Civilization Past and Present, Single Volume Edition,9780321236135

Civilization Past and Present, Single Volume Edition

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Summary

The authors of the Eleventh Edition ofCivilization Past and Presentspecialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European historyweave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students.Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative traces connections across cultures and introduces intriguing avenues of historical interpretation. The text examines all aspects of world historysocial, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

Table of Contents

Documents xxiii
Maps
xxv
Global Issues xxvii
Discovery Through Maps xxvii
Chapter Opening Image Descriptions xxix
To the Instructor xxxiii
To the Student xlvii
Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East
2(36)
The Origins of Humankind
4(1)
Preliterate Cultures
5(2)
Preliterate Society and Religion
7(3)
Mesopotamia: The First Civilization
10(4)
The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000--1600 B.C.E.
14(2)
Egypt: Gift of the Nile
16(10)
Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600--550 B.C.E.
26(7)
The Persian Empire, 550--331 B.C.E.
33(5)
The Oldest Known Map: Catul Huyuk
8(14)
``The Great Hymn to the Aton'' and Psalm 104
22(13)
The Majesty of Darius the Great: A Persian Royal Inscription
35(3)
Ancient China---Origins to Empire: Prehistory to 220 C.E.
38(26)
The Origins of China, 6500--221 B.C.E.
40(12)
The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.--220 C.E.
52(12)
The Wisdom of Confucius
47(4)
Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)
51(9)
From The Book of Songs: ``A Simple Rustic You Seemed''
60(4)
Ancient India: From Origins to 300 C.E.
64(30)
Early India
66(6)
Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600--320 B.C.E.
72(7)
The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.--300 C.E.
79(4)
Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.--300 C.E.
83(6)
The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange
89(5)
Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men
70(4)
The Jains on the Souls in All Things
74(13)
The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita
87(7)
GLOBAL ISSUES: MIGRATION
94(128)
Greece: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000--30 B.C.E.
96(34)
Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.
98(4)
The Rise of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150--500 B.C.E.
102(6)
The Golden Age of Greece, 500--336 B.C.E.
108(5)
The Greek Cultural Achievement
113(7)
The Hellenistic Age, 336--30 B.C.E.
120(4)
Hellenistic Society and Culture
124(6)
Homer---The lliad: Andromache and Hector
103(8)
Aristophanes on the Shortcomings of Athenian Democracy
111(7)
The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.
118(5)
Arrian: Alexander the Leader
123(7)
Roman Civilization: The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.
130(34)
Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900--509 B.C.E.
132(2)
The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509--133 B.C.E.
134(5)
The Late Republic: 133--30 B.C.E.
139(5)
The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E. 176 C.E.
144(6)
The Rise of Christianity
150(8)
The Roman Legacy
158(6)
Columella: Roman Farm Women
140(2)
Plutarch---The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus
142(22)
Byzantium and the Orthodox World: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325--1500
164(30)
Byzantium: The Latin Phase: 325--610
166(7)
The Age of Consolidation: 610--1071
173(8)
Western and Turkish Invasions: 1071--1453
181(3)
Southeastern Europe to 1500
184(4)
Russia to 1500
188(6)
The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies
169(5)
A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic
174(4)
Anna Comnena
178(11)
The Acceptance of Christianity
189(5)
Islam: From Its Origins to 1300
194(28)
Arabia Before the Prophet
196(2)
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
198(3)
Islamic Faith and Law
201(5)
The Expansion of Community and State
206(4)
The Abbasid Era, Zenith of Classical Islamic Civilization
210(4)
Islamic Culture
214(8)
The Qur'an
202(7)
The Early Islamic Conquests
209(7)
An Islamic Map of the World
216(2)
Ibn Sina's Path to Wisdom
218(4)
GLOBAL ISSUES: RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT
222(122)
African Beginnings: African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.
