318

(18)

The Islamic Heartlands and India (ca. 1000--1500)

336

(22)

Art and the World: The Alhambra

344

(14)

Ancient Civilizations of the Americas

358

(26)

Art and the World: Mesoamerican Art

376

(8)

Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance

384

(32)

Art and the World: Images of Death in the Late Middle Ages

402

(14)

Part IV --- The World in Transition

416

(208)

The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars

420

(40)

And the World: Warring Architectural Styles: Baroque Versus Plain Churches

448

(10)

Religions of the World: Christianity

458

(2)

Africa (ca. 1000--1800)

460

(24)

Art and the World: Benin and Ife ``Bronzes''

472

(12)

Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy

484

(28)

Art and the World: A Dramatic Moment in the Transatlantic World: Copley's ``Watson and the Shark''

502

(10)

East Asia in the Late Traditional Era

512

(42)

Art and the World: Utamaro Woodblock Print

540

(14)

European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict

554

(26)

Art and the World: Rachel Ruysch, ``Flower Still Life'': Flowers, Commerce, and Morality

558

(22)

European Society Under the Old Regime

580

(24)

Art and the World: ``The Breakfast'' and ``The Return From Market'': Two Scenes of Domestic Life

590

(14)

The Last Great Islamic Empires (1500--1800)

604

(20)

Art and the World: Shah-Nameh, Book of Kings

618

(6)

Part V --- Enlightenment and Revolution in the West

624

(96)

The Age of European Enlightenment

628

(26)

Art and World: Joseph Wright, ``An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump'': Science in the Drawing Room

636

(18)

Revolutions in the Transatlantic World

654

(34)

Art and the World: Francisco Goya Memorializes a Night of Executions: ``The Third of May, 1808''

670

(18)

Political Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century Europe and North America 1814--1850

688

(32)

Art and the World: J.M.W. Turner, ``Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway''

698

(22)

Part VI --- Into the Modern World

720

(128)

Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society, 1815--1914

724

(34)

Art and the World: Georges Seurat and Giuseppe Pellizza Da Volpedo: European Society in Conflict

728

(30)

Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s

758

(26)

Art and the World: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

772

(12)

India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Encounter with, the Modern West (1800--1945)

784

(28)

Art and the World: The Temple Complex of Khajuraho

792

(18)

Religions of the World: Islam

810

(2)

Modern East Asia

812

(36)

Art and the World: ``Scuttling Crab'' by Ch'i Pai-Shih

828

(20)

Part VII --- Global Conflict and Change

848

(4)

Imperialism and World War I

852

(18)

Art and the World: John Singer Sargent, ``Gassed'': The Horrors of Modern War

870

(10)

Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal

880

(13)

Art and the World: Rene Magritte, ``The Human Condition'': Exploring Illusion and Reality

893

(13)

World War II

906

(5)

Art and the World: Picasso's Guernica

911

(25)

The West Since World War II

936

(10)

Art and the World: Architecture and Internationalism: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

946

(22)

East Asia: The Recent Decades

968

(10)

Art and the World: Munakata Shiko, Woodblock Print Artist

978

(18)

The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945

996

(18)

Art and the World: Modernity in Latin America

1014

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