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World History : Journeys from Past to Present.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (769 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135088293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 909
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Contents:
Intro -- World History Journeys from Past to Present -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of maps -- Figure credits -- Preface to the Second Edition -- A visual tour of World History: Journeys from Past to Present -- Part I Emergence (Human origins to 500 CE) -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Human migration: World history in motion -- Introduction to the theme of migration -- Evolutionary footprints: Human origins in Africa -- Origin myths: The creation of the world -- Colonization of the planet -- Primary source: The origin of human consciousness -- Primary source: Interviewing ancient rock art -- Crossing boundaries: Later migrations -- Summary -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 2 Technology and environment: Transformations in world history -- Introduction to the theme of environment -- Technology defines human culture -- Agricultural beginnings -- Early agricultural societies -- Technology and environment -- Primary source: Lamenting technology -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 3 Cities and city life in world history -- Introduction to the theme of cities -- World demography: Crowded daily lives -- Emerging complexity -- Primary source: Theognis on tyranny and social discord -- Later expansion of commercial cities -- Cities and population growth -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 4 Ideas and power: Goddesses, kings, and sages -- Introduction to the theme of ideas and power -- From goddesses and gods to god-kings -- Primary source: The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BCE) -- Divine encounters: Transformations in religion and society -- From god-kings to prophets and preachers -- Sages and society: Philosophy and politics in early China and Greece -- The idea of empire -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources.
Study questions -- Part I Summary -- Part II Order (1 CE to 1500 CE) -- Part II Introduction -- 5 The spread of world religions: Missionaries, merchants, and monarchs -- Introduction to the theme of the spread of religions -- Buddhism -- Christianity -- Primary source: Prince Vladimir's search for a religion -- Islam -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 6 Making a living: World economies -- Introduction to the theme of world economies -- Manorial economies in medieval England and Japan -- Markets and money in medieval China -- Slavic peoples and the economy of Rus': Trade and agriculture -- Pastoral economies: Herders and horsemen -- Primary source: Making a living in Badakhshan -- Farmers and traders in Southeast Asia -- Rulers and regional economies in South Asia -- Environmental diversity and ecological adaptation in Africa -- Land, labor, and markets in the Mexica-Aztec economy -- Trade and tribute in the Incan Empire -- Economy and environment in North American landscapes -- Religion and the economy in the Islamic world -- Regional systems and the impact of long-distance trade -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 7 Family matters: Gender, family, and household -- Introduction to the theme of gender, family, and household in world history -- Gender, family, and household in Roman law and society -- Christianity, family, and household in medieval Europe -- Confucianism, family, and household in Imperial China -- Primary source: How to manage a family in twelfth-century China -- Women and family in Northeast Asia: Korea and Japan -- Women, family, and household in Inner Asia -- The impact of Islam on women, family, and household in West Asia -- African women, families, and households: Matrilineality and motherhood -- Caste, marriage, and family in South Asia.
Women, family, and household in Southeast Asia -- Gender, family, and household in North America -- Family and household in Mesoamerica and South America -- Summary -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 8 Ties that bind: Lineage, clientage, and caste -- Introduction to the theme of lineage, clientage, and caste -- Lineage societies in West Asia -- Lineage societies and states in East and Inner Asia -- Caste and society in South Asia -- Lineage, clientage, and caste in Africa -- Lineage and community in North America -- Lineage and state in the Mexica-Aztec and Incan Empires -- "Feudalism" in Europe and Japan -- Slavery -- Primary source: Zhou Daguan on slaves in the Khmer Empire -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 9 Early empires -- Introduction to the theme of early empires -- Maritime and mainland empires in Southeast Asia: Srivijaya and Khmer -- Nomads and empire in Eurasia: The Mongol Empire -- Primary source: Ibn al-Athir on the Mongol conquest of Persia -- Trade, technology, ecology, and culture: The Mali Empire in West Africa -- Empires in the Americas -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- Part II Summary: Mapping order -- Part III Connections (500-1600 CE) -- Part III Introduction -- 10 Connections across land and sea -- Introduction to the theme of connections -- Cowries, coins, and commerce -- Trade commodities -- Merchants and international trade -- Money and international exchange -- Diplomatic connections -- Religious connections -- Primary source: Ibn Battuta, world traveler -- Commercial connections -- Connections in the Americas -- Pacific connections before 1500 -- Northern Eurasian connections: The Vikings -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions.
11 Cultural memory: Transmitting traditions -- Introduction to the theme of cultural memory -- Cultural memory systems: Oral traditions -- Cultural memory systems: Writing -- Cultural memory systems: History -- Cultural categories of knowledge: History, theology, and philosophy -- Epic poetry and cultural memory -- The representation of cultural memory -- Religion and cultural memory -- Technology and cultural memory -- Institutions and the transmission of cultural memory -- Education, universities, and schools -- Brotherhoods and guilds -- Cultural hegemony and resistance -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 12 Commerce and change: Creating a world system -- Introduction to the theme of commerce and change -- Debating the rise of the West -- Technology, commerce, and the expansion of Europe -- European voyages of exploration -- Commerce and change in the West African gold trade -- Commerce and change in China -- Silver's global connections -- Primary source: Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world, 1519-22 -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- Part III Summary -- Part IV Bridging worlds (1300-1800 CE) -- Part IV Introduction -- 13 Commerce and change: Building a world system -- Introduction to the theme of world systems of knowledge and wealth -- Mercantilism and the Atlantic world, ca. 1500-1750 -- Mercantilism -- The creation of a global economy: Silver, sugar, and slaves -- The slave trade -- Slavery and the African diaspora -- The impact of the slave trade on African societies -- African merchants in the Atlantic world -- Primary source: The business of Willem Bosman -- The Atlantic world and the Americas -- Transformations in the Americas: European impact and resistance -- Distinctions among colonies -- European expansion in the Indian Ocean.
European expansion in the Pacific -- The East Asian core and periphery: China, Japan, and the world economy -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 14 Traditions and their transformations -- Introduction to the theme of traditions and their transformations -- Renaissances and cultural rebirth -- Primary source: Print technology, scripts, and vernacular languages -- Cultural rebirth in East Asia: Neo-Confucianism in China -- Fractured tradition: Religious reformations in sixteenth-century Europe -- Blended traditions: Syncretisms and society in East Asia -- The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment in Europe -- Traditions and their transformations in the Islamic world -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 15 Maritime worlds: The Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds -- Introduction to the theme of maritime boundaries, encounters, and frontiers -- Discovering longitude -- European arms and sails: Maritime hegemony -- Redefining the Indian Ocean -- The Pacific routes and the rise of the West -- The creation of an Atlantic Economy: Sugar and slaves -- Piracy, trade, and the politics of maritime frontiers -- Primary source: Diary of Mendez Pinto -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 16 Landings: Boundaries, frontiers, and encounters -- Introduction to the theme of boundaries, frontiers and encounters on land -- Mapping the world -- Sacred encounters: Jesuit missionaries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas -- Gender boundaries -- Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in North America and Southern Africa -- Boundaries and frontiers in the Russian Empire -- Primary source: The furry world that trade (and the beaver) created -- The "abode of Islam": Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in the Islamic world.
Boundaries and frontiers of the Chinese Empire.
Summary: World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the overwhelming sweep of the human past into a truly global story that is relevant to the contemporary issues of our time. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of this innovative textbook combines clear chronological progression with thematically focused chapters divided into six parts as follows: PART I. EMERGENCE (Human origins to 500 CE) PART II. ORDER (1 CE-1500 CE) PART III. CONNECTIONS (500-1600 CE) PART IV. BRIDGING WORLDS (1300-1800 CE) PART V. TRANSFORMING LIVES (1500-1900) PART VI. FORGING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY (1800- Present).
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Intro -- World History Journeys from Past to Present -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of maps -- Figure credits -- Preface to the Second Edition -- A visual tour of World History: Journeys from Past to Present -- Part I Emergence (Human origins to 500 CE) -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Human migration: World history in motion -- Introduction to the theme of migration -- Evolutionary footprints: Human origins in Africa -- Origin myths: The creation of the world -- Colonization of the planet -- Primary source: The origin of human consciousness -- Primary source: Interviewing ancient rock art -- Crossing boundaries: Later migrations -- Summary -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 2 Technology and environment: Transformations in world history -- Introduction to the theme of environment -- Technology defines human culture -- Agricultural beginnings -- Early agricultural societies -- Technology and environment -- Primary source: Lamenting technology -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 3 Cities and city life in world history -- Introduction to the theme of cities -- World demography: Crowded daily lives -- Emerging complexity -- Primary source: Theognis on tyranny and social discord -- Later expansion of commercial cities -- Cities and population growth -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 4 Ideas and power: Goddesses, kings, and sages -- Introduction to the theme of ideas and power -- From goddesses and gods to god-kings -- Primary source: The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BCE) -- Divine encounters: Transformations in religion and society -- From god-kings to prophets and preachers -- Sages and society: Philosophy and politics in early China and Greece -- The idea of empire -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources.