224(32)
The African Environment
226(1)
African Cultural Patterns
226(3)
Peopling of Africa
229(2)
The Bantu Dispersion
231(1)
Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa
232(4)
Empires of the Western Sudan
236(10)
West African Forest Kingdoms
246(1)
Swahili City-States in East Africa
247(5)
Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa
252(4)
Emperor Zar'a Ya'kob's Coronation and His Concern for the Church
237(4)
Ghana, as Described by Al-Bakri
241(2)
Mansa Musa and the Catalan Atlas of 1375
243(13)
The European Middle Ages, 476--1348 C.E.
256(30)
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
258(2)
The Merovingians and Carolingians
260(6)
Feudalism and Manorialism
266(5)
The Revival of Trade and Towns
271(1)
The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000--1348
272(3)
The Crusades
275(3)
The Development of European States: 1000--1348
278(8)
Charlemagne: A Firsthand Look
263(14)
Muslim and Christian: Two Contemporary Perspectives
277(9)
Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220--1350
286(36)
India in the Classical and Medieval Eras
288(6)
China: Cultural and Political Empires
294(16)
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One
310(2)
The Emergence of Japan in East Asia
312(10)
Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India
290(10)
Bo Juyi (772--846): ``The Song of Everlasting Sorrow''
300(9)
Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi
309(9)
Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book
318(4)
The Americas to 1492
322(22)
Origins of Americans and Their Cultures
324(1)
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica
325(2)
Classical Mayan Civilization
327(2)
The Postclassical Era
329(7)
The Amerindians of North America
336(8)
Father Bernabe Cobo, ``Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca''
333(11)
GLOBAL ISSUES: LOCATION AND IDENTITY
344(116)
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300--1650
346(24)
New Polities in Eurasia
348(1)
The Ottoman Empire
349(8)
The Safavid Empire in Persia
357(4)
The Mughal Empire in South Asia
361(6)
Networks of Trade and Communication
367(3)
The World Map of Piri Reis
351(4)
Evliya Celebi, ``An Ottoman Official's Wedding Night''
355(3)
The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold
358(8)
The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan
366(4)
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 300--1650
370(26)
China: The Ming Dynasty
373(8)
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society
381(3)
Japan: The Era of Shoguns and Warring States
384(7)
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region
391(5)
Map of China's Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.
375(2)
A Censor Accuses a Eunuch
377(10)
Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese No Play
387(5)
A Traveller's Account of Siam
392(4)
European Cultural and Religious Transformations: The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300--1600
396(36)
Social Upheaval
398(1)
The Italian Renaissance
399(5)
Italian Renaissance Art
404(4)
The Northern Renaissance
408(5)
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300--1517
413(3)
Luther and the German Reformation
416(3)
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation
419(2)
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland: Zwingli and Calvin
421(5)
Reform in the Catholic Church
426(6)
The Lagoon of Venice
401(2)
Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy
403(19)
Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr
422(10)
The Development of the European State System, 1300--1650
432(28)
Politics in an Age of Crisis: 1300--1500
434(8)
The Religious-Political Fusion
442(1)
Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs' Quest for European Hegemony, 1556--1598
443(7)
Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion
450(3)
The Austrian Habsburgs' Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years' War
453(7)
The Trial of Joan of Arc
435(1)
A Pilgrim's Map of Canterbury
436(18)
Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years' War
454(6)
GLOBAL ISSUES: TECHNOLOGICAL EXCHANGE
460(124)
Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400--1650
462(28)
The Iberian Golden Age
464(5)
The Portuguese and Africa
469(5)
The Growth of New Spain
474(3)
Iberian Systems in the New World
477(5)
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion
482(8)
Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster's Map of Africa
471(2)
Portuguese Encounters with Africans
473(7)
Disease and the Spanish Conquest
480(10)
Politics in the First Age of Capitalism, 1648--1774: Absolutism and Limited Central Power
490(36)
Capitalism and the Forces of Change
492(4)
Social Crises during the Capitalist Revolution
496(6)
Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism
502(5)
The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism
507(5)
Holland and England: Limited Central Power
512(4)
Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War in the Age of Absolutism: 1650--1774
516(4)
Economic Challenges
520(2)
Louis XV and the Decline of European Absolutism: 1715--1774
522(4)
Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants
500(4)
Louis XIV to His Son
504(15)
The Elegant Destruction of Poland
519(7)
New Ideas and Their Political Consequences: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions
526(34)
Revolution in Science: The Laws of Nature
528(4)
The Sciences of Society: The ``Age of Reason''
532(7)
The Failure of Monarchical Reform
539(2)
The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789--1799
541(11)
The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799--1815
552(8)
The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus
529(1)
The Widening Scope of Scientific Discovery
530(15)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
545(1)
Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women
546(14)
Africa, 1650--1850
560(24)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
562(6)
End of the Slave Trade in West Africa
568(1)
Islamic Africa
569(2)
Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa
571(7)
African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa
578(6)
A Slave's Memoir
565(9)
``Song of the Afflicted''
574(3)
The Myth of the Empty Land
577(7)
GLOBAL ISSUES: SLAVERY
584(164)
Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650--1815
586(32)
The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era
588(5)
Muslim Politics in Persia
593(1)
Early Modern India under the Mughals
594(4)
The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War
598(6)
Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
604(1)
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period
605(8)
Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions
613(2)
Europeans on New Pacific Frontiers
615(3)
Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of ``Orient''
592(11)
Lan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive People
603(9)
Ihara Saikaku: ``The Umbrella Oracle''
612(6)
The Americas, 1650--1825: From European Dominance to Independence
618(24)
The Iberian Colonies: 1650--1789
620(6)
The West Indies
626(1)
Breaking Away: The Creation of the United States of America
627(6)
Haiti: The First Successful Slave Revolution
633(2)
The Latin American Revolutions
635(7)
The Island of California
625(8)
Letter from Abigail Adams
633(5)
Simon Bolivar, Proclamation to the People of Venezuela
638(4)
Industrialization: Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations
642(30)
The Industrial Revolution: British Phase
644(1)
The Industrial Revolution: Continental Phase
645(4)
Industrialization and the Workers
649(5)
The Middle Classes
654(5)
Science, Technology, and the Second Industrial Revolution
659(3)
Cultural Responses to the Age
662(10)
Industrialization and Children
651(5)
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861)
656(16)
Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism
672(34)
European Conquest of Africa
674(4)
European Technology and the African Response to Conquest
678(3)
The Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer War
681(1)
Colonial Rule in Africa
682(8)
The Ottoman Empire Refashioned
690(11)
Persia and the Great Power Struggle
701(5)
That Was No Brother
676(21)
A Middle Eastern Vision of the West
697(2)
Halide Edib: Education, Generation, and Class in the Late Ottoman Empire
699(7)
Asia, 1815--1914: India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan
706(20)
India
708(4)
Southeast Asia
712(3)
China: The Long Nineteenth Century
715(6)
Japan: Modernity and Imperialism
721(5)
The Great Revolt of 1857--1858
711(7)
Lin Zexu on the Opium Trade
718(4)
``The Beefeater''
722(4)
Latin America: Independence and Dependence, 1825--1945
726(22)
Challenges to Latin American States After Independence
728(9)
Twentieth-Century Latin America
737(5)
The Colossus to the North: The United States and Latin America
742(6)
Civilization and Barbarism
733(2)
Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Brazil
