World history: journeys from past to present / (Record no. 3063)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780415771375 (pbk.)
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International Standard Book Number 0415771366 (hardback)
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International Standard Book Number 0415771374 (pbk.)
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Classification number 909
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Goucher, Candice Lee.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title World history: journeys from past to present /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Candice Goucher, Linda Walton.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008.
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Extent xiv, 327 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps ;
Dimensions 26 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. HUMAN MIGRATION: WORLD HISTORY IN MOTION<br/>Introduction -- Evolutionary footprints: human origins in Africa -- Tracing migration routes<br/>Colonization of the planet -- Language and communication -- Demography, animals, and climate -- Linguistic evidence of migration -- The end of the Ice Age -- Crossing boundaries: later migrations -- Creating diaspora -- Crossing the seas: the Vikings and the Polynesians -- Globalization: forced and voluntary labor migrations -- Imperialism, industrialization, and<br/>urbanization -- Dislocations of war -- Inequality and anti'-immigration legislation -- Studying migration -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>2. TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN WORLD HISTORY<br/>Introduction -- Technology defines human culture -- Environment and technology -- Early human ecologies -- Subsistence and environment -- From early stone tools to pyrotechnology-- Agricultural beginnings -- Water control and the role of environment -- From local to global food sources -- Villages, towns, and environment -- The age of metals -- Technology and environment: fueling industry -- Science, technology, and the Industrial Revolution -- Industrial capitalism, transportation, and production -- Global transformations -- Electrifying change -- The landscapes of imperialism -- Water wars -- Technology and war -- Ecology, technology, and global warming -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>3. CITIES AND CITY LIFE IN WORLD HISTORY <br/>Introduction -- World demography: crowded daily lives -- Emerging complexity -- Ancient settlements become cities -- Agriculture and the development of urban life -- Environmental factors and urban growth -- Cities as ceremonial and commercial centers -- Urbanization, conquest, and commercial growth -- The expansion of commercial cities -- Early modern urban cultures in East Asia -- Cities as sites of global commercial interaction -- Cities of conquest and colonization -- Urban cultural landscapes and global industrialization -- Cities and population growth -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>4. COSMOS, COMMUNITY, AND CONFLICT: RELIGION IN WORLD HISTORY<br/>Introduction -- Reading the archaeological record -- The world of spirits: animism and shamanism -- Mounds, megaliths, and mortuary " monuments -- Interpreting mythological traditions --The diversity of divinity: goddesses, gods, and god-kings -- Priests, preachers, and prophets -- Christianity, anichaeism, and Islam -- The spread of "world religions": Buddhisms, Christianities, and Islams -- Buddhisms in Asia -- Crusades, conflict, and change: the expansion of Christianities -- The spread of Islams: conquest, commerce and conversion -- Renewal and reform in the Islamic world -- Globalization and religious change -- Slavery, syncretism, and spirituality -- Religion and revolutionary change -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources <br/><br/>5. FINDING FAMILY IN WORLD HISTORY<br/>Introduction -- Family and household in Roman law and society -- Christianity, family, and household in<br/>medieval and early modern Europe -- Demographic change, family, and household in early modern Europe -- The impact of Islam on family and household -- African families and households: matrilinealicy and motherhood -- Caste, family, and household in South Asia -- Southeast Asian family and household: indigenous traditions and Islamic influence -- Confucianism and the Chinese family -- Family and household in the Americas -- Globalization and changing families and households<br/>Colonialism and family in the Americas, Asia, and Africa -- Reform and revolution: women and family in the Islamic world and China -- Fertility and family: the demographic transition, 1750-2000 -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>6. MAKING A LIVING: WORLD ECONOMIES, PAST AND PRESENT<br/>Introduction -- Cowries, coins, and commerce -- Over land and sea: ships of the desert and ocean -- Silk Roads and Central Asian caravan routes -- Trans-Saharan caravans and commerce -- The Indian Ocean -- "Lands below the winds": Southeast Asia -- Port cities, merchants, and maritime trade -- Making a