Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past : From 1500 to the Present

by Bentley, Jerry H.; Ziegler, Herbert F.

• ISBN13: 9780072362299
• ISBN10: 0072362294
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: McGraw Hill (Tx)

Table of Contents

List of Maps
Preface
A Brief Note on Usage
Acknowledgements
PART V THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1500-1800	530	(192)
Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections	535	(28)
The Transformation of Europe	563	(30)
New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania	593	(28)
Africa and the Atlantic World	621	(26)
Tradition and Change in East Asia	647	(26)
The Islamic Empires	673	(24)
The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia	697	(25)
PART VI AN AGE OF REVOLUTION, INDUSTRY, AND EMPIRE, 1750-1914	722	(154)
Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World	727	(32)
The Making of Industrial Society	759	(28)
The Americas in the Age of Independence	787	(30)
Societies at Crossroads	817	(30)
The Building of Global Empires	847	(29)
PART VII THE TWENTIETH CENTURY	876	(5)
The Great War: The World in Upheaval	881	(30)
The Age of Anxiety, 1919-1939	911	(30)
New Conflagratins: World War II and the Early Cold War	941	(32)
The Retreat from Empire in a Bipolar World	973	(36)
Transformation and Crisis in the Contemporary World	1009	(32)
A World Without Borders	1041
Prounciation Guide
Credits
Index