World Civilizations
The Global Experience, Volume 2, Atlas Edition
5th Edition
Published on 17. May 2007
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With 83 additional outline and four-color maps, World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition, Atlas Edition, helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of World history courses for many. The maps are accompanied by review questions that call on students to identify important geographical areas and think critically about the connection between geography and historical events. The maps are on perforated pages and are organized by chapter so that they can be assigned easily and collected.
The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts.
This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies. Presenting social and cultural as well as political and economic aspects, the book examines key civilizations in world history. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.
The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts.
This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies. Presenting social and cultural as well as political and economic aspects, the book examines key civilizations in world history. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.
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Content
PART IV
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, 1450-1750: THE WORLD SHRINKS
CHAPTER 21 The World Economy
The West's First Outreach: Maritime Power
In Depth:Causation and the West's Expansion
Toward a World Economy
Visualizing the Past:West Indian Slaveholding
Colonial Expansion
Document:Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives
Global Connections:The World Economy-and the World
CHAPTER 22 The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750
Changes in Childhood
The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce, 1450-1650
Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change
Visualizing the Past:Versailles
In Depth:Elites and Masses
The West by 1750
Document:Controversies About Women
Global Connections:Europe and the World
CHAPTER 23 The Rise of Russia
New Tsars and Their Claims
Russia's Expansionist Politics Under the Tsars
Russia's First Westernization, 1690-1790
Document:The Nature of Westernization
Themes in Early Modern Russian History
Visualizing the Past:Oppressed Peasants
In Depth:Multinational Empires
Global Connections:Russia and the World
CHAPTER 24 Early Latin America
Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest to Conquest
Document:A Vision from the Vanquished
The Destruction and Transformation of American Indian Societies
In Depth:The Great Exchange
Colonial Economies and Governments
Brazil: The First Plantation Colony
Multiracial Societies
Visualizing the Past:Race or Culture? A Changing Society
The 18th-Century Reforms
Global Connections:Latin American Civilization and the World Context
CHAPTER 25 Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade
African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
Visualizing the Past:Symbols of African Kingship
White Settlers and Africans in Southern Africa
In Depth:Slavery and Human Society
The African Diaspora
Document:An African's Description of the Middle Passage
Global Connections:Africa and the African Diaspora in World Context
CHAPTER 26 The Muslim Empires
The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors to Empire Builders
Document:An Islamic Traveler Laments the Muslims' Indifference to Europe
The Shi'a Challenge of the Safavids
In Depth:The Gunpowder Empires and the Shifting Balance of Global Power
The Mughals and the Apex of Muslim Civilization in India
Visualizing the Past:The Basis of Imperial Power in the Rival Muslim Empires
Global Connections:Gunpowder Empires and the Restoration of the Islamic Bridge Between Civilizations
CHAPTER 27 Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change
The Asian Trading World and the Coming of the Europeans
Visualizing the Past:Intruders: The Pattern of Early European Expansion into Asia
Ming China: A Global Mission Refused
Document:Exam Questions as a Mirror of Chinese Values
In Depth:Means and Motives for Overseas Expansion: Europe and China Compared
Fending Off the West: Japan's Reunification and the First Challenge
Global Connections:An Age of Eurasian Closure
PART V
THE DAWN OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE, 1750-1914
CHAPTER 28 The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914
The Age of Revolution
Visualizing the Past: The French Revolution in Cartoons
The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914
Document: Women in the Industrial Revolution
Cultural Transformations
Western Settler Societies
In Depth: The United States in World History
Diplomatic Tensions and World War I
Global Connections:Industrial Europe and the World
CHAPTER 29 Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
The Shift to Land Empires in Asia
In Depth:Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class
Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, 1870-1914
Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change
Visualizing the Past:Capitalism and Colonialism
