Preface
Versions and Supplements
Maps
Special Features
Working with Primary Sources
Prologue: The Three Cs of World History: Change, Comparison, and Connection
Context in World History: Change
Context in World History: Comparison
Context in World History: Connection
12 The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
The Shapes of Human Communities
Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America
Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois
Herding Peoples: Central Asia and West Africa
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: Comparing China and Europe
Ming Dynasty China
European Comparisons: State Building and Cultural Renewal
European Comparisons: Maritime Voyaging
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Islamic World
In the Islamic Heartland: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
On the Frontiers of Islam: The Songhay and Mughal Empires
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Americas
The Aztec Empire
The Inca Empire
Webs of Connection
A Preview of Coming Attractions: Looking Ahead to the Modern Era, 1500-2012
Reflections: What If? Chance and Contingency in World History
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Major Developments around the World in the Fifteenth Century
Snapshot: World Population Growth, 1000-2000
*Portrait: Zheng He, China's Non-Chinese Admiral
Considering the Evidence
Documents: The Aztecs and the Incas through Spanish Eyes
12.1—Diego Duran on the Aztecs: King Moctezuma I, Laws, Ordinances and Regulations, ca. 1450 and Diego Duran, Book of the Gods and Rites, 1574-1576
12.2— Pedro de Cieza de Léon on the Incas: Pedro de Cieza de Léon, Chronicles of the Incas, ca. 1550
Using the Evidence
*Visual Sources: Islam and Renaissance Europe
Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II
The Venetian Ambassador Visits Damascus
Aristotle and Averroes
St. George Baptizes the Pagans of Jerusalem
Giovanni da Modena, Muhammad in Hell
Using the Evidence
Part Four: The Early Modern World, 1450-1750
The Big Picture
Debating the Character of an Era
An Early Modern Era?
A Late Agrarian Era?
*Mapping Part Four
13 Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters, 1450-1750
European Empires in the Americas
The European Advantage
The Great Dying
The Columbian Exchange
Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas
In the Lands of the Aztecs and the Incas
Colonies of Sugar
Settler Colonies in North America
The Steppes and Siberia: The Making of a Russian Empire
Experiencing the Russian Empire
Russians and Empire
Asian Empires
Making China an Empire
Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal Empire
Muslims and Christians in the Ottoman Empire
Reflections: The Centrality of Context in World History
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Ethnic Composition of Colonial Societies in Latin America
*Portrait: Doña Marina, Between Two Worlds
Considering the Evidence
Documents: State Building in the Early Modern Era
13.1—The "Self-Portrait" of a Chinese Emperor: The Emperor Kangxi, Reflections, 1671-1722
13.2—The Memoirs of Emperor Jahangir: Jahangir, Memoirs, 1605-1627
13.3—An Outsiders View of Suleiman I: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters, 1555-1562
13.4—French State-Building and Louis XIV: Louis XIV, Memoirs, 1670 • Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: The Conquest of Mexico through Aztec Eyes
Disaster Foretold
Moctezuma and Cortés
The Massacre of the Nobles
The Spanish Retreat from Tenochtitlán
Using the Evidence
14 Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence, 1450-1750
Europeans and Asian Commerce
A Portuguese Empire of Commerce
Spain and the Philippines
The East India Companies
Asian Commerce
Silver and Global Commerce
The "World Hunt": Fur in Global Commerce
Commerce in People: The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave Trade in Context
The Slave Trade in Practice
Consequences: The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa
Reflections: Economic Globalization—Then and Now
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: The Slave Trade in Numbers (1501-1866)
*Portrait: Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, To Slavery and Back
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Voices from the Slave Trade 00
14.1—The Journey to Slavery: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
14.2—The Business of the Slave Trade: Thomas Phillips, "A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal of London," 1694
14.3—The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Kongo: King Affonso I, Letters to King Jao of Portugal, 1526
14.4—The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Asante: Osei Bons, Conversation with Joseph Dupuis, 1820
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World
Tea and Porcelain in Europe
A Chocolate Party in Spain
An Ottoman Coffeehouse
Clothing and Status in Colonial Mexico
Using the Evidence
15 Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science, 1450-1750
The Globalization of Christianity
Western Christendom Fragmented: The Protestant Reformation
Christianity Outward Bound
Conversion and Adaptation in Spanish America
An Asian Comparison: China and the Jesuits
Persistence and Change in Afro-Asian Cultural Traditions
Expansion and Renewal in the Islamic World
China: New Directions in an Old Tradition
India: Bridging the Hindu/Muslim Divide
A New Way of Thinking: The Birth of Modern Science
The Question of Origins: Why Europe?
Science as Cultural Revolution • Science and Enlightenment
Looking Ahead: Science in the Nineteenth Century
European Science beyond the West
Reflections: Cultural Borrowing and Its Hazards
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Catholic/Protestant Differences in the Sixteenth Century
Snapshot: Major Thinkers and Achievements of the Scientific Revolution
*Portrait: Ursula de Jesus, An Afro-Peruvian Slave and Christian Visionary
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Renewal and Reform in the Early Modern World
15.1—Luthers Protest: Martin Luther, Table Talk, early sixteenth century
15.2—Progress and Enlightenment: Marquis de Condorcet, Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind, 1793-1794
15.3—The Wahhabi Perspective on Islam: Abdullah Wahhab, "History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis," 1803
15.4—The Poetry of Kabîr: Kabîr, Poetry, ca. late fifteenth century
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Global Christianity in the Early Modern World
Pieter Seanredam, Interior of a Dutch Reformed Church
Catholic Baroque: Interior of Pilgrimage Church, Mariazell, Austria
Cultural Blending in Andean Christianity
Making Christianity Chinese
Christian Art at the Mughal Court
Using the Evidence
Part Five: The European Moment In World History, 1750-1914
The Big Picture European Centrality and the Problem of Eurocentrism
Eurocentric Geography and History
Countering Eurocentrism
*Mapping Part Five
16 Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes, 1750-1914
Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context
Comparing Atlantic Revolutions
The North American Revolution, 1775-1787
The French Revolution, 1789-1815
The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804
Spanish American Revolutions, 1810-1825
Echoes of Revolution
The Abolition of Slavery
Nations and Nationalism
Feminist Beginnings
Reflections: Revolutions Pro and Con
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Key Moments in the Growth of Nationalism
*Portrait: Kartini, Feminism and Nationalism in Java
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Claiming Rights
16.1—The French Revolution and the "Rights of Man": The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789
16.2—Rights and National Independence: Simón Bolívar, The Jamaica Letter, 1815
16.3—Rights and Slavery: Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?", 1852
16.4—The Rights of Women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self, 1892
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Representing the French Revolution
The Early Years of the French Revolution: "The Joyous Accord"
A Reversal of Roles: The Three Estates of Revolutionary France
Revolution and Religion: "Patience, Monsignor, your turn will come"
An English Response to Revolution: "Hell Broke Loose or The Murder of Louis"
Using the Evidence
17 Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750-1914
Explaining the Industrial Revolution
Why Europe?
Why Britain?
The First Industrial Society
The British Aristocracy
The Middle Classes
The Laboring Classes
Social Protest
Europeans in Motion
Variations on a Theme: Comparing Industrialization in the United States and Russia
The United States: Industrialization without Socialism
Russia: Industrialization and Revolution
The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
After Independence in Latin America
Facing the World Economy
Becoming like Europe?
