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List of Illustrations | p. xv |
Preface | p. xvii |
Empires and Encounters in the Early Modern Era: 1450-1750 | p. 215 |
Common Patterns across the World | p. 217 |
Patterns of Expansion | p. 217 |
Premodern Connections | p. 217 |
Early Modern Empires | p. 218 |
Gunpowder Revolution | p. 218 |
Patterns of Internal Change | p. 218 |
Population Growth | p. 218 |
Market-Based Economies | p. 219 |
Cities | p. 219 |
Religious and Intellectual Ferment | p. 220 |
Continuities | p. 220 |
Islamic Expansion: Second Wave | p. 221 |
The Ottoman Empire | p. 221 |
Ottomans and the Arabs | p. 222 |
Ottomans and the Persians | p. 222 |
Ottomans and the West | p. 224 |
The Mughal Empire | p. 224 |
Muslims and Hindus | p. 225 |
An Expanding Economy | p. 226 |
The Songhay Empire | p. 226 |
Religious Vitality and Political Decline | p. 227 |
An Islamic World | p. 227 |
Conversion | p. 227 |
Decline of Islamic Empires | p. 227 |
China Outward Bound | p. 228 |
China and the World | p. 229 |
The Tribute System | p. 230 |
New Forms of Chinese Expansion | p. 230 |
A Maritime Empire Refused: The Ming Dynasty Voyages | p. 230 |
A Road Not Taken | p. 230 |
Comparing Chinese and European Voyages | p. 231 |
Power and Religion | p. 231 |
Differing Motives | p. 231 |
Differing Legacies | p. 232 |
China's Inner Asian Empire | p. 232 |
Manchus Move West | p. 232 |
Empires of Many Nations | p. 233 |
Consequences of Empire | p. 233 |
China and Taiwan | p. 234 |
The Making of a Russian Empire | p. 235 |
Mother Russia | p. 235 |
"Soft Gold": An Empire of Furs | p. 235 |
Siberia and Beyond | p. 236 |
The Impact of Empire | p. 237 |
Russia and Europe | p. 238 |
Looking Westward | p. 239 |
Peter the Great | p. 239 |
The Cost of Reform | p. 240 |
Russia and the World | p. 241 |
Parallel Worlds | p. 241 |
The World of Inner Africa | p. 241 |
The Amerindian World | p. 242 |
The World of Oceania | p. 244 |
Conclusion: Durability of Empire | p. 244 |
The Roots of Globalization: 1450-1750 | p. 247 |
The European Explosion | p. 249 |
Europe Outward Bound | p. 249 |
Momentum | p. 249 |
Opportunity | p. 249 |
Motivation | p. 251 |
A Changing Europe | p. 252 |
The European Renaissance | p. 252 |
The Reformation | p. 252 |
The Scientific Revolution | p. 253 |
The Making of an Atlantic World | p. 253 |
American Differences | p. 254 |
Conquest | p. 254 |
Disease and Disaster | p. 254 |
Plants and Animals | p. 255 |
Migrations | p. 256 |
Colonial Societies in the Americas | p. 256 |
Settler Colonies | p. 256 |
"Mixed-Race Colonies" | p. 257 |
Plantation Colonies | p. 257 |
North American Differences | p. 258 |
The Impact of Empire | p. 259 |
Africa and the Atlantic World | p. 260 |
Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 260 |
Demand | p. 260 |
Supply | p. 260 |
African Slavery | p. 261 |
The Slave Trade in Operation | p. 261 |
Counting the Cost | p. 262 |
Lost People | p. 262 |
Political Variations | p. 263 |
Economic Impact | p. 263 |
The African Diaspora | p. 264 |
The Slave Trade and Racism | p. 264 |
Europe and Asia | p. 264 |
Commerce and Coercion | p. 265 |
Portuguese in the Indian Ocean | p. 265 |
Competitors | p. 265 |
Limitations of Empire | p. 265 |
The Economic Impact | p. 266 |
The Silver Trade | p. 266 |
American Crops in Asia | p. 267 |
Missionaries in East Asia | p. 267 |
Jesuits in China | p. 267 |
Japan and European Missionaries | p. 267 |
Europeans in Oceania | p. 268 |
The Fruits of Empire | p. 269 |
A World Economy | p. 269 |
Eastern Europe in the World Economy | p. 269 |
Spain and Portugal in the World Economy | p. 269 |
Northwestern Europe in the World Economy | p. 270 |
Changing Diets | p. 270 |
Population Growth | p. 270 |
Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate | p. 270 |
New Knowledge | p. 271 |
The First World Wars | p. 272 |
Conclusion: Empire and Globalization | p. 273 |
Breaking Out and the First Modern Societies: 1750-1900 | p. 275 |
Why Europe? A Historian's Debate | p. 278 |
Was Europe Unique? | p. 278 |
A Favorable Environment? | p. 278 |
The Advantage of Backwardness? | p. 278 |
