Civilization Past & Present, Volume B (from 500 to 1815),9780321317766

Civilization Past & Present, Volume B (from 500 to 1815)

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Edition: 11th
ISBN13: 9780321317766
ISBN10: 0321317769
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary

The authors of the Eleventh Edition ofCivilization Past and Presentspecialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European historyweave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students.Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative traces connections across cultures and introduces intriguing avenues of historical interpretation. The text examines all aspects of world historysocial, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

Table of Contents

Documents xiv
Maps
xiv
Global Issues xv
Discovery Through Maps xv
Chapter Opening Image Descriptions xv
To the Instructor xvii
To the Student xxviii
The European Middle Ages, 476--1348 C.E.
256(30)
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
258(2)
The Merovingians and Carolingians
260(6)
Feudalism and Manorialism
266(5)
The Revival of Trade and Towns
271(1)
The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000--1348
272(3)
The Crusades
275(3)
The Development of European States: 1000--1348
278(8)
Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220--1350
286(36)
India in the Classical and Medieval Eras
288(6)
China: Cultural and Political Empires
294(16)
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One
310(2)
The Emergence of Japan in East Asia
312(10)
The Americas to 1492
322(24)
Origins of Americans and Their Cultures
324(1)
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica
325(2)
Classical Mayan Civilization
327(2)
The Postclassical Era
329(7)
The Amerindians of North America
336(10)
Global Issues Location and Identity
344(2)
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300--1650
346(24)
New Polities in Eurasia
348(1)
The Ottoman Empire
349(8)
The Safavid Empire in Persia
357(4)
The Mughal Empire in South Asia
361(6)
Networks of Trade and Communication
367(3)
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300--1650
370(26)
China: The Ming Dynasty
373(8)
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society
381(3)
Japan: The Era of Shoguns and Warring States
384(7)
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region
391(5)
European Cultural and Religious Transformations: The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300--1600
396(36)
Social Upheaval
398(1)
The Italian Renaissance
399(5)
Italian Renaissance Art
404(4)
The Northern Renaissance
408(5)
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300--1517
413(3)
Luther and the German Reformation
416(3)
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation
419(2)
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland: Zwingli and Calvin
421(5)
Reform in the Catholic Church
426(6)
The Development of the European State System, 1300--1650
432(30)
Politics in an Age of Crisis: 1300--1500
434(8)
The Religious-Political Fusion
442(1)
Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs' Quest for European Hegemony, 1556--1598
443(7)
Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion
450(3)
The Austrian Habsburgs' Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years' War
453(9)
Global Issues Technological Exchange
460(2)
Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400--1650
462(28)
The Iberian Golden Age
464(5)
The Portuguese and Africa
469(5)
The Growth of New Spain
474(3)
Iberian Systems in the New World
477(5)
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion
482(8)
Politics in the First Age of Capitalism, 1648--1774: Absolutism and Limited Central Power
490(36)
Capitalism and the Forces of Change
492(4)
Social Crises during the Capitalist Revolution
496(6)
Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism
502(5)
The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism
507(5)
Holland and England: Limited Central Power
512(4)
Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War in the Age of Absolutism: 1650--1774
516(4)
Economic Challenges
520(2)
Louis XV and the Decline of European Absolutism: 1715--1774
522(4)
New Ideas and Their Political Consequences: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions
526(34)
Revolution in Science: The Laws of Nature
528(4)
The Sciences of Society: The ``Age of Reason''
532(7)
The Failure of Monarchical Reform
539(2)
The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789--1799
541(11)
The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799--1815
552(8)
Africa, 1650--1850
560(26)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
562(6)
End of the Slave Trade in West Africa
568(1)
Islamic Africa
569(2)
Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa
571(7)
African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa
578(8)
Global Issues Slavery
584(2)
Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650--1815
586
The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era
588(5)
Muslim Politics in Persia
593(1)
Early Modern India under the Mughals
594(4)
The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War
598(6)
Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
604(1)
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period
605(8)
Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions
613(2)
Europeans on New Pacific Frontiers
615
Credits 1(1)
Notes 1(1)
Index 1

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