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World Civilizations

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ISBN-10: 0495501832

ISBN-13: 9780495501831

Edition: 5th 2008

Authors: Philip Adler, Randall Pouwels

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Short chapters, great stories, and tons of study tools! Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and loaded with review features so you'll be up to date in class and ready for the test. And, because WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers extensive coverage of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, you'll have timely historical insights into the issues that make today's news. Get WORLD CIVILIZATIONS and discover how having all the information you need to know for the test really does equal a better grade.
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Book details

List price: $159.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 816
Size: 8.75" wide x 10.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.982

Philip J. Adler taught college courses in world history to undergraduates for almost thirty years prior to his recent retirement. Dr. Adler earned his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna following military service overseas in the 1950s. His dissertation was on the activity of the South Slav emigres during World War I, and his academic specialty was the modern history of Eastern Europe and the Austro-Hungarian empire. His research has been supported by Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Adler has published widely in the historical journals of the U.S. and German-speaking Europe. He is currently professor emeritus at East Carolina University, where he spent most of…    

Ancient Civilizations, 3500-500 B.C.E.
The Earliest Human Societies
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Warriors and Deities in the Near East
India's Beginnings
Ancient China to 500 B.C.E. Worldview I: Ancient Civilizations, 3500-500 B.C.E.
Classical Mediterranean Civilizations, 500 B.C.E.-800 C.E.
The Greek Adventure
Greek Humanism, 800-100 B.C.E.
Rome: City-State to Empire
Imperial Decline and the Birth of Christian Europe
Worldview II: Classical Mediterranean Civilizations, 500 B.C.E.-800 C.E.
Equilibrium Among Polycentric Civilizations, 500-1500 C.E.
The Americas Before Columbus
Africa from Kush to the Fifteenth Century
Islam
Mature Islamic Society and Institutions
Indian Civilization in Its Golden Age
Empire of the Middle: China to the Mongol Conquest
Japan and Southeast Asia
The European Middle Ages
The Mongol Intrusion
Late Medieval Troubles
The European Renaissance
Worldview III: Equilibrium Among Polycentric Civilizations, 500 C.E.-1500 C.E.
Disequilibrium: The Western Encounter With The Non-Western World, 1500-1700 C.E.
A Larger World Opens
The Protestant Reformation
The Rise and Fall of the Muslim Empires
Foundations of the European States
China from the Ming Through the Early Qing Dynasty
Japan in the Era of European Expansion
From Conquest to Colonies in Hispanic America
Worldview IV: Disequilibrium: The Western Encounter with the Non-Western World, 1500-1700 C.E.
Revolutions, Ideology, and The New Imperialism, 1700-1920
The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath
Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy
The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon
England's Industrialization and Its Social Consequences
Europe in Ideological Conflict
Advanced Industrial Society
Consolidation of National States
The Islamic World, 1600-1917
Africa in the Era of Informal Empire
European Imperialism and Africa During the Age of Industry
China and Southeast Asia in the Age of Imperialism
Latin America from Independence to Dependent States
Modern Science and Its Implications
World War I and Its Disputed Settlement
Worldview V: Revolutions, Ideology, and the New Imperialism, 1700-1920
Equilibrium Reestablished: The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond, 1920-Present
A Fragile Balance: Europe in the Twenties
The Soviet Experiment to World War II
Totalitarianism Refined: The Nazi State
East Asia in a Century of Change
World War II
High and Low Cultures in the West
Superpower Rivalry and the European Recovery
Decolonization and the Third World
The New Asia
Africa's Decolonization and Years of Independence
Latin America in the Twentieth Century
The Reemergence of the Muslim World
Collapse and Reemergence in Communist Europe
A New Millennium
Worldview VI: Equilibrium Reestablished: The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond, 1920-Present