In the balance : themes in global history
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In the balance : themes in global history
McGraw-Hill, c1998
- v. 1
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is volume one of a two-volume world history text. The book takes a thematic approach, exploring different civilizations in a comparative manner and central themes are used to highlight the interconnectedness of the world's development across cultures and time. The approach is roughly chronological, though the organization deals with broader comparative issues such as the family. The text explores how different parts of the world often follow similar paths, even at different times and how similarities or differences in development can be revealing about particular societies, for example a chapter on gods, goddesses and god kings in Asia, Africa and the Americas. The book places less emphasis on political history and more on social, economic and cultural, with coverage of gender and family. The section openers have comparative chronological charts to help keep the student oriented with respect to events in different parts of the world and learning aids include "debating the past" boxes, "daily life" boxes, two four-colour photo-essays and marginal heads to help keep track of the "testable material".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Emergence: world history and human origins
- changing environments, changing societies
- settled societies - the emergence of cities. Part 2 Order: ideas and power - goddesses, god-kings and sages
- religion and state - Buddhism, Christianity and Islam
- trade, transport, temples and tribute - the economics of power
- ties that bind - lineage, clientage and caste
- ordering the world - family and household
- culture and memory
- connections. Part 3 Transformations: commerce and change in Asia, Europe and Africa
- commerce and change - the creation of a global economy and the expansion of Europe
- traditions and their transformation
- boundaries, encounters and frontiers
- crucibles of change - landscape, culture and social life after 1500
- dual revolutions - capitalist industrialism and the nation state
- the tentacles of empire - imperialism in Asia, Africa and the Americas
- culture, power and perspective - war and peace in the 20th century
- resistance, revolution and new global order/disorder
- the crossroads of history - culture, identity and global community.
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