The Essential World History

by Duiker, William J.; Spielvogel, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780495902270
• ISBN10: 0495902276
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-19
• Publisher: Cengage High School

Summary

THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, 6e presents a balanced picture of world history that pays respect to the richness and diversity of the tapestry of the human experience. Based on the Sixth Edition of Duiker and Spielvogel's comprehensive WORLD HISTORY, this critically and popularly acclaimed book balances a thorough global approach with attention to the unique character and development of civilization in divergent parts of the world. The text covers individual civilizations such as China, India, and Europe, with due attention paid to the rise of the West, and provides points of comparison between and among these civilizations.

Table of Contents

The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory to 500 C.E.)

The First Civilizations: the Peoples of Western Asia and Egypt

Ancient India

China in Antiquity

The Civilization of the Greeks

The First World Civilization: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road

New Patterns of Civilization (500-1500 C.E.)

The Americas

Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Early Civilizations in Africa

The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia

The Flowering of Traditional China

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

The Making of Europe

The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500-1800)

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

Modern Patterns of World History (1800-1945)

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. from 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

Toward a Global Civilization? the Worl Science 1945

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century? Epilogue: a Global Civilization

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