735(9)
Jose Marti's Observations on the United States and Cuba
744(4)
GLOBAL ISSUES: GENDER
748(190)
Politics and Diplomacy in the West, 1815--1914
750(46)
The Vienna Settlement and the Reassembling of Europe
752(4)
1848: The Revolutionary Year
756(3)
Prussia, German Unification, and the Second Reich
759(5)
The Decline of Austria
764(1)
France: The Second Empire and the Third Republic
765(3)
Italy to 1914
768(1)
The United Kingdom
769(5)
The United States
774(7)
Russia in Reform and Revolution
781(6)
The ``Eastern Question'' and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914
787(9)
Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch
762(14)
An American View of the World in the 1820s
776(3)
``With Malice Toward None'': Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
779(17)
World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences
796(36)
World War I
798(10)
The Allied Peace Settlement
808(6)
Economic Disasters
814(4)
Politics in the Democracies
818(7)
The Western Tradition in Transition: Changing Certainties
825(7)
Diary of Private Tom Easton
804(5)
John Maynard Keynes on Clemenceau
809(23)
The USSR, Italy, Germany, and Japan: Democratic Failure and Authoritarian Government in the Interwar Period
832(32)
Revolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928--1939
834(11)
Fascism
845(2)
Italy and Mussolini
847(4)
The German Tragedy
851(7)
Japan
858(6)
Stalin and State Terror
844(12)
The New German Woman
856(1)
Wishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism Map
857(7)
Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910--1950
864(20)
China: Revolution and Republic
866(6)
Korea: From Monarchy to Colony
872(2)
Nationalism in Southeast Asia
874(4)
India: The Drive for Independence
878(6)
Lu Xun and China's May Fourth Generation
868(9)
What's in a Name? Siam or Thailand?
877(3)
Gandhi and ``Truth-Force''
880(4)
Emerging National Movements in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s
884(24)
The Middle East Divided
886(9)
The Challenge to Colonial Rule in Africa
895(3)
Pan-Africanism
898(3)
World War II and Its Aftermath
901(7)
Memorandum of the General Syrian Congress
889(4)
We Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as Liberators
893(7)
The Awakening of a Pan-African Spirit
900(4)
Pass Laws and African Women in South Africa
904(4)
World War II: Origins and Consequences, 1919--1946
908(30)
The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s
910(2)
Epoch of the Aggressors
912(9)
World War II
921(13)
Postwar Settlements
934(4)
Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back
911(7)
The Hossbach Memorandum
918(14)
The Nazi Death Camps
932(6)
GLOBAL ISSUES: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
938
The Bipolar World: Cold War and Decolonization, 1945--1991
940(22)
Competing Economic Models
942(1)
The Cold War: 1945--1962
943(5)
Vietnam and Afghanistan
948(7)
Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
955(1)
Decolonization
956(6)
The Truman Doctrine
945(3)
Khrushchev's Address to the Twentieth Party Congress
948(2)
Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954
950(12)
The United States and Europe Since 1945: Politics in an Age of Conflict and Change
962(40)
Technological and Social Changes
964(3)
The United States
967(7)
Western Europe
974(11)
Eastern Europe
985(8)
The Soviet Union and the Russian Republic
993(4)
Interdependence in a Changing World
997(5)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
967(2)
Martin Luther King Jr., ``Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence''
969(7)
Jean Monnet on European Unity
976(10)
The Euro Comes to Greece
986(16)
The Middle East, Africa, and Latin America Since 1945: The Struggle for Survival
1002(38)
The Middle East: Religion and Politics
1004(13)
Africa: The Search for National Identities
1017(11)
Latin America: Reform, Repression, or Revolt
1028(12)
Borders and Identities: The UN Partition Plan
1006(7)
Ayatollah Khomeini, Message to the Pilgrims
1013(8)
The Village That Has ``Eaten Itself Limb by Limb''
1021(19)
Asia Since 1945: Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions
1040
The People's Republic of China and Other Chinese Countries
1042(8)
Japan: From Defeat to Dominance to Doubt
1050(5)
Korea: A Nation Divided
1055(3)
Southeast Asia
1058(5)
The Subcontinent
1063
Mao on Communism in China
1045(20)
Nehru and the Two Sides of Kashmir
1065(4)
Benazir Bhutto at Harvard
1069
Credits 1(1)
Notes 1(1)
Index 1

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