The Earth and Its Peoples

by Bulliet, Richard; Crossley, Pamela; Headrick, Daniel; Hirsch, Steven; Johnson, Lyman

• ISBN13: 9780538744386
• ISBN10: 0538744383
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global book for the world history survey course employs a fundamental theme--the interaction of human beings and the environment--to compare different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. Highly acclaimed in their fields of study, the authors bring a wide array of expertise to the program. A combination of strong scholarship and detailed pedagogy gives the book its reputation for rigor and user accessibility. The Fifth Edition features new pedagogy and a beautiful new design.

Table of Contents

NOTE: Each chapter contains a conclusion, key terms, website resources, a suggested reading listand notes

The Emergence of Human Communities, tO 500 B.C.E.

Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 B.C.E.

African Genesis

Technology and Culture in the Ice Age

The Agricultural Revolutions

Life in Neolithic Communities

Diversity and Dominance: Cave Art

Environment and Technology: The Iceman

The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 B.C.E.

Mesopotamia

Egypt

The Indus Valley Civilization

Diversity and Dominance: Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year's Festival

Environment and Technology: Environmental Stress in the Indus Valley

New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250 B.C.E.

Early China, 2000-221 B.C.E.

Nubia, 3100 B.C.E.-350 C.E.

Celtic Europe, 1000-50 B.C.E.

First Civilizations of the Americas: The Olmec and Chav?n, 1200-250 B.C.E.

Environment and Technology: Divination in Ancient Societies

Diversity and Dominance: Human Nature and Good Government in the Analects of Confucius and the Legalist Writings of Han Fei

The Mediterranean and Middle East2000-500 B.C.E.

The Cosmopolitan Middle East1700-1100 B.C.E.

The Aegean World, 2000-1100 B.C.E.

The Assyrian Empire, 911-612 B.C.E.

Israel, 2000-500 B.C.E.

Phoenicia and the Mediterranean, 1200-500 B.C.E.

Failure and Transformation, 750-550 B.C.E.

Diversity and Dominance: Protests Against the Ruling Class in Israel and Babylonia

Environment and Technology: Ancient Textiles and Dyes

Issues In World History: Animal Domestication

The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E.

Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.

Ancient Iran, 1000-500 B.C.E.

The Rise of the Greeks, 1000-500 B.C.E.

The Struggle of Persia and Greece, 546-323 B.C.E.

The Hellenistic Synthesis, 323-30 B.C.E.

Diversity and Dominance: Persian and Greek Perceptions of Kingship

Material Culture: Wine and Beer in the Ancient World

Environment and Technology: Ancient Astronomy

An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E.

Rome's Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E.

The Origins of Imperial China, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.

Diversity and Dominance: The Treatment of Slaves in Rome and China

Environment and Technology: Water Engineering in Rome and China

India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.-1025 C.E.

Foundations of Indian Civilization, 1500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.

Imperial Expansion and Collapse, 324 B.C.E.-650 C.E.

Southeast Asia, 50-1025 C.E.

Environment and Technology: Indian Mathematics

Diversity and Dominance: Relations Between Women and Men in the Kama Sutra and the Arthashastra

Issues in World History: Oral Societies and the Consequences of Literacy

Growth and Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E.-1200 C.E.

Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.-1100 C.E.

