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Heritage of World Civilizations, The: Combined Brief Edition

by: Craig, Albert M.; Graham, William A.; Kagan, Donald M.; Ozment, Steven; Turner, Frank M.

Heritage of World Civilizations, The: Combined Brief Edition

by: Craig, Albert M.; Graham, William A.; Kagan, Donald M.; Ozment, Steven; Turner, Frank M.

ISBN 13:
9780130340658
ISBN 10:
0130340650
Edition: CD
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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For courses in World History I (to 1500) and World History II (since 1500). Brief yet detailed, this text provides a thoughtful history of human civilizations while maintaining a balance between the Western world and the rest of global civilization. It covers the general intellectual and material history of human societies and cultures that have left some kind of written and/or archeological record behind. The combined edition is organized in a rough chronological order by cultural/ civilization and/or geographical areas.

PART I --- THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION

(28)

Birth of Civilization

(13)

The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion

(14)

PART II --- EMPIRES AND CULTURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

(70)

Greek and Hellenistic Civilization

(19)

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

(10)

Republican and Imperial Rome

(18)

Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.

(11)

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

(9)

PART III --- CONSOLIDATION AND INTERACTION OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS

(110)

Imperial China (589-1368)

102

(12)

Japan: Early History to 1467

114

(13)

Iran and India Before Islam

127

(8)

The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622-945)

135

(11)

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

146

(14)

The High Middle Ages (1000-1300)

160

(21)

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

181

(13)

Ancient Civilizations of the Americas

194

(15)

PART IV --- THE WORLD IN TRANSITION

209

(118)

The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the West (1300-1527)

212

(13)

The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars

225

(21)

Africa (ca. 1000-1800)

246

(14)

Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transtlantic Economy

260

(13)

East Asia in the Late Traditional Era

273

(18)

European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict

291

(14)

European Society Under the Old Regime

305

(12)

The Last Great Islamic Empires (1500-1800)

317

(10)

PART V --- ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION IN THE WEST

327

(40)

The Age of European Enlightenment

330

(10)

Revolutions in the Transatlantic World

340

(15)

Europe, 1815-1850: Political Reform, Economic Advance, and Social Unrest

355

(12)

PART VI --- INTO THE MODERN WORLD

367

(82)

Political Consolidation in Europe and North America

370

(12)

The Building of Northern Transatlantic Supermacy: Society and Politics to World War I

382

(15)

The Birth of Contemporary Western Thought

397

(11)

Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s

408

(12)

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

420

(12)

Modern East Asia

432

(17)

PART VII --- GLOBAL CONFLICT AND CHANGE

449

(3)

Imperialism and World War I

452

(13)

Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal

465

(13)

World War II

478

(12)

The West Since World War II

490

(14)

East Asia in the Late Twentieth Century

504

(10)

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

514

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