Worlds together, worlds apart : a history of the world from the beginnings of humankind to the present
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edition of this successful text has been streamlined, shortened, and features a new suite of tools designed to help students think critically, master content and make connections across time and place
Print Book, English, 2014
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W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2014
History
xlvii (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
9780393922073, 9780393123760, 0393922073, 0393123766
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Becoming human
Rivers, cities, and first states, 3500-2000 BCE
Nomads, chariots, territorial states, and microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE
First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE
Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE
Shrinking the Afro- Eurasian world, 350 BCE-250 CE
Han dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300-300 CE
The rise of universal religions, 300-600 CE
New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE
Becoming "The World", 1000-1300 CE
Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500
Contact, commerce, and colonization, 1450-1600
Worlds entangled, 1600-1750
Cultures of splendor and power, 1500-1780
Reordering the world, 1750-1850
Alternative visions of the nineteenth century
Nations and empires, 1850-1914
An unsettled world, 1890-1914
Of masses and visions of the modern, 1910-1939
The three-world order, 1940-1975
Globalization, 1970-2000
2001-the present