Revel Access Code for World, The: A History, Combined Volume

REVEL™ for 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 Fernández-Armesto empowers students to see the connections among peoples and events, and to think critically about topics large and small. REVEL is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, REVEL offers an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Enlivening course content with media interactives and assessments, REVEL empowers educators to increase engagement with the course, and to better connect with students. NOTE: REVEL is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone REVEL access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use REVEL.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: THE DIVERGENT SPECIES: THE BEGINNINGS OF DIVERSITY, CA. 160,000 TO 3,000 YEARS AGO 1. Of Ice and Mud: From Africa to the World, from Foraging to Farming 2. The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States 3. The Multiplication of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability PART 2: THE AGE OF EMPIRES, FROM 1,000 B.C.E. TO 200 C.E. 4. Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits 5. The Great Schools: New Thinking in the Age of Sages 6. The Great Empires: Cultural Exchange in Big States PART 3: FITFUL TRANSITIONS, FROM THE THIRD CENTURY TO THE TENTH CENTURY 7. Post-imperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa 8. The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism 9. Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal of Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millennium PART 4: CONTACTS AND CONFLICTS, 1000 C.E. TO 1200 C.E. 10. Contending with Isolation: Initiatives in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 11. The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China 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