Civilizations Past & Present, Combined Volume / Edition 12

by Robert R. Edgar, Neil J. Hackett, George F. Jewsbury, Barbara A. Molony, Matthew S. Gordon

Overview

Civilizations Past and Present , written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history— offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history.

Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong narrative exploration of world history that examines details at levels appropriate for both students and instructors. The book’s narrative–enriched by photographs, maps, primary source documents, timelines, and other pedagogical aids–places great emphasis on the connections between the world’s many cultures and regions. The book uses intriguing avenues of historical interpretation and examines all of the major areas of historical study: social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205574308
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	10/30/2007
Series:	MyHistoryLab Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	1200
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East

The Origins of Humankind

Preliterate Cultures

Preliterate Society and Religion

Mesopotamia: The First Civilization

The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000—1600 B.C.E.

Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600—550 B.C.E.

The Persian Empire, 550—331B.C.E.

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Oldest Known Map: Çatul Hüyük

DOCUMENT

“The Great Hymn to the Aton” and Psalm 104

DOCUMENT

Dining with the Great King: A Persian Royal Feast

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Pyramids of Meroe

2. Early Chinese Civilization:

From Neolithic Origins to 220 C.E.

The Origins of China, 6500—221B.C.E.

The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.—220 C.E.

DOCUMENT

The Wisdom of Confucius

DOCUMENT

Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)

DOCUMENT

“The Mother of Mencius” from Biographies of Heroic Women by Liu Xiang

SEEING CONNECTIONS

War Chariots

3. Early Indian Civilizations

From Neolithic Origins to 300 C.E.

Early India

Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600—320B.C.E.

The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.—300 C.E.

Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.—300 C.E.

The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange

DOCUMENT

Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men

DOCUMENT

The Jains on the Souls in All Things

DOCUMENT

The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Goddess Lakshmi in Pompeii

4. Greece

Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000—30 B.C.E.

Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000—1200 B.C.E.

The Development of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150—500 B.C.E.

The Golden Age of Greece, 500—336 B.C.E.

The Greek Cultural Achievement

The Hellenistic Age, 336—30 B.C.E.

Hellenistic Society and Culture

DOCUMENT

Homer–The Iliad: Andromache and Hector

DOCUMENT

Pericles’ Funeral Oration

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT

Arrian: Alexander the Leader

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Buddha and Heracles

5. Roman Civilization

The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.

Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900—509 B.C.E.

The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509—133 B.C.E.

The Late Republic: 133—30 B.C.E.

The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.—476 C.E.

The Growth of Early Christianity

The Roman Legacy

DOCUMENT

Columella: Roman Farm Women

DOCUMENT

Plutarch–The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Roman Ruins of Nubia

6. The Eastern Mediterranean World, 300-750 CE

The Eastern Mediterranean Milieu

The Sasanid Empire

Byzantium, Constantinople, and Christianity

Muhammad and the Birth of Islam

The Arab-Islamic Empire

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic

DOCUMENT

The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies

DOCUMENT

The Qur’an

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Great Mosque of Damascus

7. The Islamic World, 800-1300 CE

The Early Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000

The Shaping of Early Islamic Faith and Culture

The Fatamid Empire, 909-1171

Turkic Peoples and the Islamic Near East, 1000-1200

Al-Andalus: Islamic Iberia, 700-1100

Resisting the Latin Crusades

The Islamic World, 1100-1300: Unity and Diversity

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

An Islamic Map of the World

DOCUMENT

The History of Ahmad ibn Abi Yàqub al-Yàqubi

DOCUMENT

Ibn Sina’s Path to Wisdom

SEEING CONNECTIONS

A Mamluk Incense Burner

8. African Beginnings:

African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.

The African Environment

African Cultural Patterns

The Peopling of Africa

The Bantu Dispersion

Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa

Empires of the Western Sudan

Swahili City-States and the Indian Ocean Economy

Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Mansa Musa and The Catalan Atlas of 1375

DOCUMENT

Oral Traditions and History

DOCUMENT

Emperor Zar’a Ya’kob’s Coronation and His Concern for the Church

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Chinese in Africa

9. The Formation of Christian Europe, 476—1300 C.E.

The Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages

The Merovingians and Carolingians

Feudalism and Manorialism

The Revival of Trade and Towns

The Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000—1300

The Crusades

The Development of Western European States: 1000—1300

Byzantium In Its Golden Age and Decline

Russia and the Nations of Southeastern Europe

DOCUMENT

Charlemagne: A Contemporary Profile

DOCUMENT

The First Crusade Takes Jerusalem

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Muslim and Christian Chess Players

DOCUMENT

Vladimir Accepts Orthodox Christianity

10. Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220—1350

India and Southeast Asia in the Classical and Medieval Eras

China: Cultural and Political Empires

Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One

The Emergence of Japan

Oceania

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi

DOCUMENT

Bo Juyi (772—846): “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow”

DOCUMENT

Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India

DOCUMENT

Sei Sh¯onagon: The Pillow Book

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Biwa from the Imperial Treasury at Nara

11. The Americas to 1500

Origins of The First Americans and Their Cultures

Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica

Classical Mayan Civilization

The Postclassical Era

The Amerindians of North America

DOCUMENT

Father Bernabé Cobo, “Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Aztec Sun Stone

12.The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, 1300—1650

New Polities in Eurasia

The Ottoman Empire

The Safavid Empire in Iran

The Mughal Empire in South Asia

Networks of Trade and Communication

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The World Map of Piri Reis

DOCUMENT

The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold

DOCUMENT

The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Religious Tolerance Under Akbar

13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300—1650

China: The Ming Dynasty

Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society

Japan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring States

Southeast Asia: States Within a Region

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Map of China’s Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.