The Silk Road

The Indian Ocean Maritime System

Routes Across the Sahara

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Spread of Ideas

Diversity and Dominance: Travel Accounts of Africa and India

Environment and Technology: Camel Saddles

The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200-1200

The Sasanid Empire, 224-651

The Origins of Islam

The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 632-1258

Islamic Civilization

Diversity and Dominance: Secretaries, Turks, and Beggars

Environment and Technology: Chemistry

Material Culture: Head Coverings

Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 600-1200

The Byzantine Empire, 600-1200

Early Medieval Europe, 600-1000

The Western Church

Kievan Russia, 900-1200

Western Europe Revives, 1000-1200

The Crusades, 1095-1204

Environment and Technology: Iron Production

Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Christian Morality

Inner and East Asia, 400-1200

The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755

The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200

New Kingdoms in East Asia

Diversity and Dominance: Law and Society in China and Japan

Environment and Technology: Writing in East Asia, 400-1200

Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200-1500

Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200-900

The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica, 900-1500

Northern Peoples

Andean Civilizations, 200-1500

Diversity and Dominance: Burials as Historical Texts

Environment and Technology: Inca Roads

Issues in World History: Religious Conversion

Interregional Patterns Of Culture and Contact 1200-1550

Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500

The Rise of the Mongols, 1200-1260

The Mongols and Islam, 1260-1500

Regional Responses in Western Eurasia

Mongol Domination in China, 1271-1368

The Early Ming Empire, 1368-1500

Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 1200-1500

Diversity and Dominance: Observations of Mongol Life

Environment and Technology: From Gunpowder to Guns

Tropical Africa and Asia,1200-1500

Tropical Lands and Peoples

New Islamic Empires

Indian Ocean Trade

Social and Cultural Change

Diversity and Dominance: Personal Styles of Rule in India and Mali

Environment and Technology: The Indian Ocean Dhow

The Latin West1200-1500

Rural Growth and Crisis

Urban Revival

Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance

Political and Military Transformations

Diversity and Dominance: Persecution and Protection of Jews, 1272-1349

Environment and Technology: The Clock

The Maritime Revolution, to 1550

Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450

European Expansion, 1400-1550

Encounters with Europe, 1450-1550

Conclusion

Environment and Technology: Vasco da Gama's Fleet

Diversity and Dominance: Kongo's Christian King

Issues in World History: Climate and Population to 1500

The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1750

Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750

Culture and Ideas

Social and Economic Life

Political Innovations

Environment and Technology: Mapping the World

Diversity and Dominance: Political Craft and Craftiness

The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770

The Columbian Exchange

Spanish America and Brazil

English and French Colonies in North America

Colonial Expansion and Conflict

Environment and Technology: A Silver Refinery at Potos?, Bolivia, 1700

Diversity and Dominance: Race and Ethnicity in the Spanish Colonies: Negotiating Hierarchy

The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800

Plantations in the West Indies

Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century

Creating the Atlantic Economy

Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam

Environment and Technology: Amerindian Foods in Africa

Diversity and Dominance: Slavery in West Africa and the Americas

Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750

The Ottoman Empire, to 1750

The Safavid Empire, 1502-1722

The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761

The Maritime Worlds of Islam, 1500-1750

Diversity and Dominance: Islamic Law and Ottoman Rule

Environment and Technology: Tobacco and Waterpipes

Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800

Japanese Reunification

The Later Ming and Early Qing Empires

The Russian Empire

Environment and Technology: East Asian Porcelain

Diversity and Dominance: Gendered Violence: The Yangzhou Massacre

Issues in World History: The Little Ice Age

Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870

Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850 Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crisis

The American Revolution, 1775-1800

The French Revolution, 1789-1815

Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond, 1789-1850

Environment and Technology: The Guillotine

Diversity and Dominance: Robespierre and Wollstonecraft Defend and Explain the Terror

The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851

Causes of the Industrial Revolution

The Technological Revolution

The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution

New Economic and Political Ideas

Diversity and Dominance: Adam Smith and the Division of Labor

Environment and Technology: Gas Lighting

Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890

Independence in Latin America, 1800-1830

The Problem of Order, 1825-1890

The Challenge of Social and Economic Change

Diversity and Dominance: The Afro-Brazilian Experience, 1828

Environment and Technology: Constructing the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870

The Ottoman Empire

The Russian Empire

The Qing Empire

Environment and Technology: The Web of War

Diversity and Dominance: Chinese Responses to Imperialism

Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870

Changes and Exchanges in Africa

India Under British Rule

Britain's Eastern Empire

Diversity and Dominance: Ceremonials of Imperial Domination

Environment and Technology: Whaling

Issues in World History: State Power, the Census, and the Question of Identity

Global Diversity and Dominance, 1850-1945

The New Power Balance, 1850-1900

New Technologies and the World Economy

Social Changes

Socialism and Labor Movements

Nationalism and the Rise of Italy, Germany, and Japan

The Great Powers of Europe, 1871-1900

China, Japan, and the Western Powers

Environment and Technology: Railroads and Immigration

Diversity and Dominance: Marx and Engels on Global Trade and the Bourgeoisie

Material Culture: Cotton Clothing

The New Imperialism, 1869-1914

The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods

The Scramble for Africa

Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific

Imperialism in Latin America

The World Economy and the Global Environment

Diversity and Dominance: Two Africans Recall the Arrival of the Europeans

Environment and Technology: Imperialism and Tropical Ecology

The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929

Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East

The "Great War" and the Russian Revolutions, 1914-1918

Peace and Dislocation in Europe, 1919-1929

China and Japan: Contrasting Destinies

The New Middle East

Society, Culture, and Technology in the Industrialized World

Diversity and Dominance: The Middle East After World War

Environmentand Technology: The Birth of Civil Aviation

The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949

The Stalin Revolution

The Depression

The Rise of Fascism

East Asia, 1931-1945

The Second World War

The Character of Warfare

Diversity and Dominance: Women, Family Values, and the Russian Revolution

Environment and Technology: The Enigma Machine

Striving for Independence: India, Africa, and Latin America, 1900-1949

The Indian Independence Movement1905-1947

Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-1945

Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, 1900-1949

Environment and Technology: Gandhi and Technology

Diversity and Dominance: A Vietnamese Nationalist Denounces French Colonialism

Issues in World History: Famines and Politics

Perils and Promises of A Global Community, 1945 To The Present

The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975

The Cold War

Decolonization and Nation Building

Beyond a Bipolar World

Environment and Technology: The Green Revolution

Diversity and Dominance: Race and the Struggle for Justice in South Africa

The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975-2000

Postcolonial Crises and Asian Economic Expansion

The End of the Bipolar World

The Challenge of Population Growth

Unequal Development and the Movement of Peoples

Technological and Environmental Change

Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in an Era of Global Political and Economic Change

Environment and Technology: The Computer Gets Personal

Material Culture: Fast Food

New Challenges in a New Millennium

Globalization and Economic Crisis

The Question of Values

Global Culture

Diversity and Dominance: Conflict and Civilization

Environment and Technology: Global Warming

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