The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Dolphin Edition

by Bulliet, Richard; Crossley, Pamela; Headrick, Daniel; Hirsch, Steven; Johnson, Lyman

• ISBN13: 9780547149486
• ISBN10: 0547149484
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-13
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

The latest book from Cengage Learning on The Earth and Its Peoples

Table of Contents

Each chapter ends with an "Important Events" chronology, and Notes

The Emergence Of Human Communities, to 500 B.C.E.

Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 B.C.E.

The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 B.C.E.

New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250

The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 B.C.E.

The Formation Of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E.

Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.

An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E.

India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.-1025 C.E.

Growth And Interaction Of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E. -1200 C.E.

Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.-1100 C.E.

The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200-1200

Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 300-1200

Inner and East Asia, 400-1200

Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200-1500

Interregional Patterns Of Culture And Contact, 1200-1550

Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500

Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500

The Latin West, 1200-1500

The Maritime Revolution, to 1550

The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1750

Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750

The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770

The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800

Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750

Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800

Revolutions Reshape The World, 1750-1870

Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850

The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851

Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890

Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870

Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870

Global Diversity And Dominance, 1850-1945

The New Power Balance, 1850-1900

The New Imperialism, 1869-1914

The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929

The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949

Striving for Independence: India, Africa, and Latin America, 1900-1949

Perils And Promises Of A Global Community, 1945 To The Present

The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975

The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975-2000

Globalization in the New Millennium

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