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World Past to World Present : A Sketch of Global History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000433463
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World Past to World PresentLOC classification:
  • D21 .S74 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: The Agricultural Age -- 2. The Nature of Agricultural Society -- 3. Early Civilizations -- 4. The Classical Period -- 5. Religion and Trade: World History from 600 to 1200 -- 6. The Mongol Period, 1200-1450 -- 7. The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The Global Framework -- 8. New Empires, New Ideas: Regional Developments in the Early Modern Period -- PART II: The Industrial Age -- 9. The Nature of Industrial Society -- 10. Global Dynamics: Imperialism and Globalization before 1914 -- 11. Regional Patterns and Comparisons in the "Long" 19th Century -- 12. A Troubled Transition: Global Developments, 1914-1945 -- 13. A More Global World, 1945-2000 -- 14. How Regions Responded, 1945-2000 -- 15. The 21st Century: Legacies and New Questions -- Index.
Summary: World Past to World Present: A Sketch of Global History provides an unusually brief and present-focused treatment of human history beginning with the advent of agriculture and ending with considerable attention to world history developments since World War II.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: The Agricultural Age -- 2. The Nature of Agricultural Society -- 3. Early Civilizations -- 4. The Classical Period -- 5. Religion and Trade: World History from 600 to 1200 -- 6. The Mongol Period, 1200-1450 -- 7. The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The Global Framework -- 8. New Empires, New Ideas: Regional Developments in the Early Modern Period -- PART II: The Industrial Age -- 9. The Nature of Industrial Society -- 10. Global Dynamics: Imperialism and Globalization before 1914 -- 11. Regional Patterns and Comparisons in the "Long" 19th Century -- 12. A Troubled Transition: Global Developments, 1914-1945 -- 13. A More Global World, 1945-2000 -- 14. How Regions Responded, 1945-2000 -- 15. The 21st Century: Legacies and New Questions -- Index.

World Past to World Present: A Sketch of Global History provides an unusually brief and present-focused treatment of human history beginning with the advent of agriculture and ending with considerable attention to world history developments since World War II.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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