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Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY VOLUME I provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of “environment and technology” and “diversity and dominance” to explore patterns of human interaction with their surroundings and with each other. The authors’ approach reveals how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by our environments and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs.
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Part I: THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES, TO 500 B.C.E. 1. From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 8000-1500 B.C.E. 2. New Civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere, 4500 B.C.E. - 350 C.E. 3. The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 B.C.E. Part II: THE FORMATION OF NEW CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, FROM 1200 B.C.E. 4. Greece and Iran, 1500 B.C.E-500 C.E. 5. India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.-1025 C.E. 6. An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E. 7. Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 1200 B.C.E.-1500 C.E. 8. Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.-600 C.E. Part III: GROWTH AND INTERACTION OF CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 600-1200. 9. The Rise of Islam, 600-1200. 10. Christian Europe Emerges, 600-1200. 11. Inner and East Asia, 400-1200. Part IV: INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND CONTACT, 1200-1550. 12. Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500. 13. Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500. 14. The Latin West, 1200-1500. 15. The Maritime Revolution, to 1550.
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Pamela Kyle Crossley received her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from Yale University. She is currently the Robert and Barbara Black Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Her books include THE WOBBLING PIVOT: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY OF CHINA SINCE 1800; WHAT IS GLOBAL HISTORY?; A TRANSLUCENT MIRROR: HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN QING IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY; THE MANCHUS; ORPHAN WARRIORS: THREE MANCHU GENERATIONS AND THE END OF THE QING WORLD; and (with Lynn Hollen Lees and John W. Servos) GLOBAL SOCIETY: THE WORLD SINCE 1900.
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- PublisherWadsworth Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0495913111
- ISBN 13 9780495913115
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages464
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