Document:Contrary Images: The Colonizer Versus the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission"
Global Connections:A European-Dominated World Order
CHAPTER 30 The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
From Colonies to Nations
New Nations Confront Old and New Problems
Document:Confronting the Hispanic Heritage: From Independence to Consolidation
Latin American Economies and World Markets, 1820-1870
Societies in Search of Themselves
In Depth:Explaining Underdevelopment
The Great Boom, 1880-1920
Global Connections:New Latin American Nations and the World
CHAPTER 31 Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
From Empire to Nation: Ottoman Retreat and the Birth of Turkey
In Depth:Western Dominance and the Decline of Civilizations
Western Intrusions and the Crisis in the Arab Islamic Heartlands
The Last Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Qing Empire in China
Document:Building a New China
Global Connections:Muslim and Chinese Decline and a Shifting Global Balance
CHAPTER 32 Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West
Reforming Within Tradition: Yukichi Fukuzawa
Signs of Change in Russia and Japan
Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance
Document:Conditions for Factory Workers in Russia's Industrialization
Protest and Revolution in Russia
Japan: Transformation Without Revolution
In Depth:The Separate Paths of Japan and China
Visualizing the Past:Two Faces of Western Influence
Global Connections:Russia and Japan in the World
PART VI
THE NEWEST STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY: 1914 -PRESENT
CHAPTER 33 Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order
The Coming of the Great War
A World at War
Visualizing the Past:Trench Warfare
Failed Peace
World War I and the Nationalist Assault on the European Colonial Order
Document:Lessons for the Colonized from the Slaughter in the Trenches
In Depth:Women in Asian and African Nationalist Movements
Global Connections:World War and Global Upheavals
CHAPTER 34 The World Between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response
A Communist Dilemma
The "Roaring Twenties"
Revolution: The First Waves
In Depth:A Century of Revolutions
The Global Great Depression
The Authoritarian Response
Document:Socialist Realism
Visualizing the Past:Socialist Realism
Global Connections:Depression, Authoritarian Response and Retreat
CHAPTER 35 A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order
Old and New Causes of a Second World War
Unchecked Aggression and the Coming of War in Europe and the Pacific
In Depth: Total War
The Conduct of a Second Global War
Document: Japan and the Loss in World War II
War's End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff
Nationalism and Decolonization
Visualizing the Past: On National Leadership
Global Connections: Persisting Trends in a World Transformed by War
CHAPTER 36 Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
World Opinion and the Bomb
After World War II: A New International Setting for the West
The Resurgence of Western Europe
In Depth:The United States and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity
Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Culture and Society in the West
Visualizing the Past:Women at Work in France and the United States
Eastern Europe After World War II: A Soviet Empire
Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions
Document:1986: A New Wave of Soviet Reform
Global Connections:The Cold War and the World
CHAPTER 37 Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century
Latin America After World War II
Radical Options in the 1950s
Visualizing the Past:Murals and Posters: Art and Revolution
The Search for Reform and the Military Option
Document:The People Speak
In Depth:Human Rights in the 20th Century
Societies in Search of Change
Global Connections:Struggling Toward the Future in a Global Economy
CHAPTER 38 Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
The Challenges of Independence
In Depth: Artificial Nations and the Rising Tide of Communal Strife
Document: Cultural Creativity in the Emerging Nations: Some Literary Samples
Paths to Economic Growth and Social Justice
Visualizing the Past:Globalization and Postcolonial Societies
Global Connections:Postcolonial Nations in the Cold War World Order
CHAPTER 39 Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Japan, Incorporated
The Pacific Rim: New Japans?
Visualizing the Past:Pacific Rim Growth
In Depth: The Pacific Rim as a U.S. Policy Issue
Mao's China and Beyond
Document:Women in the Revolutionary Struggle
Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Global Connections:East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Contemporary World
CHAPTER 40 The End of the Cold War and the Shape of a New Era: World History 1990-2006
Democracy and Human Rights
The End of the Cold War
The Spread of Democracy
Document: China and Democracy
The Great Powers and New Disputes
The United States as Superpower
In Depth: Terrorism Then and Now
Global Connections:New Global Standards, New Divisions
CHAPTER 41 Globalization and Resistance: World History 1990-2006
Combining the Global and the Traditional
Globalization: Causes and Processes
In Depth: How Much Historical Change?