DOCUMENT

Zhang Han’s Essay on Merchants

DOCUMENT

Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM Play

DOCUMENT

A Traveller’s Account of Siam

SEEING CONNECTIONS

A Giraffe in the Ming Court

14. European Cultural and Religious Transformations

The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300—1600

An Era of General Crisis

The Italian Renaissancen

Italian Renaissance Art

The Northern Renaissance

The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300—1517

Luther and the German Reformation

Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation

Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland

Reform in the Catholic Church

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Lagoon of Venice

DOCUMENT

Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Marco Polo’s Book of Wonders

DOCUMENT

Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr

15. State Development in Europe:

Western and Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans to 1650

Western and Central Europe, 1300-1500

Politics, Diplomacy, and the Wars of Religions, 1556—1598

The Austrian Hapsburgs and the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648

Russia: From the Tatar Yoke to the Romanovs

The Balkans: Byzantine Collapse and Ottoman Rule

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Battle of Kahlenberg

DOCUMENT

Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Fall of Constantinople

16. Global Encounters:

Europe and the New World Economy, 1400—1650

The Iberian Golden Age

The Portuguese and Africa

The Growth of New Spain

Iberian Systems in the New World

Beginnings of Northern European Expansion

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster’s Map of Africa

DOCUMENT

Portuguese Encounters with Africans

DOCUMENT

Disease and the Spanish Conquest omen

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Portuguese in Benin

17. Absolutism and Limited Central Power in Europe, 1650—1774:

Politics during the First Age of Capitalism

Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism

The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism

Holland and England: Limited Central Power

Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War: 1650—1774

The Decline of European Absolutism, the Example of Louis XV: 1715—1774

Capitalism and the Forces of Change

Social Crises During the Capitalist Revolution

DOCUMENT

Catherine II on Life in St. Petersburg in 1750

DOCUMENT

Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Elegant Destruction of Poland

SEEING CONNECTIONS

A New Product from the New World: Tobacco

18. New Ideas and Their Political Consequences:

The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions

Discovering the Laws of Nature: the Scientific Revolution

The Age of Reason and the Ancien Régime

The Failure of Monarchical Reform

The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789—1799

The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799—1815

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus

The Widening Scope of Scientific Discovery

DOCUMENT

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

DOCUMENT

Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Benjamin Franklin in Paris

19. Africa in the World Economy, 1650—1850

The Atlantic Slave Trade

The End of the Slave Trade in West Africa

Islamic Africa

Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa

African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Myth of the Empty Land

DOCUMENT

A Slave’s Memoir

DOCUMENT

Usman dan Fodio on Women and Islam

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Moshoeshoe in European Dress

20. Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650—1815

The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era

Muslim Politics in Persia

Early Modern India Under the Mughals

The Qing Dynasty Before the Opium War

Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period

Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions

Europeans in the New Pacific Frontiers

DOCUMENT

Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of “Orient”

DOCUMENT

Lan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive People

DOCUMENT

Ihara Saikaku: “The Umbrella Oracle”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Jesuits in the Ming Court

21. The Americas, 1650—1825:

From European Dominance to Independence

The Iberian Colonies: 1650—1789

The West Indies

Breaking Away: The Creation of the United States of America

Haiti: The First Successful Slave Revolution

The Latin American Revolutions

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Island of California

DOCUMENT

Letter from Abigail Adams

DOCUMENT

Simón Bolívar, Proclamation to the People of Venezuela

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Gold and Precious Stones in Brazil

22. Industrialization:

Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations

The Industrial Revolution: British Phase

Industrialization: Continental Phase

The Workers: The Manchester Microcosm

Socialism and Industrialization

The Middle Classes

Science, Technology, and the Second Industrial Revolution

Cultural Responses to the Age

DOCUMENT

Child Labor

DOCUMENT

Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Singer Sewing Machines in Zululand

23. Europe, 1815-1914:

Political Change and Diplomatic Failure

Reassembling Europe, 1815-1850

1848: The Revolutionary Year

Prussia, German Unification, and the Second Reich

The Decline of Austria

Italy to 1914

France: The Second Empire and the Third Republic

The United Kingdom: Reform and Stability

Russia: Reform and Revolution

The “Eastern Question” and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914

DOCUMENT

Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch

DOCUMENT

Emmeline Pankhurst, from “My Own Story…”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

