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Features

• Narrative Part openers present a historical context for chapters included in that part. In this edition, Part openers have been revised to provide students with a more global overview.
• Chapter–opening Timelines clarify the most important events of the chapter.
• Primary Sources, with questions, help students to think about the past. Many new documents, including numerous ones written by women, have been added to this addition.
• “Discovery Through Maps” boxes give students a unique perspective on various cultures by exploring primary maps. Students are able to better understand how societies viewed themselves and those with whom they interacted. All “Discovery Through Map” features have been thoroughly revised, and many are new. All include new questions that help students think more critically about the maps.
• A rich visual program of photographs captures student interest and brings a sharp focus to the themes, trends, and other important historical characteristics of each civilization.
• The extensive map program contains many maps that have been redesigned to enhance readability.
• Brief “Chronology Boxes,” found throughout each chapter, aid students in understanding the sequence of events within a single text section.
• “Suggestions for Readings” and “Suggestions for Web Browsing” at the end of each chapter provide opportunities for further research.

New To This Edition

• A “Literature and Film” section within the “Suggestions for Readings” provides instructors and students with a short list of the best contemporary cultural expressions of each age.
• TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE—Margin icons throughout the chapters link students directly to applicable primary sources within the Longman World History Web site.
• The histories of various regions have been more carefully integrated and balanced, with a greater emphasis on cultural convergence
• Provides more detailed coverage of Asian civilizations, particularly the countries of East Asia, throughout the text. See Chapters 11, 14, 20, and 26, and in particular, new Chapter 35, “Asia Since 1945.”
• Every chapter (see Chapter 20) includes expanded coverage and new research on the status of women.
• A newly revised presentation of Early Modern European history highlights the economic and social factors behind political crises into the foreground. (See Chapters 18, 19, and 22.)
• Expanded coverage of Latin America includes a new Chapter 21, “The Americas from 1650-1825.”
• Part VII, post-1945, has been revised to combine decolonization and the Cold War, revealing the global nature of the period and setting the stage for an understanding of terrorism.

Table of Contents

Volume I includes Chapters 1-17 and Volume II includes Chapters 13-35.

I. CLASSICAL ORIGINS.

1 .Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East

2. The East Kingdoms, to 220 C.E.

3. India, to 300 C.E.

4. Greece: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000-30 B.C.E.

5. The Roman World, 509 B.C.E.-568 C.E.

II. CIVILIZATIONAL DIVERSITY.

6. The New Christian Romes: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia.

7. Islam: From Its Origins to 1300.

8. African Beginnings: African Civilizations to 1500.

9. The Early Middle Ages in Europe: 500-1000.

10. The Late Middle Ages in Europe: 1000-1500.

11. The Growth and Spread of Asian Cultures, Before and After the Mongol Conquests: 300-1300.

12. The Americas to 1492.

III. GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS.

13. The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300-1650.

14. Asian Nations in Motion, 1350-1650.

15. The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe: 1300-1600.

16. The Christian Reformation and the Political Transformation of Europe 1517-1648.

17. Global Encounters: Europe and the World Economy, 1400-1660.

IV. STATE DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGE OF ECONOMIC REVOLUTION.

18. Absolutism and Limited Power in the Age of Capitalism, 1648-1774.

19. New Ideas and Their Consequences: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.

20. Africa and Asia, 1650-1815.

21. The Americas, 1650 to 1825.

22. The Birth of the Modern Age: The French and the Industrial Revolutions, 1774-1825.

V. THE CENTURY OF WESTERN DOMINANCE.

23. State Development in the West, 1815-1871.

24. The Triumph of the Middle Classes: Western Economic, Scientific, Intellectual, and Cultural Dominance, 1815-1914.

25. Africa and the Middle East, 1800-1914.

26. Asia, 1800-1914: India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.

27. Western Politics and Diplomatic Failure, 1871-1914.

VI. THE END OF THE EUROPEAN ORDER.

28. Winning the War and Losing the Peace: The Democracies, 1914-1939.

29. Authoritarian Alternatives: Russia, Italy, and Germany, 1917-1939.

30. Emerging National Movements in Asia and Africa, from the 1920s to the 1950s.

31. Democratic Weakness and World War II.

VII. THE PERILS AND PROSPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION.

32. Decolonization and the Bi-Polar Conflict: National Liberation and the Cold War, to 1991.

33. The Euratlantic World, Since 1945.

34. Africa, The Middle East, and Latin America Since 1945: The Search for Stability.

35. Asia Since 1945.

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