Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present

Publisher’s Notice
World Map
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents in Brief
Contents
Current Trends in World History
Analyzing Global Developments
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Maps
Preface
About the Authors
Geography in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
Chapter 10: Becoming “The World,” 1000–1300 CE
Development of Maritime Trade
The Islamic World in a Time of Political Fragmentation
India as a Cultural Mosaic
Song China: Insiders versus Outsiders
Christian Europe
Worlds Coming Together: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas
The Mongol Transformation of Afro-Eurasia
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 11: Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300–1500
Collapse and Consolidation
The Islamic Heartland
Western Christendom
Ming China
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 12: Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450–1600
The Old Expansionism and the New
Ottoman Expansion
European Exploration and Expansion
The Atlantic World
From Conquest to Colonization in the Atlantic World
Religious Turmoil in Europe
The Revival of the Asian Economies
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 13: Worlds Entangled, 1600–1750
Global Commerce and Climate Change
Exchanges and Expansions in North America
The Slave Trade and Africa
Comparative Perspectives on Climate Change: The Ottoman Empire and Ming China
Other Parts of Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Transformations in Europe
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 14: Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500–1780
Trade and Culture
Culture in the Islamic World
Culture and Politics in East Asia
African Cultural Flourishing
The Enlightenment in Europe
Creating Hybrid Cultures in the Americas
The Influence of European Culture in Oceania
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 15: Reordering the World, 1750–1850
Revolutionary Transformations and New Languages of Freedom
Political Reorderings
Change and Trade in Africa
Economic Reorderings
Persistence and Change in Afro-Eurasia
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 16: Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century
Reactions to Social and Political Change
Prophecy and Revitalization in the Islamic World and Africa
Prophecy and Rebellion in China
Socialists and Radicals in Europe
Insurgencies Against Colonizing and Centralizing States
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 17: Nations and Empires, 1850–1914
Consolidating Nations and Constructing Empires
Expansion and Nation Building in the Americas
Consolidation of Nation-States in Europe
Industry, Science, and Technology
Imperialism and the Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
Pressures of Expansion in Japan, Russia, and China
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 18: An Unsettled World, 1890–1914
Progress, Upheaval, and Movement
Discontent with Imperialism
Worldwide Insecurities
Cultural Modernism
Rethinking Race and Reimagining Nations
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 19: Global Crisis, 1910–1939
The Great War
Mass Society: Culture, Production, and Consumption
Mass Politics: Competing Visions for Building Modern States
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 20: The Three-World Order, 1940–1975
Competing Blocs
World War II and Its Aftermath
The Beginning of the Cold War
Decolonization
Three Worlds
Tensions within the Three Worlds
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 21: Globalization, 1970–2000
Global Integration
Removing Obstacles to Globalization
Unleashing Globalization
Characteristics of the New Global Order
Citizenship in the Global World
Conclusion
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Chapter 22: Twenty-First-Century Global Challenges, 2001–the Present
Global Challenges
The United States, the European Union, and Japan
Russia, China, and India
The Middle East, Africa, and Latin America
A Global Trend Toward Populist Politics and Authoritarian Regimes
Conclusion: Globalization and Its Discontents
Global Themes and Sources
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Further Readings
Glossary
Credits
Index
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