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| List of plates | |
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| List of maps | |
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| Figure credits | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| A visual tour of World History: Journeys from Past to Present | |
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| Bridging worlds (1300-1800 CE) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Commerce and change: Building a world system | |
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| Introduction to the theme of world systems of knowledge and wealth | |
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| Mercantilism and the Atlantic world, ca. 1500-1750 | |
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| Mercantilism | |
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| The creation of a global economy: Silver, sugar, and slaves | |
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| The slave trade | |
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| Slavery and the African diaspora | |
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| The impact of the slave trade on African societies | |
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| African merchants in the Atlantic world | |
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| Primary source: The business of Willem Bosman | |
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| The Atlantic world and the Americas | |
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| Transformations in the Americas: European impact and resistance | |
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| Distinctions among colonies | |
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| European expansion in the Indian Ocean | |
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| European expansion in the Pacific | |
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| The East Asian core and periphery: China, Japan, and the world economy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Note | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Online resources | |
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| Study questions | |
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| Traditions and their transformations | |
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| Introduction to the theme of traditions and their transformations | |
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| Renaissances and cultural rebirth | |
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| Primary source: Print technology, scripts, and vernacular languages | |
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| Cultural rebirth in East Asia: Neo-Confucianism in China | |
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| Fractured tradition: Religious reformations in sixteenth-century Europe | |
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| Blended traditions: Syncretisms and society in East Asia | |
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| The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment in Europe | |
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| Traditions and their transformations in the Islamic world | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Online resources | |
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| Study questions | |
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| Maritime worlds: The Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds | |
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| Introduction to the theme of maritime boundaries, encounters, and frontiers | |
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| Discovering longitude | |
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| European arms and sails: Maritime hegemony | |
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| Redefining the Indian Ocean | |
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| The Pacific routes and the rise of the West | |
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| The creation of an Atlantic Economy: Sugar and slaves | |
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| Piracy, trade, and the politics of maritime frontiers | |
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| Primary source: Diary of Mendez Pinto | |
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| Summary | |
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| Note | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Online resources | |
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| Landings: Boundaries, frontiers, and encounters | |
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| Introduction to the theme of boundaries, frontiers and encounters on land | |
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| Mapping the world | |
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| Sacred encounters: Jesuit missionaries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas | |
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| Gender boundaries | |
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| Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in North America and Southern Africa | |
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| Boundaries and frontiers in the Russian Empire | |
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| Primary source: The furry world that trade (and the beaver) created | |
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| The "abode of Islam": Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in the Islamic world | |
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| Boundaries and frontiers of the Chinese Empire | |
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| Frontiers of resistance in the Atlantic world | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Online resources | |
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| Study questions | |
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| Summary: Reweaving the threads of culture | |
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| Transforming lives (1500-1900) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Crucibles of change: Material worlds and social lives | |
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| Introduction to the theme of material worlds | |
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| Landscapes of cultural identity | |
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| Landscapes of conquest and change | |
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| Expanding urban landscapes in Africa | |
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| Islamic landscapes: Technology and architecture | |
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| Urban landscapes in East Asia | |
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| Changing world landscapes: Trade, technology, and material transformations | |
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| Commodities and cultures: Europe and the world | |
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| Technology, textiles, and trade in Asia | |
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| Social landscapes: Transformations in community and cultural life | |
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| The changing landscape of the human body | |
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| Primary source: The daily lives of travelers and merchants | |
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| Altering the human body: Changing diets | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Online resources | |
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| Study questions | |
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| The nation-state, nationalism, and revolution | |
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| Introduction to the theme of the nation-state, nationalism, and revolution | |
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| The English Revolution and the nation-state | |
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| Revolutions in the Atlantic world | |
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| Primary source: Declaration of the Rights of Woman | |
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| National revolutions in South America | |
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| The construction of national identities in Europe | |
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| The construction of American national identity | |
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| Culture and national identities | |
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| The evolution of European nation-states | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and its global consequences | |
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| Introduction to the theme of technological change | |
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| Technology and environment in the Industrial Revolution | |
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| New technologies and the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Primary source: Textile workers in Wilson's Mill, Nottingham | |
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| The global spread of the Industrial Revolution | |
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| The global industrial system | |
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| Global urban growth | |
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| Summary | |
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| Note | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Summary: Persistence of traditions encountering change | |
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| Forging a global community (1800-present) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Tentacles of empire: The new imperialism and new nationalisms, 1800-1914 | |
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| Introduction to the theme of the new imperialism and new nationalisms | |
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| The technologies of imperialism | |
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| The ideologies of imperialism | |
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| Primary source: Kaiser Wilhehnon Germany's "place in the sun" | |
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| The new imperialism in Africa | |
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| The British Raj and the growth of Indian nationalism | |
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| Imperialism and colonialism in Southeast Asia | |
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| Imperialism and nationalism in East Asia | |
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| Imperialism in the Pacific | |
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| Settler societies and new nations: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand | |
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| New nations and new colonialism in Latin America | |
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| The United States and the rise of the American Empire | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Study questions | |
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| Global order and disorder: War and peace, 1900-50 | |
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| Introduction to the theme of war and peace | |
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| European nationalisms and global war | |
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| World War I and the Russian Revolution | |
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| The Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey | |
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| The global economy and the Great Depression | |
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| Social democracy in interwar Britain, France, and the United States | |
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| Fascism in Europe | |
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| Fascism in Asia | |
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| Nationalism and war in China | |
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| From regional conflicts to global war | |
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| War and society | |
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| Primary source: Korean "comfort women" | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Resistance and revolution in the long twentieth century | |
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| Introduction to the theme of resistance and revolution | |
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| Marxism and models for revolutionary change | |
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| Nationalism and resistance: Indian independence | |
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| Nationalism, decolonization, and independence in Southeast Asia | |
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| Nationalism, decolonization, and independence in Africa | |
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| Resistance and revolution in Latin America | |
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| Decolonization and Arab nationalism | |
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| Primary source: Anwar al-Sadat on African and Asian solidarity against colonialism | |
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| Resistance and revolution in East Asia | |
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| Resistance movements in Europe and the United States | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| The new globalization: Technology and the environment | |
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| Introduction to the theme of technology and environment | |
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| Industrial capitalism, transportation, and production | |
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| Global transformations | |
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| The landscapes of imperialism | |
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| Resistance and organized labor | |
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| Technology, war, and the environment | |
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| Economic globalization | |
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| Ecology, technology, and global warming | |
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| Primary source: Fossil fuels | |
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| Seeking environmental and social justice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Note | |
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| Suggested readings | |
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| Globalization, world history, and human identity | |
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| Introduction to the theme of globalization, world history, and human identity | |
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| National identities and global community | |
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| Globalization and inequality | |
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| Migration and diasporas | |
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| Demography and urbanization | |
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| Globalization and changing families | |
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| Gender and identity | |
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| Race, ethnicity, and identity | |
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| Religion and identity | |
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| Human rights, genocide, and justice | |
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| Primary source: Technology and human survival: The atomic bomb | |
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| Summary | |
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| Summary: Human agency and the power of the past | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |