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NOTEpackaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyHistoryLab, search for 0134169093 / 9780134169095 The World: A History, Combined Volume plus MyHistoryLab for World History - Access Card Package, 3/ePackage consists of:* 0133930203 / 9780133930207 The World: A History, Combined Volume, 3/e* 0133861880 / 9780133861884 MyHistoryLab for World History Valuepack Access CardMyHistoryLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor.For courses in World HistoryHelps students see the whole storyThe World: A History interweaves two enduring stories-centered on our interactions with nature and with each other-into a compelling narrative of mankind, from the origins of civilization to the present. Employing an engaging prose style and a comprehensive map program that brings history to life, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto empowers students to see the connections among peoples and events, and to think critically about topics large and small.Also available with MyHistoryLab (R)MyHistoryLab for the World History course extends learning online, engaging students and improving results. Media resources with assignments bring concepts to life, and offer students opportunities to practice applying what they've learned. And Writing Space helps educators develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking through writing, quickly and easily. Please note: this version of MyHistoryLab does not include an eText.The World: A History, Third Edition is also available via REVEL (TM), an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn.
Contents
PART 1 - THE DIVERGENT SPECIESTO 3,000 YEARS AGO1. Of Ice and Mud: From Africa to the World, from Foraging to Farming2. The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States3. The Multiplication of Civilizations: Ambition and InstabilityPART 2 Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits5. The Great Schools: New Thinking in the Age of Sages6. The Great Empires: Cultural Exchange in Big CENTURY7. Post-imperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa8. The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism9. Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal of Environmental Frontiers in the Late First MillenniumPART 4 - CONTACTS AND CONFLICTS, 1000 C.E. TO 1200 C.E.10. Contending with Isolation: Initiatives in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries11. The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and FOURTEENTH CENTURIES12. The World the Mongols Made: Trans-Eurasian Links13. The Revenge of Nature: Plague and Cold in the Fourteenth Century14. Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesPART 6 - CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE, TO CA. 170015. Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries16. The Ecological Revolution: The Global Redistribution of Life-forms17. Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries18. States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesPART 7 - GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENTS, 1700-180019. Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century20. The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires21. The Exchange of Enlightenments: 190022. Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions23. The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century24. Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century25. The Changing State: Nineteenth Century PoliticsPART 9 - CHAOS AND Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World27. Order Unraveled: The Trial of Empires, c.1898 - c.193128. The Anvil of War: Ideology and Violence, c.1931 - c.195729. Paradise Postponed: Cold War between Planned Societies, c.1957 - c.198030. World Order and Disorder: Capitalist Convergence and Conflicts of Culture, c.1980 - c.201031. The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment
