Civilization Past and Present, Concise Version, Single Volume Edition

by Brummett, Palmira; Edgar, Robert; Hackett, Neil J.; Jewsbury, George F.; Taylor, Alastair M.; Bailkey, Nels M.; Lewis, Clyde J.; Wallbank, T. Walter

• ISBN13: 9780321053022
• ISBN10: 0321053028
• Edition: CONCISE
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Civilization Past and Present, Concise Version, is a carefully honed version of the best-selling Civilization Past and Present, Ninth Edition. It treats the development and growth of civilization not as a unique European experience but as a global one through which all the great culture systems have interacted to produce the present-day world. This new text includes all the elements of history-social, economic, political, military, religious, aesthetic, legal, and technological-to illustrate that global interaction.MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in World History. ISBN This is a first edition text.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	vii
Documents	xi
Maps	xiii
Discovery Through Maps	xv
To the Instructor	xvii
To the Student	xxiii
Introduction
Perspective on Humanity	2	(3)
PART 1 The Ancient World	5	(110)
Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East	6	(28)
India and China to 300 C.E.	34	(26)
The Greek Achievement	60	(24)
Roman Civilization	84	(31)
PART 2 The Medieval World	115	(130)
Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325--1500	116	(18)
Medieval Europe, 500--1500	134	(29)
Islam	163	(19)
Africa to 1500	182	(22)
The Growth and Spread of Asian Culture, 300--1300	204	(22)
The Americas to 1500	226	(19)
PART 3 The Transition to Modern Times	245	(1)
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300--1650	246	(19)
The Pacific Rim, 1300--1600	265	(15)
The Renaissance, 1300--1600	280	(22)
The Christian Reformation and the Emergence of the Modern Political System, 1517--1648	302	(22)
Global Encounters: The New World Economy, 1300--1600	324
Credits	C-1
Index	I-1