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THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global book for the world history survey course employs a fundamental theme--the interaction of human beings and the environment--to compare different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. Highly acclaimed in their fields of study, the authors bring a wide array of expertise to the program. A combination of strong scholarship and detailed pedagogy gives the book its reputation for rigor and user accessibility. The Fifth Edition features new pedagogy and a beautiful new design.

Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870
Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850
Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crisis
The American Revolution, 1775-1800
The French Revolution, 1789-1815
Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond, 1789-1850
Environment and Technology: The Guillotine
Diversity and Dominance: Robespierre and Wollstonecraft
Defend and Explain the Terror
The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Technological Revolution
The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution
New Economic and Political Ideas
Diversity and Dominance: Adam Smith and the Division of Labor
Environment and Technology: Gas Lighting
Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890
Independence in Latin America, 1800-1830
The Problem of Order, 1825-1890
The Challenge of Social and Economic Change
Diversity and Dominance: The Afro-Brazilian Experience, 1828
Environment and Technology: Constructing the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870
The Ottoman Empire
The Russian Empire
The Qing Empire
Environment and Technology: The Web of War
Diversity and Dominance: Chinese Responses to Imperialism
Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870
Changes and Exchanges in Africa
India Under British Rule
Britain's Eastern Empire
Diversity and Dominance: Ceremonials of Imperial Domination
Environment and Technology: Whaling
Issues in World History: State Power, the Census, and the Question of Identity
Global Diversity and Dominance, 1850-1945
The New Power Balance, 1850-1900
New Technologies and the World Economy
Social Changes
Socialism and Labor Movements
Nationalism and the Rise of Italy, Germany, and Japan
The Great Powers of Europe, 1871-1900
China, Japan, and the Western Powers
Environment and Technology: Railroads and Immigration
Diversity and Dominance: Marx and Engels on Global Trade and the Bourgeoisie
Material Culture: Cotton Clothing
The New Imperialism, 1869-1914
The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods
The Scramble for Africa
Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific
Imperialism in Latin America
The World Economy and the Global Environment
Diversity and Dominance: Two Africans Recall the Arrival of the Europeans
Environment and Technology: Imperialism and Tropical Ecology
The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929
Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East
The "Great War" and the Russian Revolutions, 1914-1918
Peace and Dislocation in Europe, 1919-1929
China and Japan: Contrasting Destinies
The New Middle East
Society, Culture, and Technology in the Industrialized World
Diversity and Dominance: The Middle East After World War I
Environment and Technology: The Birth of Civil Aviation
The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949
The Stalin Revolution
The Depression
The Rise of Fascism
East Asia, 1931-1945
The Second World War
The Character of Warfare
Diversity and Dominance: Women, Family Values, and the Russian Revolution
Environment and Technology: The Enigma Machine
Striving for Independence: India, Africa, and Latin America, 1900-1949
The Indian Independence Movement, 1905-1947
Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-1945
Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, 1900-1949
Environment and Technology: Gandhi and Technology
Diversity and Dominance: A Vietnamese Nationalist Denounces French Colonialism
Issues in World History: Famines and Politics
Perils and Promises of a Global Community, 1945 to the Present
The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975
The Cold War
Decolonization and Nation Building
Beyond a Bipolar World
Environment and Technology: The Green Revolution
Diversity and Dominance: Race and the Struggle for Justice in South Africa
The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975-2000
Postcolonial Crises and Asian Economic Expansion
The End of the Bipolar World
The Challenge of Population Growth
Unequal Development and the Movement of Peoples
Technological and Environmental Change
Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in an Era of Global Political and Economic Change
Environment and Technology: The Computer Gets Personal
Material Culture: Fast Food
New Challenges in a New Millennium
Globalization and Economic Crisis
The Question of Values
Global Culture
Diversity and Dominance: Conflict and Civilization
Environment and Technology: Global Warming
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