Civilization Past & Present, Single Volume Edition by Pamela Brummett

The new edition of Civilization Past and Present is a major revision of a classic text (the last edition had Wallbank as the lead author). Civilization Past and Present has a strong European core with excellent global coverage and is well known in the marketplace as a highly readable, accessible survey text. This is important since students often complain that they are overwhelmed with too much content in this course.

The main thrust of the revision is to make the book more inclusive of areas beyond Europe. With two new authors, an Annotated Instructors Edition, a new, unique feature that focuses on primary maps, a beautiful new four-color design, and a premiere supplements package on the market, this edition of Civilization Past and Present offers students and professors an accessible and exciting survey of World Civilization.

For the first time, we will be adding an Annotated Instructors Edition, which will provide numerous useful teaching suggestions and ideas. The Annotated Instructors Edition is unique in this market and will prove invaluable to professors who invariably end up teaching parts of the course which are out of their area of expertise since the course is so broad.

This edition is available electronically on CD-ROM that includes the entire text, study guide, videos, web links, maps, charts, and photos. Free when bundled, this exciting new multimedia learning tool is easy to navigate and makes reading the textbook fun. Students will love how simple it is to take notes online, search for a topic, create a binder of documents, take practice tests, and watch historical videos.

Prologue.

I. THE ANCIENT WORLD.

1. Prelithic to Neolithic Societies: In the Beginning.
Discovery Through Maps: Oldest Known Map: Çatal Hüyük.
2. Early Civilizations: The Near East and Western Asia.
Discovery Through Maps: Map of Nippur.
3. The Greek Achievement: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations.
Discovery Through Maps: The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.
4. Roman Civilization: The Roman World, 509 B.C.E. <196> 568 C.E.
Discovery Through Maps: The Farnese Atlas.
5. Classical China: From Origins to Empire, Prehistory to 220 C.E.
Discovery Through Maps: An Ancient Chinese Map.
6. Ancient India: From Origins to 300 C.E.
Discovery Through Maps: The World, Including India, According to Ptolemy, c. 150 C.E.

II. THE MIDDLE AGES.

7. Christianity and the New Christian Romes: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325-1500.
Discovery Through Maps: A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic.
8. The Church in the Middle Ages: Religion and Learning in Medieval Europe, 500-1500.
Discovery Through Maps: The Hereford Map, c. 1290.
9. The Birth of Europe: Politics and Society in the Middle Ages.
Discovery Through Maps: The Danelaw: When Half of England was Viking.
10. Islam: From Its Origins to 1300.
Discovery Through Maps: An Islamic Map of the World.
11. The African Genesis: African Civilizations to 1500.
Discovery Through Maps: The Catalan Atlas.
12. The Growth and Spread of Asian Culture, 300-1300: Before and After the Mongol Conquests.
Discovery Through Maps: Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi.
13. The Americas to 1492.
Discovery Through Maps: Toltec Map of a Mayan City.

III. THE TRANSITION TO MODERN TIMES.

14. The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe: Renaissance Thought and Art, 1300-1600.
Discovery Through Maps: The Power and Glory of Renaissance Venice.
15. The Christian Reformation and the Emergence of the Modern Political System: Faith and State in Europe, 1517-1648.
Discovery Through Maps: The Road to Eternity.
16. The Global Impact of European Expansion and Colonization, 1492-1660.
Discovery Through Maps: Sebastian Munster's Map of Africa.
17. The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300-1650.
Discovery Through Maps: Map of the World of Piri Reis.
18. Ming China and National Development in Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, 1300-1650.
Discovery Through Maps: Korea-Centered View of the World.

IV. THE RISING EUROPEAN TIDE.

19. From Absolutism to the Old Regime: Centralized Power in Europe, 1648-1774.
Discovery Through Maps: The Elegant Destruction of Poland.
20. Limited Central Power in the Capitalist World, 1600-1789.
Discovery Through Maps: Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam.
21. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: New Ideas and Their Consequences.
Discovery Through Maps: The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus.
22. The French and Napoleonic Revolutions and Their Impact on Europe and the Americas, 1789-1825.
Discovery Through Maps: France Triumphant.
23. Africa, Asia, and European Penetration, 1650-1815.
Discovery Through Maps: The African Coast: The Dangers of Seafaring.

V. THE CENTURY OF WESTERN DOMINANCE.

24. Foundations of Western Dominance: Industrial, Scientific, Technological, Business, and Cultural Developments, 1815-1914.
Discovery Through Maps: World Geological Map, 1849.
25. The Politics of Ideas in the Western World, 1815-1861.
Discovery Through Maps: An American View of the World in the 1820s.
26. Power Politics in the West, 1868-1914.
Discovery Through Maps: The British Empire in 1886
27. Africa and the Middle East, 1800-1914.
Discovery Through Maps: Reverend Ashmun's Map of Liberia.
28. Four Faces of Nineteenth-Century Imperialism: Latin America, East Asia, India, and the “Eastern Question”.
Discovery Through Maps: Western Designs on China, 1885-1900.
29. The Perils of “Progress”: Middle-Class Thought and the Failure of European Diplomacy, 1878-1914.
Discovery Through Maps: A Schematic History of Evolution.

VI. THE NEW THIRTY YEARS' WAR.

30. Winning the War and Losing the Peace: The Democracies, 1914-1939.
Discovery Through Maps: International Air Travel.
31. Authoritarian Alternatives: Russia, Italy, and Germany, 1917-1939.
Discovery Through Maps: German Racial Types.
32. Emerging National Movements in Asia and Africa, 1920s to 1950s.
Discovery Through Maps: What's in a Name? Siam or Thailand?
33. Western Weakness, Diplomatic Failure, and World War II.
Discovery Through Maps: Air Force Survival Map.

VII. FROM BIPOLAR IDEOLOGY TO GLOBAL COMPETITION.

34. The Cold War and After: Russia and Eastern Europe, 1945-1999.
Discovery Through Maps: Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954.
35. The “Developed World” since 1945.
Discovery Through Maps: The Euro and Its Map.
36. The Developing World: The Struggle for Survival.
Discovery Through Maps: Borders and Identities: The U.N. Partition Plan.
Epilogue.

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