Maps | p. xiii |
Sources from the Past | p. xiv |
Contexts and Connections | p. xv |
Preface | p. xvi |
Acknowledgments | p. xxix |
The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500 to 1800 | p. 594 |
Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections | p. 597 |
The European Reconnaissance of the World's Oceans | p. 598 |
Motives for Exploration | p. 599 |
The Technology of Exploration | p. 600 |
Voyages of Exploration: from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic | p. 604 |
Voyages of Exploration: from the Atlantic to the Pacific | p. 606 |
Sources from the Past: Christopher Columbus's First Impressions of American Peoples | p. 607 |
Trade and Conflict in Early Modern Asia | p. 609 |
Trading-Post Empires | p. 612 |
Sources from the Past: Afonso d'Alboquerque Seizes Hormuz | p. 614 |
European Conquests in Southeast Asia | p. 615 |
Foundations of the Russian Empire in Asia | p. 617 |
Commercial Rivalries and the Seven Years' War | p. 619 |
Global Exchanges | p. 620 |
The Columbian Exchange | p. 621 |
The Origins of Global Trade | p. 623 |
Contexts & Connections: Vaccination and the Eradication of Smallpox | p. 624 |
Summary | p. 626 |
Chronology | p. 627 |
For Further Reading | p. 627 |
The Transformation of Europe | p. 631 |
The Fragmentation of Western Christendom | p. 632 |
The Protestant Reformation | p. 632 |
The Catholic Reformation | p. 634 |
Witch-Hunts and Religious Wars | p. 635 |
The Consolidation of Sovereign States | p. 637 |
The Attempted Revival of Empire | p. 637 |
The New Monarchs | p. 639 |
Constitutional States | p. 641 |
The European States System | p. 645 |
Early Capitalist Society | p. 648 |
Population Growth and Urbanization | p. 649 |
Early Capitalism and Protoindustrialization | p. 649 |
Social Change in Early Modern Europe | p. 652 |
Sources from the Past: Adam Smith on the Capitalist Market | p. 654 |
Science and Enlightenment | p. 655 |
The Reconception of the Universe | p. 655 |
The Scientific Revolution | p. 656 |
The Enlightenment | p. 658 |
Summary | p. 660 |
Chronology | p. 661 |
For Further Reading | p. 661 |
New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania | p. 665 |
Colliding Worlds | p. 666 |
The Spanish Caribbean | p. 666 |
The Conquest of Mexico and Peru | p. 668 |
Sources from the Past: First Impressions of Spanish Forces | p. 669 |
Iberian Empires in the Americas | p. 670 |
Settler Colonies in North America | p. 673 |
Colonial Society in the Americas | p. 675 |
The Formation of Multicultural Societies | p. 676 |
Mining and Agriculture in the Spanish Empire | p. 678 |
Sugar and Slavery in Portuguese Brazil | p. 681 |
Fur Traders and Settlers in North America | p. 682 |
Christianity and Native Religions in the Americas | p. 684 |
Contexts & Connections: The Holy Herb Nicotine | p. 685 |
Europeans in the Pacific | p. 686 |
Australia and the Larger World | p. 686 |
The Pacific Islands and the Larger World | p. 688 |
Sources from the Past: Captain James Cook on the Hawaiians | p. 690 |
Summary | p. 691 |
Chronology | p. 692 |
For Further Reading | p. 692 |
Africa and the Atlantic World | p. 695 |
African Politics and Society in Early Modern Times | p. 696 |
The States of West Africa and East Africa | p. 696 |
The Kingdoms of Central Africa and South Africa | p. 699 |
Sources from the Past: King Afonso I Protests Slave Trading in the Kingdom of Kongo | p. 701 |
Islam and Christianity in Early Modern Africa | p. 703 |
Social Change in Early Modern Africa | p. 705 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 706 |
Foundations of the Slave Trade | p. 706 |
Human Cargoes | p. 707 |
The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa | p. 709 |
Sources from the Past: Olaudah Equiano on the Middle Passage | p. 710 |
The African Diaspora | p. 712 |
Plantation Societies | p. 712 |
The Making of African-American Cultural Traditions | p. 715 |
The End of the Slave Trade and the Abolition of Slavery | p. 716 |
Contexts & Connections: The Globalization of African Music | p. 717 |
Summary | p. 718 |
Chronology | p. 719 |
For Further Reading | p. 719 |
Tradition and Change in East Asia | p. 723 |
The Quest for Political Stability | p. 724 |
The Ming Dynasty | p. 724 |
The Qing Dynasty | p. 727 |
The Son of Heaven and the Scholar-Bureaucrats | p. 729 |
Economic and Social Changes | p. 731 |
The Patriarchal Family | p. 731 |
Population Growth and Economic Development | p. 733 |
Gentry, Commoners, Soldiers, and Mean People | p. 735 |
Sources from the Past: Qianlong on Chinese Trade with England | p. 736 |
The Confucian Tradition and New Cultural Influences | p. 738 |
Neo-Confucianism and Pulp Fiction | p. 738 |
The Return of Christianity to China | p. 739 |
The Unification of Japan | p. 741 |
The Tokugawa Shogunate | p. 741 |
Economic and Social Change | p. 743 |
Neo-Confucianism and Floating Worlds | p. 744 |
Christianity and Dutch Learning | p. 746 |
Sources from the Past: Fabian Fucan Rejects Christianity | p. 748 |
Summary | p. 749 |
Chronology | p. 749 |
For Further Reading | p. 750 |
The Islamic Empires | p. 753 |
Formation of the Islamic Empires | p. 754 |
The Ottoman Empire | p. 754 |
The Safavid Empire | p. 756 |
Sources from the Past: Ghislain de Busbecq's Concerns about the Ottoman Empire | p. 757 |
The Mughal Empire | p. 759 |
Sources from the Past: A Conqueror and His Conquests: Babur on India | p. 760 |
Imperial Islamic Society | p. 762 |
The Dynastic State | p. 763 |
Agriculture and Trade | p. 763 |
Religious Affairs in the Islamic Empires | p. 766 |
Cultural Patronage of the Islamic Emperors | p. 768 |
The Empires in Transition | p. 770 |
The Deterioration of Imperial Leadership | p. 770 |
Economic and Military Decline | p. 771 |
Cultural Conservatism | p. 772 |
Summary | p. 774 |
Chronology | p. 775 |
For Further Reading | p. 776 |
An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750 to 1914 | p. 778 |
Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World | p. 781 |
Popular Sovereignty and Political Upheaval | p. 782 |
Enlightened and Revolutionary Ideas | p. 783 |
The American Revolution | p. 784 |
The French Revolution | p. 786 |
Sources from the Past: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | p. 789 |
The Reign of Napoleon | p. 791 |
The Influence of Revolution | p. 793 |
The Haitian Revolution | p. 794 |
Wars of Independence in Latin America | p. 796 |
The Emergence of Ideologies: Conservatism and Liberalism | p. 798 |
Testing the Limits of Revolutionary Ideals: Slavery | p. 799 |
Testing the Limits of Revolutionary Ideals: Women's Rights | p. 801 |
Contexts & Connections: Voting Rights and Restrictions | p. 802 |
Sources from the Past: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen | p. 804 |
The Consolidation of National States in Europe | p. 805 |
Nations and Nationalism | p. 805 |
The Emergence of National Communities | p. 807 |
The Unification of Italy and Germany | p. 809 |
Summary | p. 811 |
Chronology | p. 812 |
For Further Reading | p. 813 |
The Making of Industrial Society | p. 815 |
Patterns of Industrialization | p. 816 |
Foundations of Industrialization | p. 817 |
The Factory System | p. 820 |
The Early Spread of Industrialization | p. 821 |
Industrial Capitalism | p. 824 |
Industrial Society | p. 825 |
The Fruits of Industry | p. 825 |
Urbanization and Migration | p. 827 |
Contexts & Connections: Birth Control | p. 828 |
Sources from the Past: Thomas Malthus on Population | p. 830 |
Industry and Society | p. 831 |
The Socialist Challenge | p. 833 |
Global Effects of Industrialization | p. 836 |
The Continuing Spread of Industrialization | p. 837 |
Sources from the Past: Marx and Engels on Bourgeoisie and Proletarians | p. 838 |
The International Division of Labor | p. 839 |
Summary | p. 842 |
Chronology | p. 843 |
For Further Reading | p. 843 |
The Americas in the Age of Independence | p. 847 |
The Building of American States | p. 848 |
The United States: Westward Expansion and Civil War | p. 849 |
The Canadian Dominion: Independence without War | p. 853 |
Latin America: Fragmentation and Political Experimentation | p. 854 |
Sources from the Past: Ponciano Arriaga Calls for Land Reform | p. 858 |
American Economic Development | p. 860 |
Migration to the Americas | p. 860 |
Economic Expansion in the United States | p. 862 |
Canadian Prosperity | p. 864 |
Latin American Dependence | p. 865 |
