Description
Contents
One-Volume: Chapters 1–Epilogue
Volume 1: Chapters 1–11
Volume 2: Chapters 10–Epilogue
Chapter 1: Becoming Human
Chapter 2: Rivers, Cities and First States, 3500–2000 BCE
Chapter 3: Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties 2000–1200 BCE
Chapter 4: First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250–325 BCE
Chapter 5: Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000–350 BCE
Chapter 6: Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350–250 BCE
Chapter 7: Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 BCE–300 CE
Chapter 8: The Rise of Universal Religions, 300–600 CE
Chapter 9: New Empires and Common Cultures, 600–1000 CE
Chapter 10: Becoming “The World,” 1000–1300 CE
Chapter 11: Death and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1350–1600
Chapter 12: Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450–1600
Chapter 13: Worlds Untangled, 1600–1750
Chapter 14: Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500–1780
Chapter 15: Reordering the World, 1750–1850
Chapter 16: Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 17: Nations and Empires, 1850–1914
Chapter 18: An Unsettled World, 1890–1914
Chapter 19: Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910–1939
Chapter 20: The Three World Order, 1940–1975
Chapter 21: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Globalization, 1975–1999
Epilogue:2000–2018
