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World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume II - 1450 To Present (Chapters 21-40)
ISBN: 9780321182814 | 0321182812
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004
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The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global historysince the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text discusses both the developments of the world's leading civilizations and also emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies. Presenting social and cultural as well as political and economic ... MORE
| Each chapter begins with an introduction | |
| The World Shrinks, 1450-1750 | |
| The World Economy | |
| The West's First Outreach: Maritime Power | |
| In Depth: Causation and the West's Expansion | |
| Toward the World Economy | |
| Visualizing the Past: West Indian Slaveholding | |
| Colonial Expansion | |
| Document: Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives | ... MORE |
| Global Connections: The Impact of a New World Order | |
| The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750 | |
| The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce | |
| Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change | |
| Visualizing the Past: Versailles | |
| In Depth: Elites and Masses | |
| The West by 1750 Document: Controversies About Women | |
| Global Connections: Europe and the World | |
| The Rise of Russia | |
| Russia's Expansionist Politics | |
| Under the Tsars | |
| Russia's First Westernization, 1690-1790 | |
| Document: The Nature of Westernization | |
| Themes in Early Modern Russian History | |
| Visualizing the Past: Oppressed Peasants | |
| In Depth: Multinational Empires | |
| Global Connections: Russia and the World | |
| Early Latin America | |
| Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest to Conquest | |
| Document: A Vision from the Vanquished | |
| The Destruction and Transformation of Indian Societies | |
| In Depth: The Great Exchange | |
| Colonial Economies and Governments | |
| Brazil: The First Plantation Colony | |
| Multiracial Societies | |
| Visualizing the Past: Race or Culture? A Changing Society | |
| The 18th-Century Reforms | |
| Global Connections: Latin America and the World | |
| Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| The Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade | |
| Visualizing the Past: Symbols of African Kinship | |
| White Settlers and Africans in Southern Africa | |
| In Depth: Slavery and Human Society | |
| The African Diaspora | |
| Document: An African's Description of the Middle Passage | |
| Global Connections: Africa and the World | |
| The Muslim Empires | |
| The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors to Empire Builders | |
| The Shi'ite Challenge of the Safavids | |
| Document: An Islamic Traveler Laments the Muslims' Indifference to Europe | |
| In Depth: The Gunpowder Empires and the Shifting Balance of Global Power | |
| The Mughals and the Apex of Muslim Civilization in India Visualizing the Past: The Basis of Imperial Power in the Rival Muslim Empires | |
| Global Connections: The Muslim Empires and the World | |
| Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change | |
| The Asian Trading World and the Coming of the Europeans | |
| Visualizing the Past: Intruders: The Pattern of Early European Expansion in Asia | |
| Ming China: A Global Mission Refused | |
| Document: Exam Questions as a Mirror of Chinese Values | |
| In Depth: Means and Motives for Overseas Expansion: Europe and China Compared | |
| Fending Off the West: Japan's Reunification and the First Challenge | |
| Global Connections: Asia and the World | |
| Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750-1914 | |
| The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914 | |
| Diplomacy and Society | |
| Forces of Change | |
| Visualizing the Past: The French Revolution in Cartoon | |
| The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914 | |
| Document: Women in the Industrial Revolution | |
| Cultural Transformations | |
| Western Settler Societies | |
| In Depth: The United States in World History | |
| Diplomatic Tensions and World War I | |
| Global Connections: Industrial Europe and the World | |
| Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order | |
| The Shift to Land Empires in Asia In Depth: Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class | |
| Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, 1870-1914 | |
| Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change | |
| Visualizing the Past: Capitalism and Colonialism | |
| Document: Contrary Images: The Colonizer Versus the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission." Global Connections | |
| The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920 | |
| From Colonies to Nations | |
| New Nations Confront Old and New Problems | |
| Document: Confronting the Hispanic Heritage: From Independence to Consolidation | |
| Latin American Economies and World Markets, 1820-1870 | |
| Societies | |
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