French and German Rivalry

24. Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism

European Conquest of Africa

European Technology and the African Response to Conquest

The Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer War

Colonial Rule in Africa

The Growth of Christianity and Islam in Africa

The Ottoman Empire Refashioned

Iran and the Great Power Struggle

DOCUMENT

That Was No Brother

DOCUMENT

General von Trotha’s Extermination Order

DOCUMENT

A Middle Eastern Vision of the West

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Suez Canal

25. Imperialism and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific, 1815—1914:

India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Oceania

India

Southeast Asia

China: The Long Nineteenth Century

Japan: Modernity and Imperialism

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands

DOCUMENT

The Great Revolt of 1857—1858

DOCUMENT

Lin Zexu on the Opium Trade

DOCUMENT

“The Beefeater”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Western Houses in Tokyo

26. The Americas, 1825-1914;

The Challenges of Independence

Challenges to Latin American States After Independence

Latin America, 1875-1914

The United States

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

An American View of the World in the 1820s

DOCUMENT

Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Brazil

DOCUMENT

José Marti’s Observations on the United States and Cuba

DOCUMENT

Susan Anthony, On Women’s Right to Vote

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Paris of the Pampas

27. World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences

World War I

The Allied Peace Settlement

Economic Disasters

Politics in the Democracies

The Western Tradition in Transition: Changing Certainties

DOCUMENT

The Western Front: Christmas 1914

DOCUMENT

John Maynard Keynes on Clemenceau

SEEING CONNECTIONS

African American recipients of the Croix de Guerre

28. The Failure of the Liberal Model and the Rise of Authoritarianism:

Japan, Italy, Germany, and the USSR, 1917-1940

Japan: From Budding Democracy to Militarist State

A European Response to Liberal Decline: Fascism

Italy and Mussolini

The German Tragedy

Revolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928-1939

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Wishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism Map

DOCUMENT

The New German Woman

DOCUMENT

Stalin and State Terror

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Mussolini and Imperial Destiny

29. Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910—1950

China: Revolution and Republic

Korea: From Monarchy to Colony

Nationalism in Southeast Asia

India: The Drive for Independence

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

What’s in a Name? Siam or Thailand?

DOCUMENT

Lu Xun and China’s May Fourth Generation

DOCUMENT

Gandhi and “Truth-Force”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Gandhi the Civil Rights Leader

30. National Movements and the Drive for Independence in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s

The Middle East Divided

The Challenge to Colonial Rule in Africa

Pan-Africanism

World War II and Its Aftermath

Decolonization

DOCUMENT

We Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as Liberators

DOCUMENT

The Color Line Belts the World

DOCUMENT

Pass Laws and African Women in South Africa

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Hashimite Family

31. World War II:

Origins and Consequences, 1919—1946

The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s

Epoch of the Aggressors

World War II

Postwar Settlements

DOCUMENT

Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back

DOCUMENT

The Hossbach Memorandum

DOCUMENT

The Nazi Death Camps

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Modern Civilization and Mass Killing

32. Europe and the United States Since 1945:

The Cold War and After

The Cold War: The US and The USSR in Global Competition to 1991

The Soviet Union and the Russian Republic

Eastern Europe: From Soviet Control to Independence

Western Europe

The United States

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954

DOCUMENT

Khrushchev’s Address to the Twentieth Party Congress

DOCUMENT

Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence"

SEEING CONNECTIONS

JFK and Khrushchev

33. The Middle East and Africa Since 1945:

The Struggle for Survival

The Middle East: Religion and Politics

Africa: The Search for National Identities

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

Borders and Identities: The UN Partition Plan

DOCUMENT

The Village That Has “Eaten Itself Limb by Limb”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Ayatollah Khomeini

34. Latin America Since 1910:

Reform, Repression, and Revolution

Latin America: 1910-1945

The Perils of the Post-War Era

South America

The Caribbean

Mexico

Central America

DOCUMENT

President Hugo Chavez’s 2006 Address to the U.N. General Assembly

DOCUMENT

Evita Speaks

SEEING CONNECTIONS

Lucha Libre

35. Asia and the South Pacific since 1945:

Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions

The People’s Republic of China and Other Chinese Countries

Japan: From Defeat to Dominance to Doubt

Korea: A Nation Divided

Southeast Asia

The Subcontinent

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands

DOCUMENT

Mao on Communism in China

DOCUMENT

Kora Rumiko, “When the War Ended”

DOCUMENT

Benazir Bhutto at Harvard

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Transistor

36. Into the 21st Century: An Uncertain Future

An Uncertain Future

Economics: The Tension Between Dollars and Sense

The Promises and Perils of Technology

People on the Move in a Changing World

Toward a World Culture

Looming Challenges

Reasons for Hope

DOCUMENT

Muhammad Yunus’s Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

DOCUMENT

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

DOCUMENT

Wangari Maathai, A Matter of Life or Death

SEEING CONNECTIONS

The Earth