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Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time with THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, International Edition. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. You can use the book's global approach and its emphasis on analytical comparisons between cultures to link events together in a broad comparative and global framework that places the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.
Contents
PART III14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market.15. Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building.16. The Muslim Empires.17. The East Asian World.18. The West on the Eve of a New World Order19. The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century20. The Americas and Society and Culture in the West.21. The High Tide of Imperialism.22. Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge.23. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.24. Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, The Middle East, and Latin America. from 1919 to 1939.25. The Crisis Deepens: World War II.PART V: TOWARD A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION? THE WORL SCIENCE 1945. 26. East and West in the Grip of the Cold War.27. Brave New World: Communism on Trial.28. Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945.29. Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East.30. Toward the Pacific Century?Epilogue: A Global Civilization.
