The Essential World History, Volume II: Since 1500 [8 ed.] 1305645367, 9781305645363

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The Essential World History, Volume II: Since 1500 [8 ed.]
1305645367, 9781305645363

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William J. Duiker
Jackson J. Spielvogel

Table of contents :
About the Author
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
List of Documents
List of Maps
Features
Preface
Acknowledgments
Themes for Understanding World History
A Note to Students about Languages and the Dating of Time
World History to 1500
Part III: The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500–1800)
14 New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
15 Europe Transformed: Reform and State-Building
16 The Muslim Empires
17 The East Asian World
18 The West on the Eve of a New World Order
Part IV: Modern Patterns of World History (1800–1945)
19 The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
20 The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
21 The High Tide of Imperialism
22 Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
23 The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
24 Nationalism,Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939
25 The Crisis Deepens: World War II
Part V: Toward a Global Civilization? The World Since 1945
26 East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
27 Brave New World: Communism on Trial
28 Europe and theWestern Hemisphere Since 1945
29 Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
30 Toward the Pacific Century?
Epilogue: A Global Civilization
Glossary
List of Documents
Index