World Civilizations

by Ralph, Phillip Lee; Lerner, Robert E.; Meachem, Standish; Wood, Alan T.; Hull, Richard W.; Burns, Edward McNall

• ISBN13: 9780393968811
• ISBN10: 0393968812
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The new Ninth Edition maintains the qualities that have made it a success, while incorporating new material that enriches the text's global coverage and comparative approach.#xA0; The text also boasts an elegant new design that features full-color illustrations and maps throughout. World Civilizations offers one of the premier learning resources with its new Homepage.#xA0; Students and faculty can access a vast array of electronic sources on the World Wide Web.#xA0; Thomas Pearcy offers students a media-laden review pedagogy, integrated with an investigative method that opens the textbook onto the Web. A good map is essential when traveling the World Wide Web.

Table of Contents

LIST OF MAPS	X	(1)
PREFACE	XI
CHAPTER 21 INDIA, EAST ASIA, AND AFRICA DURING THE EARLY-MODERN ERA (c. 1500-1800)	1	(56)
India under the Mughal Dynasty	2	(11)
China under the Early Manchu (Qing) Dynasty	13	(12)
Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate	25	(10)
Africa under Divine Rulers and Ritual Chiefs	35	(22)
CHAPTER 22 THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY OF EARLY-MODERN EUROPE	57	(46)
Life and Death: Patterns of Population	58	(4)
The Dynamics of Agriculture and Industry	62	(10)
The Commercial Revolution	72	(7)
Colonization and Overseas Trade	79	(8)
Life within a Society of Orders	87	(16)
CHAPTER 23 THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM (1660-1789)	103	(42)
The Appeal and Justification of Absolutism	104	(3)
The Absolutism of Louis XIV	107	(4)
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1660-1720	111	(7)
The English Exception	118	(4)
Warfare and Diplomacy: The Emergence of a State System	122	(6)
Enlightened Absolutism and Limited Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century	128	(10)
War and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century	138	(7)
CHAPTER 24 THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT	145	(44)
The Scientific Revolution	146	(4)
The Foundations of the Enlightenment	150	(3)
The World of the Philosophes	153	(9)
The Onward March of Science	162	(3)
Classicism and Innovation in Art and Literature	165	(11)
Baroque and Classical Music	176	(13)
PART FIVE THE FRENCH AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES	189	(190)
CHAPTER 25 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION	189	(44)
The Coming of the Revolution	190	(6)
The Destruction of the Ancien Regime	196	(6)
A New Stage: Popular Revolution	202	(14)
Napoleon and Europe	216	(11)
The Vienna Settlement	227	(6)
CHAPTER 26 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION	233	(24)
The Industrial Revolution in England	234	(8)
The Industrial Revolution on the Continent	242	(5)
The Coming of Railways	247	(5)
Industrialization after 1850	252	(5)
CHAPTER 27 CONSEQUENCES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: URBANIZATION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS (1800-1850)	257	(34)
People on the Land	258	(4)
Urbanization and the Standard of Living	262	(3)
The Life of the Urban Middle Class	265	(7)
The Life of the Urban Working Class	272	(7)
The Middle-Class Worldview	279	(5)
Early Critics of the Middle-Class Worldview	284	(7)
CHAPTER 28 THE RISE OF LIBERALISM (1815-1870)	291	(26)
Conservative Reaction, 1815-1830	291	(2)
Liberal Gains in Western Europe, 1815-1832	293	(7)
Liberalism in France and Britain, 1830-1848	300	(7)
The Revolution of 1848 in France	307	(4)
Liberalism in France and Britain after 1850	311	(6)
CHAPTER 29 NATIONALISM AND NATION-BUILDING (1815-1870)	317	(62)
