World Civilizations, Volume II Since 1500

by Adler, Philip J.

• ISBN13: 9780534569099
• ISBN10: 0534569099
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This thorough introduction to world history presents material in manageable bites using a narrative format. This full-color, pedagogically rich, map-intensive text balances discussion of all major civilizations. The extensive ancillary package provides ample support of the first-time instructor of the World History course.

Table of Contents

Part FOUR Disequilibrium: The Western Encounter with the Non-Western World 1500--1850 C.E.	301	(124)
A Larger World Opens	301	(13)
The Protestant Reformation	314	(12)
Foundations of the European States	326	(14)
Eastern European Empires	340	(14)
China from the Ming to the Early Qing Dynasty	354	(12)
Japan and Colonial Southeast Asia to the Mid-Nineteenth Century	366	(14)
The Rise and Fall of Muslim Empires	380	(16)
Africa in the Colonial Era	396	(14)
Latin America from Colony to Dependent Statehood	410	(15)
LINK 4 Disequilibrium: The Western Expansion	422	(3)
Part FIVE Western Revolution, Industry, and Ideology 1700-1920	425	(129)
The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath	426	(14)
Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy	440	(8)
The French Revolution and the Bonapartist Empire	448	(14)
Europe's Industrialization	462	(10)
The Social Impacts of Early Industry	472	(10)
Europe in Ideological Conflict	482	(14)
Consolidation of National States	496	(14)
Advanced Industrial Society	510	(14)
Modern Science and Its Implications	524	(12)
World War I and Its Disputed Settlement	536	(18)
LINK 5 Industry and Western Hegemony	552	(2)
Part SIX Equilibrium Reestablished: The Twentieth-Century World	554	(172)
A Fragile Balance: Europe in the Twenties	556	(1)
The Soviet Experiment to World War II	556	(24)
Totalitarianism: The Nazi State	580	(10)
East Asia in a Century of Change	590	(12)
World War II	602	(14)
High and Low Cultures in the West	616	(12)
Superpower Rivalry and the European Recovery	628	(12)
Decolonization and the Third World	640	(10)
The New Asia	650	(14)
Africa after Independence	664	(14)
Latin America in the Twentieth Century	678	(14)
The Reemergence of the Muslim World	692	(14)
The Marxist Collapse	706	(12)
At the Start of a New Millennium: The Road Ahead	718	(8)
LINK 6 Equilibrium Reestablished: The Twentieth-Century World	726