World Civilizations : The Global Experience

by Stearns, Peter N.; Adas, Michael; Schwartz, Stuart B.; Gilbert, Marc J.

• ISBN13: 9780321044792
• ISBN10: 0321044797
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Summary

The primary goal of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Third Edition is to present a truly global history--one that both discusses the development of the world's leading civilizations and also emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies. The book examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts--for example, the nomadic societies of Asia, Latin America, and the nations and states of the Pacific Rim. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in all the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of international contact. MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in World History.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	vii
List of Maps	xvii
Preface	xix
Supplements	xxv
Prologue	xxvii
Part 1 The Origins of Civilizations	2	(72)
The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization	8	(20)
The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa	28	(22)
Asia's First Civilizations: India and China	50	(24)
Part 2 The Classical Period in World History	74	(194)
Nomadic Challenges and Sedentary Responses	80	(20)
Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China	100	(24)
Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World	124	(26)
Rome and Its Empire	150	(20)
Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age	170	(26)
The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas	196	(26)
The Spread of Peoples and Civilizations	222	(28)
The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200--700 C.E.	250	(18)
Part 3 The Postclassical Era	268	(246)
The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam	276	(28)
Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia	304	(26)
African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam	330	(22)
Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe	352	(20)
A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe	372	(26)
The Americas on the Eve of Invasion	398	(24)
Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties	422	(26)
The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam	448	(26)
The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur	474	(24)
The West and the Changing World Balance	498	(16)
Part 4 The World Shrinks, 1450--1750	514	(176)
The Transformation of the West, 1450--1750	522	(20)
The West and the World	542	(22)
The Rise of Russia	564	(16)
Early Latin America	580	(28)
The Muslim Empires	608	(28)
Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade	636	(26)
Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change	662	(28)
Part 5 Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750--1914	690	(138)
The Industrialization of the West, 1760--1914	696	(30)
Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order	726	(1)
The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830--1920	726	(28)
Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, The Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China	754	(52)
Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West	806	(22)
Part 6 The 20th Century in World History	828	(218)
International Contacts and Conflicts, 1914--1999	836	(30)
The West in the 20th Century	866	(22)
Russia and Eastern Europe	888	(24)
Japan and the Pacific Rim	912	(20)
Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century	932	(28)
Decolonization and the Decline of the European World Order	960	(30)
Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence	990	(28)
War and Revolution in China and Vietnam	1018	(28)
A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects	1046
Glossary	G-2
Credits	C-2
Index	I-1