| Edition |
Concise second edition. |
| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"With sources"-- cover and spine. |
| Contents |
Volume One: Becoming human -- Rivers, cities, and first states, 3500-2000 BCE -- Nomads, territorial states, and microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE -- First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE -- Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE -- Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350-100 BCE -- Han dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE -- The rise of universalizing religions, 300-600 CE -- New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE -- Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500. |
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Volume Two: Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Crisis and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500 -- Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450-1600 --Worlds entangled, 1600-1750 -- Cultures of splendor and power, 1500-1780 -- Reordering the world, 1750-1850 -- Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century -- Nations and empires, 1850-1914 -- An unsettled world, 1890-1914 -- Of masses and visions of the modern, 1910-1939 -- The Three-World Order, 1940-1975 -- Globalization, 1970-2000 -- 2001-The Present. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
World history.
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World history. |
| Added Author |
Rosenberg, Clifford D., 1969- author.
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Tignor, Robert L., author.
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Adelman, Jeremy, author.
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Aron, Stephen, author.
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Brown, Peter, 1935- author.
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Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- author.
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Kotkin, Stephen, author.
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Liu, Xinru, author.
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Marchand, Suzanne L., 1961- author.
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Pittman, Holly, author.
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Prakash, Gyan, 1952- author.
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Shaw, Brent D., author.
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Tsin, Michael Tsang-Woon, author.
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| ISBN |
9780393668452 (paperback ; set) |
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0393668452 (paperback ; set) |
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9780393668544 (paperback ; volume 1) |
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0393668541 (paperback ; volume 1) |
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9780393668551 (paperback ; volume 2) |
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039366855X (paperback ; volume 2) |
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