A History of World Societies, Volume B: From 1100 to 1815

by McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D.; Buckler, John; Buckley Ebrey, Patricia; Beck, Roger B.; Crowston, Clare Haru; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.

• ISBN13: 9780312682972
• ISBN10: 0312682972
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-10
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

More than any other text,A History of World Societiesintroduces students to the families, foods, workplaces, religions, and diversions of peoples of the past through lively, descriptive writing and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide range of individuals. This hallmark treatment of social history combines with strong political, cultural, and economic coverage and a clear, easy-to-manage organization to provide students with the most vivid account available of what life was like throughout human history.The Eighth Edition welcomes to the author team Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Clare Crowston, experienced world-history teachers and highly regarded scholars who bring additional attention to gender and cultural history. It also expands the text's global perspective by strengthening coverage of non-Western topics and comparisons among world societies. A fresh, colorful look and a completely new map program showcase a narrative that the authors judiciously shortened for even greater power and accessibility.Bedford/St. Martin's is proud to have recently acquired the stellar McKay franchise in World History and Western Civilization. These wonderful books fit well with our publishing philosophy at Bedford/St. Martin's, emphasizing innovation, quality, and a focus on the needs of students and instructors. We hope to contribute to their future success with the care and attention to detail we give every book we publish.

Author Biography

John P. McKay, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from the University of Columbia, Berkeley in 1968. Author of three books, he won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award from the American Historical Association with his Pioneers for Profit. He is a Senior Fulbright Fellow and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bennett D. Hill (deceased), a former Chairman and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963. He taught at the University of Maryland and was most recently a visiting professor at Georgetown University. He published two books and many journal articles.
John Buckler, a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1973. He has published numerous journal articles and written a monograph, The Theban Hegemony, published by Harvard University Press.
Patricia B. Ebrey, Professor with Joint Appointment: Early Imperial China, Song Dynasty, at the University of Washington in Seattle, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975. She has published numerous journal articles and published The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge University Press, 1996), as well as numerous monographs. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, UWM Distinguished Professor at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, earned her B.A. from Grinnell College in 1973 and her Ph.D. in 1979 at University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of nineteen books and many articles that have appeared in many languages. She is currently the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.
Clare H. Crowston, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned her B.A. in 1985 from McGill University and her Ph.D. in 1996 from Cornell University. The author of many articles, she has also written Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (Duke University Press, 2001), which won two awards, the Berkshire Prize and the Hagley Prize. She is a past-President of the Society for French Historical Studies and a former chair of the Pinkney Prize Committee.

Table of Contents

Chapter 10: Civilizations of the Americas, 2500 BCE- 1500 CE

The Early Peoples of the Americas

        Settling the Americas

        The Development of Agriculture

Early Civilizations

        Mounds, Towns, and Trade in North and South America

        The Olmecs

Classical Era Mesoamerica and North America

        Maya Technology and Trade

        Maya Science and Religion

        Teotihuacán and the Toltecs

        Hohokam, Hopewell, and Mississippian

The Aztecs

        Religion and War in Aztec Society

                Individuals in Society: Tlacaélel

        The Life of the People

        The Cities of the Aztecs

The Incas

        Earlier Peruvian Cultures

        Inca Imperialism

        Inca Society

 

Chapter 11: Central and Southern Asia, to 1400

Central Asian Nomads

        The Turks

        The Mongols

        Daily Life

Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire

        Chinggis’s Successors

        The Mongols as Rulers

East-West Communication During the Mongol Era

India, 300-1400

        The Gupta Empire (ca 320-480)

        India’s Medieval Age (ca 500-1400) and the

          First Encounter with Islam

                Individuals in Society: Bhaskara the Teacher

        Daily Life in Medieval India

        Southeast Asia, to 1400

        The Spread of Indian Culture in Comparative Perspective

 

Chapter 12: East Asia, ca 800-1400

        The Medieval Chinese Economic Revolution (800-1100)

China During the Song Dynasty (960-1279)

        The Scholar-Officials and New-Confucianism

                Individuals in Society: Shen Gua

        Women’s Lives

Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185)

        Fujiwara Rule

        Aristocratic Culture

The Samurai and The Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333)

        Military Rule

        Cultural Trends

 

Chapter 13: Europe in the Middle Ages, 850-1400

Political Developments

        Feudalism and Manorialism

        Invasions and Migrations

        The Restoration of Order

        Law and Justice

Revival and Reform in the Christian Church

        Monastic Reforms

                Individuals in Society: Hildegard of Bingen

        Papal Reforms

        Popular Religion

The Expansion of Latin Christendom

        Toward a Christian Society

The Crusades

        Background of the Crusades

        The Course of the Crusades

        Consequences

The Changing Life of the People

        Those Who Work

        Those Who Fight

        Towns and Cities

        The Expansion of Long-Distance Trade

The Culture of the Middle Ages

        Universities and Scholasticism

        Cathedrals

        Troubadour Poetry

Crises of the Later Middle Ages

        The Great Famine and the Black Death

        The Hundred Years’ War

        Challenges to the Church

        Peasant and Urban Revolts

 

Chapter 14: Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation,

  1350-1600

Renaissance Culture

        Economic and Political Context

        Intellectual Change

                Individuals in Society: Leonardo Da Vinci

        Secularism

        Christian Humanism

        The Printed Word

        Art and the Artist

Social Hierarchies

        Race

        Class

        Gender

Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450–1521)