The Absence of Unity? | p. 278 |
Science and Engineering? | p. 279 |
Society and Religion? | p. 279 |
Critics of Eurocentrism | p. 279 |
"Surprising Similarities" | p. 279 |
Competition from Afar | p. 280 |
"The Decline of the East" | p. 280 |
The Advantages of Empire | p. 281 |
Gold and Silver | p. 281 |
Markets and Profits | p. 281 |
Resources | p. 281 |
An Industrial Model | p. 281 |
The Industrial Revolution | p. 282 |
Toward Economic Modernity | p. 282 |
Machines and Factories | p. 282 |
New Wealth | p. 283 |
Urbanization | p. 284 |
Capitalism | p. 284 |
Death Rates and Birthrates | p. 285 |
Humanity and Nature | p. 286 |
Class and Industrial Society | p. 286 |
Aristocrats and Peasants | p. 286 |
"Only a Weaver" | p. 287 |
"Middling Classes" | p. 287 |
Working Classes | p. 287 |
Women, Factories, and the Home | p. 288 |
New Views of the "Home" | p. 288 |
Children | p. 288 |
Politics and War | p. 289 |
The Political Revolution | p. 289 |
Kings and Commoners | p. 289 |
Making New Societies | p. 292 |
The "Enlightenment" | p. 292 |
Liberalism | p. 292 |
Who Benefited? | p. 293 |
The Revolution beyond America and France | p. 294 |
Slave Rebellion and Independence Movements | p. 294 |
Challenging Old Oppressions | p. 294 |
Variations on a Theme | p. 294 |
The British and French Paths | p. 294 |
The German Path | p. 295 |
The Path of the United States | p. 295 |
The Russian Path | p. 295 |
New Identities, New Conflicts | p. 296 |
Socialism | p. 296 |
Utopian Socialism | p. 296 |
Marxism | p. 296 |
Socialist Parties | p. 297 |
Nationalism | p. 298 |
Nationalism as a Modern Idea | p. 298 |
The Origins of Nationalism | p. 299 |
Creating Nations | p. 299 |
The Power of the National Idea | p. 299 |
Feminism | p. 300 |
Roots of Feminism | p. 300 |
Feminist Beginnings | p. 300 |
The Achievements of Feminism | p. 301 |
Backlash | p. 302 |
Conclusion: Modernity as Revolution | p. 302 |
The Great Disturbance by Global Empires: 1750-1940 | p. 305 |
Imperialism of the Industrial Age | p. 308 |
Imperial Motives | p. 308 |
The Tools of Empire | p. 310 |
Confronting Imperialism | p. 310 |
India | p. 311 |
Mughual Decline | p. 311 |
British Takeover | p. 312 |
Rebellion | p. 312 |
China | p. 313 |
China and the West | p. 313 |
Opium for Tea | p. 313 |
The Opium Wars | p. 314 |
The Taiping Rebellion | p. 314 |
The Ottoman Empire | p. 315 |
Africa | p. 315 |
Patterns of Change in the Nineteenth Century | p. 315 |
From the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule | p. 316 |
Resistance and Cooperation | p. 316 |
Russian and American Expansion | p. 317 |
Australia and New Zealand | p. 318 |
Global Imperial Economies | p. 319 |
A Second Wave of Globalization | p. 319 |
A Divided World | p. 319 |
India and Imperial Globalization | p. 320 |
Famine and Free Markets | p. 320 |
The Economics of Empire | p. 320 |
Africa and Imperial Globalization | p. 321 |
Forced Labor | p. 321 |
Cash Crops | p. 322 |
The Loss of Land | p. 322 |
Mining and Migration | p. 323 |
Global Migration | p. 323 |
Global Imperial Society and Culture | p. 324 |
Population Patterns | p. 324 |
Slavery and Race | p. 324 |
An End to Slavery | p. 324 |
The Growth of "Scientific Racism" | p. 325 |
Race and Colonial Life | p. 325 |
Western-Educated Elites | p. 326 |
New Identities | p. 327 |
Colonized Women | p. 327 |
European Reforms | p. 327 |
Coping with Colonial Economies | p. 327 |
Education and Opportunity | p. 328 |
Missionaries and Conversion | p. 328 |
Changing Defensively | p. 329 |
Trying to Catch Up | p. 329 |
Ottoman Modernization | p. 330 |
Comparing China and Japan | p. 330 |
Chinese Self-Strengthening | p. 330 |
Japan's "Revolution from Above" | p. 331 |
Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century | p. 333 |
Progress or Exploitation? | p. 333 |
Celebrating Western Achievement | p. 333 |
Alternative European Voices | p. 334 |
Critics from the Colonies | p. 334 |
Actors and Re-actors | p. 335 |
Change and Persistence | p. 336 |
Religious Revival and Consolidation | p. 336 |
Powers and Privileges | p. 337 |
