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Global Trade: The Beginning of the Modern World (1300���1700) | |
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Trade, Traders, Disease, and Migration | |
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Establishing World Trade Routes: the Geography and Philosophies of Early Economic Systems 1300���1500 | |
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World Trade: A Historical Analysis | |
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Trade in the Americas Before 1500 | |
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The Inca Empire | |
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Central America and Mexico | |
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Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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West Africa | |
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East Africa | |
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Asia's Complex Trade Patterns | |
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The South Pacific | |
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The South China Sea | |
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The Indian Ocean | |
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Arab Traders | |
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Islam Spreads | |
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China: A Magnet for Traders | |
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International Trade | |
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The Voyages of Zheng He | |
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Internal Trade | |
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Central Asia: the Mongols and the Silk Routes | |
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Intercontinental Trade Flourishes | |
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Chinggis Khan | |
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The End of the Mongol Empire | |
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From Mongol to Ming: Dynastic Transition | |
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World Trade Routes Before Columbus: What Difference Do They Make? | |
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The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific: Economic Growth, Religion and Renaissance, Global Connections 1300���1500 | |
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Economic and Social Changes in Europe | |
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Workers and the Landed Gentry | |
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Textiles and Social Conflict | |
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Business and the Church | |
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Plague and Social Unrest | |
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The Renaissance | |
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The Roots of the Renaissance | |
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Christian Scholars | |
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Universities | |
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Humanism | |
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New Artistic Styles | |
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Developments in Technology | |
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A New World | |
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The Early Explorers, 800 1000 | |
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Down Africa's Atlantic Coast | |
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Crossing the Atlantic | |
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Crossing the Pacific | |
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Legacies to the Future:What Difference Do They Make? | |
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The Unification of World Trade: New Philosophies for New Trade Patterns 1500���1776 | |
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The Birth of Capitalism | |
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The Empires of Spain and Portugal | |
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Spain's New World Conquests | |
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Why the Inca and Aztec Empires Fell | |
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Making the Conquests Pay | |
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Merchant Profits | |
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Warfare and Bankruptcy | |
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Portugal's Empire | |
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The Portuguese in Africa | |
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The Portuguese in Brazil | |
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The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean | |
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The Spanish and the Portuguese Empires: An Evaluation | |
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Trade and Religion in Western Europe | |
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The Protestant Reformation | |
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The Counter-Reformation | |
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Spanish Defeats | |
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The Dutch Republic: Seaborne Merchant Enterprise | |
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France: A Nation Consolidated | |
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Britain: Establishing Commercial Supremacy | |
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The Nation-state | |
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Diverse Cultures, Diverse Trade Systems | |
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Russia's Empire under Peter the Great | |
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Ottomans and Mughals | |
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Ming and Qing Dynasties in China | |
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Tokugawa Japan | |
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Southeast Asia | |
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The Influence of World Trade: What Difference Does It Make? | |
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Migration: Demographic Changes in a New Global World 1300���1750 | |
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The "New Europes" | |
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The Columbian Exchange | |
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The Devastation of the Amerindian Population | |
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Benefits of the Columbian Exchanges | |
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North America | |
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The Antipodes: Australia and New Zealand, 1600���1900 | |
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South Africa, 1652���1820 | |
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Russian Expansion | |
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Slavery: Enforced Migration, 1500���1750 | |
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The Plantation Economy | |
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The Slave Trade Reinterpreted | |
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Asian Migrations, 1300���1750 | |
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The Ottoman Empire, 1300���1700 | |
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India: the Mughal Empire, 1526���1707 | |
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Akbar, Emperor of India | |
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Safavid Persia, 1400���1700 | |
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China: the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, 1368���1750 | |
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Global Population Growth and Movement | |
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Cities and Demographics | |
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Delhi/Shahjahanabad | |
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Isfahan | |
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Constantinople (Istanbul) | |
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London | |
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Migration and Demography:What Difference Do They Make? | |
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TURNING POINT: Comparisons Across Time | |
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Social Change (1640���1914) | |
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Western Revolutions and their Influence | |
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Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas: the Birth of Political Rights in the Age of Enlightenment 1649���1830 | |
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The Scientific Revolution | |
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Advancements in Science | |
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A Community of Scientists | |
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Nicholas Copernicus | |
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Johannes Kepler | |
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Galileo Galilei | |
