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NOTE: Each chapter contains a conclusion, key terms, website resources, a suggested reading listand notes | |
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The Emergence of Human Communities, tO 500 B.C.E. | |
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Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 B.C.E. | |
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African Genesis | |
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Technology and Culture in the Ice Age | |
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The Agricultural Revolutions | |
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Life in Neolithic Communities | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Cave Art | |
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Environment and Technology: The Iceman | |
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The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 B.C.E. | |
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Mesopotamia | |
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Egypt | |
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The Indus Valley Civilization | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year's Festival | |
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Environment and Technology: Environmental Stress in the Indus Valley | |
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New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250 B.C.E. | |
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Early China, 2000-221 B.C.E. | |
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Nubia, 3100 B.C.E.-350 C.E. | |
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Celtic Europe, 1000-50 B.C.E. | |
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First Civilizations of the Americas: The Olmec and Chav?n, 1200-250 B.C.E. | |
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Environment and Technology: Divination in Ancient Societies | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Human Nature and Good Government in the Analects of Confucius and the Legalist Writings of Han Fei | |
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The Mediterranean and Middle East2000-500 B.C.E. | |
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The Cosmopolitan Middle East1700-1100 B.C.E. | |
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The Aegean World, 2000-1100 B.C.E. | |
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The Assyrian Empire, 911-612 B.C.E. | |
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Israel, 2000-500 B.C.E. | |
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Phoenicia and the Mediterranean, 1200-500 B.C.E. | |
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Failure and Transformation, 750-550 B.C.E. | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Protests Against the Ruling Class in Israel and Babylonia | |
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Environment and Technology: Ancient Textiles and Dyes | |
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Issues In World History: Animal Domestication | |
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The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E. | |
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Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E. | |
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Ancient Iran, 1000-500 B.C.E. | |
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The Rise of the Greeks, 1000-500 B.C.E. | |
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The Struggle of Persia and Greece, 546-323 B.C.E. | |
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The Hellenistic Synthesis, 323-30 B.C.E. | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Persian and Greek Perceptions of Kingship | |
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Material Culture: Wine and Beer in the Ancient World | |
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Environment and Technology: Ancient Astronomy | |
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An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E. | |
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Rome's Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E. | |
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The Origins of Imperial China, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E. | |
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Diversity and Dominance: The Treatment of Slaves in Rome and China | |
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Environment and Technology: Water Engineering in Rome and China | |
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India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.-1025 C.E. | |
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Foundations of Indian Civilization, 1500 B.C.E.-300 C.E. | |
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Imperial Expansion and Collapse, 324 B.C.E.-650 C.E. | |
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Southeast Asia, 50-1025 C.E. | |
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Environment and Technology: Indian Mathematics | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Relations Between Women and Men in the Kama Sutra and the Arthashastra | |
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Issues in World History: Oral Societies and the Consequences of Literacy | |
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Growth and Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E.-1200 C.E. | |
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Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.-1100 C.E. | |
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The Silk Road | |
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The Indian Ocean Maritime System | |
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Routes Across the Sahara | |
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Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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The Spread of Ideas | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Travel Accounts of Africa and India | |
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Environment and Technology: Camel Saddles | |
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The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200-1200 | |
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The Sasanid Empire, 224-651 | |
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The Origins of Islam | |
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The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 632-1258 | |
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Islamic Civilization | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Secretaries, Turks, and Beggars | |
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Environment and Technology: Chemistry | |
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Material Culture: Head Coverings | |
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Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 600-1200 | |
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The Byzantine Empire, 600-1200 | |
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Early Medieval Europe, 600-1000 | |
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The Western Church | |
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Kievan Russia, 900-1200 | |
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Western Europe Revives, 1000-1200 | |
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The Crusades, 1095-1204 | |
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Environment and Technology: Iron Production | |
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Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Christian Morality | |
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Inner and East Asia, 400-1200 | |
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The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755 | |
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The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200 | |
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New Kingdoms in East Asia | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Law and Society in China and Japan | |
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Environment and Technology: Writing in East Asia, 400-1200 | |
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Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200-1500 | |
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Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200-900 | |
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The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica, 900-1500 | |
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Northern Peoples | |
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Andean Civilizations, 200-1500 | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Burials as Historical Texts | |
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Environment and Technology: Inca Roads | |
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Issues in World History: Religious Conversion | |
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Interregional Patterns Of Culture and Contact 1200-1550 | |
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Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500 | |
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The Rise of the Mongols, 1200-1260 | |
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The Mongols and Islam, 1260-1500 | |
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Regional Responses in Western Eurasia | |
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Mongol Domination in China, 1271-1368 | |
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The Early Ming Empire, 1368-1500 | |
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Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 1200-1500 | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Observations of Mongol Life | |
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Environment and Technology: From Gunpowder to Guns | |
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Tropical Africa and Asia,1200-1500 | |
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Tropical Lands and Peoples | |
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New Islamic Empires | |
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Indian Ocean Trade | |
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Social and Cultural Change | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Personal Styles of Rule in India and Mali | |
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Environment and Technology: The Indian Ocean Dhow | |
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The Latin West1200-1500 | |
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Rural Growth and Crisis | |
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Urban Revival | |
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Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance | |
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Political and Military Transformations | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Persecution and Protection of Jews, 1272-1349 | |
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Environment and Technology: The Clock | |
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The Maritime Revolution, to 1550 | |
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Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 | |
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European Expansion, 1400-1550 | |
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Encounters with Europe, 1450-1550 | |
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Conclusion | |
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Environment and Technology: Vasco da Gama's Fleet | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Kongo's Christian King | |
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Issues in World History: Climate and Population to 1500 | |
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The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1750 | |
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Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750 | |
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Culture and Ideas | |
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Social and Economic Life | |
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Political Innovations | |
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Environment and Technology: Mapping the World | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Political Craft and Craftiness | |
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The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770 | |
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The Columbian Exchange | |
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Spanish America and Brazil | |
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English and French Colonies in North America | |
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Colonial Expansion and Conflict | |
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Environment and Technology: A Silver Refinery at Potos?, Bolivia, 1700 | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Race and Ethnicity in the Spanish Colonies: Negotiating Hierarchy | |
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The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800 | |
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Plantations in the West Indies | |
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Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century | |
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Creating the Atlantic Economy | |
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Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam | |
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Environment and Technology: Amerindian Foods in Africa | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Slavery in West Africa and the Americas | |
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Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750 | |
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The Ottoman Empire, to 1750 | |
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The Safavid Empire, 1502-1722 | |
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The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761 | |
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The Maritime Worlds of Islam, 1500-1750 | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Islamic Law and Ottoman Rule | |
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Environment and Technology: Tobacco and Waterpipes | |
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Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800 | |
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Japanese Reunification | |
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The Later Ming and Early Qing Empires | |
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The Russian Empire | |
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Environment and Technology: East Asian Porcelain | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Gendered Violence: The Yangzhou Massacre | |
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Issues in World History: The Little Ice Age | |
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Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870 | |
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Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850 Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crisis | |
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The American Revolution, 1775-1800 | |
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The French Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
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Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond, 1789-1850 | |
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Environment and Technology: The Guillotine | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Robespierre and Wollstonecraft Defend and Explain the Terror | |
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The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851 | |
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Causes of the Industrial Revolution | |
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The Technological Revolution | |
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The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution | |
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New Economic and Political Ideas | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Adam Smith and the Division of Labor | |
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Environment and Technology: Gas Lighting | |
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Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890 | |
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Independence in Latin America, 1800-1830 | |
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The Problem of Order, 1825-1890 | |
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The Challenge of Social and Economic Change | |
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Diversity and Dominance: The Afro-Brazilian Experience, 1828 | |
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Environment and Technology: Constructing the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
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Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870 | |
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The Ottoman Empire | |
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The Russian Empire | |
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The Qing Empire | |
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Environment and Technology: The Web of War | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Chinese Responses to Imperialism | |
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Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870 | |
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Changes and Exchanges in Africa | |
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India Under British Rule | |
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Britain's Eastern Empire | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Ceremonials of Imperial Domination | |
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Environment and Technology: Whaling | |
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Issues in World History: State Power, the Census, and the Question of Identity | |
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Global Diversity and Dominance, 1850-1945 | |
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The New Power Balance, 1850-1900 | |
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New Technologies and the World Economy | |
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Social Changes | |
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Socialism and Labor Movements | |
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Nationalism and the Rise of Italy, Germany, and Japan | |
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The Great Powers of Europe, 1871-1900 | |
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China, Japan, and the Western Powers | |
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Environment and Technology: Railroads and Immigration | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Marx and Engels on Global Trade and the Bourgeoisie | |
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Material Culture: Cotton Clothing | |
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The New Imperialism, 1869-1914 | |
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The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods | |
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The Scramble for Africa | |
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Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific | |
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Imperialism in Latin America | |
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The World Economy and the Global Environment | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Two Africans Recall the Arrival of the Europeans | |
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Environment and Technology: Imperialism and Tropical Ecology | |
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The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929 | |
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Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East | |
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The "Great War" and the Russian Revolutions, 1914-1918 | |
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Peace and Dislocation in Europe, 1919-1929 | |
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China and Japan: Contrasting Destinies | |
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The New Middle East | |
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Society, Culture, and Technology in the Industrialized World | |
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Diversity and Dominance: The Middle East After World War | |
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Environmentand Technology: The Birth of Civil Aviation | |
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The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949 | |
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The Stalin Revolution | |
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The Depression | |
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The Rise of Fascism | |
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East Asia, 1931-1945 | |
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The Second World War | |
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The Character of Warfare | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Women, Family Values, and the Russian Revolution | |
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Environment and Technology: The Enigma Machine | |
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Striving for Independence: India, Africa, and Latin America, 1900-1949 | |
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The Indian Independence Movement1905-1947 | |
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Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-1945 | |
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Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, 1900-1949 | |
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Environment and Technology: Gandhi and Technology | |
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Diversity and Dominance: A Vietnamese Nationalist Denounces French Colonialism | |
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Issues in World History: Famines and Politics | |
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Perils and Promises of A Global Community, 1945 To The Present | |
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The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975 | |
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The Cold War | |
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Decolonization and Nation Building | |
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Beyond a Bipolar World | |
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Environment and Technology: The Green Revolution | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Race and the Struggle for Justice in South Africa | |
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The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975-2000 | |
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Postcolonial Crises and Asian Economic Expansion | |
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The End of the Bipolar World | |
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The Challenge of Population Growth | |
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Unequal Development and the Movement of Peoples | |
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Technological and Environmental Change | |
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Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in an Era of Global Political and Economic Change | |
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Environment and Technology: The Computer Gets Personal | |
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Material Culture: Fast Food | |
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New Challenges in a New Millennium | |
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Globalization and Economic Crisis | |
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The Question of Values | |
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Global Culture | |
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Diversity and Dominance: Conflict and Civilization | |
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Environment and Technology: Global Warming | |