The Essential World History, Volume II: Since 1500
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 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 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 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.
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 the West.
- 21. The High Tide of Imperialism.
- 22. Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge.
- 23. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.
- 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 WORLD SINCE 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.
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