The Earth and Its Peoples

Table of Contents

PART ONE The Emergence of Human Communities, to 500 B.C.E.
1 From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 8000-1500 B.C.E.; 4-35
2 New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250 B.C.E.; 36-58
3 The Mediterranean and the Middle East, 2000-500 B.C.E.; 59-88

PART TWO The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E. - 600 C.E.
4 Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.; 92-122
5 An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E.; 123-149
6 India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E. - 600 C.E.; 150-172
7 Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.- 600 C.E.; 173-192

PART THREE Competition Among Cultural Communities, 600 - 1200
8 The Rise of Islam, 600-1200; 196-217
9 Christian Europe Emerges, 600-1200; 218- 242
10 Inner and East Asia, 600-1200; 243-266
11 Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 600-1500; 267-290

PART FOUR Interregional Patterns of Culture and Contact, 1200-1550
12 Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500; 291- 323
13 Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500; 324-348
14 The Latin West, 1200-1500; 351-374
15 The Maritime Revolution, to 1550; 375-400

PART FIVE The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1750
16 Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750; 401-429
17 The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770; 430-456
18 The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800; 457-483
19 Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750; 484-509
20 Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800; 510-535

PART SIX Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870
21 Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850; 536-567
22 The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851; 568-591
23 Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890; 592-622
24 Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870; 623-649
25 Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870; 650-676

PART SEVEN Global Diversity and Dominance, 1850-1945
26 The New Power Balance, 1850-1900; 677-706
27 The New Imperialism, 1869-1914; 707-734
28 The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929; 735-764
29 The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949; 765-792
30 Striving for Independence: Africa, India, and Latin America, 1900-194; 793-816

PART EIGHT Perils and Promises of a Global Community, 1945 to the Present
31 The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975; 817-846
32 Crisis, Realignment, and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War World, 1975-1991; 847-877
33 Globalization at the Turn of the Millennium; 878-905




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