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The human record : sources of global history / Alfred J. Andrea, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Vermont, James H. Overfield, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Vermont.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextEdition: Eighth editionDescription: 2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781285870236
  • 1285870239
  • 9781285870243
  • 1285870247
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D5 AND 2016
Contents:
v. 1. To 1500. Prologue: Primary sources and how to read them -- Part 1: The ancient world. The first civilizations ; Newcomers : from nomads to senders ; Transcendental reality : developing the spiritual traditions of India and Southwest Asia : 800-200 B.C.E. ; The secular made sacred : developing the humanistic traditions of China and Hellas : 600-200 B.C.E. ; Regional empires and Afro-Eurasian interchange, 300 B.C.E.-500 C.E. -- Part 2: Faith, devotion, and salvation : world religions to 1500. Universal religions of salvation in an uncertain world : 1-600 C.E. ; Islam : universal submission to God -- Part 3: Continuity, change, and interchange : 500-1500. Asia : change in the context of tradition ; Two Christian civilizations : Byzantium and Western Europe ; Africa and the Americas ; Adventurers, merchants, diplomats, pilgrims, and missionaries : a half millennium of travel and encounter : 1000-1500.
v. 2. Since 1500. Prologue: Primary sources and how to read them -- Part 1: An era of change and increased global interaction : the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Europe in an age of conflict and expansion ; The Islamic heartland and India ; Africa and the Americas ; Continuity and change in East and Southeast Asia -- Part 2: An era of transition and transformation : the world from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Europe and the Americas in the age of science, economic growth, and revolution ; Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; Change and continuity in East Asia -- Part 3: The world in the age of western dominance : 1800-1914. The west in the age of industrialization and imperialism ; Western pressures, nationalism, and reform in Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the 1800s ; East and Southeast Asia confront the west -- Part 4: The global community and its challenges in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The western world in crisis ; Anticolonialism, nationalism, and revolution in Africa, Asia, and Latin America ; The global community from the 1940s through the 1980s ; The world since 1990.
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Includes bibliographical references.

v. 1. To 1500. Prologue: Primary sources and how to read them -- Part 1: The ancient world. The first civilizations ; Newcomers : from nomads to senders ; Transcendental reality : developing the spiritual traditions of India and Southwest Asia : 800-200 B.C.E. ; The secular made sacred : developing the humanistic traditions of China and Hellas : 600-200 B.C.E. ; Regional empires and Afro-Eurasian interchange, 300 B.C.E.-500 C.E. -- Part 2: Faith, devotion, and salvation : world religions to 1500. Universal religions of salvation in an uncertain world : 1-600 C.E. ; Islam : universal submission to God -- Part 3: Continuity, change, and interchange : 500-1500. Asia : change in the context of tradition ; Two Christian civilizations : Byzantium and Western Europe ; Africa and the Americas ; Adventurers, merchants, diplomats, pilgrims, and missionaries : a half millennium of travel and encounter : 1000-1500.

v. 2. Since 1500. Prologue: Primary sources and how to read them -- Part 1: An era of change and increased global interaction : the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Europe in an age of conflict and expansion ; The Islamic heartland and India ; Africa and the Americas ; Continuity and change in East and Southeast Asia -- Part 2: An era of transition and transformation : the world from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Europe and the Americas in the age of science, economic growth, and revolution ; Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; Change and continuity in East Asia -- Part 3: The world in the age of western dominance : 1800-1914. The west in the age of industrialization and imperialism ; Western pressures, nationalism, and reform in Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the 1800s ; East and Southeast Asia confront the west -- Part 4: The global community and its challenges in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The western world in crisis ; Anticolonialism, nationalism, and revolution in Africa, Asia, and Latin America ; The global community from the 1940s through the 1980s ; The world since 1990.

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