Civilization Past & Present, Volume II (from 1300)

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

• ISBN13: 9780321236289
• ISBN10: 0321236289
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• 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	xix
Maps	xx
Global Issues	xxi
Discovery Through Maps	xxi
Chapter Opening Image Descriptions	xxiii
To the Instructor	xxvii
To the Student	xxxviii
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)
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300--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)
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 Development of the European State System, 1300--1650	432	(30)
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	(9)
Global Issues Technological Exchange	460	(2)
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)
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)
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)
Africa, 1650--1850	560	(26)
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	(8)
Global Issues Slavery	584	(2)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Latin America: Independence and Dependence, 1825--1945	726	(24)
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	(8)
Global Issues Gender	748	(2)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
World War II: Origins and Consequences, 1919--1946	908	(32)
The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s	910	(2)
Epoch of the Aggressors	912	(9)
World War II	921	(13)
Postwar Settlements	934	(6)
Global Issues War and International Law	938	(2)
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 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)
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)
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
Credits	1	(1)
Notes	1	(1)
Index	1