Product Description: Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c...read more

With 83 additional outline and four-color maps, World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition, Atlas Edition, helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of World history courses for many. The maps are accompanied by review questions that call on students to identify important geographical areas and think critically about the connection between geography and historical events. The maps are on perforated pages and are organized by chapter so that they can be assigned easily and collected.   The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history—since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts.   This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies.  Presenting social and cultural as well as political and economic aspects, the book examines key civilizations in world history.  World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.

Product Description: The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history–since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts...read more

With a strong emphasis on social and cultural history, this book focuses on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the 20th century.

Product Description: Examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts. Maintaining a focus on social history explores gender, class, economic, and intellectual issues, while examining patterns of inequality and human agency throughout world history...read more

Product Description: Examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts. Maintaining a focus on social history explores gender, class, economic, and intellectual issues, while examining patterns of inequality and human agency throughout world history...read more

Product Description: Examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts. Maintaining a focus on social history explores gender, class, economic, and intellectual issues, while examining patterns of inequality and human agency throughout world history...read more

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Product Description: Nomads and Sedentary Societies in Medieval Eurasia (Essays on Global and Comparative History) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays collected here focus on peasant responses to the spread of market-oriented economic systems in the colonial era. Some explore the ways in which the colonial state sought to draw cultivators into export production, others the processes by which intermediary groups, particularly immigrant and indigenous moneylenders, both facilitated this process and helped to undermine the agrarian systems in which it occurred...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: World Civilizations is an introduction to the major civilizations of the world. The text offers a treatment of the histories of east, south, and west Asia; Latin America; and Africa.

Product Description: Although Alexander the Great's empire was short-lived, the Hellenistic civilization it produced shaped the course of political, social, and cultural development on three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe). The essay argues that the Hellenistic period represented one of the most intense and fruitful eras of global, intercultural exchange in the classical age...read more

Product Description: This essay probes controversies surrounding the study of European conquest and colonization. The experiences of women, peasants, and urban working people of the conquered regions have recently been given voice through the use of oral accounts and other nontraditional sources...read more

Product Description: Distinguished writers provide new approaches to cross-cultural history