World History II 1500-present
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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.
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.
Contents
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
World History II 1500-present
Crises of Climate, Credit, and Historical Consciousness
The Resurgence of East Asia
Terrorism and Popular Culture
Unit 15 Review
