World History II 1500-present
  
World History II 1500-present  
A Milestone Documents E-text
Author(s): Eric Cunningham
Published by Schlager Group Inc.
Publication Date:  Available in all formats
ISBN: 9781961844605
Pages: 228

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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.
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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.
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
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