American Cultural and Social Diversity | p. 867 |
Multicultural Society in the United States | p. 867 |
Canadian Cultural Contrasts | p. 870 |
Sources from the Past: The Meaning of Freedom for an Ex-Slave | p. 871 |
Ethnicity, Identity and Gender in Latin America | p. 872 |
Summary | p. 874 |
Chronology | p. 875 |
For Further Reading | p. 876 |
Societies at Crossroads | p. 879 |
The Ottoman Empire in Decline | p. 880 |
The Nature of Decline | p. 881 |
Reform and Reorganization | p. 883 |
The Young Turk Era | p. 885 |
Sources from the Past: Proclamation of the Young Turks | p. 886 |
The Russian Empire under Pressure | p. 887 |
Military Defeat and Social Reform | p. 887 |
Industrialization | p. 889 |
Repression and Revolution | p. 891 |
The Chinese Empire under Siege | p. 892 |
The Opium War and the Unequal Treaties | p. 893 |
Sources from the Past: Letter of Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria | p. 895 |
The Taiping Rebellion | p. 896 |
Reform Frustrated | p. 898 |
The Transformation of Japan | p. 900 |
From Tokugawa to Meiji | p. 900 |
Meiji Reforms | p. 902 |
Summary | p. 904 |
Chronology | p. 905 |
For Further Reading | p. 906 |
The Building of Global Empires | p. 909 |
Foundations of Empire | p. 910 |
Motives of Imperialism | p. 910 |
Tools of Empire | p. 912 |
Sources from the Past: Rudyard Kipling on the White Man's Burden | p. 913 |
European Imperialism | p. 915 |
The British Empire in India | p. 915 |
Imperialism in Central Asia and Southeast Asia | p. 917 |
The Scramble for Africa | p. 919 |
Sources from the Past: Lord Lugard Justifies Imperialism and Indirect Rule in Africa | p. 924 |
European Imperialism in the Pacific | p. 925 |
The Emergence of New Imperial Powers | p. 927 |
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America and the Pacific | p. 927 |
Imperial Japan | p. 929 |
Legacies of Imperialism | p. 930 |
Empire and Economy | p. 930 |
Labor Migrations | p. 932 |
Empire and Society | p. 934 |
Nationalism and Anticolonial Movements | p. 936 |
Contexts & Connections: The Spread of the English Language | p. 937 |
Summary | p. 938 |
Chronology | p. 939 |
For Further Reading | p. 940 |
Contemporary Global Realignments, 1914 to the Present | p. 942 |
The Great War: The World in Upheaval | p. 944 |
The Drift toward War | p. 946 |
Nationalist Aspirations | p. 947 |
National Rivalries | p. 947 |
Understandings and Alliances | p. 949 |
Global War | p. 950 |
The Guns of August | p. 951 |
Mutual Butchery | p. 952 |
Total War: The Home Front | p. 956 |
Sources from the Past: Dulce et decorum est | p. 957 |
Conflict in East Asia and the Pacific | p. 959 |
Battles in Africa and Southwest Asia | p. 960 |
The End of the War | p. 961 |
Revolution in Russia | p. 962 |
U.S. Intervention and the Collapse of the Central Powers | p. 963 |
Sources from the Past: State and Revolution | p. 964 |
The Paris Peace Conference | p. 966 |
Contexts & Connections: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 | p. 967 |
Challenges to European Preeminence | p. 972 |
Summary | p. 973 |
Chronology | p. 974 |
For Further Reading | p. 974 |
An Age of Anxiety | p. 977 |
Probing Cultural Frontiers | p. 979 |
Postwar Pessimism | p. 979 |
Revolutions in Physics and Psychology | p. 980 |
Experimentation in Art and Architecture | p. 982 |
Global Depression | p. 985 |
The Great Depression | p. 985 |
Despair and Government Action | p. 987 |
Economic Experimentation | p. 988 |
Sources from the Past: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Nothing to Fear | p. 990 |
Challenges to the Liberal Order | p. 990 |
Communism in Russia | p. 991 |
The Fascist Alternative | p. 994 |
Italian Fascism | p. 995 |
German National Socialism | p. 996 |
Sources from the Past: Mein Kampf | p. 998 |
Summary | p. 1000 |
Chronology | p. 1001 |
For Further Reading | p. 1002 |
Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America | p. 1005 |
Asian Paths to Autonomy | p. 1006 |
India's Quest for Home Rule | p. 1006 |
China's Search for Order | p. 1008 |
Sources from the Past: "Self Rule is my Birthright" | p. 1009 |
Imperial and Imperialist Japan | p. 1013 |
Africa under Colonial Domination | p. 1014 |
Africa and the Great War | p. 1014 |
