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History of World Societies, since 1500

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ISBN-10: 0312682956

ISBN-13: 9780312682958

Edition: 8th 2009

Authors: John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck

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More than any other text,A History of World Societiesintroduces students to the families, foods, workplaces, religions, and diversions of peoples of the past through lively, descriptive writing and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide range of individuals. This hallmark treatment of social history combines with strong political, cultural, and economic coverage and a clear, easy-to-manage organization to provide students with the most vivid account available of what life was like throughout human history.The Eighth Edition welcomes to the author team Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Clare Crowston, experienced world-history teachers and highly regarded scholars who bring additional…    
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Book details

List price: $104.99
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 10/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.88" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English

The Acceleration of Global Contact
The Indian Ocean: Hub of an Afro-Eurasian Trading World
People and Cultures
Religious Revolutions
Trade and Commerce
European Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion
Causes of European Expanision
Technological Stimuli to Exploration
The Portuguese Overseas Empire
Individuals in Society: Zheng He
The Problem of Christopher Columbus
New World Conquest
The Impact of Contact
Colonial Administration
The Columbian Exchange
Spanish Settlement and Indigenous Population Decline
Sugar and Slavery
Global Trade Networks
The Chinese and Japanese Discovery of the West
The World-Wide Economic Effects of Spanish Silver
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe, ca 1589-1725
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding
Economic and Demographic Crisis
The Return of Serfdom in the East
The Thirty Years' War
Seventeenth-Century State-Building: Common
Obstacles and Achievements
Absolutism in France and Spain
The Foundations of Absolutism: Henry IV, Sully, and Richelieu
Louis XIV and Absolutism
Financial and Economic Management Under Louis XIV: Colbert
Louis XIV's Wars
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
Absolutism in Eastern Europe: Austria, Prussia, and Russia
The Austrian Habsburgs
Prussia in the Seventeenth Century
The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism
The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow
Tsar and People to 1689
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Constitutionalism
Absolutist Claims in England (1603-1649)
Religious Divides
Puritanical Absolutism in England: Cromwell and the Protectorate
The Restoration of the English Monarchy
The Triumph of England's Parliament: Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Individuals in Society: Gl�¼ckel of Hameln