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The primary goal of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Third Edition is to present a truly global history--one that both discusses the development of the world's leading civilizations and also emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies. The book examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts--for example, the nomadic societies of Asia, Latin America, and the nations and states of the Pacific Rim. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in all the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of international contact. MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in World History.

Detailed Contents

vii

List of Maps

xvii

Preface

xix

Supplements

xxv

Prologue

xxvii

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(72)

The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization

(20)

The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa

(22)

Asia's First Civilizations: India and China

(24)

Part 2 The Classical Period in World History

(194)

Nomadic Challenges and Sedentary Responses

(20)

Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China

100

(24)

Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World

124

(26)

Rome and Its Empire

150

(20)

Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age

170

(26)

The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas

196

(26)

The Spread of Peoples and Civilizations

222

(28)

The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200--700 C.E.

250

(18)

Part 3 The Postclassical Era

268

(246)

The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam

276

(28)

Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia

304

(26)

African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam

330

(22)

Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

352

(20)

A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe

372

(26)

The Americas on the Eve of Invasion

398

(24)

Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties

422

(26)

The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam

448

(26)

The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur

474

(24)

The West and the Changing World Balance

498

(16)

Part 4 The World Shrinks, 1450--1750

514

(176)

The Transformation of the West, 1450--1750

522

(20)

The West and the World

542

(22)

The Rise of Russia

564

(16)

Early Latin America

580

(28)

The Muslim Empires

608

(28)

Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade

636

(26)

Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change

662

(28)

Part 5 Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750--1914

690

(138)

The Industrialization of the West, 1760--1914

696

(30)

Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order

726

(1)

The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830--1920

726

(28)

Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, The Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China

754

(52)

Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

806

(22)

Part 6 The 20th Century in World History

828

(218)

International Contacts and Conflicts, 1914--1999

836

(30)

The West in the 20th Century

866

(22)

Russia and Eastern Europe

888

(24)

Japan and the Pacific Rim

912

(20)

Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century

932

(28)

Decolonization and the Decline of the European World Order

960

(30)

Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence

990

(28)

War and Revolution in China and Vietnam

1018

(28)

A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects

1046

Glossary

G-2

Credits

C-2

Index

I-1

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