Heritage of World Civilizations, The, Volume 2, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (14 July 2021) © 2022

  • Albert M. Craig Harvard University
  • William A. Graham Harvard University
  • Donald M. Kagan Yale University
  • Steven Ozment Harvard University
  • Frank M. Turner Yale University
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The Heritage of World Civilizations explores Asian, African, Middle Eastern, European, and American civilizations, emphasizing the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions. Readers will view the events and processes that have shaped our world through a comparative, global lens.

Table of contents

Part 3: Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilizations, 500 C.E. to 1500 C.E.
14. Africa, ca. 1000–1700
15. Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance

Part 4: The World in Transition, 1500–1850
16. Europe, 1500–1650: Expansion, Reformation, and Religious Wars
17. Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy 18. East Asia in the Late Traditional Era
19. State Building and Society in Early Modern Europe
20. The Last Great Islamic Empires, 1500–1800

Part 5: Enlightenment and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1700–1850
21. The Age of European Enlightenment    
22. Revolutions in the Transatlantic World
23. Political Consolidation in Nineteenth Century Europe and North America

Part 6: Into the Modern World, 1815–1949
24. Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society, 1815–1914
25. Latin America from Independence to the 1940s
26. India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa, 1800–1945
27. Modern East Asia

Part 7: Global Conflict and Change, 1900–Present
28. Imperialism and World War I
29. Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal
30. World War II
31. The West since World War II
32. East Asia: The Recent Decades
33. Postcolonialism and Beyond: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

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