Document: Protests Against Globalization
Resistance and Alternatives
The Global Environment
Toward the Future
Global Connections:Civilizations and Global Forces
Maps
Map 21.1 Spain and Portugal: Explorations and Colonies ca. 1600
Map 21.2 French, British and Dutch holdings, ca. 1700
Map 22.1 Western Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation, ca. 14th-15th centuries
Map 22.2 European Population Density c. 1600
Map 23.1 Russian expansion under the Early Tzars
Map 23.2 Russia under Peter the Great
Map 24.1 European empires in Latin America
Map 24.2 Russia's holdings by 1800 and 24.3 Russian Expansion 1815-1914
Map 25.1 Africa, 1500 -1800
Map 25.2 Portuguese Expansion and Major African Kingdoms
Map 26.1 Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Map 26.2 Gunpowder Islamic empires
Map 27.1 Ming China and Zheng He Expeditions, 1405-1423
Map 27.2 Routes and Products Exchanged in the Asian Trading Network, ca. 1500
Map 28.1 European Empires in 1763
Map 28.2 Napoleon's Empire in 1812
Map 29.1 Growth of British Control in India, 1750's -1858
Map 29. 2 The Scramble for Africa
Map 30.1 Americas, 1800-1836
Map 30.2 Latin America
Map 31.1 Treaty ports and the Boxer Rebellion in China
Map 31.2 Decline of the Ottoman Empire
Map 32.1 Imperialism in Asia, 1914
Map 32.2 Japanese colonial expansion to 1914
Map 33.1 World War I fronts in Europe and the Middle East
Map 33.2 World at War
Map 34.1 From Dominions to Nationhood: Formation of Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Map 34.2 Eastern Europe iand the Soviet Union 1919-1939
Map 35.1 China in the era of Revolution and Civil War
Map 35.2 Farthest Limits of Japanese Conquests
Map 36.1 World War II in the Pacific Outline Map
Map 36.2 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine Outline Map
Map 37.1 Cold War Europe
Map 37.2 Cold War Military Stand-off
Map 38.1 Contemporary Latin America
Map 38.2 U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, 1898-1981
Map 39.1 After Empire: Africa and the Middle East
Map 39.2 Partition of South Asia: The Formation of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Map 40.1 Imperialism in Southeast Asia, c. 1914 Outline Map
Map 40.2 After Empire: Independent Asia
Map 41.1 Post Soviet Union Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Map 41.2 Contemporary World
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, 1450-1750: THE WORLD SHRINKS
CHAPTER 21 The World Economy
The West's First Outreach: Maritime Power
In Depth:Causation and the West's Expansion
Toward a World Economy
Visualizing the Past:West Indian Slaveholding
Colonial Expansion
Document:Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives
Global Connections:The World Economy-and the World
CHAPTER 22 The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750
Changes in Childhood
The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce, 1450-1650
Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change
Visualizing the Past:Versailles
In Depth:Elites and Masses
The West by 1750
Document:Controversies About Women
Global Connections:Europe and the World
CHAPTER 23 The Rise of Russia
New Tsars and Their Claims
Russia's Expansionist Politics Under the Tsars
Russia's First Westernization, 1690-1790
Document:The Nature of Westernization
Themes in Early Modern Russian History
Visualizing the Past:Oppressed Peasants
In Depth:Multinational Empires
Global Connections:Russia and the World
CHAPTER 24 Early Latin America
Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest to Conquest
Document:A Vision from the Vanquished
The Destruction and Transformation of American Indian Societies
In Depth:The Great Exchange
Colonial Economies and Governments
Brazil: The First Plantation Colony
Multiracial Societies
Visualizing the Past:Race or Culture? A Changing Society
The 18th-Century Reforms
Global Connections:Latin American Civilization and the World Context
CHAPTER 25 Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade
African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
Visualizing the Past:Symbols of African Kingship
White Settlers and Africans in Southern Africa
In Depth:Slavery and Human Society
The African Diaspora
Document:An African's Description of the Middle Passage
Global Connections:Africa and the African Diaspora in World Context
CHAPTER 26 The Muslim Empires
The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors to Empire Builders
Document:An Islamic Traveler Laments the Muslims' Indifference to Europe
The Shi'a Challenge of the Safavids
In Depth:The Gunpowder Empires and the Shifting Balance of Global Power
The Mughals and the Apex of Muslim Civilization in India
Visualizing the Past:The Basis of Imperial Power in the Rival Muslim Empires
Global Connections:Gunpowder Empires and the Restoration of the Islamic Bridge Between Civilizations
CHAPTER 27 Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change
The Asian Trading World and the Coming of the Europeans
Visualizing the Past:Intruders: The Pattern of Early European Expansion into Asia
Ming China: A Global Mission Refused
Document:Exam Questions as a Mirror of Chinese Values
In Depth:Means and Motives for Overseas Expansion: Europe and China Compared
Fending Off the West: Japan's Reunification and the First Challenge
Global Connections:An Age of Eurasian Closure
PART V