Romanticism and Nationalism	318	(9)
Nationalism and Nation-Building in Europe, 1800-1848	327	(4)
Nationalism, Liberalism, and Revolution, 1848	331	(5)
Nation-Building in Europe, 1850-1870	336	(10)
Dominion Nationality: The Experience of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand	346	(7)
Revolution and Nation-Building in Latin America	353	(26)
PART SIX THE WEST AT THE WORLD'S CENTER	379	(262)
CHAPTER 30 INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIALIZATION AND IMPERIALISM (1870-1914)	379	(38)
New Technologies	380	(4)
Changes in Scope and Scale	384	(7)
The New Capitalism	391	(3)
International Competition: Imperialism	394	(10)
India under Company and Crown	404	(13)
CHAPTER 31 THE MODEL CLASS CHALLENGED	417	(34)
The Challenge of Socialism	417	(9)
The Challenge of Science and Philosophy	426	(7)
The Challenge of Literature and the Arts	433	(18)
CHAPTER 32 A DELICATE EQUILIBRIUM (1870-1914)	451	(36)
Germany: The Search for Imperial Unity	452	(4)
France: The Embattled Third Republic	456	(5)
Britain: From Moderation to Militance	461	(4)
Russia: The Road to Revolution	465	(8)
The Search for Equilibrium Elsewhere in the West	473	(5)
International Rivalries: The Road to the First World War	478	(9)
CHAPTER 33 CHINA, JAPAN, AND AFRICA UNDER THE IMPACT OF THE WEST (1800-1914)	487	(52)
Imperialism and Revolution in China	487	(20)
The Transformation of Japan into a Modern State	507	(14)
Africa during the Century of European Imperialist Expansion	521	(18)
CHAPTER 34 THE FIRST WORLD WAR	539	(30)
Prelude to War	539	(5)
The Ordeal of Battle	544	(5)
Revolution in the Midst of War	549	(5)
Armistice and Peace	554	(15)
CHAPTER 35 TURMOIL BETWEEN THE WARS	569	(42)
The Soviet Experience and the Rise of Stalin	570	(9)
The Emergence of Fascism in Italy	579	(4)
The Rise of Nazi Germany	583	(8)
The Democracies between the Wars	591	(4)
Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Interwar Years	595	(16)
CHAPTER 36 THE SECOND WORLD WAR	611	(30)
The Causes of the War	611	(6)
The Outbreak of Hostilities	617	(8)
The Peace Settlement	625	(16)
PART SEVEN THE EMERGENCE OF WORLD CIVILIZATION	641	(256)
CHAPTER 37 THE POSTWAR YEARS: RIVALRY AND RECOVERY	641	(40)
A Divided Continent	642	(8)
Cold-War Conflict in the Third World	650	(5)
Economic Renaissance	655	(6)
The Politics of European Recovery	661	(3)
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand: The Search for National Identity	664	(5)
Patterns of Social Change	669	(3)
Intellectual and Cultural Patterns	672	(9)
CHAPTER 38 FRAGMENTATION AND CHANGE: THE END OF POSTWAR CERTAINTIES IN EUROPE	681	(22)
Protest and Stagnation: The Price of Stability	681	(12)
Europe Recast: The Collapse of Communism and the End of the Soviet Union	693	(10)
CHAPTER 39 THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA	703	(62)
The Middle East	703	(31)
South Africa: The Eras of Segregation and Apartheid	734	(11)
The Upsurge of Africa	745	(4)
Independent Africa in Transition	749	(16)
CHAPTER 40 INDEPENDENCE IN SOUTH ASIA	765	(28)
Toward Independence in India	765	(10)
Independent India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh	775	(18)
CHAPTER 41 ERUPTION IN EAST ASIA	793	(54)
Nationalism and Communism in China	794	(30)
The Climax of Imperialism and the Beginning of a New Era in Japan	824	(23)
CHAPTER 42 PROGRESS, POVERTY, AND REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA	847	(38)
Twentieth-Century Progress and Poverty in Mexico and South America	847	(24)
Crisis and Revolution	871	(14)
CHAPTER 43 EPILOGUE: PROBLEMS OF WORLD CIVILIZATION	885	(12)
The Problems of Ecology and Population	885	(4)
The Achievement and Limitations of Science and Technology	889	(8)
RULERS OF PRINCIPAL STATES	897
INDEX	A1