Traditions and Encounters with StudyGuide CD-ROM; MP

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-07-243160-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Medienkombination, Englisch, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 2268 g

This groundbreaking world history text offers a fresh approach that takes the global nature of its subject seriously by exploring networks of interaction from the earliest times to the present. By examining the world as a whole and focusing on the links and interactions that have always existed among societies, it presents an alternative to Eurocentric history. For this reason, world history instructors have long been anticipating its arrival. The wait has finally ended.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bentley, Jerry

Ziegler, Herbert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THE EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES, 3800 TO 500 B.C.E. Chapter 1 Before History The Evolution of Homo Sapiens The Hominids Homo SapiensPaleolithic Society Economy and Society of Hunting and Gathering Peoples Paleolithic Cultures The Neolithic Era and the Transition to Agriculture The Origins of Agriculture Early Agricultural Society Neolithic Culture The Origins of Urban Life Chapter 2 Early Societies in southwest Asia and North Africa The Quest for Order Mesopotamia: “The Land between the Rivers” Egypt: “The Gift of the Nile” The Course of Empire The Development of Complex Societies Economic Specialization and Trade The Emergence of Stratified Societies The Construction of Patriarchal Societies Writing and the Formation of Sophisticated Cultural Traditions The Origins of Writing Education, Literacy, and Learning The Origins of Organized Religion The Broader Influence of Mesopotamian and Egyptian Societies Mesopotamian Influence on the Hebrews and the Phoenicians Egyptian Influence in Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 3 Early Society in South Asia and the Indo-European Migrations Harappan Society Foundations of Harappan Society Harappan Society and Culture The Indo-European Migrations and Early Aryan India Indo-European Peoples and Their Migrations The Aryans and India Vedic Society Origins of the Caste System The Development of Patriarchal Society Religion in the Vedic Age Aryan Religion The Blending of Aryan and Dravidian Values Chapter 4 Early Society in East Asia Political Organization in Early China Early Agricultural Society and the Zia Dynasty The Shang Dynasty The Zhou Dynasty Society and Family in Ancient China The Social Order Family and Patriarchy Early Chinese Writing and Cultural Development Oracle Bones and Early Chinese Writing Thought and Literature in Ancient China The Broader Influence of Ancient Chinese Society Chinese Cultivators and Nomadic Peoples of Central Asia The Southern Expansion of Chinese Society Chapter 5 Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania Early Societies of Mesoamerica The Olmecs Heirs of the Olmecs: The Maya Mava Society and Religion Heirs of the Olmecs: Teotihuacan Early Societies of South America Early Andean Society and the Chavin Cult Early Andean States: Mochica Early Societies of Oceania Early Societies in Australia and New Guinea The Peopling of the Pacific Islands PART II: THE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL SOCIETIES, 500 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E. Chapter 6 The Empires of Persia The Rise and Fall of the Persian Empire The Achaemenid Empire Decline and Fall of the Achaemenid Empire The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanid Empires Imperial Society and Economy Social Development in Classicall Persia Economic Foundations of Classical Persia Religions of Salvation in Classical Persian Society Zarathustra and His Faith Religions of Salvation in a Cosmopolitan Society Chapter 7 The Unification of China In Search of Political and Social Order Confucius and His School Daoism Legalism The Unification of China The Oin Dynasty The Early Han Dynasty From Economic Prosperity to Social Disorder Productivity and Prosperity during the Former Han Economic and Social Difficulties The Later Han Dynasty Chapter 8 State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India The Fortunes of Empire in Classical India The Mauryan Dynasty and the Temporary Unification of India The Revival of Empire under the Guptas Economic Development and Social Distinctions Towns and Trade Family Life and the Caste System Religions of Salvation in Classical India Jainism and the Challenge to the Established

Über Autor(innen)

Bentley, Jerry
Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of the Journal of World History. He has written extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history. His research on the religious, moral, and political writings of the Renaissance led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983) and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (1987). His more recent research has concentrated on global history and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. His book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) studies processes of cultural exchange and religious conversion before modern times, and his pamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996) discusses the historiography of world history. His current interests include processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchange in modern times.

Ziegler, Herbert
Herbert F. Ziegler is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai`i. He has taught courses on world history for the last 19 years and is currently the director of the world history program at the University of Hawaii. For several years he also served as the book review editor of the Journal World History. His interest in twentieth-century European social and political history led to the publication of Nazi Germany’s New Aristocracy (1990). He is at present working on a study that explores uncharted aspects of German society, especially the cultural manifestations of humor and satire in the Nazi era. His other current research project focuses on the application of complexity theory to a comparative study of societies and their internal dynamics.