eTextbook 978-0393918472 Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Concise Edi

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393922073
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393922073
• Author: Robert Tignor (Author), Jeremy Adelman (Author), Peter Brown (Author), Benjamin Elman (Author), Stephen Kotkin (Author)

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edition of this successful text has been streamlined, shortened, and features a new suite of tools designed to help students think critically, master content and make connections across time and place.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Becoming Human

Chapter 2 Rivers, Cities, and First States, 4000-2000 BCE

Chapter 3 Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE

Chapter 4 First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1200-350 BCE

Chapter 5 Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000-350 BCE

Chapter 6 Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350 BCE-250 CE

Chapter 7 Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE

Chapter 8 The Rise of Universal Religions, 300-600 CE

Chapter 9 New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 CE

Chapter 10 Becoming “The World,” 1000-1300 CE

Chapter 11 Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300s-1500s

Chapter 12 Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450s-1600

Chapter 13 Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750

Chapter 14 Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500-1780

Chapter 15 Reordering the World, 1750-1850

Chapter 16 Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 17 Nations and Empires, 1850-1914

Chapter 18 An Unsettled World, 1890-1914

Chapter 19 Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1939

Chapter 20 The Three-World Order, 1940-1975

Chapter 21 Globalization, 1970-2000