World History

World History
Ninth Edition
William J. Duiker / Jackson J. Spielvogel
© 2019

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Contents

I. The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory to 500 CE)

1. Early Humans and the First Civilizations
2. Ancient India
3. China in Antiquity
4. The Civilization of the Greeks
5. TheRoman World Empire

II. New Patters of Civilization (500-1500 CE)

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

III. The Emergence of New World Patterns

14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World
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

IV. Modern Patterns of World History

19. The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
20. The Americas and Society and Culture
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

V. Toward a Global Civilization? The World Since 1945

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?