World Past to World Present: A Sketch of Global History

ISBN-13: 9781032052618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Peter N. Stearns

Opis

World Past to World Present: A Sketch of Global History provides an unusually brief and present-focused treatment of human history beginning with the advent of agriculture and ending with considerable attention to world history developments since World War II.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  PART I: THE AGRICULTURAL AGE  2. The Nature of Agricultural Society  3. Early Civilizations  4. The Classical Period  5. Religion and Trade: World History from 600-1200  6. The Mongol Period, 1200-1450  7. The Early Modern Period  8. New Empires, new Ideas: Regional Developments in the early modern period  PART II: THE INDUSTRIAL AGE  9. The Nature of Industrial Society  10. Global Dynamics: Imperialism and Globalization before 1914  11. Regional patterns and comparisons in the "long" 19^th century  12. A Troubled Transition: Global Developments, 1914-1945  13. A More Global World, 1945-2000  14. How Regions Responded, 1945-2000  15. The 21^st Century: Legacies and New Questions

O autorze

Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. He has taught a freshman world history course every year for over three decades; he also helped introduce the Advanced Placement world history program. Stearns has written widely on a variety of topics in the field, most recently including books on time and on happiness in world history.