Description
Book SynopsisWorld History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. This text offers a comparative analysis of great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas in an engaging narrative that contextualizes history instead of drowning students in a sea of facts. Themes addressed include population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, warfare, and others. Instructor resources are available online for this text.
This new edition of World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis features a newly-designed interior organization to enhance navigation and comprehension of the material. An instructors'' test bank is available online.
Table of ContentsIntroduction x
Unit Three: The Modern World 371
Themes:
Modernization
Globalization
The differential of power
Spontaneous European Modernization: Phase One
The Process of Change Begins 375
Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase I, New Trade Routes 376
Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase II, Biology and Europe 377
Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase III, Warfare, Politics, and Religion 380
Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase IV, Commerce 386
Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase V, the State 402
Special topic The Elizabethan Era 406
Suggested Reading 413
The Differential of Power: Phase One
The Americas and Africa 415
Ship Technology in 1500 416
Spain’s Rapid Success in the Americas after a Slow Start 422
Special topic New Spain 422
A Hidden Agent in the Differential of Power: Disease 423
Native American Vulnerability 427
The Aztecs 429
The Incas 432
Brazil 433
Africa’s Indigenous Slave Tradition 435
Special topic The Middle Passage: The Transport of Slaves on the Trans-Atlantic Trip 436
The Arrival of Europe 439
The Sale of Slaves 441
Consequences of the Slave Trade 442
Suggested Reading 446
Spontaneous European Modernization: Phase Two
The Origins of Public Opinion, the Concept of Culture, and the Nation-State 447
Science, Knowledge, and Faith 447
The Scientific Revolution 449
Locke’s Philosophy and the Idea of Public Opinion 452
The Enlightenment 458
The Nation-State 470
The Ideology of Revolution 472
The French Revolution 474
Great Britain 478
Suggested Reading 482
The Nation-State
Diffusion of the French-British Model 484
The Central European Experience 485
Central Europeans and Internal Coherence 487
Suggested Reading 495
The Differential of Power, Phase Two
Ideology, Medicine, and Technology Redefine Global Power 497
The New Teleology 499
Nation-States and Industry 510
Suggested Reading 514
Nation-State Formation Outside Europe
The United States and Japan 515
The United States 516
Japan 525
Suggested Reading 533
Internal Divisions and Contradictions
Russia and Latin America 534
Russia 534
Latin America 550
Suggested Reading 556
In The Crosshairs of Modernity
India and China 557
India 557
Late Imperial China: The Ming and Qing Dynasties 564
Suggested Reading 583
Targets of Imperialism
Africa and the Middle East 585
Africa 586
The Middle East 596
Suggested Reading 605
Unit Four: Global Violence and the Postmodern Era 607
THEMES:
Postmodern Era
Decolonization
Globalization
World War I
The Consequences of Power 611
The Illusion of Progress 612
The Quest for Empire and the Habits of Violence 613
Danger Signs in the Short-War Phenomenon 615
Misunderstanding the Short-War Phenomenon 617
World War I: Total War, the Geographic Arena of Combat, Victory, and Defeat 618
Suggested Reading 623
Totalitarianism
The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany 624
Totalitarianism 625
The Soviet Union 625
Special topic Abandoned Marxism 631
Special topic The Versailles Treaty 634
Nazi Germany 634
Suggested Reading 641
The Inheritors of Power
The United States and Japan 642
The United States 642
Japan 647
Suggested Reading 655
Decolonization
Phase One 656
China’s Republican Revolution 656
India 663
The Middle East 665
Latin America 670
Suggested Reading 674
World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War
Expanding the Potential of Self-Destruction 676
World War II 676
Special topic Mussolini’s Italy 681
Mass Murder: A New Dimension to Global Warfare 686
The Cold War: Redefining World Power after 1945 690
Suggested Reading 695
Global Decolonization
Phase Two 696
China 696
Japan 705
India 711
Africa 714
Special topic AIDS 721
The Middle East 722
Latin America 728
Suggested Reading 737
The End of the Cold War and the Contemporary World
The Complex Problems Facing a Multicultural Era 739
The End of the Cold War 739
Special topic The Legacy of Vietnam 743
The Contemporary World 745
Status, Freedom, and Equality 751
Population Dynamics 757
Suggested Reading 760
Credits C-1
