World civilizations / Philip J. Adler, Randall L. Pouwels.

By:

Adler, Philip J [author]

Contributor(s):

Pouwels, Randall Lee [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Australia : Cengage Learning, c2018.Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xxiv, 681, G-19, I-28 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781305959873 (student edition)
1305959876

Subject(s):

Civilization -- History -- Textbooks

LOC classification:

CB69 Ad5 2018

Online resources:

Contents:

Unit I. From human origins to agrarian communities c.100,000-500 B.C.E. -- The earliest human societies -- Mesopotamia -- Early Africa and Egypt -- Central Asia and India’s beginnings -- Ancient China to 221 B.C.E. -- Settlement of the Americans and the Pacific Islands -- Unit II. Classical civilizations of the world, 500 C.E. -- New civilizations and empires in Western and Central Asia -- The Greek adventure -- Greek humanism, 800-100 B.C.E. -- Rome: from city-state of empire -- The Roman empire and the rise of Christianity in the west, 31 B.C.E.-800 C.E. -- Iran, India, and “global” trade -- Imperial China in its golden age -- Unit III. The post-classical era, C.E. -- The Americas to the fifteenth century -- Islam -- Mature Islamic civilization and the first global civilization -- Africa from Axum to 1400 -- The Mongols unify Eurasia -- Japan and southeast Asia -- The European Middle Ages, C.800-1500 -- The late European Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Unit IV. Expanding webs of interaction C.1400-1800 -- A larger world opens -- Religious division and political consolidation in Europe -- The gunpowder empires of Western and Southern Asia -- Africa in the era of expansion -- China from the Ming through the early Qing dynasty -- Japan and southeast Asia in the era of European expansion -- From conquest to colonies in Hispanic America -- Unit V. Revolutions, ideology, and new imperialism, and the age of empire, 1700-1920 -- The scientific revolution and its enlightened aftermath -- Liberalism and the challenge to absolute monarchy -- The early industrial revolution -- Europe: new ideas and new nations -- Advanced industrial society -- The Islamic world, 1600-1917 -- India and southeast Asia under colonial rule -- European imperialism and Africa during the age of industry -- China in the age of imperialism -- Latin America from independence to dependent states -- Modern science and its implications -- Unit VI. Toward a globalized world, 1916-present -- World War I and its disputed settlement -- A fragile balance: Europe in the twenties -- The soviet experiment to World War II --Totalitarianism refined: the Nazi state -- East Asia in a century of change -- World War II -- The Cold world war -- Decolonization of the Non-western world --The new Asia -- Africa’s decolonization and independence -- Latin America in the twentieth century -- The reemergence of the Muslim world --Collapse and reemergence in communist Europe -- A new millennium.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	RUS CB69 Ad5 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Room use only	77883		00077832

Previous edition: 2012.

Includes index.

Unit I. From human origins to agrarian communities c.100,000-500 B.C.E. -- The earliest human societies -- Mesopotamia -- Early Africa and Egypt --
Central Asia and India’s beginnings -- Ancient China to 221 B.C.E. -- Settlement of the Americans and the Pacific Islands -- Unit II. Classical civilizations of the world, 500 C.E. -- New civilizations and empires in Western and Central Asia -- The Greek adventure -- Greek humanism, 800-100 B.C.E. -- Rome: from city-state of empire -- The Roman empire and the rise of Christianity in the west, 31 B.C.E.-800 C.E. -- Iran, India, and “global” trade --
Imperial China in its golden age -- Unit III. The post-classical era, C.E. -- The Americas to the fifteenth century -- Islam -- Mature Islamic civilization and the first global civilization -- Africa from Axum to 1400 -- The Mongols unify Eurasia -- Japan and southeast Asia -- The European Middle Ages, C.800-1500 -- The late European Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Unit IV. Expanding webs of interaction C.1400-1800 -- A larger world opens -- Religious division and political consolidation in Europe -- The gunpowder empires of Western and Southern Asia -- Africa in the era of expansion -- China from the Ming through the early Qing dynasty -- Japan and southeast Asia in the era of European expansion -- From conquest to colonies in Hispanic America --
Unit V. Revolutions, ideology, and new imperialism, and the age of empire, 1700-1920 -- The scientific revolution and its enlightened aftermath -- Liberalism and the challenge to absolute monarchy -- The early industrial revolution -- Europe: new ideas and new nations -- Advanced industrial society
-- The Islamic world, 1600-1917 -- India and southeast Asia under colonial rule -- European imperialism and Africa during the age of industry -- China in the age of imperialism -- Latin America from independence to dependent states -- Modern science and its implications -- Unit VI. Toward a globalized world, 1916-present -- World War I and its disputed settlement -- A fragile balance: Europe in the twenties -- The soviet experiment to World War II --Totalitarianism refined: the Nazi state -- East Asia in a century of change -- World War II -- The Cold world war -- Decolonization of the Non-western world --The new Asia -- Africa’s decolonization and independence -- Latin America in the twentieth century -- The reemergence of the Muslim world --Collapse and reemergence in communist Europe -- A new millennium.

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