THE DAWN OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE, 1750-1914
CHAPTER 28 The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914
The Age of Revolution
Visualizing the Past: The French Revolution in Cartoons
The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914
Document: Women in the Industrial Revolution
Cultural Transformations
Western Settler Societies
In Depth: The United States in World History
Diplomatic Tensions and World War I
Global Connections:Industrial Europe and the World
CHAPTER 29 Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
The Shift to Land Empires in Asia
In Depth:Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class
Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, 1870-1914
Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change
Visualizing the Past:Capitalism and Colonialism
Document:Contrary Images: The Colonizer Versus the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission"
Global Connections:A European-Dominated World Order
CHAPTER 30 The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
From Colonies to Nations
New Nations Confront Old and New Problems
Document:Confronting the Hispanic Heritage: From Independence to Consolidation
Latin American Economies and World Markets, 1820-1870
Societies in Search of Themselves
In Depth:Explaining Underdevelopment
The Great Boom, 1880-1920
Global Connections:New Latin American Nations and the World
CHAPTER 31 Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
From Empire to Nation: Ottoman Retreat and the Birth of Turkey
In Depth:Western Dominance and the Decline of Civilizations
Western Intrusions and the Crisis in the Arab Islamic Heartlands
The Last Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Qing Empire in China
Document:Building a New China
Global Connections:Muslim and Chinese Decline and a Shifting Global Balance
CHAPTER 32 Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West
Reforming Within Tradition: Yukichi Fukuzawa
Signs of Change in Russia and Japan
Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance
Document:Conditions for Factory Workers in Russia's Industrialization
Protest and Revolution in Russia
Japan: Transformation Without Revolution
In Depth:The Separate Paths of Japan and China
Visualizing the Past:Two Faces of Western Influence
Global Connections:Russia and Japan in the World
PART VI
THE NEWEST STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY: 1914 -PRESENT
CHAPTER 33 Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order
The Coming of the Great War
A World at War
Visualizing the Past:Trench Warfare
Failed Peace
World War I and the Nationalist Assault on the European Colonial Order
Document:Lessons for the Colonized from the Slaughter in the Trenches
In Depth:Women in Asian and African Nationalist Movements
Global Connections:World War and Global Upheavals
CHAPTER 34 The World Between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response
A Communist Dilemma
The "Roaring Twenties"
Revolution: The First Waves
In Depth:A Century of Revolutions
The Global Great Depression
The Authoritarian Response
Document:Socialist Realism
Visualizing the Past:Socialist Realism
Global Connections:Depression, Authoritarian Response and Retreat
CHAPTER 35 A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order
Old and New Causes of a Second World War
Unchecked Aggression and the Coming of War in Europe and the Pacific
In Depth: Total War
The Conduct of a Second Global War
Document: Japan and the Loss in World War II
War's End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff
Nationalism and Decolonization
Visualizing the Past: On National Leadership
Global Connections: Persisting Trends in a World Transformed by War
CHAPTER 36 Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
World Opinion and the Bomb
After World War II: A New International Setting for the West
The Resurgence of Western Europe
In Depth:The United States and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity
Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Culture and Society in the West
Visualizing the Past:Women at Work in France and the United States
Eastern Europe After World War II: A Soviet Empire
Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions
Document:1986: A New Wave of Soviet Reform
Global Connections:The Cold War and the World
CHAPTER 37 Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century
Latin America After World War II
Radical Options in the 1950s
Visualizing the Past:Murals and Posters: Art and Revolution
The Search for Reform and the Military Option
Document:The People Speak
In Depth:Human Rights in the 20th Century
Societies in Search of Change
Global Connections:Struggling Toward the Future in a Global Economy
CHAPTER 38 Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
The Challenges of Independence
In Depth: Artificial Nations and the Rising Tide of Communal Strife
Document: Cultural Creativity in the Emerging Nations: Some Literary Samples
Paths to Economic Growth and Social Justice
Visualizing the Past:Globalization and Postcolonial Societies
Global Connections:Postcolonial Nations in the Cold War World Order
CHAPTER 39 Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
East Asia in the Postwar Settlements
Japan, Incorporated
The Pacific Rim: New Japans?
