Civilization Past & Present, Volume B (from 500 to 1815)

by Brummett, Palmira J.; Edgar, Robert R.; Hackett, Neil J.; Jewsbury, George F.; Molony, Barbara S.

• ISBN13: 9780321317766
• ISBN10: 0321317769
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The authors of the Eleventh Edition ofCivilization Past and Presentspecialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European historyweave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students.Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative traces connections across cultures and introduces intriguing avenues of historical interpretation. The text examines all aspects of world historysocial, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

Table of Contents

Documents	xiv
Maps	xiv
Global Issues	xv
Discovery Through Maps	xv
Chapter Opening Image Descriptions	xv
To the Instructor	xvii
To the Student	xxviii
The European Middle Ages, 476--1348 C.E.	256	(30)
The Church in the Early Middle Ages	258	(2)
The Merovingians and Carolingians	260	(6)
Feudalism and Manorialism	266	(5)
The Revival of Trade and Towns	271	(1)
The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000--1348	272	(3)
The Crusades	275	(3)
The Development of European States: 1000--1348	278	(8)
Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220--1350	286	(36)
India in the Classical and Medieval Eras	288	(6)
China: Cultural and Political Empires	294	(16)
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One	310	(2)
The Emergence of Japan in East Asia	312	(10)
The Americas to 1492	322	(24)
Origins of Americans and Their Cultures	324	(1)
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica	325	(2)
Classical Mayan Civilization	327	(2)
The Postclassical Era	329	(7)
The Amerindians of North America	336	(10)
Global Issues Location and Identity	344	(2)
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300--1650	346	(24)
New Polities in Eurasia	348	(1)
The Ottoman Empire	349	(8)
The Safavid Empire in Persia	357	(4)
The Mughal Empire in South Asia	361	(6)
Networks of Trade and Communication	367	(3)
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300--1650	370	(26)
China: The Ming Dynasty	373	(8)
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society	381	(3)
Japan: The Era of Shoguns and Warring States	384	(7)
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region	391	(5)
European Cultural and Religious Transformations: The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300--1600	396	(36)
Social Upheaval	398	(1)
The Italian Renaissance	399	(5)
Italian Renaissance Art	404	(4)
The Northern Renaissance	408	(5)
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300--1517	413	(3)
Luther and the German Reformation	416	(3)
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation	419	(2)
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland: Zwingli and Calvin	421	(5)
Reform in the Catholic Church	426	(6)
The Development of the European State System, 1300--1650	432	(30)
Politics in an Age of Crisis: 1300--1500	434	(8)
The Religious-Political Fusion	442	(1)
Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs' Quest for European Hegemony, 1556--1598	443	(7)
Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion	450	(3)
The Austrian Habsburgs' Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years' War	453	(9)
Global Issues Technological Exchange	460	(2)
Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400--1650	462	(28)
The Iberian Golden Age	464	(5)
The Portuguese and Africa	469	(5)
The Growth of New Spain	474	(3)
Iberian Systems in the New World	477	(5)
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion	482	(8)
Politics in the First Age of Capitalism, 1648--1774: Absolutism and Limited Central Power	490	(36)
Capitalism and the Forces of Change	492	(4)
Social Crises during the Capitalist Revolution	496	(6)
Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism	502	(5)
The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism	507	(5)
Holland and England: Limited Central Power	512	(4)
Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War in the Age of Absolutism: 1650--1774	516	(4)
Economic Challenges	520	(2)
Louis XV and the Decline of European Absolutism: 1715--1774	522	(4)
New Ideas and Their Political Consequences: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions	526	(34)
Revolution in Science: The Laws of Nature	528	(4)
The Sciences of Society: The ``Age of Reason''	532	(7)
The Failure of Monarchical Reform	539	(2)
The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789--1799	541	(11)
The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799--1815	552	(8)
Africa, 1650--1850	560	(26)
The Atlantic Slave Trade	562	(6)
End of the Slave Trade in West Africa	568	(1)
Islamic Africa	569	(2)
Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa	571	(7)
African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa	578	(8)
Global Issues Slavery	584	(2)
Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650--1815	586
The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era	588	(5)
Muslim Politics in Persia	593	(1)
Early Modern India under the Mughals	594	(4)
The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War	598	(6)
Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	604	(1)
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period	605	(8)
Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions	613	(2)
Europeans on New Pacific Frontiers	615
Credits	1	(1)
Notes	1	(1)
Index	1