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World Civilizations Volume II: Since 1500

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ISBN-10: 0495913022

ISBN-13: 9780495913023

Edition: 6th 2012

Authors: Philip J. Adler, Randall L. Pouwels

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List price: $149.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980

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…    

Expanding Webs of Interaction, 1400 - 1700 CE
A Larger World Opens
Religious Division and Political Consolidation in Europe
Western Asia in the Era of the Gunpowder Empires
Africa in the Era of Expansion
China from the Ming through the Early Qing Dynasty
Japan in the Era of European Expansion
from Conquest to Colonies in Hispanic America
Revolutions and the Age of Empire, 1600 - 1914
The Scientific Revolution and Its Enlightened Aftermath
Liberalism and the Challenge to Absolute Monarchy
The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon
The Early Industrial Revolution
Advanced Industrial Society
Europe: New Ideas and New Nations
The Islamic World, 1600 - 1914
Africa during the Age of Empire
India and Southeast Asia under Colonial Rule
China in the Age of Imperialism
Latin America from Independence to Dependent States
Modern Science
Towards a Globalized World, 1914 - Present
World War I and Its Disputed Settlement
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
The Cold War
Decolonization of the Nonwestern World
The New Asia
Africa's Decolonization and Independence
Latin America in the Twentieth Century
The Reemergence of the Muslim World
Collapse and Reemergence in Communist Europe
A New Millennium