World history

Explore ... and discover the common challenges and experiences that unite the human past - and inform the future. The authors weave the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a global approach that places an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout.-Back ocver.

Originally published: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, ©2007. 5th ed.

Also published: v. 1. To 1800.

Volume I concludes with Chapter 17, The West on the eve of a new world order.

This book is part of the modular book, World history / William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel. 5th ed. Thomson/Wadsworth, ©2007.

Emergence of New World patterns (1500-1800):New encounters, the creation of a world market; Europe transformed, reform and state building; Muslim Empires; East Asian world; West on the eve of a new world order -- Modern patterns of world history (1800-1945): Beginnings of modernization, industrialization and nationalism, 1800-1870; Emergence of mass society in the Western world; High tide of imperialism; Shadows over the Pacific, East Asia under challenge; Beginning of the twentieth-century crisis, war and revolution; Nationalism, revolution, and dictatorship, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; Crisis deepens, World War II -- Toward a global civilization? the world since 1945: In the grip of the Cold War, the breakdown of the Yalta system; Brave new world, communism on trial; Europe and the western hemisphere since 1945; Challenges of nation building in Africa and the Middle East; Toward the Pacific century? -- Glossary.