Study questions -- Part I Summary -- Part II Order (1 CE to 1500 CE) -- Part II Introduction -- 5 The spread of world religions: Missionaries, merchants, and monarchs -- Introduction to the theme of the spread of religions -- Buddhism -- Christianity -- Primary source: Prince Vladimir's search for a religion -- Islam -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 6 Making a living: World economies -- Introduction to the theme of world economies -- Manorial economies in medieval England and Japan -- Markets and money in medieval China -- Slavic peoples and the economy of Rus': Trade and agriculture -- Pastoral economies: Herders and horsemen -- Primary source: Making a living in Badakhshan -- Farmers and traders in Southeast Asia -- Rulers and regional economies in South Asia -- Environmental diversity and ecological adaptation in Africa -- Land, labor, and markets in the Mexica-Aztec economy -- Trade and tribute in the Incan Empire -- Economy and environment in North American landscapes -- Religion and the economy in the Islamic world -- Regional systems and the impact of long-distance trade -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 7 Family matters: Gender, family, and household -- Introduction to the theme of gender, family, and household in world history -- Gender, family, and household in Roman law and society -- Christianity, family, and household in medieval Europe -- Confucianism, family, and household in Imperial China -- Primary source: How to manage a family in twelfth-century China -- Women and family in Northeast Asia: Korea and Japan -- Women, family, and household in Inner Asia -- The impact of Islam on women, family, and household in West Asia -- African women, families, and households: Matrilineality and motherhood -- Caste, marriage, and family in South Asia.

