The World: Volume 2

NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyHistoryLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyHistoryLab, search for 0134169875 / 9780134169873 The World: A History, Volume 2 plus MyHistoryLab for World History - Access Card Package, 3/e Package consists of: * 0134162374 / 9780134162379 The World: A History, Volume 2, 3/e * 0133861880 / 9780133861884 MyHistoryLab for World History Valuepack Access Card MyHistoryLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. For courses in World History Helps students see the whole story The World: A History interweaves two enduring stories-centered on our interactions with nature and with each other-into a compelling narrative of mankind, from the origins of civilization to the present. Employing an engaging prose style and a comprehensive map program that brings history to life, author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto empowers students to see the connections among peoples and events, and to think critically about topics large and small. Also available with MyHistoryLab(R) MyHistoryLab for the World History course extends learning online, engaging students and improving results. Media resources with assignments bring concepts to life, and offer students opportunities to practice applying what they've learned. And Writing Space helps educators develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking through writing, quickly and easily. Please note: this version of MyHistoryLab does not include an eText. The World: A History, Third Edition is also available via REVEL(TM), an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn.PART 5 - THE CRUCIBLE: THE EURASIAN CRISES OF THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES 12. The World the Mongols Made: Trans-Eurasian Links 13. The Revenge of Nature: Plague and Cold in the Fourteenth Century 14. Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries PART 6 - CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE, TO CA. 1700 15. Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 16. The Ecological Revolution: The Global Redistribution of Life-forms 17. Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 18. States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries PART 7 - GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENTS, 1700-1800 19. Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century 20. The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires 21. The Exchange of Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Thought PART 8 - THE FRUSTRATIONS OF PROGRESS, TO CA. 1900 22. Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions 23. The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century 24. Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century 25. The Changing State: Nineteenth Century Politics PART 9 - CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY: THE WORLD IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES 26. The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World 27. Order Unraveled: The Trial of Empires, c.1898 - c.1931 28. The Anvil of War: Ideology and Violence, c.1931 - c.1957 29. Paradise Postponed: Cold War between Planned Societies, c.1957 - c.1980 30. World Order and Disorder: Capitalist Convergence and Conflicts of Culture, c.1980 - c.2010 31. The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment