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World History, Comprehensive Edition (with InfoTrac)

ISBN: 9780534571689 | 0534571689
Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 7/19/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
This comprehensive introduction to world civilizations covers individual civilizations such as China, India, and Europe, and provides points of comparison between and among these civilizations. It provides breadth and accessibility and contains a wealth of primary source documents, beautiful 4-color maps, and many useful supplements.
Document Creditsxix
Chronologiesxx
Maps
xxi
Prefacexxiii
Acknowledgmentsxxviii
... MORExxx
Themes for Understanding World Historyxxxi
Part I The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory to 500 C.E.)1(165)
The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and Egypt
2(36)
Ancient India
38(26)
China in Antiquity
64(30)
The Civilization of the Greeks
94(34)
The World of the Romans
128(38)
Part II New Patterns of Civilization166(230)
The New World
168(24)
The World of Islam
192(24)
Early Civilizations in Africa
216(24)
The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia
240(26)
From the Tang to the Mongols: The Flowering of Traditional China
266(28)
The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
294(24)
The Making of Europe and the World of the Byzantine Empire, 500--1300
318(38)
Crisis and Rebirth: Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
356(40)
Part III The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500--1800)396(190)
New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
398(28)
Religious Reform and State Building in Europe
426(34)
The Muslim Empires
460(28)
The East Asian World
488(28)
Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West
516(28)
Europe on the Eve of a New World Order
544(42)
Part IV Modern Patterns of World History (1800--1945)586(226)
The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism, 1800--1870
588(38)
The Emergence of Mass Society in the Western World
626(36)
The High Tide of Imperialism
662(28)
Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
690(26)
The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
716(30)
Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939
746(26)
The Crisis Deepens: World War II
772(40)
Part V Toward a Global Civilization? The World Since 1945812(193)
In the Grip of the Cold War: The Breakdown of the Yalta System
814(22)
Brave New World: Communism
836(38)
Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
874(36)
Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
910(32)
A House Divided: The Emergence of Independent States in South and Southeast Asia
942(30)
Toward the Pacific Century? Japan and the Little Tigers
972(33)
Glossary1005(9)
Pronunciation Guide1014(5)
Credits1019(14)
Index1033

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