Women, family, and household in Southeast Asia -- Gender, family, and household in North America -- Family and household in Mesoamerica and South America -- Summary -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 8 Ties that bind: Lineage, clientage, and caste -- Introduction to the theme of lineage, clientage, and caste -- Lineage societies in West Asia -- Lineage societies and states in East and Inner Asia -- Caste and society in South Asia -- Lineage, clientage, and caste in Africa -- Lineage and community in North America -- Lineage and state in the Mexica-Aztec and Incan Empires -- "Feudalism" in Europe and Japan -- Slavery -- Primary source: Zhou Daguan on slaves in the Khmer Empire -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 9 Early empires -- Introduction to the theme of early empires -- Maritime and mainland empires in Southeast Asia: Srivijaya and Khmer -- Nomads and empire in Eurasia: The Mongol Empire -- Primary source: Ibn al-Athir on the Mongol conquest of Persia -- Trade, technology, ecology, and culture: The Mali Empire in West Africa -- Empires in the Americas -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- Part II Summary: Mapping order -- Part III Connections (500-1600 CE) -- Part III Introduction -- 10 Connections across land and sea -- Introduction to the theme of connections -- Cowries, coins, and commerce -- Trade commodities -- Merchants and international trade -- Money and international exchange -- Diplomatic connections -- Religious connections -- Primary source: Ibn Battuta, world traveler -- Commercial connections -- Connections in the Americas -- Pacific connections before 1500 -- Northern Eurasian connections: The Vikings -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions.

