World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. * An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts * Offers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas * Addresses themes of population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, warfare, and other major issues for civilizations * Features new interior design and organization to enhance user experience * Instructor's test bank available online at href="http://www.wiley.com/go/wallech">www.wiley.com/go/wallech
Autorentext
Steven Wallech is the senior Professor of World History at Long Beach City College. He developed the world history program there, and integrated the world history curriculum with community colleges and universities throughout California.
Craig Hendricks is Emeritus Professor of History at Long Beach City College. He has written on Latin America for history journals and edited four books of American social history readings.
Touraj Daryaee is theHoward C. Baskerville Professor of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is editor of the Name-ye-Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies and the creator of Sasanika: The Late Antique Near East Project.
Anne Lynne Negus received her Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, specializing in Egyptology. Currently she is Professor of History at Fullerton College and Co-Coordinator of the Honors Program.
Peter P. Wan received his B.A. from East China Normal University and taught American literature in China until he came to the United States on a Harvard-Yanching fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. His major interests are American history, East Asian history, and U.S.-China relations.
Gordon Morris Bakken earned his degrees at the University of Wisconsin and joined the faculty of California State University, Fullerton, in 1969. He teaches courses on American legal history, women in American history, westward movement, and American military heritage.
Klappentext
Developed after years of experience teaching world history, the second, substantially revised edition of this pioneering text deftly guides the student reader through the vast array of details that litters the landscape of humanity's past, breaking down an otherwise unwieldy narrative into meaningful and comprehensive chapters. The use of central, recurrent themes in the text enables a comparative analysis of the great civilizations that developed in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas. These themes also address problems of food production, population dynamics, disease history, warfare, the ecological impact of human activity, and the role climate played in the history of civilization.
This new edition of World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis features a newly-designed interior organization to enhance navigation and comprehension of the material. An instructors' test bank is available online.
Zusammenfassung
World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level.
- An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts
- Offers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas
- Addresses themes of population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, warfare, and other major issues for civilizations
- Features new interior design and organization to enhance user experience
- Instructor's test bank available online at www.wiley.com/go/wallech
Inhalt
Introduction x
Unit One The Ancient World 1
THEMES: The artificial existence of civilization
The biology of civilization
The geography of civilization
The climate of civilization
The relationship between belief and action
Chapter 1 Biology and World History 5
Civilization and Nomads
Climate 12
The Geography of Cultivation 14
The Domestication of Animals 20
Urban Development 24
The Nomads 27
Disease History 28
Suggested Reading 31
Chapter 2 Mesopotamia 33
The Land between the Rivers
A Temple Economy 34
The Causes of Trade 35
Kings, War, and Ecocide 37
The Art of Writing and Hammurabi's Code 39
The General Matrix of Civilization 41
The Dawn of Religion: Creation Myths 42
Iron and Mesopotamia 44
The Hebrews 47
The Emergence of Monotheism 48
Suggested Reading s 51
Chapter 3 Pre-Islamic Africa 52
Egyptian, Nilotic, and Sub-Saharan Africa
Egypt, the Gift of the Nile 52
The Archaic Period (ca. 31002700 BCE) and the Pyramid Age of the Old Kingdom (ca. 27002200 BCE) 57
The First Intermediate Period (ca. 22002000 BCE) and the Middle Kingdom (ca. 20001786 BCE) 59
The Hyksos and Second Intermediate Period (ca. 17861575 BCE) and the New Kingdom (ca. 15751050 BCE) 60
Special Topic: The Distant but Powerful Link between Pacific Currents and Egyptian Floods 61
Egypt and the Iron Age 65
Nilotic Africa 66
Sub-Saharan Africa 70
Iron 73
Suggested Reading 75
Chapter 4 India 76
From the Indus to the Ganges
Iron, Rice, and India 80
Indian Religions 83
Religious Opposition 87
The Maturation of India's Faiths 89
Suggested Reading 90
Chapter 5 China 91
The Yellow River Civilization
The Land and the People 91
Mythological China 93
The Bronze Age: The Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynsties 94
The Iron Age: Economic, Military, and Commercial Revolutions 97
The Golden Age of Classical Chinese Philosophy 98
China's First Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties 102
Centers of Power within and beyond the Han Empire 107
Special Topic: Lady Lu: Empress Dowager 108
Suggested Reading 110
Chapter 6 The Nomads' Trade 111
and the Great Migrations
The First Wave of Mass Migrations: The Wheel, the Chariot, and Nomads 112
A Second Wave of Migrations: The Iron Age 118
Cavalry: The Third Wave of Migrations 123
Suggested Reading 126
Chapter 7 Greece 127
The Rainfall Zone
Network Cities and the Special Case of Athens 128
The Role of Coins in Athenian History 131
The Limits of Democracy 133
Sparta 134
The Failure of Greek Politics 135
Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic World 136
Greek Philosophy 138
Physics 139
Math and Logic: Metaphysics 140
Socrates and his Followers 141
Drama 143
The Origins of History 145
Suggested Reading 146
Chapter 8 The Hellenistic East and Persia 147
A Cultural Bridge
The Hellenistic East 147
Diffusion of Hellenism to the East 149
Kings, Cities, and Soldiers 151
Hellenistic Philosophy 154
The Stoics 157
One God, One Lord 158
The Persians 160
The Persian Sassanian Empire (224651 CE) 164
Khusro I and the Height of the Sassanian Empire 168
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