Synopses & Reviews
VOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY, BRIEF EDITION, masterfully uses the theme of movement?the journeys of peoples, ideas, and goods?to help readers make sense of the overwhelming range of people, places, and events throughout history. Each chapter begins with, and is framed around, the story of a person who traveled within the time period and region under discussion. Readers will enjoy the stories and will also learn to critically evaluate the traveler's observations and attitudes. A primary source feature called "Movement of Ideas" helps readers to analyze original sources by providing multiple explanations of significant ideas throughout history.
About the Author
Marvin Perry, now retired, taught history at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (senior author and general editor); WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY; the leading Western Civilization reader, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION; AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE; SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 (senior editor); HUMANITIES IN THE WESTERN TRADITION (senior author and general editor); and WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: A CONCISE HISTORY. His scholarly work includes ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE WESTERN TRADITION (1996); coauthor of ANTISEMITISM: MYTH AND HATE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (2002); coeditor of ANTISEMITIC MYTHS: A HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY (2008); and coeditor of THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (2008). Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on the history of ideas. Kenneth R. Curtis received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1989 and has been Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach until he began his recent post as Assistant Vice President of International and Global Engagement at CSUB. His specialty is African and third world comparative history. Ken is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST: A LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, Fourth edition (Cengage Learning, 2012). He has recently been selected to the 2009-10 President's Fellows Program of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). As co-author of the Cengage Learning text VOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY, he contributes chapters 16-32.
Table of Contents
15. Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic World, 1400?1600. 16. Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500?1700. 17. Religion, Politics, and the Balance of Power in Western Eurasia, 1500?1750. 18. Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas, 1600?1750. 19. The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and Europe, 1550?1807. 20. Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650?1818. 21. European Science and the Foundations of Modern Imperialism, 1600?1820. 22. Revolutions in the West, 1750?1830. 23. The Industrial Revolution and European Politics, 1765?1880. 24. The Challenge of Modernity in China, Japan, and India, 1800?1910. 25. State Building and Social Change in the Americas, 1830?1895. 26. The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast Asia, 1830?1914. 27. War, Revolution, and Global Uncertainty, 1905?1928. 28. Responses to Global Crisis, 1920?1939. 29. The Second World War and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939?1949. 30. The Cold War and Decolonization, 1949?1975. 31. Toward a New World Order, 1975?2000. 32. Voyage into the Twenty-First Century.