(eBook PDF) Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
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- ISBN-10 : 0393532038
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393532036
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A compelling global storytelling approach to world history
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides a compelling chronological foundation for world history. A global story frames each chapter, making thousands of years of history less daunting for students and instructors. New lead authors and master teachers Jeremy Adelman and Elizabeth Pollard distill cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on introductory students. By supporting students in making comparisons and connections across the narrative, primary sour
table of contents:
Chapter 1. Becoming Human (Pre-History and the Peopling of the Earth)
Chapter 2. Rivers, Cities, and First States, 3500–2000 bce (Comparing First Cities)
Chapter 3. Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000–1200 bce (Comparing First States)
Chapter 4. First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250–325 bce (Comparing First Empires and Beginnings of Judaism)
Chapter 5. Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000–350 bce (The Axial Age)
Chapter 6. Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350 bce–250 ce (Building of the Silk Road and Beginnings of Buddhism)
Chapter 7. Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 bce–300 ce (Comparing Han and Roman Empires)
Chapter 8. The Rise of Universalizing Religions, 300–600 ce (The Rise of Christianity, the Spread of Buddhism, and the Beginnings of Common Cultures)
Chapter 9. New Empires and Common Cultures, 600–1000 ce (The Rise of Islam and Comparing the Relationships between Empires and Religions)
Chapter 10. Becoming “The World,” 1000–1300 ce (The Emergence of the Worlds We Know Today)
Chapter 11. Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300–1500 (The Spread of the Black Death across Afro-Eurasia)
Chapter 12. Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450–1600 (The Age of Global Exploration and Colonization)
Chapter 13. Worlds Entangled, 1600–1750 (The Emergence of Global Trade)
Chapter 14. Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500–1780 (The Creation of Global Cultures)
Chapter 15. Reordering the World, 1750–1850 (The Global Impact of the Atlantic and Industrial Revolutions)
Chapter 16. Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century (Global Challenges to Western Expansion)
Chapter 17. Nations and Empires, 1850–1914 (How Nation-States Became Global Empires)
Chapter 18. An Unsettled World, 1890–1914 (The Global Impact of Modernity)
Chapter 19. Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910–1939 (World War I and the Growth of Mass Societies)
Chapter 20. The Three-World Order, 1940–1975 (World War II and the Emergence of First, Second, and Third Worlds during the Cold War)
Chapter 21. Globalization, 1970–2000 (The Emergence of Modern Globalization)
Chapter 22. Global Challenges, 2001–The Present (The Impact of Modern Globalization Today)