World Civilizations Volume II: Since 1500 (with InfoTrac)

by Adler, Philip J.

• ISBN13: 9780534599232
• ISBN10: 0534599230
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-21
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Succeeding in World Civilizations class isn't easy. That's why Adler and Pouwels wrote WORLD CIVILIZATIONS: VOLUME II: SINCE 1500 in its trademark, easy-to-read style. Hundreds of illustrations, maps, and documents, overviews, self-tests, and other learning aids make the history of world civilizations easier for students to study and understand. Volume 1 includes thirty concise chapters make content manageable.

Table of Contents

IV

DISEQUILIBRIUM: THE WESTERN ENCOUNTER WITH THE NON-WESTERN WORLD 1500-1850 C

26. A Larger World Opens

27. The Protestant Reformation

28. Foundations of the European States

29. Eastern European Empires

30. China from the Ming through the Early Qing Dynasty

31. Japan and Colonial Southeast Asia to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

32. The Rise and Fall of Muslim Empires

33. Africa in the Colonial Era

34. Latin America from Colony to Dependent Statehood

V

WESTERN REVOLUTIONS, INDUSTRY, AND IDEOLOGY 1700-1920. 35

The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath

36. Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy

37. The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon

38. Europe's Industrialization

39. The Social Impacts of Early Industry

40. Europe in Ideological Conflict

41. Consolidation of National States

42. Advanced Industrial Society

43. Modern Science and Its Implications

44. World War I and Its Disputed Settlement

VI

EQUILIBRIUM REESTABLISHED: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD 1920-Present

45. A Fragile Balance: Europe in the Twenties

46. The Soviet Experiment to World War II

47. Totalitarianism: The Nazi State

48. East Asia in a Century of Change

49. World War II

50. High and Low Cultures in the West

51. Superpower Rivalry and the European Recovery

52. Decolonization and the Third World

53. The New Asia

54. Africa after Independence

55. Latin America in the Twentieth Century

56. The Reemergence of the Muslim World

57. The Marxist Collapse and Its Aftermath

58. At the Start of a New Millennium

Bibliography

Answers to Test Your Knowledge

Glossary

Index