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Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: WORLD HISTORY, Fifth Edition, offers readers the engaging WORLD HISTORY text in a compact, affordable format. WORLD HISTORY is a global text that examines world civilizations in a comparative way. Learn to recognize and analyze trends and interconnections across history and civilizations, and gain a clearer view of the social and political forces that have shaped our world. CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: WORLD HISTORY includes 93 maps and over 100 primary source excerpts that enliven the past while introducing readers to the source material of historical scholarship.
Contents
Introduction. Paleolithic and Neolithic Cultures around the World.1. Early Civilization in West Asia, Africa, the Aegean, and the Western Hemisphere2. The Early Civilizations of South and East Asia.3. The Flowering of Great Faiths and Philosophies.4. The Age of Great Empires.5. Disruption and Renewal in West Asia and Europe.6. Disruption and Renewal in South and East Asia.7. Developing Civilizations.8. Three Continents: Conflict and Commerce.9. Emerging Global Interrelations.10. Asia in the Early Modern Era.11. The West: 1600-1800.12. The Modernization of the Western World.13. The Race for Empire and World War I.14. Twentieth-Century Political and Cultural Ferment.15. The Interwar Years, World War II, and the Cold War.16. Global Conflicts during the Cold War: 1945-1989.17. Life in a Multipolar World: The Post-Cold War Era.