living on the manor in medieval England -- Markets and money China: the commercial revolution -- Trade and tribute in the Incan empire -- Manors, markets, and money: some -- conclusions and comparisons -- Trading networks it the Americas -- Mercantilism and the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1750 -- Interlopers in international trade: the Portuguese empire -- The creation of an Atlantic economy: sugar and slaves -- The Pacific world -- China and the world economy, 1500-1800 -- The Industrial Revolution -- Capitalism -- Imperialism and colonialism as economic systems -- The global economy and the Great Depression -- The Second World War and national economies -- International economic organizations and agreements -- Globalization and its discontents -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>7. CREATING ORDER AND DISORDER; STATES AND EMPIRES, OLD AND NEW<br/>Introduction -- A "stateless society": archaeology and Igbo-Ukwu -- Lineage societies and empire -- Feudalism: between kinship and state -- Maritime and mainland empires in Southeast Asia: Srivijaya and Khmer -- Trade, technology, ecology, and culture: the Mali empire in West Africa -- Nomads and empire in.Eurasia: the Mongol empire -- Maritime and land-based empires, c 1500-1800 -- The nation-state and revolutions in the Atlantic world -- New nations from an old empire: Hispanic America<br/>Settler societies and new nations: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa -- European nation-states, nationalism, and the "new" imperialism -- The new imperialism, colonialism, and<br/>resistance in Africa -- From empire to nation: the Ottoman empire and Turkey -- From empire to nation: the British Raj and India -- Imperialism, Marxism, and revolution -- Reform, revolution, and Islamic nationalism -- Decolonization, nationalism, and revolution in Asia and Africa -- New states, new colonialism, and new empire -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>8. EXPERIENCING INEQUALITIES: DOMINANCE AND RESISTANCE IN WORLD HISTORY<br/>Introduction -- Emergence of gender inequalities and social hierarchies -- Kinship, lineage, family, and gender hierarchies -- Gender and warfare -- Caste, clientage, and inequality -- Economic inequalities: feudalism and serfdom -- Slavery and other systems of inequality -- Globalizing inequality -- Global industrialization and inequality -- Imperialism, inequality, and the rise of global racism -- Resistance and organized labor -- International labor and political emancipation -- Gender and resistance -- Globalization and the struggle for equality -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>9. TRANSMITTING TRADITIONS: HISTORY, CULTURE, AND MEMORY<br/>Introduction -- Oral traditions -- Memory devices -- Writing systems -- Technology and the ransmission of cultural memory Information technology and the transmission of ideas -- The computer revolution and cultural memory -- Architecture and cultural memory -- Instimtions and the transmission of<br/>cultural memory -- Renaissances: traditions and their transformations -- Keeping time -- Cultural emory systems and new encounters -- Colonizing memory -- Resistance in motion: cultural memory,<br/>politics, and performance -- Transnational technologies and global cultural memory -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>10. CROSSING BORDERS: BOUNDARIES, ENCOUNTERS, AND FRONTIERS<br/>Introduction -- Mapping the world -- Sacred encounters: Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist pilgrims -- Sacred encounters: Jesuit missionaries in .Asia, Africa, and the Americas -- Gender boundaries -- Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in North America -- Boundaries and frontiers in the Russian<br/>empire -- The "abode of Islam": boundaries, encounters, and frontiers in the Islamic world -- Boundaries and frontiers of the Chinese empire -- Maritime boundaries, encounters, and frontiers -- Piracy, trade, and the politics of frontiers -- Frontiers of resistance in the Atlantic world -- Cultural boundaries and frontiers in the Caribbean -- Boundaries, encounters, and frontiers of the Pacific -- Culinary and drug encounters -- Boundaries of the new imperialism -- National borders and transnational frontiers -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources<br/><br/>11. IMAGINING THE FUTURE: THE CROSSROADS OF WORLD HISTORY<br/>Introduction -- Imagined worlds -- Critiques of industrialism and visions of community -- Marx and the critique of industrial capitalism -- Global war and peace in the twentieth century -- The impact of war on society -- War and resistance -- Women in war and peace -- Technology and the human costs of<br/>global warfare -- Postwar order/disorder -- Science and uncertainty: twentieth-century physics -- The irrationality and uncertainty of knowing: psychology and philosophy -- Modernism, art, and Utopias<br/>Morality, human rights, genocide, and justice -- Conclusions -- Selected references -- Online resources
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Keyword World history.
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