World History II 1500-present
A Milestone Documents E-text
Author(s):
Eric Cunningham
Published by Schlager Group Inc.
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E-texts and Course Materials,
World History
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ISBN: 9781961844612
Price: USD 79.95
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History / World,
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World History II 1500-present: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from the Renaissance through the twenty-first century. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.
Description
Subject(s):
World History, History Textbooks
World History II 1500-present: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from the Renaissance through the twenty-first century. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Reader’s Guide
- Contributors
- Unit 1: A Survey of the Premodern Worlds
- The Latin West and the Americas
- China and Its Periphery
- Islam and India
- Unit 1 Review
- Unit 2: Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia
- New Asian Empires
- The Collapse of the Mongol World
- From Crisis to Reformation in Christendom
- Unit 2 Review
- Unit 3: Contact and Conquest
- The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
- Sugar and Slavery
- Spain and Portugal “Open” the Atlantic
- Unit 3 Review
- Unit 4: Worlds Entangled
- Mercantilism and World Trade
- Emergence of the Atlantic World
- Jesuits in the Ming World
- Unit 4 Review
- Unit 5: Empires of Splendor and Might
- Gunpowder Empires
- Unification of Japan
- The Rise of the Qing
- Unit 5 Review
- Unit 6: The Birth of Modern Knowledge
- From Enlightenment to Revolution
- Destabilization of the Spiritual Worldview
- The Scientific Revolution
- Unit 6 Review
- Unit 7: Reordering the World
- Modern Revolutions in North America
- Modern Revolutions in France and Latin America
- Napoléon and the Birth of a Nation
- Unit 7 Review
- Unit 8: Non-European Appropriations of Modernity
- The Late Ottoman Empire
- The Meiji Restoration
- Opium and Diplomacy
- Unit 8 Review
- Unit 9: Industrialism and Its After-effects
- Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
- From Textiles to Steam Engines
- Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto
- Unit 9 Review
- Unit 10: Nations and Empires in the Americas
- Taming a Savage Continent
- Banana Republics
- The Democratic Experiment
- Unit 10 Review
- Unit 11: The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness
- Modernism versus Modernity
- Science and Its Discontents
- Nationalism and Bourgeois Culture
- Unit 11 Review
- Unit 12: New Imperialism
- Origins and Modes
- Case Studies in New Imperialism
- Prelude to War
- Unit 12 Review
- Unit 13: Competing Visions of Modernity
- Fascism
- The Great War
- Soviet Communism
- Unit 13 Review
- Unit 14: A Divided Postwar World
- The Cold War in Latin America
- The Ideological Legacy of World War II
- The Middle East Crisis
- Unit 14 Review
- Unit 15: Globalization
- Crises of Climate, Credit, and Historical Consciousness
- The Resurgence of East Asia
- Terrorism and Popular Culture
- Unit 15 Review
