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Patterns of World History, Brief Edition Combined Volume

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ISBN-10: 0199943745

ISBN-13: 9780199943746

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, George B. Stow

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Patterns of World History offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George Stow - each specialists in their respective fields - examine the full range of humaningenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, even-handed, and critical fashion.The book helps students to see and understand patterns through: ORIGINS - INTERACTIONS - ADAPTATIONSThese key features show the O-A-I framework in action:* Seeing Patterns, a list of key questions at the beginning of each chapter, focuses students on the 3-5 over-arching patterns, which are revisited, considered, and…    
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List price: $84.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1008
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.50" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 3.696

From Human Origins to Early Agricultural Centers, Prehistory-10,000 B.C.E.
The African Origins of Humanity, Prehistory to 10,000 B.C.E.
Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500-600 B.C.E
Shifting Agrarian Centers in India, 3000-600 B.C.E.
Agrarian Patterns and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000-481 B.C.E.
Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania, 30,000-600 B.C.E.
The Age of Empires and Visionaries, 600 B.C.E. - 600 C.E.
Chiefdoms and Early States in Africa and the Americas, 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E.
Persia, Greece, and Rome, 550 B.C.E.-600 C.E.
Empires and Visionaries in India, 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E.
Imperial Unification and Perfecting the Moral Order in China, 722 B.C.E.-618 C.E.
From Regional Empires to Religious Civilizations, 600-1450 C.E.
Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600-1300
Origins of the Western Christian World, 600-1400 C.E.
Contrasting Patterns in India and China, 600-1600
Religious Civilizations Interacting: Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, 100 C.E.-1400 C.E.
Patterns of State Formation in Africa, 600-1450
The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550
Interactions across the Globe, 1450-1750
The Ottoman-Hapsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600
Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700
New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800
African Kingdoms, The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Black America, 1450-1800
The Mughal Empire: Muslim Rulers and Hindu Subjects, 1400-1750
Regulating the "Inner" and the "Outer" Domains of China and Japan, 1500-1800
The Origins of Modernity, 1750-1900
Nation-States and Patterns of Culture in Europe and North America, 1750-1871
Industrialization and its Discontents
The Challenge of Modernity: East Asia, 1750 - 1900
Adaption and Resistance: The Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1683-1908
The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Creoles and Caudillos: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
Adaptations to Modernity across the Globe, 1900-Present
World War and Competing Visions of Modernity to 1945
Reconstruction, the Cold War, and Decolonization 1945-1962
The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World 1963-1991
Globalization and Challenges to Modernity, 1991-Present
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