World Civilizations: The Global Experience
by Stearns, Peter N.; Adas, Michael; Schwartz, Stuart B.; Gilbert, Marc J.Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
The primary goal of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Third Edition is to present a truly global history--one that both discusses the development of the world's leading civilizations and also emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies. The book examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts--for example, the nomadic societies of Asia, Latin America, and the nations and states of the Pacific Rim. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in all the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of international contact. MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in World History.
Table of Contents
| Single Volume Contents | |
| Volume I includes Chapters 1-22 and Volume II includes Chapters 21-40 Each chapter begins with an introduction | |
| I | |
| The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization? | |
| Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers | |
| Document: Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings as History | |
| Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic Revolution | |
| Visualizing the Past: Representations of Women in Early Art | |
| In Depth: The Idea of Civilization in World Historical Perspective | |
| The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization | |
| Global Connections: The Neolithic Revolution as a Basis for World History | |
| The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa | |
| Setting the Scene: The Middle East by 4000 B.C.E | |
| Civilization in Mesopotamia | |
| Visualizing the Past: Mesopotamia in Maps | |
| Document: Hammurabi's Law Code | |
| Ancient Egypt | |
| Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared | |
| In Depth: Women in Patriarchal Societies | |
| Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | |
| The End of the Early Civilization Period | |
| Global Connections: The Early Civilizations and the World | |
| Asia's First Civilizations: India and China | |
| The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian Civilization | |
| Aryan Incursions and Early Aryan Society in India | |
| Document: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War-Horse | |
| A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China | |
| Visualizing the Past: Mapping the Rise of Civilizations | |
| The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou Dominance | |
| In Depth: The Legacy of Asia's First Civilizations | |
| Global Connections: Contrasting Legacies: Harappan and Early Chinese Civilizations | |
| The Classical Period In World History | |
| Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China? | |
| Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis of the Later Zhou | |
| Document: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools | |
| The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity | |
| In Depth: Sunzi and the Shift from Ritual Combat to "Real" War | |
| The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China's Classical Age | |
| Visualizing the Past: Capital Designs and Patterns of Political Power | |
| Global Connections: Classical China an d the World and Affluence | |
| Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World | |
| The Persian Empire: Parallel Power in the Middle East | |
| The Political Character of Classical Greece | |
| The Hellenistic Period | |
| Creativity in Greek and Hellenistic Culture | |
| Document: The Power of Greek Drama | |
| In Depth: Defining Social History | |
| Patterns of Greek and Hellenistic Society | |
| Visualizing the Past: Commerce and Society | |
| Global Connections: Greece and the World | |
| Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age | |
| The Age of Brahman Dominance | |
| In Depth: Inequality as the Social Norm | |
| Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism | |
| Visualizing the Past: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
| Brahmanical Recovery and the Splendors of the Gupta Age | |
| Document: A Guardian's Farewell Speech to a Young Woman About to Be Married | |
| Global Connections: India and the Wider World | |
| Rome and Its Empire | |
| A Foundation Story | |
| The Development of Rome's Republic | |
| Document: Rome and a Values Crisis | |
| Roman Culture | |
| The Institutions of Empire | |
| The Evolution of Rome's Economic and Social Structure | |
| Visualizing the Past: Religions in Rome | |
| In Depth: The Classical Mediterranean in Comparative Perspective | |
| The Origins of Christianity | |
| The Decline of Rome | |
| Global Connections: Rome and the World | |
| The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas? | |
| Origins of American Societies | |
| Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica | |
| Document: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs | |
| The Peoples to the North | |
| In Depth: Different Times for Different Peoples | |
| The Andean World? | |
| Global Connctions: American Civilizations and the World | |
| The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples? | |
| The Spread of Civilization in Africa | |
| Document: Myths of Origin | |
| In Depth: Language as a Historical Source | |
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