Visualizing the Past:Pacific Rim Growth
In Depth: The Pacific Rim as a U.S. Policy Issue
Mao's China and Beyond
Document:Women in the Revolutionary Struggle
Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
Global Connections:East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Contemporary World
CHAPTER 40 The End of the Cold War and the Shape of a New Era: World History 1990-2006
Democracy and Human Rights
The End of the Cold War
The Spread of Democracy
Document: China and Democracy
The Great Powers and New Disputes
The United States as Superpower
In Depth: Terrorism Then and Now
Global Connections:New Global Standards, New Divisions
CHAPTER 41 Globalization and Resistance: World History 1990-2006
Combining the Global and the Traditional
Globalization: Causes and Processes
In Depth: How Much Historical Change?
Document: Protests Against Globalization
Resistance and Alternatives
The Global Environment
Toward the Future
Global Connections:Civilizations and Global Forces
Maps
Map 21.1 Spain and Portugal: Explorations and Colonies ca. 1600
Map 21.2 French, British and Dutch holdings, ca. 1700
Map 22.1 Western Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation, ca. 14th-15th centuries
Map 22.2 European Population Density c. 1600
Map 23.1 Russian expansion under the Early Tzars
Map 23.2 Russia under Peter the Great
Map 24.1 European empires in Latin America
Map 24.2 Russia's holdings by 1800 and 24.3 Russian Expansion 1815-1914
Map 25.1 Africa, 1500 -1800
Map 25.2 Portuguese Expansion and Major African Kingdoms
Map 26.1 Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Map 26.2 Gunpowder Islamic empires
Map 27.1 Ming China and Zheng He Expeditions, 1405-1423
Map 27.2 Routes and Products Exchanged in the Asian Trading Network, ca. 1500
Map 28.1 European Empires in 1763
Map 28.2 Napoleon's Empire in 1812
Map 29.1 Growth of British Control in India, 1750's -1858
Map 29. 2 The Scramble for Africa
Map 30.1 Americas, 1800-1836
Map 30.2 Latin America
Map 31.1 Treaty ports and the Boxer Rebellion in China
Map 31.2 Decline of the Ottoman Empire
Map 32.1 Imperialism in Asia, 1914
Map 32.2 Japanese colonial expansion to 1914
Map 33.1 World War I fronts in Europe and the Middle East
Map 33.2 World at War
Map 34.1 From Dominions to Nationhood: Formation of Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Map 34.2 Eastern Europe iand the Soviet Union 1919-1939
Map 35.1 China in the era of Revolution and Civil War
Map 35.2 Farthest Limits of Japanese Conquests
Map 36.1 World War II in the Pacific Outline Map
Map 36.2 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine Outline Map
Map 37.1 Cold War Europe
Map 37.2 Cold War Military Stand-off
Map 38.1 Contemporary Latin America
Map 38.2 U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, 1898-1981
Map 39.1 After Empire: Africa and the Middle East
Map 39.2 Partition of South Asia: The Formation of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Map 40.1 Imperialism in Southeast Asia, c. 1914 Outline Map
Map 40.2 After Empire: Independent Asia
Map 41.1 Post Soviet Union Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Map 41.2 Contemporary World