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Isaac Newton | |
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William Harvey, Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, Carolus Linnaeus | |
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Human Rights: Philosophical Rationales | |
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Hobbes and Limits on Power | |
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The "State of Nature" | |
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Locke and the Right of Revolution | |
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Locke, Hobbes, and Property | |
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Civil War and Revolution in England, 1642���51 | |
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Civil War, 1642���51 | |
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The Glorious Revolution, 1688 | |
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The Bill of Rights | |
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The Enlightenment | |
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The Philosophes | |
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Charles de Secordat, baron de Montesquieu | |
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Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia | |
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Voltaire | |
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"Enlightened Despotism" | |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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Adam Smith | |
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Revolution in North America, 1776 | |
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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, 1789 | |
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The First Anti-imperial Revolution | |
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The "Other" | |
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The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789���1812 | |
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From Protests to Revolution, 1789���91 | |
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The Revolt of the Poor | |
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International war, the "Second" Revolution, and the Terror, 1791���99 | |
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Napoleon in Power, 1799���1812 | |
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The Napoleonic Wars and the Spread of Revolution, 1799���1812 | |
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Haiti: Slave Revolution and the Overthrow of Colonialism, 1791���1804 | |
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The Slave Revolt | |
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The Anti-imperial Revolt, 1804 | |
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Britain Abolishes the Slave Trade, 1807 | |
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Independenceand Disillusionment in Latin America, 1810���30 | |
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Independence Movements | |
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Simòn Bolüvar | |
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Mexico | |
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Brazil | |
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After Independence: Religious and Economic Issues | |
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Political Revolutions:What Difference Do They Make? | |
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The Industrial Revolution: A Global Process 1700���1914 | |
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The Industrial Revolution in Britain,1700���1860 | |
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A Revolution in Agriculture | |
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A Revolution in Textile Manufacture | |
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The Iron Industry | |
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Industrialization���Stage Two, 1860���1914 | |
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The Steel and Chemical Industries | |
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Electrical Inventions | |
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New Products and New Producers | |
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Worldwide Effects of the Second Stage | |
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Industrial Society | |
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Population Growth and the Industrial Revolution | |
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Winners and Losers in the Industrial Revolution | |
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Redefining Gender | |
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Economic and Political Reform | |
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Women's Suffrage | |
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Labor Movements and Socialism | |
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Karl Marx and the Workers' Revolution | |
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Labor Organizations | |
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Austriaand Germany | |
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France | |
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The United States | |
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Workers in the Nonindustrialized World | |
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Indentured Labor | |
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New Patterns of Urban Life | |
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The Nature of the City | |
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Living in the City | |
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Urban Planning | |
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The Industrial Revolution: What Difference Does It Make? | |
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Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance: Competition among Industrial Powers 1650���1914 | |
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Nationalism | |
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Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire American Nationalism | |
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The New Nations of Italy and Germany | |
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The Rise of Zionism in Europe | |
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Failed Nationalisms and Delayed Nationalisms | |
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The Disappearance of Poland | |
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Africa, West and East: the Rise and Fall of States | |
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Egyptian Loss of Independence | |
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The European Quest for Empire | |
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The British in India | |
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The Company in Charge | |
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Indian Industry | |
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British Imperial Rule | |
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The British in Burma, Malaya, and Singapore | |
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Europeans in China, 1800���1914 | |
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The Opium Wars | |
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The Taiping Rebellion | |
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The Boxer Rebellion | |
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The French in Algeria and Southeast Asia | |
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The Dutch in Indonesia | |
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European Competition and Cooperation: Empire-building in Africa | |
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The Competition for South Africa | |
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Sierra Leone and Liberia: Havens for Former Slaves | |
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Cooperation among Africans and Europeans | |
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The Scramble for Africa | |
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The Berlin Conference | |
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Europeans and Labor Relations in Africa | |
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Gender Relationships in Colonization | |
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Anticolonial Revolts | |
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Japan: From Isolation to Equality | |
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The End of the Shogunate | |
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The Meiji Restoration | |
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Restructuring Government | |
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Restructuring the Economy | |
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Cultural and Educational Changes | |
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Gender Relations | |
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Equality in the Family of Nations | |
