Synopses & Reviews
Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, Traditions and Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps students understand the worlds major societies and shows how the interactions of these societies affect history throughout the world. The authors tell a coherent and digestible story of the past that is not weighed down by excessive detail, so instructors are able to incorporate additional readings. This edition provides an updated map program as well as the latest scholarship. It also moves Primary Source Investigator online, improving access for students to work with primary sources.
Table of Contents
Part V: The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500-1800
23. Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections
24. The Transformation of Europe
25. The New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
26. Africa and the Atlantic World
27. Tradition and change in East Asia
Part VI: An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750-1914
28. The Islamic Empires
29. Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
30. The Making of Industrial Society
31. The Americas in the Age of Independence
32. Societies at Crossroads
33. The Building of Global Empires
Part VII: Contemporary Global Realignments, 1914 to the Present
34. The Great War: The World in Upheaval
35. An Age of Anxiety
36. Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
37. New Conflagrations: World War II
38. The Bipolar World
39. The End of Empire
40: A World Without Borders