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Cengage Advantage Books: World History, Volume I, 8th Edition
Overview
Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of WORLD HISTORY, 8th Edition, offers readers the complete narrative with only the most essential features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text. Noted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel present a balanced, highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences of the human past, and identifies key patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history is integrated into a chronological framework to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. This approach helps students link events together in a broad comparative and global framework, and consequently see the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context. CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: WORLD HISTORY includes over 100 maps and excerpts of over 100 primary sources that enliven the past while introducing students to the source material of historical scholarship. Available in the following split options: CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: WORLD HISTORY, 8th Edition (Chapters 1−30); Volume I: To 1800 (Chapters 1−18); Volume II: Since 1500 (Chapters 14−30).
- The text has been updated throughout to reflect recent scholarship. New and revised material in the first half of the book includes discussion of early writing and currency in ancient China (Ch. 3); helots and women in Sparta (Ch. 4); Roman children and early Christianity (Ch. 5); Arab science and philosophy, the arrival of the Turks in the Middle East, and early Arab seafaring technology (Ch. 7); Chinese cartography and trade relations (Ch. 10); the role of peasant women (Ch. 12); and women in the Byzantine empire (new section in Ch. 13).
- New and revised material in the second half of the text includes coverage of the Indian textile industry (Ch. 16); the lower classes and prostitution, mass leisure, and mass consumption (Ch. 20); Nazi culture and totalitarianism (Ch. 25); social and cultural conditions in Eastern Europe, and conditions in contemporary China (Ch. 27); conditions in contemporary Africa, and discussion of Arab Spring (Ch. 29).
- New selections have been added to the “Opposing Viewpoints” feature. Examples include “The Governing of Empires: Two Approaches” (Ch. 1); “Women in the Roman and Han Empires” (Ch. 5); “Two Views of Trade and Merchants” (Ch. 12); “The Renaissance Prince: The Views of Machiavelli and Erasmus” (Ch. 13); and “Practical Learning or Confucian Essence: A Debate Over Reform” (Ch. 22).
- Many new document boxes have been added.
- New films have been added to the popular “Film & History” feature, including Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Ch. 24), Triumph of the Will (1934, Ch. 25), and The Iron Lady (2011, Ch. 28).
- WORLD HISTORY provides a solid narrative that students can actually read and understand. The authors artfully combine regional and global discussions, and provide a thematic framework to help students make comparisons and connections across cultures and time periods.
- Seven central themes make the narrative more cohesive while helping students make connections and comparisons across chapters. These themes are: Science and Technology, Arts and Ideas, Family and Society, Politics and Government, Earth and the Environment, Religion and Philosophy, and Interaction and Exchange.
- The book contains over 100 two-color maps and 120 pieces of artwork. Map captions encourage readers to think beyond the mere appearance of each map and to make connections across chapters, regions, and concepts.
- “Film & History” features analyze popular films using a historian's perspective to show students how movies represent, and sometimes misrepresent, the past. These features shine the spotlight on films such as: Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Ch. 24), Triumph of the Will (1934, Ch. 25), and The Iron Lady (2011, Ch. 28).
- “Opposing Viewpoints” features present two or more primary source documents representing differing perspectives on the same or related topics. These features provide students an opportunity for hands-on analysis. The accompanying critical-thinking questions can be assigned for individual or collaborative study. Topics include “The Governing of Empires: Two Approaches” (Ch. 1); “Women in the Roman and Han Empires” (Ch. 5); “Two Views of Trade and Merchants” (Ch. 12); and “Practical Learning or Confucian Essence: A Debate Over Reform” (Ch. 22).
1. Early Humans and the First Civilizations.
2. Ancient India.
3. China in Antiquity.
4. The Civilization of the Greeks.
5. The Roman World Empire.
PART II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION (500−1500 C.E.).
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. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
12. The Making of Europe.
13. The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West.
PART III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500−1800).
14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market.
15. Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building.
16. The Muslim Empires.
17. The East Asian World.
18. The West on the Eve of a New World Order.
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