World Vol. II : Since 1300: A Brief World History
ISBN: 9780136009238 | 0136009239
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 11/2/2007
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The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History the new brief version of The World: A History adapted by author Felipe Fernāndez-Armesto himself. The use of The World: A Brief History offers added flexibility in teaching World History, allowing instructors to supplement the text with additional readers or other material of their choice. And because the brief text was written by Fernāndez-Armesto himself, it continues to offer the holistic, narrative approach to history that h... MORE
| The Crucible: The Eurasian Crises of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries | |
| The World the Mongols Made | |
| The Mongols: Reshaping Eurasia | |
| The Mongol Steppe | |
| The Mongol World beyond the Steppes: The Silk Roads, China, Persia and Russia | |
| China | |
| Persia | |
| Russia | |
| The Limits of Conquest: Mamluk Egypt and Muslim India | |
| Muslim India: The Dehli Sultanate | |
| Europe | |
| IN PERSPECTIVE: The Uniqueness of the Mongols | |
| The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century | |
| Climate Change | |
| The Coming of the Age of Plague | |
| The Course and Impact of Plague | |
| Moral and Social Effects | |
| The Limits of Disaster: Beyond the Plague Zone | |
| India | |
| Southeast Asia | |
| Japan | |
| Mali | |
| The Pacific: Societies of Isolation | |
| In Perspective: The Aftershock | |
| Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries | |
| Fragile Empires in Africa | |
| East Africa | |
| West Africa | |
| Ecological Imperialism in the Americas | |
| The Inca Empire | |
| The Aztec Empire | |
| New Eurasian Empires | |
| The Russian Empire | |
| The Ottoman Empire | |
| The Limitations of Chinese Imperialism | |
| The Beginnings of Oceanic Imperialism | |
| The European Outlook: Problems and Promise | |
| In Perspective: Beyond Empires | |
| Convergence and Divergence to ca | p. 1700 |
| Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
| Maritime Empires: Portugal, Japan, and the Dutch | |
| The Portuguese Example | |
| Asian Examples | |
| The Dutch Connection | |
| Land Empires: Russia, China, Mughal India, and the Ottomans | |
| China | |
| The Mughal Example in India | |
| The Ottomans | |
| New Land Empires in the Americas | |
| Making the New Empires Work | |
| The Global Balance of Trade | |
| In Perspective: The Impact of the Americas | |
| The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
| The Ecological Exchange: Plants and Animals | |
| Maize, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes | |
| Weeds, Grasses, and Livestock | |
| Cane Sugar | |
| Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate | |
| Patterns of Ecological Exchange | |
| The Microbial Exchange | |
| Demographic Collapse in the New World | |
| Plague and New Diseases in Eurasia | |
| Labor: Human Transplantations | |
| Wild Frontiers: Encroaching Settlement | |
| Northern and Central Asia: The Waning of Steppeland Imperialism | |
| Pastoral Imperialism in Africa and the Americas | |
| Imperialism and Settlement in Europe and Asia | |
| China | |
| India | |
| New Exploitation in the Americas | |
| The Spanish Empire | |
| Brazil | |
| British North America | |
| Home Fronts in Europe and Asia | |
| New Energy Sources | |
| Land Reclamation | |
| Frontiers of the Hunt | |
| In Perspective: Evolution Redirected | |
| Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
| Christianity in Christendom | |
| Christianity beyond Christendom: The Limits of Success | |
| The Missionary Worlds of Islam and Buddhism | |
| China and Japan | |
| Islam | |
| The Resulting Mix: Global Religious Diversity-American and Indian Examples | |
| Black America | |
| White America | |
| India | |
| The Renaissance "Discovery of the World" | |
| The Rise of Western Science | |
| Western Science in the East | |
| In Perspective: The Scales of Thought | |
| States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
| Political Change in Europe | |
| Western Political Thought | |
| Western Society | |
| The Ottomans | |
| Mughal India and Safavid Persia | |
| Chinese Politics and Society | |
| Chinese Politics | |
| Chinese Society | |
| Tokugawa Japan | |
| The New World of the Americas | |
| Africa | |
| In Perspective: Centuries of Upheaval | |
| Global Enlightenments, 1700-1800 | |
| Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century | |
| Population Trends | |
| Urbanization | |
| Explanations | |
| Medicine | |
| The Ecology of Disease | |
| Economic Trends: China, India, and the Ottoman Empire | |
| China | |
| India | |
| The Ottoman Empire and Its Environs | |
| The West's Productive Leap | |
| The Scientific Background | |
| The British Example | |
| The Expansion of Resources | |
| Global Gardening | |
| In Perspective: New Europes, New Departures | |
| The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and InterSection of Eighteenth-Century Empires | |
| Asian Imperialism in Arrest or Decline: China, Persia, and the Ottomans | |
| China | |
| The Asian Context | |
| Persia and the Ottoman Empire | |
| Imperial Reversal in India: Mughal Eclipse and British Rise To Power | |
| The Dutch East Indies | |
| The Black Atlantic: Africa, the Americas, and the Slave Trade | |
| Land Empires of the New World | |
| The Araucanos and the Sioux | |
| Portugal in Brazil | |
| Spanish America | |
| Creole Mentalities | |
| Toward Independence | |
| IN PERSPECTIVE: The Rims of Empires | |
| The Exchange of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought | |
| The Character of the Enlightenment | |
| The Enlightenment in Global Context | |
| The Chinese Example | |
| Japan | |
| India | |
| The Islamic World | |
| The Enlightenment's Effects in Asia | |
| The Enlightenment and China | |
| Western Science in Japan | |
| Korea and Southeast Asia | |
| The Ottomans | |
| The Enlightenment in Europe | |
| The Belief in Progress | |
| New Economic Thought | |
| Social Equality | |
| Anticlericalism | |
| The Crisis of the Enlightenment: Religion and Romanticism | |
| Religious Revival | |
| The Cult of Nature and Romanticism | |
| Rousseau and the General Will | |
| Pacific Discoveries | |
| Wild Children | |
| The Huron as Noble Savage | |
| The French Revolution and Napoleon | |
| Background to the Revolution | |
| Napoleon | |
| Revolutionary Radicalism | |
| In Perspective: The Afterglow of Enlightenment | |
| The Frustrations of Progress, 1800-1900 | |
| Replacing Muscle: the Energy Revolutions | |
| Global Demographics: the Word's Population Rises | |
| Food: Transition to Abundance | |
| Energy for Power: Militarization and Industrialization | |
| Militarization | |
| Industrialization | |
| Industrializing Europe | |
| Industry in the Americas | |
| JapanIndustrializes | |
| Chinaand Industrialization | |
| Indiaand Egypt | |
| In Perspective: Why the West? | |
| The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century | |
| The Industrialized Environment | |
| Palaces of Work: The Rise of Factories | |
| Critics of Industrialization: Gold from the Sewers | |
| Urbanization | |
| Beyond Industry: Agriculture And Mining | |
| Changing Labor Regimes | |
| Free Migrants | |
| Hunters and Pastoralists | |
| Elites Transformed | |
| In Perspective: Cultural Exchange-- Enhanced Pace, New Direction | |
| Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century World: The Westward Shift of Power and the Rise of Global Empires | |
| The Opium Wars | |
| The White Empires: Rise and Resistance | |
| Methods of Imperial Rule | |
| Business Imperialism | |
| Imperialism in the "New Europes" | |
| Empires Elsewhere: Japan, Russia, and the United States | |
| Rationales of Empire | |
| Doctrines of Superiority | |
| The Civilizing Missions | |
| In Perspective: The Reach of Empires | |
| The Changing State: Political Developments in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Nationalism | |
| Nationalism in Europe | |
| The Case of the Jews | |
| Nationalism beyond Europe | |
| Constitutionalism | |
| Centralization, Militarization, and Bureaucratization | |
| In and Around the Industrializing World | |
| Beyond the Industrializing World | |
| Religion and Politics | |
| New Forms of Political Radicalism | |
| Steps toward Democracy | |
| The Expansion of the Public Sphere | |
| Western Social Thought | |
| In Perspective: Global State-Building | |
| Chaos and Complexity: The World in the Twentieth Century | |
| The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World | |
| Western Science Ascendant | |
| China | |
| India | |
| The Wider World | |
| The Transformation of Western Science | |
| Physics | |
| Human Sciences | |
| Anthropology and Psychology | |
| Philosophy and Linguistics | |
| The Mirror of Science: Art | |
| The Turn of the World | |
| In Perspective: Science Challenging and Challenged | |
| World Order and Disorder: Global Politics in the Twentieth Century | |
| The World War Era, 1914-1945 | |
| The First World War | |
| Postwar Disillusionment | |
| The Shift to Ideological Conflicts | |
| The Second World War | |
| The Cold War Era, 1945-1991 | |
| Super-Power Confrontation | |
| Decolonization | |
| The New World Order | |
| The European Union | |
| In Perspective: The Anvil of War | |
| The Pursuit of Utopia: Civil Society in the Twentieth Century | |
| The Context of Atrocities | |
| The Encroaching State | |
| Unplanning Utopia: the Turn toward Individualism | |
| Counter-Colonization and Social Change | |
| Globalization and the World Economy | |
| Culture and Globalization | |
| Secularism and Religious Revival | |
| In Perspective: The Century of Paradox | |
| The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment | |
| Fuel Resources | |
| Food Output | |
| Urbanization | |
| The Crisis of Conservation | |
| The Unmanageable Environment: Climate and Disease | |
| In Perspective: The Environmental Dilemma | |
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