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Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history, the Twelfth Edition of A History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to engage todays students and save instructors time. This edition includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest scholarship throughout.

Achieve helps you do more than you can with print alone. Available on its own or packaged with the book at a steep discount, the Achieve platform is ready to use as is, or can be edited and customized with your own material and assigned right away. Developed with extensive feedback from history instructors and students, Achieve includes the complete, full color narrative e-textbook, as well as abundant primary documents, maps, images, assignments, tutorials, and activities. The aims of key learning outcomes are addressed via formative and summative assessment, short answer and essay questions, multiple choice quizzing, and LearningCurve, an adaptive learning tool designed to get students to read before they come to class. Available with training and support, Achieve can help you take your teaching to a new level.

Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history, the Twelfth Edition of A History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to engage todays students and save instructors time. This edition includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest scholarship throughout.

Achieve helps you do more than you can with print alone. Available on its own or packaged with the book at a steep discount, the Achieve platform is ready to use as is, or can be edited and customized with your own material and assigned right away. Developed with extensive feedback from history instructors and students, Achieve includes the complete, full color narrative e-textbook, as well as abundant primary documents, maps, images, assignments, tutorials, and activities. The aims of key learning outcomes are addressed via formative and summative assessment, short answer and essay questions, multiple choice quizzing, and LearningCurve, an adaptive learning tool designed to get students to read before they come to class. Available with training and support, Achieve can help you take your teaching to a new level.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.

Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.

Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Special Features

16

The Acceleration of Global Contact

1450-1600

The Afro-Eurasian Trade World

The Trade World of the Indian Ocean Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia Muslim Influences and African Trade Genoese and Venetian Middlemen

The European Voyages of Discovery

Causes of European Expansion Technology and the Rise of Exploration The Portuguese in Africa and Asia Spain's Voyages to the Americas Spain "Discovers" the Pacific Early Exploration by Northern European Powers

Conquest and Settlement

Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires Portuguese Brazil Colonial Administration Economic Exploitation of the Indigenous Population Patterns of Settlement

The Era of Global Contact

Population Loss and the Ecological Impacts of Contact Sugar and Early Transatlantic Slavery Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects The Birth of the Global Economy

Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

Religious Conversion European Debates About Indigenous Peoples New Ideas About Race

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Columbus Describes His First Voyage

Analyze Visual Evidence Depictions of Africans in European Portraiture

Think Like a Historian Who Was Doña Marina?

Compare Viewpoints Aztec and Spanish Views onChristian Conversion in New Spain

Individuals in Society Catarina de San Juan, Former Slave and Popular Saint

17

The Islamic World Powers

1300-1800

The Islamic Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

Environmental Challenges The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire Land-Holding, Slavery and Imperial Administrations The Safavid Empire in Persia The Mughal Empire in India

Religious Developments

Religious Legitimacy and Orthodoxy Sufism Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule

Cultural Flowering

The Arts City and Palace Building Gardens Intellectual Advances

New Patterns of Trade and European Penetration

New Forms of Consumption The Impact of Gunpowder European Trade in Asia and the Islamic Powers' Response From the British East India Company to the British Empire in India

Political Decline

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Katib Chelebi on Tobacco

Analyze Visual Evidence Coffee Drinking

Think Like a Historian Forced Relocation of Armenians to Persia

Compare Viewpoints Mughal and French Views on Priorities for Monarchs

Individuals in Society Hürrem, Concubine, Empress, and Counselor

18

European Power and Expansion

1500-1750

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations

The Protestant Reformation The Catholic Reformation Religious Violence

Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding

The Social Order and Peasant Life Environmental, Economic, and Social Crisis The Thirty Years' War European Achievements in State-Building

Absolutist States in Western and Central Europe

Spain The Foundations of French Absolutism Louis XIV and Absolutism The Wars of Louis XIV The Absolutist Palace The Austrian Habsburgs

Alternatives to Absolutism

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth The Failure of Absolutism in England The Puritan Protectorate Constitutional Monarchy The Dutch Republic

Colonial Expansion and Empire

The Dutch Trading Empire Colonial Empires of England and France Mercantilism and Colonial Wars People Beyond Borders

The Russian Empire

Mongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of Moscow Building the Russian Empire Peter the Great and Russia's Turn to the West

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Peter the Great and Foreign Experts

Analyze Visual Evidence Genre Painting: Celebrating Daily Life

Think Like a Historian What Was Absolutism?

