Civilization Past and Present, Single Volume Edition

by Brummett, Palmira J.; Edgar, Robert R.; Hackett, Neil J.; Jewsbury, George F.; Molony, Barbara S.

• ISBN13: 9780321236135
• ISBN10: 0321236130
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The authors of the Eleventh Edition ofCivilization Past and Presentspecialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European historyweave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students.Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative traces connections across cultures and introduces intriguing avenues of historical interpretation. The text examines all aspects of world historysocial, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

Table of Contents

Documents	xxiii
Maps	xxv
Global Issues	xxvii
Discovery Through Maps	xxvii
Chapter Opening Image Descriptions	xxix
To the Instructor	xxxiii
To the Student	xlvii
Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East	2	(36)
The Origins of Humankind	4	(1)
Preliterate Cultures	5	(2)
Preliterate Society and Religion	7	(3)
Mesopotamia: The First Civilization	10	(4)
The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000--1600 B.C.E.	14	(2)
Egypt: Gift of the Nile	16	(10)
Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600--550 B.C.E.	26	(7)
The Persian Empire, 550--331 B.C.E.	33	(5)
The Oldest Known Map: Catul Huyuk	8	(14)
``The Great Hymn to the Aton'' and Psalm 104	22	(13)
The Majesty of Darius the Great: A Persian Royal Inscription	35	(3)
Ancient China---Origins to Empire: Prehistory to 220 C.E.	38	(26)
The Origins of China, 6500--221 B.C.E.	40	(12)
The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.--220 C.E.	52	(12)
The Wisdom of Confucius	47	(4)
Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)	51	(9)
From The Book of Songs: ``A Simple Rustic You Seemed''	60	(4)
Ancient India: From Origins to 300 C.E.	64	(30)
Early India	66	(6)
Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600--320 B.C.E.	72	(7)
The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.--300 C.E.	79	(4)
Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.--300 C.E.	83	(6)
The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange	89	(5)
Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men	70	(4)
The Jains on the Souls in All Things	74	(13)
The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita	87	(7)
GLOBAL ISSUES: MIGRATION	94	(128)
Greece: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000--30 B.C.E.	96	(34)
Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.	98	(4)
The Rise of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150--500 B.C.E.	102	(6)
The Golden Age of Greece, 500--336 B.C.E.	108	(5)
The Greek Cultural Achievement	113	(7)
The Hellenistic Age, 336--30 B.C.E.	120	(4)
Hellenistic Society and Culture	124	(6)
Homer---The lliad: Andromache and Hector	103	(8)
Aristophanes on the Shortcomings of Athenian Democracy	111	(7)
The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.	118	(5)
Arrian: Alexander the Leader	123	(7)
Roman Civilization: The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.	130	(34)
Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900--509 B.C.E.	132	(2)
The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509--133 B.C.E.	134	(5)
The Late Republic: 133--30 B.C.E.	139	(5)
The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E. 176 C.E.	144	(6)
The Rise of Christianity	150	(8)
The Roman Legacy	158	(6)
Columella: Roman Farm Women	140	(2)
Plutarch---The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus	142	(22)
Byzantium and the Orthodox World: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325--1500	164	(30)
Byzantium: The Latin Phase: 325--610	166	(7)
The Age of Consolidation: 610--1071	173	(8)
Western and Turkish Invasions: 1071--1453	181	(3)
Southeastern Europe to 1500	184	(4)
Russia to 1500	188	(6)
The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies	169	(5)
A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic	174	(4)
Anna Comnena	178	(11)
The Acceptance of Christianity	189	(5)
Islam: From Its Origins to 1300	194	(28)
Arabia Before the Prophet	196	(2)
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam	198	(3)
Islamic Faith and Law	201	(5)
The Expansion of Community and State	206	(4)
The Abbasid Era, Zenith of Classical Islamic Civilization	210	(4)
Islamic Culture	214	(8)
The Qur'an	202	(7)
The Early Islamic Conquests	209	(7)
An Islamic Map of the World	216	(2)
Ibn Sina's Path to Wisdom	218	(4)
GLOBAL ISSUES: RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT	222	(122)