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Nationalism and Imperialism:What Difference Do They Make? | |
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TURNING POINT: the Olympics and International Politics | |
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Exploding Technologies (1914���1991) | |
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Contested Visions of a New International Order | |
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Methods of Mass Production and Destruction: Technological Systems 1914���1937 | |
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Technology in the Twentieth Century | |
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Transportation and Communication | |
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Urban Life | |
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Technology and Gender Relations | |
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Scientific Research and Development | |
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Albert Einstein | |
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The Downside of Progress | |
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Fritz Haber | |
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International Role Reversals | |
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India | |
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China | |
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Latin America | |
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The Mexican Revolution, 1910���20 | |
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The Ottoman Empire | |
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World War I | |
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War: A Stalemate from the Start | |
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Postwar Expectations and Results | |
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The Paris Peace Settlements | |
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The League of Nations | |
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Colonies Disappointed | |
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The Russian Revolution | |
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The Build-up to Revolution | |
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Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution | |
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State Planning in Soviet Russia | |
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Women in the Soviet Union | |
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Postwar America | |
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Worldwide Depression | |
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Methods of Production and Destruction: What Difference Do They Make? | |
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World War II: to Hell and Back 1937���1949 | |
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The Rise of Fascism | |
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Fascism in Italy | |
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Hitler Rises in Germany | |
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Japan Between the Wars | |
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Optimism Revives, Temporarily the Descent Toward War | |
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The Steps to War | |
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The Spanish Civil War | |
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JapanInvades China | |
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Hitler's Early Conquests | |
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World War II, 1939���45 | |
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The War in Europe | |
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The War in the Pacific, 1937���42 | |
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Turning the Tide | |
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The War in the Pacific, 1942���45 | |
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Assessing the War | |
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War and Technology | |
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The Mobilization of Women | |
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The War's Horrors | |
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The Holocaust | |
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The A-Bomb | |
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The Tortured Image of Humanity | |
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Out of the Rubble: the United Nations and Resettlement | |
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The United Nations | |
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Postwar Resettlement | |
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Remembering the War | |
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The Nuremberg Trials | |
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Memorial Museums and Exhibitions | |
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The Terror House | |
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Memorials to Hiroshima | |
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Remembering the Holocaust | |
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Two World Wars: What Difference Do They Make? | |
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Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority | |
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Remaking the Post-World War II World:1945���1991 | |
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The Cold War: U.S. vs. USSR | |
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The Cold War in Europe | |
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The Tail Wags the Dog: Client States Draw the Superpowers to War | |
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The Korean War, 1950���53 | |
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The Cold War and U.S. Domestic Politics | |
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McCarthyism and the Red Scare | |
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The Military���Industrial Complex | |
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The Soviet Union and the Cold War | |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Reporting on the Gulag | |
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The USSR under Khrushchev | |
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The "kitchen debate" | |
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Confrontations in Cuba, 1961���62 | |
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The Brezhnev Doctrine | |
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The Mice that Roared: Debacles in Vietnam and Afghanistan | |
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The United States and the Vietnam War | |
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The USSR in Afghanistan | |
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1968: Revolt Against Authority | |
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The Cold War and the Emergence of New Nations | |
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The Middle East Breaks Free | |
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Asian Nations Declare Independence | |
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African Struggles for Independence | |
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Egypt | |
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Congo | |
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Algeria | |
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Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau | |
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The Emergence of the Third World | |
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Third-World Countries Organize | |
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Client States and Proxy Wars | |
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Nicaragua | |
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Guatemala | |
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Chile | |
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The End of the Cold War: the Soviet Union | |
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Dissolves | |
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The Soviet Union's Alternative Model | |
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Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985���91 | |
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Yeltsin Crushes the Coup | |
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Pursuing Peace through Negotiation | |
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Toward a Unified Europe | |
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Japan's Recovery | |
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The UN: Growth and New Missions | |
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NGOs and Transnational Organizations | |
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1968 : Revolt against Authority | |
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Legacies of the Cold War, Decolonization | |
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Economic and Social Development:What Difference Do They Make? | |
