Steven Wallech, Craig Hendricks, Anne Lynne Negus, Peter Wan, Touraj Daryaee, Gordon Morris Bakken

World History, 2e, V1, P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

World 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.

An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts
Offers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas
Addresses themes of population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, warfare, and other major issues for civilizations
Features new interior design and organization to enhance user experience
Instructor's test bank available online at www.wiley.com/go/wallech

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1852g
• ISBN-13: 9781118532669
• ISBN-10: 111853266X
• Artikelnr.: 36627277

Autorenporträt

Steven Wallech is the senior Professor of World History at Long Beach City College. He developed the world history program there, and integrated the world history curriculum with community colleges and universities throughout California. Craig Hendricks is Emeritus Professor of History at Long Beach City College. He has written on Latin America for history journals and edited four books of American social history readings. Touraj Daryaee is theHoward C. Baskerville Professor of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is editor of the Name-ye-Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies and the creator of Sasanika: The Late Antique Near East Project. Anne Lynne Negus received her Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, specializing in Egyptology. Currently she is Professor of History at Fullerton College and Co-Coordinator of the Honors Program. Peter P. Wan received his B.A. from East China Normal University and taught American literature in China until he came to the United States on a Harvard-Yanching fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. His major interests are American history, East Asian history, and U.S.-China relations. Gordon Morris Bakken earned his degrees at the University of Wisconsin and joined the faculty of California State University, Fullerton, in 1969. He teaches courses on American legal history, women in American history, westward movement, and American military heritage.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1 Introduction x Unit One The Ancient World 1 Themes: The artificial existence of civilization The biology of civilization The geography of civilization The climate of civilization The relationship between belief and action Chapter 1: Biology and World History Civilization and Nomads 5 Climate
12 The Geography of Cultivation
14 The Domestication of Animals
20 Urban Development
24 The Nomads
27 Disease History
28 Suggested Reading
31 Chapter 2: Mesopotamia The Land between the Rivers 33 A Temple Economy
34 The Causes of Trade
35 Kings, War, and Ecocide
37 The Art of Writing and Hammurabi's Code
39 The General Matrix of Civilization
41 The Dawn of Religion: Creation Myths
42 Iron and Mesopotamia
44 The Hebrews
47 The Emergence of Monotheism
48 Suggested Readings
51 Chapter 3: Pre-islamic africa Egyptian, Nilotic, and Sub-Saharan Africa 52 Egypt, the Gift of the Nile
52 The Archaic Period (ca. 3100-2700 bce) and the Pyramid Age of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700-2200 bce)
57 The First Intermediate Period (ca. 2200-2000 bce) and the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2000-1786 bce)
59 The Hyksos and Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1786-1575 bce) and the New Kingdom (ca. 1575-1050 bce)
60 special topic: The Distant but Powerful Link between Pacific Currents and Egyptian Floods
61 Egypt and the Iron Age
65 Nilotic Africa
66 Sub-Saharan Africa
70 Iron
73 Suggested Reading
75 Chapter 4: India From the Indus to the Ganges 76 Iron, Rice, and India
80 Indian Religions
83 Religious Opposition
87 The Maturation of India's Faiths
89 Suggested Reading
90 Chapter Chapter 5: China The Yellow River Civilization 91 The Land and the People
91 Mythological China
93 The Bronze Age: The Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynsties
94 The Iron Age: Economic, Military, and Commercial Revolutions
