World History

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

• ISBN13: 9780495569015
• ISBN10: 0495569011
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-25
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Noted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel present a balanced, highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history is integrated into a chronological framework to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. This edition of WORLD HISTORY continues to take a global approach to world history, with an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout history. This approach helps students link events together in a broad comparative and global framework, thereby placing the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.

Table of Contents

To 1800 contains Chapters 1-18

Since 1500 contains Chapters 14-30

To 1500 contains Chapters 1-13

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

The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and North Africa

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

Crisis and Recovery: The Byzantine Empire and Cross-Cultural Encounters

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, 1800-1870

The Emergence of Mass Society in the Western World

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: Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

Toward a Global Civilization? The World Since 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

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