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Heritage of World Civilizations, Combined Volume - Albert M. Craig, William A. Graham, Donald M. Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner

Heritage of World Civilizations, Combined Volume

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1152 Seiten
2005 | 7th edition
Pearson
978-0-13-192623-3 (ISBN)
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Suitable for undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This seventh edition combines coverage of the unique heritage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilizations, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions.
For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses.

 

This comprehensive yet accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world.

 

Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, Heritage of World Civilizations 7e, combines unusually strong and thorough coverage of the unique heritage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilizations, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions.

1.        Birth of Civilization.

 Early Humans and Their Culture

The Paleolithic Age

The Neolithic Age

The Bronze Age and the Birth of Civilization

Early Civilizations to  About 1000 b.c.e.

Mesopotamian Civilization

Egyptian Civilization    

Ancient Near Eastern Empires

The Hittites

The Mitannians

The Assyrians

The Second Assyrian Empire

The Neo-Babylonians

Early Indian Civilization

The Indus Civilization

The Vedic Aryan Civilization

           

2. The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion.

Comparing the Four Great Revolutions

Philosophy in China

Confucianism

Legalism

Religion in India

“Hindu” and “Indian”

Historical Background

The Upanishadic Worldview

Mahavira and the Jain Tradition

The Buddha’s “Middle Path”

The Religion of the Israelites

From Hebrew Nomads to the Israelite Nation

The Monotheistic Revolution

Greek Philosophy

Reason and the Scientific Spirit

Political and Moral Philosophy

Religions of the World: Judaism.

 

PART II. EMPIRES AND CULTURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.

 

3. Greek and Hellenistic Civilization.

Bronze Age on Crete and on the Mainland to ca. 1150 B.C.E.

The Minoans

The Mycenaeans

Greek “Middle Age” to ca. 750 B.C.E.

Age of Homer

The Polis    

Development of the Polis

The Hoplite Phalanx

Expansion of the Greek World

Greek Colonies

The Tyrants (ca. 700-500 B.C.E.)

Life in Archaic Greece

Society

Religion

Poetry

Major City-States

   Sparta

   Athens

The Persian Wars

 Ionian Rebellion

Classical Greece

The Delian League

The First Peloponnesian War

The Athenian Empire

Athenian Democracy

Women of Athens

Struggle for Greek Leadership

 

1.        Birth of Civilization.

 Early Humans and Their Culture

The Paleolithic Age

The Neolithic Age

The Bronze Age and the Birth of Civilization

Early Civilizations to  About 1000 b.c.e.

Mesopotamian Civilization

Egyptian Civilization    

Ancient Near Eastern Empires

The Hittites

The Mitannians

The Assyrians

The Second Assyrian Empire

The Neo-Babylonians

Early Indian Civilization

The Indus Civilization

The Vedic Aryan Civilization

           

2. The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion.

 Comparing the Four Great Revolutions

Philosophy in China

Confucianism

Legalism

Religion in India

“Hindu” and “Indian”

Historical Background

The Upanishadic Worldview

Mahavira and the Jain Tradition

The Buddha’s “Middle Path”

The Religion of the Israelites

From Hebrew Nomads to the Israelite Nation

The Monotheistic Revolution

Greek Philosophy

Reason and the Scientific Spirit

Political and Moral Philosophy

Religions of the World: Judaism.

 

PART II. EMPIRES AND CULTURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.

 

3. Greek and Hellenistic Civilization.

Bronze Age on Crete and on the Mainland to ca. 1150 B.C.E.

The Minoans

The Mycenaeans

Greek “Middle Age” to ca. 750 B.C.E.

Age of Homer

The Polis    

Development of the Polis

The Hoplite Phalanx

Expansion of the Greek World

Greek Colonies

The Tyrants (ca. 700-500 B.C.E.)

Life in Archaic Greece

Society

Religion

Poetry

Major City-States

   Sparta

   Athens

The Persian Wars

 Ionian Rebellion

Classical Greece

The Delian League

The First Peloponnesian War

The Athenian Empire

Athenian Democracy

Women of Athens

Struggle for Greek Leadership

Fifth Century B.C.E

Fourth Century B.C.E

 Emergence of the Hellenistic World

Macedonian Conquest

Alexander the Great and His Successors

Death of Alexander

Hellenistic Culture

Literature

Architecture and Sculpture

Mathematics and Science

 

4. Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 c.e.

Iran.

Ancient History

The Elamites

The Iranians

Ancient Iranian Religion

Zoroaster and the Zoroastrian Tradition

The First Iranian Empire (550-330 B.C.E.)

The Achaemenids

The Achaemenid State

The Achaemenid Economy

India.

The First Indian Empire (321-185 B.C.E.)

Political Background

The Mauryans

Consolidation of Indian Civilization (ca. 200 B.C.E-300 B.C.E.)

The Economic Base

High Culture

Religion and Society

Greek and Asian Dynasties.

Seleucids

Indo-Greeks

Steppe Peoples

 

Religions of the World: Hinduism.

 

5. Africa: Early History to 1000 c. e.

Problems of Interpretation and Sources

The Question of Civilization

The Source Problem

Physical Description of the Continent

African Peoples

Africa and Early Human Culture

Diffusion of Languages and Peoples

Racial Distinctions

The Sahara and the Sudan to the Beginning of the Christian Era Early Saharan Cultures

Neolithic Sudanic Cultures

The Early Iron Age and the Nok Culture

Nilotic African and the Ethiopian Highlands

The Kingdom of Kush

The Napatan Empire

The Meroitic Empire

Isolation of Christian Ethiopia

The Western and Central Sudan

Agriculture, Trade, and the Rise of Urban Centers

Formation of Sudanic Kingdoms in the First Millennium

Central, Southern, and East Africa

The Khosian Peoples

Bantu Expansion and Diffusion

East Africa

 

  6. Republican and Imperial Rome.

 Prehistoric Italy

The Etruscans

Royal Rome

Government

Family

Clientage

Patricians and Plebeians

The Republic

Constitution

Conquest of Italy

Rome and Carthage

The Republic’s Conquest of the Hellenistic World

Civilization in the Early Roman Republic: Greek Influence

Religion

Education

Roman Imperialism

Aftermath of Conquest

The Gracchi

Marius and Sulla

War Against the Italian Allies (90-88 B.C.E.)

Fall of the Republic

Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar

First Triumvirate

Dictatorship of Julius Caesar

Second Triumvirate and the Emergence of Octavian

The Augustan Principate

Administration

The Army and Defense

Religion and Morality

Civilization of the Ciceronian and the Augustan Ages

The Late Republic

Age of Augustus

Peace and Prosperity: Imperial Rome (14-180 C.E.)

Administration of the Empire

Culture of the Early Empire

Life in Imperial Rome: The Apartment House

Rise of Christianity

Jesus of Nazareth

Paul of Tarsus

Organization

Persecution of Christians

Emergence of Catholicism

Rome as a Center of the Early Church

The Crisis of the Third Century

Barbarian Invasions

Economic Difficulties

The Social Order

Civil Disorder

The Late Empire

The Fourth Century and Imperial Reorganization

Triumph of Christianity

Arts and Letters in the Late Empire

Preservation of Classical Culture

Christian Writers

 The Problem of the Decline and Fall of the Empire in the West

 

7. China’s First Empire 221 b.c.e.-589 c.e.

Qin Unification of China

Former Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)

The Dynastic Cycle

Early Years of the Former Han Dynasty

Han Wudi

The Xiongnu

Government During the Former Han

The Silk Road

Decline and Usurpation

Later Han (25-220 C.E.) and Its Aftermath

First Century

Decline During the Second Century

Aftermath of Empire

Han Thought and Religion

Han Confucianism

History

Neo-Daoism

Buddhism

       

 PART III. CONSOLIDATION AND INTERACTION OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS.

 

8. Imperial China 589-1368.

Reestablishment of Empire: Sui (589-618) and T’ang (618-907) Dynasties

The Sui Dynasty

Transition to Late Imperial China: The Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Agriculture Revolution of the Song: From Serfs to Free Farmers

Commercial Revolution of the Sung

Government: From Aristocracy to Autocracy

Song Culture

China in the Mongol World Empire: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)

Rise of the Mongol Empire

Mongol Rule in China

Foreign Contracts and Chinese Culture

Last Years of the Yuan

                     

9. Japan: Early History to 1467.

 Japanese Origins and the Yayoi Revolution

Tomb Culture and the Yamato State, and Korea       

Religion in Early Japan

Nara and Heian Japan

Court Government

Land and Taxes

Aristocratic Culture and Buddhism

Chinese Tradition in Japan

Birth of Japanese Literature

Japan’s Early Feudal Age

The Kamakura Era

The Question of Feudalism

The Ashikaga Era               

Agriculture, Commerce, and Medieval Guilds

Buddhism and Medieval Culture

Japanese Pietism: Pure Land and Nichiren Buddhism

Zen Buddhism

No Plays

Religions of the World: Buddhism.

           

10. Iran and India Before Islam.

Iran.

The Sasanid Empire (224-651 C.E.)

Society and Economy

India.

Golden Age of the Guptas

Gupta Rule

Gupta Culture

The Development of “Classical” Traditions in Indian Civilization (ca. 300-1000 C.E.)

Society

11. The Formation of Islamic Civilization 622-945.

 

 Origins and Early Development

The Setting

Muhammad and the Qur’an

Women in Early Islamic Society

Early Islamic Conquests

Course of Conquest

Factors of Success

The New Islamic Order

The Caliphate

The Ulama

The Umma

The High Caliphate

The Abbasid State

Society

Decline

“Classical” Islamic Culture

Intellectual Traditions

Language and Literature

Art and Architecture

           

12. The Byzantine Empire and Western Europe  to 1000.

The End of the Western Roman Empire

The Byzantine Empire

The Reign of Justinian

The Impact of Islam on the East and West

The Western Debt to Islam

The Developing Roman Church

Monastic Culture

The Doctrine of Papal Primacy

Division of Christendom

The Kingdom of the Franks

Merovingians and Carolingians: From Clovis to Charlemange

Reign of Charlemagne (768-814)       

Breakup of the Carolingian Kindgdom

Feudal Society

Origins

Vassalage and the Fief

Fragmentation and Divided Loyalty

 

13. The Islamic Heartlands and Beyond, 1000-1600.

 The Islamic Heartlands.

Religion and Society

Consolidation of Sunni Orthopraxy

Sufi Piety and Organization

Consolidation of Shi’ite Traditions

Regional Developments

The Islamic West: Spain and North Africa

The Islamic West: Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World

The Islamic East: Before the Mongol Conquests

The Ghaznavids

The Spread of Islam Beyond the Heartlands

India.

The Spread of Islam to South Asia

Muslim-Hindu Encounter

Islamic States and Dynasties

Southeast Asia

Religious and Cultural Accommodation

Hindu and Other Indian Traditions

          

14. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas.

 Problems in Reconstructing the History of Native American Civilization

Mesoamerica

The Formative Period and the Emergence of Mesoamerican Civilization

The Olmec

The Emergence of Writing and the Mesoamerican Calandar

The Classic Period in Mesoamerica

Teotihuacán

The Maya

The Post-Classic Period

The Toltecs

   The Aztecs

Andean South America

The Preceramic and the Initial Period

Chavín de Huantar and the Early Horizon

The Early Intermediate Period

Nazca

Moche

The Middle Horizon Through the Late Intermediate Period

Tiwanaku and Huari

The Chimu Empire

The Inca Empire

           

15. Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance.

Revival of the Empire, Church, and Towns

Otto I and the Revival of the Empire

The Reviving Catholic Church

The Crusades

Towns and Townspeople

Society

The Order of Life

Medieval Women

Growth of National Monarchies

England and France: Hastings (1066) to Bouvines (1214)

 France in the Thirteenth Century: Reign of Louis IX

The Hohenstaufen Empire (1152-1272)

Hundred Years’ War

The Black Death

New Conflicts and Opportunities

Ecclesiastical Breakdown and the Revival: the Late Medieval Church

Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair

The Great Schism (1378-1417) and the Conciliar Movement to 1449

The Italian City-State: Social Conflict and Despotism

  Humanism

Renaissance Art

Italy’s Political Decline: The French Invasions (1494-1527)

Niccolò Machiavelli

Medieval Russia

France

Spain

England

PART IV. THE WORLD IN TRANSITION.

 

16. Europe 1500-1650: Expansion, Reformation, and Religious Wars.

The Discovery of a New World

The Reformation

The Northern Renaissance

Martin Luther and the German Reformation to 1525

Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation

Anabaptists and Radical Protestants

John Calvin and the Genevan Reformation

Political Consolidation of the Lutheran Reformation

The English Reformation to 1553

Catholic Reform and Counter-Reformation

The Reformation’s Achievements

Family Life in Early Modern Europe

The Wars of Religion

Imperial Spain and the Reign of Philip II (1556-1598)

England and Spain (1558-1603)

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)

Superstition and Enlightenment: the Battle Within

Witch Hunts and Panic

Writers and Philosophers

 

17. Africa ca. 1000-1800.

           

North Africa and Egypt

            The Spread of Islam South of the Sahara

            Sahelian Empires of the Western and Central Sudan

   Ghana

   Mali

   Songhai

   Kanem and Kanem-Bornu

The Eastern Sudan

The Forestlands—Coastal West and Central Africa

   West African Forest Kingdoms: The Example of Benin

            European Arrivals on the Coastlands

   Central Africa

East Africa

   Swahili Culture and Commerce

   The Portuguese and the Omanis of Zanzibar

Southern Africa

            Southeastern Africa: “Great Zimbabwe”

   The Portuguese in Southeastern Africa

   South Africa: The Cape Colony

           

18. Conquest and Exploitation: the Development of the Transatlantic Economy.

Periods of European Overseas Expansion

Mercantilist Theory of Economic Exploitation

Establishment of the Spanish Empire in America

   Conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas

   The Roman Catholic Church in Spanish America

Economics of Exploitation in the Spanish Empire

   Varieties of Economic Activity

   The Decline of Native American Population

   Commercial Regulation and the Flota System

Colonial Brazil and Slavery

French and British colonies in North America

Slavery in the Americas

   Establishment of Slavery

   The Plantation Economy and Transatlantic Trade

   Slavery on the Plantations

Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

   The Background of Slavery

   Slavery and Slaving in Africa

   The African Side of the Transatlantic Trade

   The Extent of the Slave Trade

   Consequences of the Slave Trade for Africa

 

 19. East Asia in the Late Traditional Era.

           

Late Imperial China.

            Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties

   Land And People

   China’s Third Commercial Revolution

   Political System

   Ming-Qing Foreign Relations

   Ming-Qing Culture

Japan.

            Warring States Era (1467-1600)

   War of All Against All

   Foot Soldier Revolution

   Foreign Relations and Trade

Tokugawa Era (1600-1868)

               Political Engineering and Economic Growth During the Seventeenth Century

   Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

   Tokugawa Culture

Koreaand Vietnam.

            Korea

   Early History

   The Chosen Era: Late Traditional Korea

            Southeast Asia

            Vietnam

   Early Vietnam           

The Second Millennium: Politics and Society

 

20. State-Building and Society in Early Modern Europe.

            European Political Consolidation

   Two Models of European Political Development

   Toward Parliamentary Government in England

   The “Glorious Revolution”

   Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV

   Years of Personal Rule

   Russia Enters the European Political Arena

   Birth of the Romanov Dynasty

   Peter the Great                     

   The Habsburg Empire ad the Pragmatic Sanction

   The Rise of Prussia

European Warfare: From Continental to World Conflict

   The Wars of Louis XIV

The Eighteenth-Century Colonial Arena

War of Jenkins’s Ear  

The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

 

The Seven Years’ War (1756-1763)

Life in the Old Regime

            Maintenance of Tradition

Hierarchy and Privilege

    Aristocracy

   The Land and Its Tillers

   Peasants and Serfs

   Family Structures and the Family Economy

The Family Economy

Women and the Family Economy

The Revolution in Agriculture

            Population Expansion

The Eighteenth-Century Industrial Revolution

   An Event in World History

European Cities

   Patterns of Preindustrial Urbanization

Urban Classes

The Jewish Population: Age of the Ghetto

           

21. The Last Great Islamic Empires 1500-1800.

 

Islamic Empires.

The Ottoman Empire

   Origins and Development of the Ottoman State Before 1600

   The “Classical” Ottoman Order

   After Süleyman: Challenges and Change

   The Decline of Ottoman Military and Political Power

The Safavid Shi’ite Empire

   Origins

   Shah Abbas I

   Safavid Decline

   Culture and Learning

The Empire of the Indian Timurids, or “Mughals”

   Origins

   Akbar’s Reign

   The Last Great Mughals

   Sikhs and Marathas

   Political Decline

   Religious Developments

 Islamic Asia.

Central Asia: Islamization and Isolation

Uzbeks and Chaghatiays

   Consequences of the Shi’ite Rift

Power Shifts in the Southern Seas

   Southern –Seas Trade

   Control of the Southern Seas

   The Indies: Acheh

 

 PART V. ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION IN THE WEST.

 

22. The Age of European Enlightenment.

 

The Scientific Revolution

   Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects and Earth-centered Universe

   Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Francis Bacon: The Empirical Method

Isaac Newton Discovers the Laws of Gravitation

Women in the World of the Scientific Revolution

John Locke

Voltaire

René Descartes

The Encyclopedia

The Enlightenment and Religion

Deism

Toleration

Islam in Enlightenment Thought

The Enlightenment and Society

Montesquieu and “The Spirit of the Laws”

Adam Smith on Economic Growth and Social Progress

Rousseau

Enlightened Critics of European Empire

Women in the Thought and Practice of the Enlightenment

Enlightened Absolutism

Joseph II of Austria

Catherine the Great of Russia

The Partition of Poland

 

23. Revolutions in the Transatlantic World.

 

   Resistance to the Imperial Search for Revenue

   American Political Ideas

   Crisis and Independence

Revolution in France

   Revolutions of 1789

   Reconstruction of France

   A Second Revolution

   The Reign of Terror and Its Aftermath

   The Napoleonic Era

   The Congress of Vienna and the European Settlement

Wars of Independence in Latin America

   Eighteenth- Century Developments

   First movements Toward Independence

   San Martín in Río de la Plata

   Simón Bolívar’s Liberation of Venezuela

   Independence in New Spain

   Brazilian Independence

Toward the Abolition of Slavery in the Transatlantic Economy

 

24. Political Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century Europe and North America 1815-1880.

 

The Emergence of Nationalism in Europe

   Creating Nations

   Meaning of Nationhood

   Regions of Nationalistic Pressure in Europe

Early-Nineteenth-Century Political Liberalism

   Politics

   Economics

   Relationship of Nationalism and Liberalism

   Liberalism and Nationalism in Modern World History

Efforts to Liberalize Early-Nineteenth-Century European Political Structures

Russia: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 and the Autocracy of Nicholas I

   Revolution in France (1830)

   The Great Reform bill in Britain (1832)

   1848: Year of Revolutions in Europe

Testing the New American Republic

   Toward Sectional Conflict

   The Abolitionist Movement

The Canadian Experience

   Road to Self-Government

   Keeping a Distinctive Culture

Mid-century Political Consolidation in Europe

            The Crimean War

   Italian Unification

   German Unification

   Bismarck

Unrest of Nationalities in Eastern Europe

Racial Theory and Anti-Semitism

   Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Zionism

 

 PART VI. INTO THE MODERN WORLD.

 

25. Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society 1815-1914.

           

European Factory Workers and Urban Artisans

Nineteenth-Century European Women

Women in the Early Industrial Revolution

   Social Disabilities Confronted by All Women

   New Employment Patterns for Women

   Late-Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Women

   The Rise of Political Feminism

Jewish Emancipation

   Early Steps to Equal Citizenship

   Broadened Opportunities

European Labor, Socialism, and Politics to World War I

   The Working Class in the Late Nineteenth Century

   Marxist Critique of the Industrial Order

   Germany: Social Democrats and Revisionism    

Great Britain: The Labour Party and Fabianism       

   Russia: Industrial Development and the Birth of Bolshevism

   European Socialism in World History

North America and the New Industrial Economy

   European Immigration to the United States

   Unions: Organization of Labor

   The Progressives

   Social Reform

   The Progressive Presidency

The Emergence of Modern European Thought

   Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

   The Revolution in Physics

   Frederich Nietzsche and the Revolt Against Reason

   The Birth of Psychoanalysis 

Islam and Late-Nineteenth-Century European Thought

 

26. Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s.

 

Independence Without Revolution

   Immediate Consequences of Latin American Independence

   Absence of Social Change

   Control of the Land

   Submissive Political Philosophies

Economy of Dependence

   New Exploitation of Resources

   Increased Foreign Ownership and Influence

   Economic Crises and New Directions

Search for Political Stability

Three National Histories

   Argentina

   Mexico

   Brazil

 

 27.  India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Challenge of Modernity (1800-1945).

 

The Indian Experience.

British Dominance and Colonial Rule

   Building the Empire: The First Half of the Nineteenth Century

   British-Indian Relations

From British Crown Raj to Independence

   The Burden of Crown Rule

   Indian Resistance

   Hindu-Muslim Friction on the Road to Independence

The Islamic Experience.

            Islamic Responses to Declining Power and Independence

            Western Political Economic Encroachment

            The Western Impact

            Islamic Responses to Foreign Encroachment

   Emulation of the West

   Integration of Western and Islamic Ideas

   Purification and Revival of Islam

   Nationalism

The African Experience.

New States and Power Centers

   Southern Africa

   East and Central Africa

   West Africa

Islamic Reform Movements

Increasing European Involvement

   Exploration

   Christian Missions

   The Colonial “Scramble for Africa”

African Resistance to Colonialism: The Rise of Nationalism

 

28.  Modern East Asia.

 

Modern China (1839-1949).

Close of Manchu Rule

   The Opium War

   Rebellions Against the Manchu

   Self-Strengthening and Decline (1874-1895)

   The Borderlands: The Northwest, Vietnam, and Korea

From Dynasty to Warlordism (1895-1926)

Cultural and Ideological Ferment: The May Fourth Movement

Nationalist China

                       Guomingdang Unification of China and the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937)

   War and Revolution (1937-1949)

Modern Japan (1853-1945).

Overthrow of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853-1868)

Building the Meiji State (18168-1890)

   Centralization of Power

   Political Parties

   The Constitution

Growth of a Modern Economy

   First Phase: Model Industries

   Second Phase: 1880s—1890s

The Politics of Imperial Japan (1890-1945)

   From Confrontation to the Founding of the Seiyukai (1890-1900)

   The Golden Years of Meiji

   Rise of the Parties to Power

   Militarism and War (1927-1945)

Japanese Militarism and German Nazism

 

 PART VII. GLOBAL CONFLICT AND CHANGE.

 

29. Imperialism and World War I.

Expansion of European Power and the “New Imperialism”

            The New Imperialism

            Motives for the New Imperialism: Economic Interpretation

            Cultural, Religious, and Social Interpretations

            Strategic and Political Interpretations: The Scramble for Africa

            The Irrational Element

Emergence of the German Empire

   Formation of the Triple Alliance

   Bismarck’s Leadership (1873-1890)

   Forging the Triple Entente (1890-1907)

World War I

   The Road to War (1908-1914)

   Sarajevo and the Outbreak of War (June-August 1914)

   Strategies and Stalemate (1914-1917)

The Russian Revolution

 End of World War I

   Military Resolution

   Settlement at Paris

   Evaluation of the Peace

 

30.  Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal.