Conclusion: Toward the Twentieth Century | p. 337 |
The Modern World and Global Realignments: The Past Century | p. 341 |
The European Crisis: 1914-1945 | p. 343 |
World War I | p. 343 |
The Roots of War | p. 343 |
The Costs of War | p. 344 |
A Global Conflict | p. 345 |
Reverberations | p. 345 |
Capitalism in Crisis | p. 346 |
Racism and the Holocaust | p. 346 |
Another World War | p. 347 |
World War II | p. 347 |
A World Reshaped | p. 348 |
Revolution and Communism | p. 348 |
The Birth of Communism | p. 349 |
Russia | p. 349 |
Eastern Europe | p. 349 |
China | p. 350 |
Making Communist Societies | p. 350 |
Rural Communism | p. 351 |
Communist Industrialization | p. 351 |
Confronting Privilege and Inequality in China | p. 352 |
Totalitarianism and Terror | p. 353 |
The Communist World and the "Free World" | p. 353 |
The United States as a Global Power | p. 355 |
An American Century? | p. 355 |
Containing Communism | p. 355 |
An Empire of Culture | p. 357 |
Resisting the American Empire | p. 357 |
Achieving Independence | p. 358 |
The End of Empire | p. 358 |
Afro-Asian Struggles | p. 359 |
The Foundations of Anticolonialism | p. 359 |
Independence Achieved | p. 359 |
Variations on a Theme | p. 360 |
New Nations on the Global Stage | p. 361 |
The Rise of the Third World | p. 362 |
The "Third World" as an Idea | p. 362 |
Nonalignment | p. 362 |
A New International Economic Order? | p. 363 |
Resistance by the Rich | p. 363 |
The Debt Problem | p. 364 |
The Assertion of Islam | p. 364 |
The Revival of the Middle East | p. 364 |
The Roots of Islamic Renewal | p. 364 |
Islamic Renewal in Practice: The Case of Iran | p. 365 |
Islamic Assertion on a Global Stage | p. 366 |
Successes, Failures, and Fissures | p. 367 |
The Collapse of Communism | p. 367 |
Three Routes to the End of Communism | p. 367 |
The Soviet Union | p. 367 |
Eastern Europe | p. 368 |
China | p. 368 |
Explaining the Soviet Collapse | p. 368 |
The Chinese Difference | p. 370 |
The End of the Cold War | p. 371 |
Conclusion: Something New; Something Old | p. 371 |
Beneath the Surface of Globalization and Modernity: The Past Century | p. 375 |
More of Us: Population Growth in the Past Century | p. 376 |
A Demographic Transition | p. 376 |
Consequences | p. 377 |
Variations and Redistributions | p. 377 |
Enough to Eat? | p. 377 |
To the Cities | p. 377 |
On the Move | p. 378 |
Young and Old | p. 379 |
Debates and Controversies | p. 379 |
Too Many People? | p. 379 |
Controlling Population Growth | p. 379 |
Economic Globalization | p. 380 |
An Industrializing World | p. 381 |
Soviet Industrialization | p. 381 |
Industrialization in European Offshoots | p. 382 |
Newly Industrialized Countries | p. 382 |
From Divergence to Convergence | p. 382 |
A Densely Connected World | p. 383 |
A Deeply Divided World | p. 384 |
Progress for the Poor | p. 384 |
Failures and Instabilities | p. 385 |
Internal Inequalities | p. 386 |
Debating a Mixed Record | p. 387 |
Alternative Globalizations | p. 387 |
A Diminished World | p. 388 |
Defining the Environmental Impact | p. 388 |
Environmentalism | p. 390 |
Political Globalization | p. 391 |
The National Idea: Triumphant and Challenged? | p. 391 |
Anticolonial Nationalism | p. 391 |
Nationalism and Communism | p. 392 |
The Failure of Alternatives | p. 392 |
Challenges to the National Idea: Globalization | p. 393 |
Challenges to the National Idea: Ethnic Separatism | p. 393 |
Challenges to the National Idea: World Government | p. 394 |
The Democratic Idea: Challenged and Triumphant? | p. 395 |
Modern Democracy | p. 395 |
Gains and Setbacks | p. 396 |
Democracy after World War II | p. 396 |
Democracy in Decline | p. 396 |
A Resurgence of Democracy? | p. 397 |
Cultural Globalization | p. 398 |
Popular Culture/Global Culture | p. 399 |
Global Feminism | p. 400 |
Communism and Women | p. 401 |
Western Feminism | p. 401 |
Women's Movements in the Third World | p. 403 |
Feminism on a Global Scale | p. 404 |
Conclusion: Coming Together and Growing Apart | p. 404 |
Index | p. 409 |
About the Author | p. 429 |
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