The Heritage of World Civilizations Since 1500

by Albert M. Craig; William Graham; Donald Kagan

• ISBN13: 9780130124562
• ISBN10: 0130124567
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history provides a global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. It combines unusually strong and thorough coverage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilization, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions.

Table of Contents

The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars

Africa (ca. 1000<196>1800)

Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy

East Asia in the Late Traditional Era

European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict

European Society Under the Old Regime

The Last Great Islamic Empires (1500<196>1800)

Enlightenment And Revolution In The West

The Age of European Enlightenment

Revolution in the Transatlantic World

Europe and North America 1815<196>1850: Political Reform, Economic Advance, and Social Unrest

Into The Modern World

Political Consolidation in Europe and North America

The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I

The Birth of Contemporary Western Thought

Latin America from Independence to the 1940s

India, The Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Encounter with the Modern West (1800<196>1945)

Modern East Asia

Global Conflict And Change

Imperialism and World War I

Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal

World War II

The West Since World War II

East Asia in the Late Twentieth Century

The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945

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