97 The Golden Age of Classical Chinese Philosophy
98 China's First Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties
102 Centers of Power within and beyond the Han Empire
107 special topic: Lady Lu: Empress Dowager
108 Suggested Reading
110 Chapter 6: The Nomads' trade and the Great Migrations 111 The First Wave of Mass Migrations: The Wheel, the Chariot, and Nomads
112 A Second Wave of Migrations: The Iron Age
118 Cavalry: The Third Wave of Migrations
123 Suggested Reading
126 Chapter 7: Greece The Rainfall Zone 127 Network Cities and the Special Case of Athens
128 The Role of Coins in Athenian History
131 The Limits of Democracy
133 Sparta
134 The Failure of Greek Politics
135 Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic World
136 Greek Philosophy
138 Physics
139 Math and Logic: Metaphysics
140 Socrates and his Followers
141 Drama
143 The Origins of History
145 Suggested Reading
146 Chapter 8: The Hellenistic East and Persia A Cultural Bridge 147 The Hellenistic East
147 Diffusion of Hellenism to the East
149 Kings, Cities, and Soldiers
151 Hellenistic Philosophy
154 The Stoics
157 One God, One Lord
158 The Persians
160 The Persian Sassanian Empire (224-651 ce)
164 Khusro I and the Height of the Sassanian Empire
168 Suggested Reading
169 Chapter 9: Rome From Citizenship to Imperial Rule 170 Part One: The Republic
170 Part Two: The Empire
176 Roman Society
179 Roman Philosophy
181 Christianity
183 Suggested Reading
188 Chapter 10: Origins of Native American Cultures Geographic Isolation 189 Origins of the Americas' First Cities
192 Mesoamerica
193 Teotihuacán
195 The Maya
196 South America
198 Elsewhere in the Americas
200 Suggested Reading
201 Chapter 11: The Fall of the Ancient Eurasian World Rome, Han China, and Gupta India 203 Trade, Disease, and Religious Ideas
204 special topic: Manichaeism
207 Internal Decay: The Roman Story
207 special topic: Malaria
210 special topic: Smallpox
211 The Han Dynasty, 206 bce-220 ce
214 Chaos and Religion: Buddhism and Daoism
219 The Last Days of the Han
221 Gupta India: The Great Exception
222 The Nomads
224 Suggested Reading
227 Unit two The Middle Years 229 Themes: Culture Learned Shared Symbolic Integrated Chapter 12: The Rise of Islam The Ancient Near East Becomes the Middle East 233 The Prophecy
233 The Pillars of Islam
235 The Umma
239 The Caliphs
240 Suggested Reading
245 Chapter 13: China in an Era of Recovery and Cultures on the fringe Korea, Japan, and the Mongols 246 China's Second Empire: Sui and Tang Dynasties
247 The Tang Dynasty, 618-907
248 The Song Dynasty, 960-1127
254 The Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368: The Mongol Conquest of China
259 Sinicization: The Influence of Chinese Culture on Korea, Japan, and Mongolia
262 Korea
263 Japan
266 The Mongols: The End of Nomadism
275 Suggested Reading
279 Chapter 14: India and Islam An Era of Political Chaos 280 Internal Fragmentation
282 The Arrival of Islam
285 Hindu Revival
287 Delhi Sultanate
289 Dhimmis, Being Cared for by the Faithful
290 Suggested Reading
293 Chapter 15: The European Middle Ages The Failure of Tradition 294 Part One: The Early Middle Ages, 500-1000
295 Part Two: The Byzantine Empire
300 Part Three: Europe and the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300
303 special topic: The Magna Carta
311 Part Four: The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1450
319 special topic: The Bubonic Plague
321 special topic: Joan of Arc
325 Part Five: The Renaissance
328 Suggested Reading
337 Chapter 16: Islamic Africa A Complex Pattern of Cultures 339 Corporate Lineage and State Formation after 500
340 Muslim Africa
341 special topic: Abu Abdullah Mohammed Battuta
343 South Africa
352 Suggested Reading
353 Chapter 17: The Americas A Time of Trouble 355 The Toltecs
357 The Aztecs
359 special topic: Ixiptla: An Aztec God-Representative
362 The Incas
363 North America
366 The Unmistakable Influence of Isolation
370 Suggested Reading
370 Credits
C-1 Index
I-1 MAPS Original Agricultural Sites
4 The World from the Death of Mohammed, 632-750 CE
232 The World from 200 BCE-200 CE
32 World Civilizations and Empires (circa 1500 CE)
354 The World from 200 CE-500 CE
202