World Civilizations Comprehensive Volume (Chapters 1-58, Non-InfoTrac Version)

by Adler, Philip J.

• ISBN13: 9780534599317
• ISBN10: 0534599311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

PART ONE Ancient Civilizations 3500---500 B.C.E.	1	(76)
Prehistory	2	(10)
Mesopotamia	12	(10)
Egypt	22	(10)
Warriors and Deities in the Near East: Persians and Jews	32	(12)
India's Beginnings	44	(10)
Ancient China to 500 B.C.E.	54	(10)
Ordinary Lives in the Ancient Past	64	(13)
Ancient Civilizations	74	(3)
PART TWO Classical Mediterranean Civilization 500 B.C.E.---500 C.E.	77	(68)
The Greek Adventure	78	(11)
Hellenic Culture	89	(9)
Hellenistic Civilization	98	(12)
The Roman Republic	110	(12)
The Roman Empire	122	(9)
Ordinary Lives in the Classical Age	131	(14)
Classical Mediterranean Civilizations	142	(3)
PART THREE Equilibrium Among Polycentric Civilizations 100 B.C.E.---1500 C.E.	145	(158)
Rome's Transformation and the Beginnings of Europe	146	(19)
Islam	165	(10)
Mature Islamic Society and Institutions	175	(10)
Indian Civilization in Its Golden Age	185	(13)
Empire of the Middle: China to the Mongol Conquest	198	(13)
Japan and Southeast Asia	211	(15)
Africa from Kush to the Fifteenth Century	226	(14)
The Americas before Columbus	240	(12)
Ordinary Life among the Non-Western Peoples	252	(8)
The High Medieval Age	260	(14)
Late Medieval Troubles	274	(12)
The European Renaissance	286	(17)
Equilibrium among Polycentric Civilizations	298	(5)
PART FOUR Disequilibrium: The Western Encounter with the Non-Western World 1500---1850 C.E.	303	(116)
A Larger World Opens	304	(12)
The Protestant Reformation	316	(11)
Foundations of the European States	327	(13)
Eastern European Empires	340	(12)
China from the Ming to the Early Qing Dynasty	352	(11)
Japan and Colonial Southeast Asia to the Mid-Nineteenth Century	363	(12)
The Rise and Fall of Muslim Empires	375	(15)
Africa in the Colonial Era	390	(14)
Latin America from Colony to Dependent Statehood	404	(15)
Disequilibrium: The Western Encounter with the Non-Western World	416	(3)
PART FIVE Western Revolutions, Industry, and Ideology 1700---1920	419	(128)
The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath	420	(14)
Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy	434	(8)
The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon	442	(14)
Europe's Industrialization	456	(10)
The Social Impacts of Early Industry	466	(11)
Europe in Ideological Conflict	477	(13)
Consolidation of National States	490	(12)
Advanced Industrial Society	502	(15)
Modern Science and Its Implications	517	(11)
World War I and Its Disputed Settlement	528	(19)
Industry and Western Hegemony	544	(3)
PART SIX Equilibrium Reestablished: the Twentieth-Century World 1920---PRESENT	547	(1)
A Fragile Balance: Europe in the Twenties	548	(11)
The Soviet Experiment to World War II	559	(13)
Totalitarianism: The Nazi State	572	(11)
East Asia in a Century of Change	583	(13)
World War II	596	(14)
High and Low Cultures in the West	610	(12)
Superpower Rivalry and the European Recovery	622	(12)
Decolonization and the Third World	634	(10)
The New Asia	644	(16)
Africa after Independence	660	(15)
Latin America in the Twentieth Century	675	(13)
The Reemergence of the Muslim World	688	(15)
The Marxist Collapse	703	(12)
At the Start of a New Millennium: The Road Ahead	715	(9)
Equilibrium Reestablished: The Twentieth-Century World	724