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基本説明
An updated and shortened new edition of an outstanding treatment of social history featuring lively writing and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide range of individuals.
Full Description
This is an updated and shortened edition of an outstanding treatment of social history that provides students with a vivid and approachable account of what life was like throughout human history. It provides students with one of the most vivid and approachable accounts of what life was like throughout the entire course of human history. It features lively, descriptive writing, a range of illustrations and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide variety of individuals. The new updated edition incorporates the latest scholarship, has been reorganised and shortened to make the text less unwieldy, includes new illustrations, and contains expanded treatment of non-European societies and cultures, gender, and cross-cultural comparisons and connections.This is an updated and shortened new edition of an outstanding treatment of social history featuring lively writing and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide range of individuals. Combined with political, cultural, and economic coverage it provides students with a vivid and approachable account of what life was like throughout human history.
Contents
Preface Maps Listening to the Past Early Civilization on Afroeurasia, to 450 B.C.E. The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 C.E. China's Classical Age, to 256 B.C.E. The Greek Experience The World of Rome East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 256 B.C.E.-800 C.E. Europe and Western Asia, ca. 350-850 The Islamic World, ca 600-1400 African Societies and Kingdoms, ca 400-1450 Civilizations of the Americas, 2500 B.C.E.-1500 C.E. Central and Southern Asia, to 1400 East Asia, ca 800-1400 Europe in the Middle Ages, 850-1400 Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600 The Acceleration of Global Contact Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe, ca 1589-1725 Toward a New World-View in the West, 1540-1789 Africa and the World, ca 1400-1800 The Islamic World Powers, ca 1400-1800 Continuity and Change in East Asia, ca 1400-1800 The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815 The Industrial Revolution in Europe, ca 1780-1860 The Triumph of Nationalism in Europe, 1815-1914 Africa, Southwest Asia, and Western Imperialism, 1800-1914 Asia in the Era of Western Imperialism, 1800-1914 Nation Building in the Western Hemisphere and Australia The Great Break: War and Revolution Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939 The Age of Anxiety in the West Dictatorship and the Second World War Global Recovery and Division Between Superpowers Latin America, Asia, and Africa in the Contemporary World A New Era in World History Epilogue: The Middle East in Today's World Index