 

After Versailles: Demand for Revision and Enforcement

Toward the Great Depression in Europe

   Financial Tailspin

   Problems in Agricultural Commodities

   Depression and Government Policy

The Soviet Experiment

   War Communism

   The New Economic Policy

   Stalin Versus Trotsky

   Decision for Rapid Industrialization

   The Purges

The Fascist Experiment in Italy

   Rise of Mussolini

   The Fascists in Power

Germen Democracy and Dictatorship

   The Weimar Republic

   Depression and Political Deadlock

   Hitler Comes to Power

   Hitler’s Consolidation of Power

   The Police State

   Women in Nazi Germany

The Great Depression and the New Deal in the United States

   Economic Collapse

   New Role for Government

 

31.  World War II.

 Again The Road to War (1933-1939)

            Hitler’s Goals

   Destruction of Versailles

   Italy Attacks Ethiopia

   Remilitarization of the Rhineland

   The Spanish Civil War

   Austria and Czechoslovakia

   Munich

   The Nazi-Soviet Pact

World War II (1939-1945)

   German Conquest of Europe

   Battle of Britain

   German Attack on Russia

   Hitler’s Europe

   Racism and the Holocaust

   The Road to Pearl Harbor

   America’s Entry into the War

   The Tide Turns

   Defeat of Nazi Germany

   Fall of Japanese Empire

   The Cost of War

The Domestic Fronts

   Germany: From Apparent Victory to Defeat

   France: Defeat, Collaboration and Resistance

   Great Britain: Organization for Victory

   The Soviet Union: “The Great Patriotic War”

Preparations for Peace

   The Atlantic Charter

   Tehran

   Yalta

   Potsdam

 

32. The West Since World War II.

 

The Cold War Era

   Initial Causes

   Areas of Early Cold War Conflict

   NATO and the Warsaw Pact

   Crises of 1956

   The Cold War Intensified

   Détente and Afterward

European Society in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

   Toward Western European Unification

   Students and Popular Music

   The Movement of Peoples

   The New Muslim Population

   New Patterns in the Work and Expectations of Women

American Domestic Scene Since World War II

   Truman and Eisenhower Administrations

   Civil Rights

   New Social Programs

   The Vietnam War and Domestic Turmoil

   The Watergate Scandal

   The Triumph of Political Conservation

The Soviet Union to 1989

   The Khrushchev Years

   Brezhnev

   Communism and Solidarity in Poland

   Gorbachev Attempts to Redirect the Soviet Union

1989: Year of Revolutions in Eastern Europe

   Solidarity Reemerges in Poland

   Hungary Moves Toward Independence

   The Breach of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification

   The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

   Violent Revolution in Romania

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

   Renunciation of Communist Political Monopoly

   The August 1991 Coup

   The Yeltsin Years

            The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Civil War

            Challenges to the Atlantic Alliance

 

33. East Asia: The Recent Decades.

Japan

   The Occupation

   Parliamentary Politics

   Economic Growth

   Japan and the World

China

   Soviet Period (1950-1960)

   The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1965-1976)

   China After Mao

Taiwan

Korea

   A Japanese Colony

   North and South

   Civil War and U.S. Involvement

   Recent Developments

Vietnam

   The Colonial Backdrop

   The Anticolonial War

   The Vietnam War

   War with Cambodia

   Recent Developments

           

34. Posstcolonialism and Beyond: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. 

Beyond the Postcolonial Era

            Latin America Since 1945

   Revolutionary Challenges

   Pursuit of Stability Under the Threat of Revolution

   Continuity and Change in Recent Latin American History

Africa

   The Transition to Independence

   The African Future

Central, South and Southeast Asia—The Islamic Heartland

   Turkey

   Iran and Its Islamic Revolution

   Afghanistan and the Former Soviet Republics

   India

   Pakistan and Bangladesh

   Indonesia and Malaysia

The Postcolonial Middle East

   New Nations in the Middle East

   The Arab-Israeli Conflict

   The Rise of Political Islamism

   Middle Eastern Oil

   Iraq and United States Intervention

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.5.2005
Sprache englisch
Maße 236 x 277 mm
Gewicht 2803 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
ISBN-10 0-13-192623-3 / 0131926233
ISBN-13 978-0-13-192623-3 / 9780131926233
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