The search for order
Subtitle: landmarks of world civilizations.
By: Marc Anthony Meyer.
Publisher: Dushkin Pub. Group
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781561342310
Subjects: Civilization -- History.
Other titles: Search for order : landmarks of world civilization. Vol. 2, From 1500 to the present.
Description: Through the selections in volume two students of world civilizations will find themselves amidst the power of myth in an African folktale; the cries against tyranny in Two Declarations of the Rights of Man and Citizen; the strength of love in Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize lecture; and discover that the issues raised in historical studies are as relevant to their own lives as to the field itself. -Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Early modern world, an age of philosophers and reformers: Africa and Southwest Eurasia; South and Southeast Eurasia; East Eurasia; West Eurasia; Americas; title: Modern world, an age of revolutionaries and reactionaries: Africa and Southwest Eurasia; South and Southeast Eurasia; East Eurasia; West Eurasia; Americas; title: Contemporary world; Africa and Southwest Eurasia; South and Southeast Eurasia; East Eurasia; West Eurasia; Americas; title: Glossary.