Reflections: History and Horse Races
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Measuring the Industrial Revolution
Snapshot: The Industrial Revolution and the Global Divide
*Portrait: Ellen Johnston, Factory Girl and Poet
Considering the Evidence
*Documents: Experiencing Industrialization
17.1— The Experience of an English Factory Worker: Elizabeth Bentley, Factory Worker, Testimony, 1831 and William Harter, Mill Owner, Testimony, 1832
17.2—A Weavers Lament: Only a Weaver, 1860s
17.3—A Middle-Class Understanding of the Industrial Poor: Samuel Smiles, Thrift, 1875
17.4—Socialism According to Marx: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
17.5—Socialism in Song: Eugene Pottier (trans. Charles Kerr), The Internationale, 1871
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Art and the Industrial Revolution
The Machinery Department of the Crystal Palace
The Railroad as a Symbol of the Industrial Era
Outside the Factory: Eyre Crowe, The Dinner Hour, Wigan
Inside the Factory: Lewis Hine, Child Labor, 1912
John Leech, Capital and Labour
Using the Evidence
18 Colonial Encounters in Asia and Africa, 1750-1950
Industry and Empire
A Second Wave of European Conquests
Under European Rule
Cooperation and Rebellion
Colonial Empires with a Difference
Ways of Working: Comparing Colonial Economies
Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State
Economies of Cash-Crop Agriculture: The Pull of the Market
Economies of Wage Labor: Migration for Work
Women and the Colonial Economy: Examples from Africa
Assessing Colonial Development
Believing and Belonging: Identity and Cultural Change in the Colonial Era
Education
Religion
"Race" and "Tribe"
Reflections: Who Makes History?
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions • Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Long-Distance Migration in an Age of Empire, 1846-1940
*Portrait: Wanjiku of Kenya, An Ordinary Woman in Extraordinary Times
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Indian Responses to Empire
18.1—Seeking Western Education: Ram Mohan Roy, Letter to Lord Amherst, 1823
18.2—The Indian Rebellion: Prince Feroze Shah, The Azamgarh Proclamation, 1857
18.3—The Credits and Debits of British Rule in India: Dadabhai Naoroji, Speech to a London Audience, 1871
18.4—Gandhi on Modern Civilization: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Home Rule, 1908
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: The Scramble for Africa
Prelude to the Scramble
Conquest and Competition
From the Cape to Cairo
British and French in North Africa
The Ethiopian Exception
Using the Evidence
19 Empire in Collision: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, 1800-1914
Reversal of Fortune: Chinas Century of Crisis
The Crisis Within
Western Pressures
The Failure of Conservative Modernization
The Ottoman Empire and the West in the Nineteenth Century
"The Sick Man of Europe"
Reform and Its Opponents
Outcomes: Comparing China and the Ottoman Empire
The Japanese Difference: The Rise of a New East Asian Power
The Tokugawa Background
American Intrusion and the Meiji Restoration
Modernization Japanese Style
Japan and the World
Reflections: Success and Failure in History
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Chinese/British Trade at Canton, 1835-1836
*Portrait: Commissioner Lin, Confronting the Opium Trade
Considering the Evidence
*Documents: Changing China
19.1—Towards a Constitutional Monarchy: Kang Youwei, Memorial to Emperor Guangxu, 1898
19.2—Education and Examination: Anonymous, Editorial on Chinas Examination System, 1898, and Emperor Guangxu, Edict on Education, 1898
19.3—Gender, Reform, and Revolution: Qiu Jin, An Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen, 1904
19.4—Prescriptions for a Revolutionary China: Sun Yat-sen, The Three Peoples Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Japanese Perceptions of the West
The Black Ships
Women and Westernization
Kobayashi Kiyochikas Critique of Wholesale Westernization
Japan, China, and Europe: A Reversal of Roles
Using the Evidence
Part Six: The Most Recent Century, 1914-2012
The Big Picture
Since World War I: A New Period in World History?
