Duiker, William J., 1932-
Essential world history / William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel. - Eight edition. Philippine edition. - Philippines : Cengage Learning, Inc., c2019. - xxxiv, 874 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. +
Includes glossary and index.
1 Early humans and the first -- 2 Ancient India -- 3China in antiquity -- 4 The civilization of the Greeks -- 5 The roman world empire -- 6 The Americas -- 7 Ferment in the Middle East: the rise of Islam -- 8 Early civilizations in Africa -- 9 The expansion of civilization in South and Southeast Asia -- 10 The flowering of traditional China -- 11 Thea East Asian Rimlands: early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam -- 12 The making of Europe -- 13 The byzantine empire and crisis and recovery in the west -- 14 New encounters: the creation of a world market -- 15 Europe transformed: reform and state -- 16 The Muslim empires -- 17 The East Asian world -- 18 The West on the eve of a new world order -- 19 The beginnings of modernization: and nationalism in the nineteenth century -- 20 The Americas and society and culture in the West -- 21 The high tide of imperialism -- 22 Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia under challenge -- 23 The beginning of the twentieth-century crisis: war and revolution -- 24 Nationalism, revolution, and dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939 -- 25 The crisis deepens: world war II -- 26 East and West in the grip of the cold war -- 27 Brave new world: communism on trial -- 28 Europe and the Western hemisphere since 1945 -- 29 Challenges of nation building in Africa and the Middle East -- 30 Toward the pacific century.
Presents an overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and that identify various global patterns over time. This book covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis. --
Adult
English
9789814839143 [paperback]
2003117126
World history.
Essential world history / William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel. - Eight edition. Philippine edition. - Philippines : Cengage Learning, Inc., c2019. - xxxiv, 874 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. +
Includes glossary and index.
1 Early humans and the first -- 2 Ancient India -- 3China in antiquity -- 4 The civilization of the Greeks -- 5 The roman world empire -- 6 The Americas -- 7 Ferment in the Middle East: the rise of Islam -- 8 Early civilizations in Africa -- 9 The expansion of civilization in South and Southeast Asia -- 10 The flowering of traditional China -- 11 Thea East Asian Rimlands: early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam -- 12 The making of Europe -- 13 The byzantine empire and crisis and recovery in the west -- 14 New encounters: the creation of a world market -- 15 Europe transformed: reform and state -- 16 The Muslim empires -- 17 The East Asian world -- 18 The West on the eve of a new world order -- 19 The beginnings of modernization: and nationalism in the nineteenth century -- 20 The Americas and society and culture in the West -- 21 The high tide of imperialism -- 22 Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia under challenge -- 23 The beginning of the twentieth-century crisis: war and revolution -- 24 Nationalism, revolution, and dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939 -- 25 The crisis deepens: world war II -- 26 East and West in the grip of the cold war -- 27 Brave new world: communism on trial -- 28 Europe and the Western hemisphere since 1945 -- 29 Challenges of nation building in Africa and the Middle East -- 30 Toward the pacific century.
Presents an overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and that identify various global patterns over time. This book covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis. --
Adult
English
9789814839143 [paperback]
2003117126
World history.