A history of world societies

'A History of World Societies' introduces students to the global past throughsocial history, and provides insights into the stories and voices of the people who lived it. Thoroughly revised, the ninth editionnow contains more globalcomparisons,documents, features and activities to aid and reinforcestudents' learning. JOHN P. MCKAY Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book 'Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913' and 'Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe'. BENNETT D. HILL late of the University of Illinois, USA, published 'English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century', 'Church and State in the Middle Ages', and numerous articles and reviews, and was one of the contributing editors to 'The Encyclopedia of World History'. A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he was also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA. JOHN BUCKLER taught History at the University of Illinois, USA. His published books include 'Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C.', 'Philip II and the Sacred War', and 'Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C.'. With Hans Beck, he most recently published 'Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century'. PATRICA B. EBREY Professorof History at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, specializes in China. She has published numerous journal articles and 'The Cambridge Illustrated History of China', as well as numerous monographs. In 2010 she won the Shimada Prize for outstanding work of East Asian Art History for 'Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong'. ROGER B. BECK Distinguished Professor of African and Twentieth-Century World History at Eastern Illinois University, USA. His publications include 'The History of South Africa', a translation of P. J. van der Merwe's 'The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842', and more than seventy-five articles, book chapters, and reviews.He is a former treasurer and Executive Council member of the World History Association. CLARE HARU CROWSTON teaches at the University of Illinois, USA, where she is currently Associate Professor of History. She is the author of 'Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791', which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the 'Journal of Women's History', has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies. MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, USA, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of History. She is the co-editor of the 'Sixteenth Century Journal' and the author or editor of more than twenty books,most recently 'The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds' and 'Gender in History'. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History. INDICE: The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 B.C.E.The Rise of the Statein Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley, ca. 3200-500 B.C.E.The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 c.e.China's Classical Age, to 221 B.C.E.The Greek Experience, ca. 3500-150 B.C.E. The World of Rome, ca. 750 B.C.E.-400 C.E.East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 221 B.C.E-800 C.E.Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, ca. 350-850 The Islamic World, ca. 600-1400African Societiesand Kingdoms, ca. 1000 B.C.E.b 1500 C.E.The Americas, 3000 B.C.E.-1500 C.E.Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia, to 1400States and Cultures in East Asia, ca. 800-1400Europe in the Middle Ages, 800-1450Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600European Power and Expansion, ca. 1500-1750New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540-1790Africa and the World, ca. 1400b 1800The Islamic World Powers, ca. 1300-1800Continuity and Change in East Asia, ca. 1400-1800Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1815The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1760-1850Ideologiesof Change in Europe, 1815b 1914Africa, Southwest Asia, and the New Imperialism, 1800b 1914Asia in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914Nation Building in the Americas and Australia, ca. 1770-1914World War and Revolution, 1914-1929Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945Global Recovery and Division Between Superpowers, 1945 to the PresentIndependence, Progress, and Conflict in Asia and the Middle East, 1945 to the Present The Global South: Latin America and Africa, 1945 to the PresentA New Era in World HistoryIndex Timeline.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-39436-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 1192
• Fecha Publicación: 30/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés