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9781439084779

The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Volume B

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  • ISBN13:

    9781439084779

  • ISBN10:

    1439084777

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-01-01
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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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

Growth And Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E.-1200 C.E.
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 West, 1200-1500
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
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