The Essential World History, Volume I: To 1800
By William Duiker, Jackson Spielvogel
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Duiker and Spielvogel's overview of world history explores common challenges and experiences of the human past, while identifying distinctive regional patterns over time. Some chapters focus on specific geographical regions, while others take a comparative or thematic approach, helping students link events together in a broad comparative and global framework. Historiographical subsections examine why historians differ in their interpretation of past events. Other features, including diverse primary sources, primary source analysis activities and analyses of popular films to show how movies represent and misrepresent history. Paired with MindTap, students gain interactive tools, personalized study paths and instant feedback. This text is available in the following split options: "The Essential World History," 10th Edition, "Volume I: To 1800" and "Volume II: Since 1500."
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Duiker and Spielvogel's overview of world history explores common challenges and experiences of the human past, while identifying distinctive regional patterns over time. Some chapters focus on specific geographical regions, while others take a comparative or thematic approach, helping students link events together in a broad comparative and global framework. Historiographical subsections examine why historians differ in their interpretation of past events. Other features, including diverse primary sources, primary source analysis activities and analyses of popular films to show how movies represent and misrepresent history. Paired with MindTap, students gain interactive tools, personalized study paths and instant feedback. This text is available in the following split options: "The Essential World History," 10th Edition, "Volume I: To 1800" and "Volume II: Since 1500."
Table of contents
Part I: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF EMPIRES (PREHISTORY TO 500 C.E.).
- 1. Early Humans and the First Civilizations.
- 2. Ancient India.
- 3. China in Antiquity.
- 4. The Civilization of the Greeks.
- 5. The Roman World Empire.
Part II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION (500–1500 C.E.).
- 6. The Americas.
- 7. Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam.
- 8. Early Civilizations in Africa.
- 9. The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia.
- 10. The Flowering of Traditional China.
- 11. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
- 12. The Making of Europe.
- 13. The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West.
Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500–1800).
- 14. New Encounters: 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.
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