Heritage of World Civilizations : Combined Volume

by Craig, Albert M.; Graham, William A.; Kagan, Donald M.; Ozment, Steven; Turner, Frank M.

• ISBN13: 9780130987969
• ISBN10: 0130987964
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, Heritage of World Civilizations, 6/e, combines unusually strong and thorough coverage of the unique heritage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilizations, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions.

Table of Contents

Part I --- The Coming of Civilization
Birth of Civilization	2	(38)
Art and the World: A Monument to a King's Triumph: The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin	8	(32)
The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion	40	(32)
Art and the World: Chou Dynasty Bronze Bell	48	(22)
Religions of the World: Judaism	70	(2)
Part II --- Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World	72	(148)
Greek and Hellenistic Civilization	76	(40)
Art and the World: Victory and Nobility in Bronze: ``The Charioteer of Delphi''	86	(30)
Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 C.E.	116	(22)
Art and the World: The Oxus Treasure	122	(14)
Religions of the World: Hinduism	136	(2)
Republican and Imperial Rome	138	(38)
Art and the World: Portrait of a Young Woman From Pompeii	162	(14)
Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.	176	(26)
Art and the World: Nok Sculpture	186	(16)
China's First Empire (221 B.C.E.--220 C.E.)	202	(18)
Art and the World: The Terra Cotta Soldiers of the Ch'in Dynasty	206	(14)
Part III --- Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilizations	220	(196)
Imperial China (589--1368)	224	(28)
Art and the World: Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight	243	(9)
Japan: Early History to 1467	252	(30)
Art and the World: The Seasons	274	(6)
Religions of the World: Buddhism	280	(2)
Iran and India before Islam	282	(14)
Art and the World: The Ajanta Caves	289	(7)
The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622--945)	296	(18)
Art and the World: The Art of the Qur'an	306	(8)
The Early Middle Ages in the West to 1000: The Birth of Europe	314	(22)
And The World: Hagia Sophia: A Temple Surpassing That of Solomon	318	(18)
The Islamic Heartlands and India (ca. 1000--1500)	336	(22)
Art and the World: The Alhambra	344	(14)
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas	358	(26)
Art and the World: Mesoamerican Art	376	(8)
Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance	384	(32)
Art and the World: Images of Death in the Late Middle Ages	402	(14)
Part IV --- The World in Transition	416	(208)
The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars	420	(40)
And the World: Warring Architectural Styles: Baroque Versus Plain Churches	448	(10)
Religions of the World: Christianity	458	(2)
Africa (ca. 1000--1800)	460	(24)
Art and the World: Benin and Ife ``Bronzes''	472	(12)
Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy	484	(28)
Art and the World: A Dramatic Moment in the Transatlantic World: Copley's ``Watson and the Shark''	502	(10)
East Asia in the Late Traditional Era	512	(42)
Art and the World: Utamaro Woodblock Print	540	(14)
European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict	554	(26)
Art and the World: Rachel Ruysch, ``Flower Still Life'': Flowers, Commerce, and Morality	558	(22)
European Society Under the Old Regime	580	(24)
Art and the World: ``The Breakfast'' and ``The Return From Market'': Two Scenes of Domestic Life	590	(14)
The Last Great Islamic Empires (1500--1800)	604	(20)
Art and the World: Shah-Nameh, Book of Kings	618	(6)
Part V --- Enlightenment and Revolution in the West	624	(96)
The Age of European Enlightenment	628	(26)
Art and World: Joseph Wright, ``An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump'': Science in the Drawing Room	636	(18)
Revolutions in the Transatlantic World	654	(34)
Art and the World: Francisco Goya Memorializes a Night of Executions: ``The Third of May, 1808''	670	(18)
Political Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century Europe and North America 1814--1850	688	(32)
Art and the World: J.M.W. Turner, ``Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway''	698	(22)
Part VI --- Into the Modern World	720	(128)
Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society, 1815--1914	724	(34)
Art and the World: Georges Seurat and Giuseppe Pellizza Da Volpedo: European Society in Conflict	728	(30)
Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s	758	(26)
Art and the World: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo	772	(12)
India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Encounter with, the Modern West (1800--1945)	784	(28)
Art and the World: The Temple Complex of Khajuraho	792	(18)
Religions of the World: Islam	810	(2)
Modern East Asia	812	(36)
Art and the World: ``Scuttling Crab'' by Ch'i Pai-Shih	828	(20)
Part VII --- Global Conflict and Change	848	(4)
Imperialism and World War I	852	(18)
Art and the World: John Singer Sargent, ``Gassed'': The Horrors of Modern War	870	(10)
Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal	880	(13)
Art and the World: Rene Magritte, ``The Human Condition'': Exploring Illusion and Reality	893	(13)
World War II	906	(5)
Art and the World: Picasso's Guernica	911	(25)
The West Since World War II	936	(10)
Art and the World: Architecture and Internationalism: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain	946	(22)
East Asia: The Recent Decades	968	(10)
Art and the World: Munakata Shiko, Woodblock Print Artist	978	(18)
The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945	996	(18)
Art and the World: Modernity in Latin America	1014