World Civilizations
Subtitle: the global experience
Edition: 4th ed., Advanced Placement ed.
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780321194473
Table of contents: title: About the authors; title: Prologue; title: Part 1 : The rise of agriculture and agricultural civilizations.; title: From human prehistory to the early civilizations; title: Part 2 : The classical period, 1000 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.; title: Classical civilization : China; title: Classical civilization : India; title: Classical civilization in the Mediterranean : Greece and Rome; title: The classical period : directions, diversities, and declines by 500 B.C.E.; title: Part 3 : The postclassical era.; title: The first global civilization : the rise and spread of Islam; title: Abbasid decline and the spread of Islamic civilization to South and Southeast Asia; title: African civilizations and the spread of Islam; title: Civilization in Eastern Europe : Byzantium and Orthodox Europe; title: A new civilization emerges in Western Europe; title: The Americas on the eve of invasion; title: Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese civilization : the era of the Tang and Song Dynasties; title: The spread of Chinese civilization : Japan, Korea, and Vietnam; title: The last great nomadic challenges : from Chinggis Khan to Timur; title: The West and the changing world balance; title: Part 4 : The world shrinks, 1450-1750.; title: The world economy; title: The transformation of the West, 1450-1750; title: The rise of Russia; title: Early Latin America; title: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic slave trade; title: The Muslim empires; title: Asian transitions in an age of global change; title: Part 5 : Industrialization and western global hegemony, 1750-1914.; title: The emergence of industrial society in the West, 1750-1914; title: Industrialization and imperialism : the making of the European global order; title: The consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920; title: Civilizations in crisis : the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic heartlands, and Qing China; title: Russia and Japan : industrialization outside the West; title: Part 6 : The 20th century in world history.; title: Descent into the abyss : World War I and the crisis of the European global order; title: The world in the 1920s : challenges to European dominance; title: The Great Depression and the authoritarian response; title: A second global conflict and the end of the European world order; title: Western society and Eastern Europe in the decades of the Cold War; title: Latin America : revolution and reaction into the 21st century; title: Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the era of independence; title: Rebirth and revolution : nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim; title: Globalization and resistance : world history 1990-2003