In this best-selling text, noted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel present a brief, balanced, highly-readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and that identify key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage ofpolitical, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history has been integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. The Fourth Edition continues to take a global approach to world history, with an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout history. This approach helps students to link events together in a broad comparative and global framework, thereby placing the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, Fourth Edition (Chapters 1-30), ISBN: 0495902942; Volume I: To 1800 (Chapters 1-18), ISBN: 0495902950; Volume II: Since 1500 (Chapters 14-30), ISBN: 0495902969. INDICE: PART III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500-1800). 14. NewEncounters: The Creation of a World Market. 15. Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building. 16. The Muslim Empires. 17. The East Asian World. 18. The West on the Eve of a New World Order PART IV: MODERN PATTERNS OF WORLD HISTORY (1800-1945). 19. The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century 20. The Americas and Society and Culture in theWest. 21. The High Tide of Imperialism. 22. Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge. 23. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War andRevolution. 24. Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, The Middle East, and Latin America. from 1919 to 1939. 25. The Crisis Deepens: World War II. PART V: TOWARD A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION? THE WORL SCIENCE 1945. 26. East and West in the Grip of the Cold War. 27. Brave New World: Communism on Trial. 28. Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945. 29. Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East. 30. Toward the Pacific Century? Epilogue: A Global Civilization.
- ISBN: 978-0-495-90296-6
- Editorial: Wadsworth
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha Publicación: 21/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés