An edition of World Civilizations
(2011)
World Civilizations
the global experience
6th ed., AP ed.
by Peter N. Stearns
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World Civilizations: the global experience
2011, Pearson Longman
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- 6th ed., AP ed.
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Prologue
Part I : From hunting and gathering to civilizations, 2.5 million-1000 B.C.E. : origins.
From human prehistory to the early civilizations
Part II : The classical period, 1000 B.C.E.-500 C.E. : uniting large regions.
Classical civilization : China
Classical civilization : India
Classical civilizations in the Mediterranean and Middle East
The classical period : directions, diversities, and declines by 500 C.E.
Part III : The postclassical period, 500-1450 : new faith and new commerce.
The first global civilization : the rise and spread of Islam
Abbasid decline and the spread of Islamic civilization to South and Southeast Asia
African civilizations and the spread of Islam
Civilization in Eastern Europe : Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
A new civilization emerges in Western Europe
The Americas on the eve of invasion
Reunification and renaissance in Chinese civilization : the era of the Tang and Song dynasties
The spread of Chinese civilization : Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
The last great nomadic challenges : from Chinggis Khan to Timur
The world in 1450 : changing balance of world power
Part IV : The early modern period, 1450-1750 : the world shrinks.
The world economy
The transformation of the West, 1450-1750
The rise of Russia
Early Latin America
Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic slave trade
The Muslim empires
Asian transitions in an age of global change
Part V : The dawn of the Industrial Age, 1750-1914.
The emergence of industrial society in the West, 1750-1914
Industrialization and imperialism : the making of the European global order
The consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
Civilizations in crisis : the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic heartlands, and Qing China
Russia and Japan : industrialization outside the West
Part VI : The newest stage of world history : 1914-present.
Descent into the abyss : World War I and the crisis of the European global order
The world between the wars : revolutions, Depression, and authoritarian response
A second global conflict and the end of the European world order
Western society and Eastern Europe in the decades of the Cold War
Latin America : revolution and reaction into the 21st century
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the era of independence
Rebirth and revolution : nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
Power, politics, and conflict in world history, 1990-2010
Globalization and resistance
Edition Notes
"Longman is an imprint of Pearson." - T.p. verso.
"Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall" - label on front cover.
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