*Mapping Part Six
20: Collapse at the Center: World War, Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power, 1914-1970s
The First World War: European Civilization in Crisis, 1914-1918
An Accident Waiting to Happen
Legacies of the Great War
Capitalism Unraveling: The Great Depression
Democracy Denied: Comparing Italy, Germany, and Japan
The Fascist Alternative in Europe
Hitler and the Nazis
Japanese Authoritarianism
A Second World War
The Road to War in Asia
The Road to War in Europe
The Outcomes of Global Conflict
The Recovery of Europe
Reflections: War and Remembrance: Learning from History
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: Comparing the Impact of the Depression
*Portrait: Etty Hillesum, Witness to the Holocaust
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Ideologies of the Axis Powers
20.1—Hitler on Nazism: Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925-1926
20.2—The Japanese Way: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, 1937
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Propaganda and Critique in World War I
Defining the Enemy
War and the Colonies
Women and the War
War and the Colonies
The Battlefield
The Aftermath of War
Using the Evidence
21 Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict: The Rise and Fall of World Communism, 1917-Present
Global Communism
Comparing Revolutions as a Path to Communism
Russia: Revolution in a Single Year
China: A Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle
Building Socialism in Two Countries
Communist Feminism
Socialism in the Countryside
Communism and Industrial Development
The Search for Enemies
East versus West: A Global Divide and a Cold War
Military Conflict and the Cold War
Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry
Paths to the End of Communism
China: Abandoning Communism and Maintaining the Party
The Soviet Union: The Collapse of Communism and Country
Reflections: To Judge or Not to Judge
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: China under Mao, 1949-1976
*Portrait: Anna Dubova, A Peasant Woman and Soviet Communist
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Experiencing Stalinism
21.1—Stalin on Stalinism: Joseph Stalin, "The Results of the First Five-Year Plan," 1933
21.2—Living through Collectivization: Maurice Hindus, Red Bread, 1931
21.3—Living through Industrialization: Personal Accounts of Soviet Industrialization, 1930s
21.4—Living through the Terror: Personal Accounts of the Terror, 1930s
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Poster Art in Maos China
Smashing the Old Society
Building the New Society: The Peoples Commune
Women, Nature, and Industrialization
The Cult of Mao
Using the Evidence
22 The End of Empire: The Global South on the Global Stage, 1914-Present
Toward Freedom: Struggles for Independence
The End of Empire in World History
Explaining African and Asian Independence
Comparing Freedom Struggles
The Case of India: Ending British Rule
The Case of South Africa: Ending Apartheid
Experiments with Freedom
Experiments in Political Order: Party, Army, and the Fate of Democracy
Experiments in Economic Development: Changing Priorities, Varying Outcomes
Experiments with Culture: The Role of Islam in Turkey and Iran
Reflections: History in the Middle of the Stream
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
Snapshot: World Population Growth, 1950-2011
*Portrait: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Muslim Pacifist
Considering the Evidence
Documents: Contending for Islam
22.1—A Secular State for an Islamic Society in Turkey: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Speech to the General Congress of the Republican Party, 1927
22.2—Political Islam: Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini, 1980
22.3—Progressive Islam: Kabir Helminski, "Islam and Human Values," 2009
22.4—Abandoning Islam: Ayaan Hirsi Ail, From Islam to America, 2010
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Representing Independence
African National Congress
Vietnamese Independence and Victory over the United States
Winning a Jewish National State
A Palestinian Nation in the Making
Using the Evidence
23 Capitalism and Culture: A New Phase of Global Interaction, since 1945
The Transformation of the World Economy
Reglobalization
Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Globalization and an American Empire
The Globalization of Liberation: Focus on Feminism
Feminism in the West
Feminism in the Global South
International Feminism
Religion and Global Modernity
Fundamentalism on a Global Scale
Creating Islamic Societies: Resistance and Renewal in the World of Islam
Religious Alternatives to Fundamentalism
Experiencing the Anthropocene Era: Environment and Environmentalism
The Global Environment Transformed
Green and Global
Final Reflections: Pondering the OAR
Second Thoughts
Whats the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
LearningCurve
*Snapshot: Global Development and Inequality: 2011
*Portrait: Rachel Carson, Pioneer of Environmentalism
Considering the Evidence
*Documents: Voices of Global Feminism
23.1—Communist Feminism: Alexandra Kollotai, "Communism and the Family," 1920
23.2—Western Feminism: Andrea Dworkin, "Remember, Resist, Do Not Comply," 1995
23.3—Black American Feminism: Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977
23.4—Islamic Feminism: Benzair Bhutto, Politics and the Muslim Woman, 1985
23.5—Mexican Zapatista Feminists: Indigenous Women's Petition, March 1, 1994 and The Women's Revolutionary Law, January 1, 1994
Using the Evidence
Visual Sources: Experiencing Globalization
Globalization and Work
Globalization and Consumerism
Globalization and Protest
Globalization: One World or Many?
Using the Evidence
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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