The Colonial Economy | p. 1016 |
African Nationalism | p. 1017 |
Sources from the Past: Africa for Africans | p. 1019 |
Latin American Struggles with Neocolonialism | p. 1020 |
The Impact of the Great War and the Great Depression | p. 1020 |
The Evolution of Economic Imperialism | p. 1022 |
Conflicts with a "Good Neighbor" | p. 1024 |
Summary | p. 1027 |
Chronology | p. 1028 |
For Further Reading | p. 1028 |
New Conflagrations: World War II | p. 1031 |
Origins of World War II | p. 1032 |
Japan's War in China | p. 1033 |
Italian and German Aggression | p. 1035 |
Total War: The World under Fire | p. 1037 |
Blitzkrieg: Germany Conquers Europe | p. 1038 |
The German Invasion of the Soviet Union | p. 1039 |
Battles in Asia and the Pacific | p. 1041 |
Defeat of the Axis Powers | p. 1043 |
Sources from the Past: A Hiroshima Maiden's Tale | p. 1045 |
Life during Wartime | p. 1047 |
Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance | p. 1048 |
The Holocaust | p. 1050 |
Sources from the Past: "We Will Never Speak about It in Public" | p. 1051 |
Contexts & Connections: Genocide | p. 1052 |
Women and the War 1054 | |
Neither Peace nor War | p. 1055 |
Postwar Settlements and Cold War | p. 1056 |
Global Reconstruction and the United Nations | p. 1058 |
Summary | p. 1059 |
Chronology | p. 1060 |
For Further Reading | p. 1061 |
The Bipolar World | p. 1063 |
The Formation of a Bipolar World | p. 1064 |
The Cold War in Europe | p. 1064 |
Confrontations in Korea and Cuba | p. 1066 |
Cold War Societies | p. 1070 |
Sources from the Past: Nikita Khrushchev on the Capitalist Iron Curtain | p. 1074 |
Contexts & Connections: Cold War Olympic Sports | p. 1076 |
Challenges to Superpower Hegemony | p. 1077 |
Defiance, Dissent, and Intervention in Europe | p. 1077 |
The People's Republic of China | p. 1079 |
Detente and the Decline of Superpower Influence | p. 1081 |
The End of the Cold War | p. 1084 |
Revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe | p. 1085 |
The Collapse of the Soviet Union | p. 1087 |
Toward an Uncertain Future | p. 1089 |
Summary | p. 1090 |
Chronology | p. 1091 |
For Further Reading | p. 1091 |
The End of Empire | p. 1095 |
Independence in Asia | p. 1097 |
India's Partitioned Independence | p. 1097 |
Sources from the Past: Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the Need for a Muslim Pakistan | p. 1099 |
Nationalist Struggles in Vietnam | p. 1102 |
Arab National States and the Problem of Palestine | p. 1103 |
Decolonization in Africa | p. 1107 |
Forcing the French out of North Africa | p. 1107 |
Black African Nationalism and Independence | p. 1108 |
Freedom and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 1109 |
Sources from the Past: Kwame Nkrumah on African Unity | p. 1112 |
After Independence: Long-Term Struggles in the Postcolonial Era | p. 1113 |
Communism and Democracy in Asia | p. 1113 |
Islamic Resurgence in Southwest Asia and North Africa | p. 1116 |
Politics and Economics in Latin America | p. 1119 |
War and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 1123 |
Summary | p. 1126 |
Chronology | p. 1127 |
For Further Reading | p. 1128 |
A World without Borders | p. 1131 |
The Global Economy | p. 1132 |
Economic Globalization | p. 1133 |
Economic Growth in Asia | p. 1135 |
Trading Blocs | p. 1136 |
Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global Communications | p. 1138 |
Global Barbie | p. 1139 |
Consumption and Cultural Interaction | p. 1140 |
The Age of Access | p. 1141 |
Global Problems | p. 1142 |
Population Pressures and Environmental Degradation | p. 1142 |
Sources from the Past: Silent Spring | p. 1145 |
Economic Inequities and Labor Servitude | p. 1147 |
Contexts & Connections: The Graying of China | p. 1148 |
Global Diseases | p. 1149 |
Global Terrorism | p. 1151 |
Coping with Global Problems: International Organizations | p. 1153 |
Crossing Boundaries | p. 1156 |
Women's Traditions and Feminist Challenges | p. 1156 |
Migration | p. 1160 |
Cross-Cultural Travelers | p. 1163 |
Summary | p. 1165 |
Chronology | p. 1166 |
For Further Reading | p. 1166 |
Glossary | p. G-1 |
Credits | p. C-1 |
Index | p. I-1 |
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