John Coatsworth

Global Connections: Volume 2, Since 1500 (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about the world in 2050, visiting diverse civilizations, nation-states, ecologies, and people along the journey through time and place. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which ordinary people lived through the great changes of their times, and how everyday experience connects to great political events and the commercial exchanges of an interconnected world. With 75 maps, 65 illustrations, timelines, boxes, and primary source extracts, the book enables students to use historical material and social science methodologies to analyze the events of the past, present, and future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316287262
• Artikelnr.: 52957535

Autorenporträt

John Coatsworth is Professor of History and Provost of Columbia University and former Dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is author, editor or co-editor of nine books on Latin American economic and international history, including The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2006) and Living Standards in Latin American History (2010). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative and Latin American history at Columbia since 2006. He previously served at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Other academic posts have included visiting professorships at El Colegio de México, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National University of Buenos Aires, the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, and the Instituto Ortega y Gassett in Madrid. He is past president of the American Historical Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Volume 2
Part VI. 1500-1700: The Early Modern World: 1. New empires in Asia and the Middle East
2. Russia, Central Eurasia, China, Japan: centralization and commercialization
3. The Americas and Africa in the era of conquest and enslavement
4. Crossroads on the edges of Eurasia: Europe and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800
Part VII. 1700-1850: Revolution and Reform: 5. Expansion, reform, and communication in the agrarian empires of Asia
6. The first industrial revolution and the origins of international inequality
7. The age of revolution
Part VIII. 1850-1914: Energy and Empire: 8. The second industrial revolution
9. States and social movements
10. Nationalism and anti-colonialism
Part IX. 1914-50: Wars and Revolution: 11. The Great War and world revolutions, 1914-21
12. Twentieth-century social revolutions, 1922-39
13. World War II and the collapse of empires, 1931-50
Part X. 1950-2000: Global Threats and Promises: 14. Cold wars and hot wars: economic boom and slowdown, 1950-85
15. Decolonization
16. Global connections and disturbances, 1980 onwards
Conclusion.