11 Cultural memory: Transmitting traditions -- Introduction to the theme of cultural memory -- Cultural memory systems: Oral traditions -- Cultural memory systems: Writing -- Cultural memory systems: History -- Cultural categories of knowledge: History, theology, and philosophy -- Epic poetry and cultural memory -- The representation of cultural memory -- Religion and cultural memory -- Technology and cultural memory -- Institutions and the transmission of cultural memory -- Education, universities, and schools -- Brotherhoods and guilds -- Cultural hegemony and resistance -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 12 Commerce and change: Creating a world system -- Introduction to the theme of commerce and change -- Debating the rise of the West -- Technology, commerce, and the expansion of Europe -- European voyages of exploration -- Commerce and change in the West African gold trade -- Commerce and change in China -- Silver's global connections -- Primary source: Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world, 1519-22 -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- Part III Summary -- Part IV Bridging worlds (1300-1800 CE) -- Part IV Introduction -- 13 Commerce and change: Building a world system -- Introduction to the theme of world systems of knowledge and wealth -- Mercantilism and the Atlantic world, ca. 1500-1750 -- Mercantilism -- The creation of a global economy: Silver, sugar, and slaves -- The slave trade -- Slavery and the African diaspora -- The impact of the slave trade on African societies -- African merchants in the Atlantic world -- Primary source: The business of Willem Bosman -- The Atlantic world and the Americas -- Transformations in the Americas: European impact and resistance -- Distinctions among colonies -- European expansion in the Indian Ocean.

European expansion in the Pacific -- The East Asian core and periphery: China, Japan, and the world economy -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 14 Traditions and their transformations -- Introduction to the theme of traditions and their transformations -- Renaissances and cultural rebirth -- Primary source: Print technology, scripts, and vernacular languages -- Cultural rebirth in East Asia: Neo-Confucianism in China -- Fractured tradition: Religious reformations in sixteenth-century Europe -- Blended traditions: Syncretisms and society in East Asia -- The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment in Europe -- Traditions and their transformations in the Islamic world -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 15 Maritime worlds: The Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds -- Introduction to the theme of maritime boundaries, encounters, and frontiers -- Discovering longitude -- European arms and sails: Maritime hegemony -- Redefining the Indian Ocean -- The Pacific routes and the rise of the West -- The creation of an Atlantic Economy: Sugar and slaves -- Piracy, trade, and the politics of maritime frontiers -- Primary source: Diary of Mendez Pinto -- Summary -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Online resources -- Study questions -- 16 Landings: Boundaries, frontiers, and encounters -- Introduction to the theme of boundaries, frontiers and encounters on land -- Mapping the world -- Sacred encounters: Jesuit missionaries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas -- Gender boundaries -- Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in North America and Southern Africa -- Boundaries and frontiers in the Russian Empire -- Primary source: The furry world that trade (and the beaver) created -- The "abode of Islam": Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in the Islamic world.

Boundaries and frontiers of the Chinese Empire.

World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the overwhelming sweep of the human past into a truly global story that is relevant to the contemporary issues of our time. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of this innovative textbook combines clear chronological progression with thematically focused chapters divided into six parts as follows: PART I. EMERGENCE (Human origins to 500 CE) PART II. ORDER (1 CE-1500 CE) PART III. CONNECTIONS (500-1600 CE) PART IV. BRIDGING WORLDS (1300-1800 CE) PART V. TRANSFORMING LIVES (1500-1900) PART VI. FORGING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY (1800- Present).

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