World Civilizations Volume II: Since 1500 (with InfoTrac)
by Adler, Philip J.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-21
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Succeeding in World Civilizations class isn't easy. That's why Adler and Pouwels wrote WORLD CIVILIZATIONS: VOLUME II: SINCE 1500 in its trademark, easy-to-read style. Hundreds of illustrations, maps, and documents, overviews, self-tests, and other learning aids make the history of world civilizations easier for students to study and understand. Volume 1 includes thirty concise chapters make content manageable.
Table of Contents
| IV | |
| DISEQUILIBRIUM: THE WESTERN ENCOUNTER WITH THE NON-WESTERN WORLD 1500-1850 C | |
| 26. A Larger World Opens | |
| 27. The Protestant Reformation | |
| 28. Foundations of the European States | |
| 29. Eastern European Empires | |
| 30. China from the Ming through the Early Qing Dynasty | |
| 31. Japan and Colonial Southeast Asia to the Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
| 32. The Rise and Fall of Muslim Empires | |
| 33. Africa in the Colonial Era | |
| 34. Latin America from Colony to Dependent Statehood | |
| V | |
| WESTERN REVOLUTIONS, INDUSTRY, AND IDEOLOGY 1700-1920. 35 | |
| The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath | |
| 36. Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy | |
| 37. The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon | |
| 38. Europe's Industrialization | |
| 39. The Social Impacts of Early Industry | |
| 40. Europe in Ideological Conflict | |
| 41. Consolidation of National States | |
| 42. Advanced Industrial Society | |
| 43. Modern Science and Its Implications | |
| 44. World War I and Its Disputed Settlement | |
| VI | |
| EQUILIBRIUM REESTABLISHED: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD 1920-Present | |
| 45. A Fragile Balance: Europe in the Twenties | |
| 46. The Soviet Experiment to World War II | |
| 47. Totalitarianism: The Nazi State | |
| 48. East Asia in a Century of Change | |
| 49. World War II | |
| 50. High and Low Cultures in the West | |
| 51. Superpower Rivalry and the European Recovery | |
| 52. Decolonization and the Third World | |
| 53. The New Asia | |
| 54. Africa after Independence | |
| 55. Latin America in the Twentieth Century | |
| 56. The Reemergence of the Muslim World | |
| 57. The Marxist Collapse and Its Aftermath | |
| 58. At the Start of a New Millennium | |
| Bibliography | |
| Answers to Test Your Knowledge | |
| Glossary | |
| Index |
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