        France

        England

        Spain

        The Habsburgs

The Protestant Reformation

        Criticism of the Church

        Martin Luther

        Protestant Thought and Its Appeal

        The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War

        The Reformation and Marriage

        The Reformation and German Politics

        The Spread of the Protestant Reformation

        Calvinism

The Catholic Reformation

        The Reformed Papacy and the Council of Trent

        New Religious Orders

Religious Violence

        French Religious Wars

        The Netherlands Under Charles V

        The Great European Witch-Hunt

 

Chapter 15: The Acceleration of Global Contact

The Indian Ocean: Hub of an Afro-Eurasian Trading World

        People and Cultures

        Religious Revolutions

        Trade and Commerce

European Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion

        Causes of European Expanision

        Technological Stimuli to Exploration

        The Portuguese Overseas Empire

                Individuals in Society: Zheng He

        The Problem of Christopher Columbus

        New World Conquest

The Impact of Contact

        Colonial Administration

        The Columbian Exchange

        Spanish Settlement and Indigenous Population Decline

        Sugar and Slavery

Global Trade Networks

The Chinese and Japanese Discovery of the West

The World-Wide Economic Effects of Spanish Silver

 

Chapter 16: Absolutism and Constitutionalism in

  Europe, ca 1589-1725

Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding

Economic and Demographic Crisis

The Return of Serfdom in the East

The Thirty Years’ War

        Seventeenth-Century State-Building: Common

          Obstacles and Achievements

Absolutism in France and Spain

        The Foundations of Absolutism: Henry IV, Sully, and Richelieu

        Louis XIV and Absolutism

        Financial and Economic Management Under Louis XIV: Colbert

        Louis XIV’s Wars

        The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century

Absolutism in Eastern Europe: Austria, Prussia, and Russia

        The Austrian Habsburgs

        Prussia in the Seventeenth Century

        The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism

        The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow

        Tsar and People to 1689

        The Reforms of Peter the Great

Constitutionalism

Absolutist Claims in England (1603-1649)

        Religious Divides

        Puritanical Absolutism in England: Cromwell

          and the Protectorate

        The Restoration of the English Monarchy

        The Triumph of England’s Parliament: Constitutional

          Monarchy and Cabinet Government

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

        Individuals in Society: Glückel of Hameln

 

Chapter 17: Toward a New Worldview in the West

The Scientific Revolution

        Scientific Thought in 1500

        The Copernican Hypothesis

        From Brahe to Galileo

        Newton’s Synthesis

        Causes of the Scientific Revolution

        Science and Society

The Enlightenment

        The Emergence of the Enlightenment

        The Philosophes and the Public

        Urban Culture and the Public Sphere

        Late Enlightenment

        Race and the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment and Absolutism

        Frederick the Great of Prussia

                Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn

                  and the Jewish Enlightenment

        Catherine the Great of Russia

        The Austrian Habsburgs

 

Chapter 18: Africa and the World, ca 1400–1800

Senegambia and Benin

        Women, Marriage, and Work

        Trade and Industry

The Sudan: Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland

Ethiopia

The Swahili City-States

The African Slave Trade

        The Atlantic Slave Trade

                Individuals in Society: Olaudah Equiano

        Consequences Within Africa

 

Chapter 19: The Islamic World Powers, ca 1400-1800

The Three Turkish Ruling Houses: The Ottomans,

  Safavids, and Mughals

        The Ottoman Turkish Empire

                Individuals in Society: Hürrem

        The Safavid Theoracy in Persia

        The Mughal Empire in India

Cultural Flowering

        City and Palace Building

        Intellectual and Religious Trends

        Coffee Houses

Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule

Shifting Trade Routes and European Penetration

        European Rivalry for the Indian Trade

        Factory-Fort Societies

        The Rise of the British East India Company

Dynastic Decline

 

Chapter 20: Continuity and Change in East Asia,

  ca 1400–1800

Ming China, 1368-1644

        Problems with the Imperial Institution

        The Mongols and the Great Wall

        The Examination Life

        Life of the People

                Individuals in Society: Tan Yunxian, Woman Doctor

        Ming Decline

The Manchus and Qing China, 1644–1800

        Competent and Long-Lived Emperors

        Imperial Expansion

Japan’s Middle Ages

        Muromachi Culture

        Civil War

        The Victors: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi

The Tokugawa Shogunate

        Commercialization

        The Life of the People in the Edo Period

East Asian Maritime Trade and Piracy

        Zheng He’s Voyages

        Piracy and Japan’s Overseas Adventures

        Europeans Enter the Scene

        Missionaries

        Learning from the West

        British Efforts to Expand Trade with China

          in the Eighteenth Century

 

Chapter 21:The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815

Background to Revolution

        Legal Orders and Social Change

        The Crisis of Political Legitimacy

        The Impact of the American Revolution

        Financial Crisis

Revolution in Metropole and Colony, 1789-1791

        The Formation of the National Assembly

        The Revolt of the Poor and the Oppressed

        A Limited Monarchy

        Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue

World War and Republican France, 1791-1799

        Foreign Reactions and the Beginning of War

        The Second Revolution

        Total War and the Terror

        Revolution in Saint-Domingue

        The Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory, 1794-1799

The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815

        Napoleon’s Rule of France

        Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe

        The War of Haitian Independence

        The Grand Empire and Its End