The human record : sources of global history
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The human record : sources of global history
Cengage Learning, c2016
8th ed
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- v. 2
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v. 1. To 1500 -- v. 2. Since 1500
v. 1: "Print year: 2015"--T.p. verso
v. 2: "Print year: 2014"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9781285870236
Description
THE HUMAN RECORD is a leading primary source reader for world history, providing balanced coverage of the global past. Each volume contains a blend of visual and textual sources that are often paired or grouped together for comparison, as in the Multiple Voices feature. A prologue entitled Primary Sources and How to Read Them serves as a tool that helps you approach, and get the most from, each document. Approximately one-third of the sources in the Eighth Edition are new, and these documents continue to reflect the myriad experiences of the peoples of the world.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Primary Sources and How to Read Them.
Part I: THE ANCIENT WORLD.
1. The First Civilizations.
2. Newcomers: From Nomads to Settlers.
3. Transcendental Reality: Developing the Spiritual Traditions of India and and Southwest Asia: 800 200 B.C.E.
4. The Secular Made Sacred: Developing the Humanistic Traditions of China and Hellas: 600 200 B.C.E.
5. Regional Empires and Afro-Eurasian Interchange, 300 B.C.E. 500 C.E.
Part II: FAITH, DEVOTION, AND SALVATION: WORLD RELIGIONS TO 1500.
6. Universal Religions of Salvation in an Uncertain World: 1 600 C.E.
7. Islam: Universal Submission to God.
Part III: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND INTERCHANGE: 500 1500.
8. Asia: Change in the Context of Tradition.
9. Two Christian Civilizations: Byzantium and Western Europe.
10. Africa and the Americas.
11. Adventurers, Merchants, Diplomats, Pilgrims, and Missionaries: A Half Millennium of Travel and Encounter: 1000 1500.
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v. 2 ISBN 9781285870243
Description
THE HUMAN RECORD is a leading primary source reader for world history, providing balanced coverage of the global past. Each volume contains a blend of visual and textual sources that are often paired or grouped together for comparison, as in the Multiple Voices feature. A prologue entitled �Primary Sources and How to Read Them� serves as a tool that helps you approach, and get the most from, each document. Approximately one-third of the sources in the Eighth Edition are new, and these documents continue to reflect the myriad experiences of the peoples of the world.
Table of Contents
VOLUME II: Since 1500.
Prologue: Primary Sources and How to Read Them.
Part I: AN ERA OF CHANGE AND INCREASED GLOBAL INTERACTION: THE FIFTEENTH THROUGH SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
1. Europe in an Age of Conflict and Expansion.
2. The Islamic Heartland and India.
3. Africa and the Americas.
4. Continuity and Change in East and Southeast Asia.
Part II: A WORLD IN TRANSITION, FROM THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY.
5. Europe and the Americas in an Age of Science, Economic Growth, and Revolution.
6. Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
7. Change and Continuity in East Asia.
Part III: THE WORLD IN THE AGE OF WESTERN DOMINANCE: 1800�1914.
8. The West in the Age of Industrialization and Imperialism.
9. Western Pressures, Nationalism, and Reform in Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the 1800s.
10. East and Southeast Asia Confront the West.
Part IV: THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY AND ITS CHALLENGES IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES.
11. The Industrialized World in Crisis.
12. Anticolonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
13. The Global Community from the 1940s through the 1980s: The End of a European-Dominated World.
14. The World Since 1990.
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