African Beginnings: African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.	224	(32)
The African Environment	226	(1)
African Cultural Patterns	226	(3)
Peopling of Africa	229	(2)
The Bantu Dispersion	231	(1)
Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa	232	(4)
Empires of the Western Sudan	236	(10)
West African Forest Kingdoms	246	(1)
Swahili City-States in East Africa	247	(5)
Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa	252	(4)
Emperor Zar'a Ya'kob's Coronation and His Concern for the Church	237	(4)
Ghana, as Described by Al-Bakri	241	(2)
Mansa Musa and the Catalan Atlas of 1375	243	(13)
The European Middle Ages, 476--1348 C.E.	256	(30)
The Church in the Early Middle Ages	258	(2)
The Merovingians and Carolingians	260	(6)
Feudalism and Manorialism	266	(5)
The Revival of Trade and Towns	271	(1)
The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000--1348	272	(3)
The Crusades	275	(3)
The Development of European States: 1000--1348	278	(8)
Charlemagne: A Firsthand Look	263	(14)
Muslim and Christian: Two Contemporary Perspectives	277	(9)
Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220--1350	286	(36)
India in the Classical and Medieval Eras	288	(6)
China: Cultural and Political Empires	294	(16)
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One	310	(2)
The Emergence of Japan in East Asia	312	(10)
Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India	290	(10)
Bo Juyi (772--846): ``The Song of Everlasting Sorrow''	300	(9)
Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi	309	(9)
Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book	318	(4)
The Americas to 1492	322	(22)
Origins of Americans and Their Cultures	324	(1)
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica	325	(2)
Classical Mayan Civilization	327	(2)
The Postclassical Era	329	(7)
The Amerindians of North America	336	(8)
Father Bernabe Cobo, ``Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca''	333	(11)
GLOBAL ISSUES: LOCATION AND IDENTITY	344	(116)
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300--1650	346	(24)
New Polities in Eurasia	348	(1)
The Ottoman Empire	349	(8)
The Safavid Empire in Persia	357	(4)
The Mughal Empire in South Asia	361	(6)
Networks of Trade and Communication	367	(3)
The World Map of Piri Reis	351	(4)
Evliya Celebi, ``An Ottoman Official's Wedding Night''	355	(3)
The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold	358	(8)
The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan	366	(4)
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 300--1650	370	(26)
China: The Ming Dynasty	373	(8)
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society	381	(3)
Japan: The Era of Shoguns and Warring States	384	(7)
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region	391	(5)
Map of China's Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.	375	(2)
A Censor Accuses a Eunuch	377	(10)
Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese No Play	387	(5)
A Traveller's Account of Siam	392	(4)
European Cultural and Religious Transformations: The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300--1600	396	(36)
Social Upheaval	398	(1)
The Italian Renaissance	399	(5)
Italian Renaissance Art	404	(4)
The Northern Renaissance	408	(5)
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300--1517	413	(3)
Luther and the German Reformation	416	(3)
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation	419	(2)
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland: Zwingli and Calvin	421	(5)
Reform in the Catholic Church	426	(6)
The Lagoon of Venice	401	(2)
Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy	403	(19)
Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr	422	(10)
The Development of the European State System, 1300--1650	432	(28)
Politics in an Age of Crisis: 1300--1500	434	(8)
The Religious-Political Fusion	442	(1)
Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs' Quest for European Hegemony, 1556--1598	443	(7)
Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion	450	(3)
The Austrian Habsburgs' Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years' War	453	(7)
The Trial of Joan of Arc	435	(1)
A Pilgrim's Map of Canterbury	436	(18)
Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years' War	454	(6)
GLOBAL ISSUES: TECHNOLOGICAL EXCHANGE	460	(124)
Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400--1650	462	(28)
The Iberian Golden Age	464	(5)
The Portuguese and Africa	469	(5)
The Growth of New Spain	474	(3)
Iberian Systems in the New World	477	(5)
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion	482	(8)
Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster's Map of Africa	471	(2)
Portuguese Encounters with Africans	473	(7)
Disease and the Spanish Conquest	480	(10)
Politics in the First Age of Capitalism, 1648--1774: Absolutism and Limited Central Power	490	(36)
Capitalism and the Forces of Change	492	(4)
Social Crises during the Capitalist Revolution	496	(6)
Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism	502	(5)
The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism	507	(5)
Holland and England: Limited Central Power	512	(4)
Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War in the Age of Absolutism: 1650--1774	516	(4)
Economic Challenges	520	(2)
Louis XV and the Decline of European Absolutism: 1715--1774	522	(4)
Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants	500	(4)
Louis XIV to His Son	504	(15)
The Elegant Destruction of Poland	519	(7)
New Ideas and Their Political Consequences: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions	526	(34)
Revolution in Science: The Laws of Nature	528	(4)
The Sciences of Society: The ``Age of Reason''	532	(7)
The Failure of Monarchical Reform	539	(2)
The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789--1799	541	(11)
The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799--1815	552	(8)
The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus	529	(1)
The Widening Scope of Scientific Discovery	530	(15)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	545	(1)
Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women	546	(14)
Africa, 1650--1850	560	(24)
The Atlantic Slave Trade	562	(6)
End of the Slave Trade in West Africa	568	(1)
Islamic Africa	569	(2)
Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa	571	(7)
African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa	578	(6)
A Slave's Memoir	565	(9)
``Song of the Afflicted''	574	(3)
The Myth of the Empty Land	577	(7)
GLOBAL ISSUES: SLAVERY	584	(164)
Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650--1815	586	(32)
The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era	588	(5)
Muslim Politics in Persia	593	(1)
Early Modern India under the Mughals	594	(4)
The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War	598	(6)
Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	604	(1)
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period	605	(8)
Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions	613	(2)
Europeans on New Pacific Frontiers	615	(3)
Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of ``Orient''	592	(11)
Lan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive People	603	(9)
Ihara Saikaku: ``The Umbrella Oracle''	612	(6)
The Americas, 1650--1825: From European Dominance to Independence	618	(24)
The Iberian Colonies: 1650--1789	620	(6)
The West Indies	626	(1)
Breaking Away: The Creation of the United States of America	627	(6)
Haiti: The First Successful Slave Revolution	633	(2)
The Latin American Revolutions	635	(7)
The Island of California	625	(8)
Letter from Abigail Adams	633	(5)
Simon Bolivar, Proclamation to the People of Venezuela	638	(4)
Industrialization: Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations	642	(30)
The Industrial Revolution: British Phase	644	(1)
The Industrial Revolution: Continental Phase	645	(4)
Industrialization and the Workers	649	(5)
The Middle Classes	654	(5)
Science, Technology, and the Second Industrial Revolution	659	(3)
Cultural Responses to the Age	662	(10)
Industrialization and Children	651	(5)
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861)	656	(16)
Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism	672	(34)
European Conquest of Africa	674	(4)
European Technology and the African Response to Conquest	678	(3)
The Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer War	681	(1)
Colonial Rule in Africa	682	(8)
The Ottoman Empire Refashioned	690	(11)
Persia and the Great Power Struggle	701	(5)
That Was No Brother	676	(21)
A Middle Eastern Vision of the West	697	(2)
Halide Edib: Education, Generation, and Class in the Late Ottoman Empire	699	(7)
Asia, 1815--1914: India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan	706	(20)
India	708	(4)
Southeast Asia	712	(3)
China: The Long Nineteenth Century	715	(6)
Japan: Modernity and Imperialism	721	(5)
The Great Revolt of 1857--1858	711	(7)
Lin Zexu on the Opium Trade	718	(4)
``The Beefeater''	722	(4)
Latin America: Independence and Dependence, 1825--1945	726	(22)
Challenges to Latin American States After Independence	728	(9)
Twentieth-Century Latin America	737	(5)
The Colossus to the North: The United States and Latin America	742	(6)
Civilization and Barbarism	733	(2)
Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Brazil	735	(9)
Jose Marti's Observations on the United States and Cuba	744	(4)
GLOBAL ISSUES: GENDER	748	(190)
Politics and Diplomacy in the West, 1815--1914	750	(46)
The Vienna Settlement and the Reassembling of Europe	752	(4)
1848: The Revolutionary Year	756	(3)
Prussia, German Unification, and the Second Reich	759	(5)
The Decline of Austria	764	(1)
France: The Second Empire and the Third Republic	765	(3)
Italy to 1914	768	(1)
The United Kingdom	769	(5)
The United States	774	(7)
Russia in Reform and Revolution	781	(6)
The ``Eastern Question'' and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914	787	(9)
Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch	762	(14)
An American View of the World in the 1820s	776	(3)
``With Malice Toward None'': Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address	779	(17)
World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences	796	(36)
World War I	798	(10)
The Allied Peace Settlement	808	(6)
Economic Disasters	814	(4)
Politics in the Democracies	818	(7)
The Western Tradition in Transition: Changing Certainties	825	(7)
Diary of Private Tom Easton	804	(5)
John Maynard Keynes on Clemenceau	809	(23)
The USSR, Italy, Germany, and Japan: Democratic Failure and Authoritarian Government in the Interwar Period	832	(32)
Revolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928--1939	834	(11)
Fascism	845	(2)
Italy and Mussolini	847	(4)
The German Tragedy	851	(7)
Japan	858	(6)
Stalin and State Terror	844	(12)
The New German Woman	856	(1)
Wishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism Map	857	(7)
Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910--1950	864	(20)
China: Revolution and Republic	866	(6)
Korea: From Monarchy to Colony	872	(2)
Nationalism in Southeast Asia	874	(4)
India: The Drive for Independence	878	(6)
Lu Xun and China's May Fourth Generation	868	(9)
What's in a Name? Siam or Thailand?	877	(3)
Gandhi and ``Truth-Force''	880	(4)
Emerging National Movements in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s	884	(24)
The Middle East Divided	886	(9)
The Challenge to Colonial Rule in Africa	895	(3)
Pan-Africanism	898	(3)
World War II and Its Aftermath	901	(7)
Memorandum of the General Syrian Congress	889	(4)
We Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as Liberators	893	(7)
The Awakening of a Pan-African Spirit	900	(4)
Pass Laws and African Women in South Africa	904	(4)
World War II: Origins and Consequences, 1919--1946	908	(30)
The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s	910	(2)
Epoch of the Aggressors	912	(9)
World War II	921	(13)
Postwar Settlements	934	(4)
Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back	911	(7)
The Hossbach Memorandum	918	(14)
The Nazi Death Camps	932	(6)
GLOBAL ISSUES: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAW	938
The Bipolar World: Cold War and Decolonization, 1945--1991	940	(22)
Competing Economic Models	942	(1)
The Cold War: 1945--1962	943	(5)
Vietnam and Afghanistan	948	(7)
Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War	955	(1)
Decolonization	956	(6)
The Truman Doctrine	945	(3)
Khrushchev's Address to the Twentieth Party Congress	948	(2)
Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954	950	(12)
The United States and Europe Since 1945: Politics in an Age of Conflict and Change	962	(40)
Technological and Social Changes	964	(3)
The United States	967	(7)
Western Europe	974	(11)
Eastern Europe	985	(8)
The Soviet Union and the Russian Republic	993	(4)
Interdependence in a Changing World	997	(5)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex	967	(2)
Martin Luther King Jr., ``Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence''	969	(7)
Jean Monnet on European Unity	976	(10)
The Euro Comes to Greece	986	(16)
The Middle East, Africa, and Latin America Since 1945: The Struggle for Survival	1002	(38)
The Middle East: Religion and Politics	1004	(13)
Africa: The Search for National Identities	1017	(11)
Latin America: Reform, Repression, or Revolt	1028	(12)
Borders and Identities: The UN Partition Plan	1006	(7)
Ayatollah Khomeini, Message to the Pilgrims	1013	(8)
The Village That Has ``Eaten Itself Limb by Limb''	1021	(19)
Asia Since 1945: Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions	1040
The People's Republic of China and Other Chinese Countries	1042	(8)
Japan: From Defeat to Dominance to Doubt	1050	(5)
Korea: A Nation Divided	1055	(3)
Southeast Asia	1058	(5)
The Subcontinent	1063
Mao on Communism in China	1045	(20)
Nehru and the Two Sides of Kashmir	1065	(4)
Benazir Bhutto at Harvard	1069
Credits	1	(1)
Notes	1	(1)
Index	1