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Chinaand India: Into the Twenty-First Century | |
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Chinaand India: A Comparison | |
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China's Revolutions | |
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Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang | |
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Mao Zedong and Peasant Revolt | |
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Gender Issues in the Revolution | |
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The Long March and the Communist Triumph | |
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The Yan'an Soviet | |
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Cooperation with the GMD | |
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The GMD Retreats to Taiwan | |
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The People's Republic of China | |
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Revolutionary Policies | |
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"Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" | |
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The Great Leap Forward | |
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The Cultural Revolution | |
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Recovery | |
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Women in the People's Republic of China | |
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China's International Relations | |
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The United States | |
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China's Neighbors | |
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India | |
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Postrevolutionary China | |
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India's Struggle for Independence | |
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First Steps Toward Self Rule | |
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Mohandas Gandhi and Civil Disobedience | |
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Gandi Develops Satyagrahain South Africa | |
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Gandhi and the Independence Movement | |
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Cultural Policies | |
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Congress Campaigns for Independence | |
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Gandhi's Leadership | |
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Independenceand Muslim Interests | |
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Independenceand Partition | |
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Hindu Muslim Separation/Partition | |
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Unifying the Nation | |
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Democracy and its Challenges | |
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Indian Politics | |
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Indira Gandhi | |
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Gender Issues | |
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Legal Changes | |
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Social Changes | |
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Economic Changes | |
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Economic and Technological Development | |
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Revolutions in Agriculture | |
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Challenges of Population and Poverty | |
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Industrialization and its Consequences | |
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International Relations | |
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Comparing China and India:What Difference | |
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Does It Make? | |
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TURNING POINT: From Past to Present to Future | |
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The Usefulness of History | |
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Understanding the Present in the Light of the Past | |
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Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, and Religion | |
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On Evolution | |
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The DNA Code and its Discoveries | |
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Cloning and Genetic Engineering | |
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The Evolution of Diseases | |
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Gender Relationships | |
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Gay Rights | |
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On Settlements | |
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The Growth of Cities | |
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A Single Global System | |
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Systems of Cities | |
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Cities as Systems | |
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The Impact of Immigration | |
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The Rise of the Urban Slum | |
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Global Research and Planning | |
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On Politics and Empire | |
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The Former Soviet Union | |
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The United States Stands Alone | |
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Terrorism | |
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The Unification of Europe | |
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China: An Emerging Superpower? | |
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Poverty | |
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The Environment | |
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Corruption | |
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The Road to Democracy | |
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On Religion | |
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Theocracy in Iran | |
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Islamic Militants in Afghanistan | |
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Islam, Secularism, and Christianity | |
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Religious Strife in Yugoslavia | |
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Hinduism and Islam in India | |
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Buddhists in Tibet | |
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Judaism | |
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Christianity | |
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Roman Catholicism | |
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Evangelical Christianity | |
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Religion in the United States | |
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The Thematic Approach: What Difference | |
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Does It Make? | |
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Contemporary History: Trade, Social Revolution, Technology, Identity | |
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On Trade | |
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The Institutions of Globalization | |
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The Internet, the World Wide Web, and Containerization | |
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Evaluating Globalization | |
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Setting Goals for Globalization | |
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Hazards in the Trade System | |
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On Social Revolution | |
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Nationalism | |
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The Palestinian���Israeli Conflict | |
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Commerce, Business, and National Borders | |
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Gender Issues | |
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Racial Equality | |
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APartheid in South Africa | |
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission | |
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India's Social Revolution: the Mandal Commission | |
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AmericaElects an African-American President | |
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Migration | |
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United States | |
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Europe | |
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Refugees | |
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Rural���Urban Migration Cultural Expression | |
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On Technology | |
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Nanotechnology | |
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Ecological Technology | |
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On Identity: What Difference Does It Make? | |