Compare Viewpoints Descriptions of Louis XIV of France and the Kangxi Emperor of China

Individuals in Society Glückel of Hameln, Mother and Businesswoman

19

New Worldviews and Ways of Life

1540-1790

The Scientific Revolution

The Muslim Contribution Scientific Thought to 1550 Astronomy and Physics Newton's Synthesis Natural History and Empire Magic and Alchemy

Important Changes in Scientific Thinking and Practice

The Methods of Science Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry Science and Religion Science and Society

The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment

The Early Enlightenment The Influence of the Philosophes Enlightenment Movements Across Europe

Key Issues of Enlightenment Debate

Global Contacts New Definitions of Race Women and the Enlightenment Enlightened Absolutism and Its Limits

Economic Change and the Atlantic World

Economic and Demographic Change The Atlantic Economy Urban Life and the Public Sphere Culture and Community in the Atlantic World The Atlantic Enlightenment

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage"

Analyze Visual Evidence Frontispiece to De On the Structure of the Human Body

Think Like a Historian The Enlightenment Debate on Religious Tolerance

Compare Viewpoints Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft on Women's Nature

Individuals in Society Rebecca Protten, Mixed-Race Missionary

20

Africa and the World

1400-1800

West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

The West Coast: Senegambia and Benin The Sudan: Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland Agriculture, Gender, and Marriage in West Africa Trade and Industry

Cross-Cultural Encounters Along the East African Coast

Muslim and European Incursions in Ethiopia, ca. 1500-1630 The Swahili City-States and the Arrival of the Portuguese, ca. 1500-1600

The African Slave Trade

The Institution of Slavery in Africa The Transatlantic Slave Trade Impact on African Societies

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City-States

Analyze Visual Evidence Lamu Old Town, Lamu Island, Kenya

Think Like a Historian Perspectives on the African Slave Trade

Compare Viewpoints European Descriptions of Timbuktu and Jenne

Individuals in Society Olaudah Equiano, Slave to Abolitionist

21

Continuity and Change in East Asia

1400-1800

Ming China, 1368-1644

The Rise of Zhu Yuanzhang and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty Problems with the Imperial Institution The Mongols and the Great Wall The Examination Life Everyday Life in Ming China Ming Decline

The Manchus and Qing China, to 1800

The Rise of the Manchus Competent and Long-Lived Emperors Imperial Expansion

Japan's Middle Ages, ca. 1400-1600

Muromachi Culture Civil War The Victors: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi

The Tokugawa Shogunate, to 1800

Tokugawa Government Commercialization and the Growth of Towns The Life of the People in the Edo Period

Maritime Trade, Piracy, and the Entry of Europe into the Asian Maritime Sphere

Zheng He's Voyages Piracy and Japan's Overseas Adventures Europeans Enter the Scene Christian Missionaries Learning from the West The Shifting International Environment in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Control of Locusts

Analyze Visual Evience Interior View of a Kabuki Theater

Think Like a Historian Attention to Dress in Edo Japan

Compare Viewpoints Chinese and European Commentators on Urban Amusements

Individuals in Society Tan Yunxian, Woman Doctor

22

Revolutions in the Atlantic World

1775-1825

Background to Revolution

Social Change Demands for Liberty and Equality The Seven Years' War

The American Revolutionary Era, 1775-1789

The Origins of the Revolution Independence from Britain Framing the Constitution Limitations of Liberty and Equality

Revolution in France, 1789-1799

Breakdown of the Old Order The National Assembly Constitutional Monarchy The National Convention The Directory

Napoleon's Europe, 1799-1815

Napoleon's Rule of France Napoleon's Expansion in Europe The Grand Empire and Its End

The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804

Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue The Outbreak of Revolt The War of Haitian Independence

Revolutions in Latin America

The Origins of the Revolutions Against Colonial Powers Resistance, Rebellion, and Independence The Aftermath of Revolution in the Atlantic World

Chapter Summary

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Primary Source Features

Analyze Written Evidence Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"

Analyze Visual Evidence Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808

Think Like a Historian The Rights of Which Men?

Compare Viewpoints Declarations of Independence: The United States and Venezuela

Individuals in Society Vincent...

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781319302467
ISBN-10: 1319302467
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
Beck, Roger B.
Davila, Jerry
Crowston, Clare Haru
McKay, John P.
Auflage: 12th edition
Hersteller: Macmillan Learning
W. H. Freeman
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Maße: 274 x 214 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2020
Gewicht: 1,469 kg
Artikel-ID: 129074925