World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, Combined Volume, Penguin Academic Edition

Emphasizes the major interactions among different peoples and societies.   World History in Brief highlights key events in world history, giving adequate treatment to the major issues, while leaving time for analysis and use of supplemental materials for critical thinking.   Part of the Penguin Academics Series, the text takes a truly global approach by balancing coverage of individual societies and focusing on forces that cut across them. Students are encouraged to compare societies, assess changes in interactions, and understand global forces such as migration and technological exchange.   The 8th edition is tied closely to MyHistoryLab to help save time and improve results. MyHistoryLab icons connect the main narrative to an array of MyHistoryLab resources, including primary source documents, analytical video segments, and interactive maps.   A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how: Personalize Learning — The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking — Features at the beginning and end of each part help students make connections among the societies examined in the chapters. Engage Students — “Solving Problems,” “History Debates,” and “World Profiles” features allow students to approach history from different angles. Support Instructors — MyHistoryLab, an Instructor’s Resource Manual, a Test Bank, MyTest, PowerPoint presentations, a detailed timeline for each period covered in the text, and Class Preparation are available. For volume 1 of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205939368 For volume 2 of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205939422   Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit: www.myhistorylab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205896308 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205896301.

Table of Contents:
Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Maps  List of Features  List of MyHistoryLab Documents Preface              PART I: EARLY WORLD HISTORY: FROM ORIGINS TO AGRICULTURE AND NEW FORMS OF HUMAN ORGANIZATION  Chapter 1: From Human Prehistory to the Rise of Agriculture  Chapter 2: Early Civilizations 3500–1000 B.C.E.  Chapter 3: Nomadic Societies    PART II: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1000 B.C.E.–500 C.E.  Chapter 4: Classical Civilization: China  Chapter 5: Classical Civilization: India  Chapter 6: Classical Civilization in the Mediterranean and Middle East: Persia, Greece, and Rome  Chapter 7: The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 C.E.    PART III: THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD, 500–1450 C.E.  Chapter 8: The Rise of Islam: Civilization in the Middle East  Chapter 9: India and Southeast Asia Under the Impact of Islam  Chapter 10: Africa and Islam  Chapter 11: East European Civilization: Byzantium and Russia  Chapter 12: Western Civilization: The Middle Ages  Chapter 13: China’s Impact and the Spread of East Asian Civilization  Chapter 14: Centers of Civilization in the Americas  Chapter 15: The Mongol Interlude and the End of the Postclassical Period    PART IV: A NEW WORLD ECONOMY, 1450–1750  Chapter 16: The West and the World: Discovery, Colonization, and Trade  Chapter 17: Western Civilization Changes Shape in the Early Modern Centuries  Chapter 18: The Rise of Russia  Chapter 19: The  Islamic Empires  Chapter 20: East Asia: Vital Trends in Politics and Trade              PART V: THE WORLD’S FIRST INDUSTRIAL PERIOD, 1750–1914  Chapter 21: The First Industrial Revolution: Western Society, 1780–1914  Chapter 22: World Economy and Western Imperialism: Africa and South Asia  Chapter 23: The Settler Societies: The West on Frontiers  Chapter 24: The Development of Latin American Civilization  Chapter 25: The Middle East and China in the Imperialist Century  Chapter 26: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West              PART VI: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, 1914 TO PRESENT  Chapter 27: The West in the Contemporary Period  Chapter 28: Russia and Eastern Europe Chapter 29: East Asia in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries  Chapter 30: India and Southeast Asia  Chapter 31: Middle Eastern Civilization in the 20th Century  Chapter 32: Latin America in the 20th Century  Chapter 33: Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonies to New Nations  Chapter 34: Themes in Contemporary World History: Into the 21st Century   Credits  Index  2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS   List of Maps  List of Features  List of MyHistoryLab Documents Preface              PART I: EARLY WORLD HISTORY: FROM ORIGINS TO AGRICULTURE AND NEW FORMS OF HUMAN ORGANIZATION  Chapter 1: From Human Prehistory to the Rise of Agriculture  Getting Started Is Always Hard  Human Development and Change  SOLVING PROBLEMS Dealing with Death  The Neolithic Revolution  HISTORY DEBATE People in the Americas  The Nature of Agricultural Societies  Agriculture and Change  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 2: Early Civilizations 3500–1000 B.C.E.  Civilization  SOLVING PROBLEMS The Use of Culture  Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared  HISTORY DEBATE Women in Patriarchal Societies  Transitions: The End of the River Valley Period  Indian and Chinese River Valley Civilizations  New States and Peoples Around 1000 B.C.E.  Judaism Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 3: Nomadic Societies   Early Nomadic Societies  Nomadic Society and Culture  Nomads and Civilizations  HISTORY DEBATE The Contributions of Nomads  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments PART I RETROSPECTIVE The Rise of Agriculture and Agricultural Civilizations              PART II: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1000 B.C.E.–500 C.E.  Chapter 4: Classical Civilization: China  Patterns in Classical China  Political Institutions  HISTORY DEBATE War  Religion and Culture  Economy and Society  WORLD PROFILES Ban Zhao (c. 48–117 C.E..)  A Distinctive Measure  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 5: Classical Civilization: India  The Framework for Indian History        Patterns in Classical India   Political Institutions  HISTORY DEBATE Interpreting Civilization, Round Two  Religion and Culture  Economy and Society  SOLVING PROBLEMS Dealing with Inequality  Indian Influence  China and India  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments             Chapter 6: Classical Civilization in the Mediterranean and Middle East: Persia, Greece, and Rome  The Persian Tradition  Patterns of Greek History  Patterns of Roman History Greek and Roman Political Institutions  SOLVING PROBLEMS Cultural Encounters  WORLD PROFILES Julius Caesar (100–44 B.C.E.)  Religion and Culture  Economy and Society in the Mediterranean  HISTORY DEBATE Mediterranean Civilization and “Western” Civilization  Toward the Fall of Rome  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 7: The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 C.E.  Decline in China and India  Decline and Fall in Rome  The New Religious Map  HISTORY DEBATE Comparing Declines  WORLD PROFILES Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus)  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments PART II RETROSPECTIVE The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.    PART III: THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD, 500–1450 C.E.  Chapter 8: The Rise of Islam: Civilization in the Middle East  The Advent of Islam  WORLD PROFILES Muhammad (570–632 C.E.)  Patterns of Islamic History  Islamic Political Institutions  HISTORY DEBATE Political Implications of Islam  Islam and Middle Eastern Culture  WORLD PROFILES Omar Khayyam (c. 11th–12th Century)  SOLVING PROBLEMS Religion and Trade  Economy and Society in the Middle East  The Decline of Middle Eastern Civilization  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 9: India and Southeast Asia Under the Impact of Islam  The Development of Indian Culture  HISTORY DEBATE The Caste System  The Muslim Challenge in India  Southeast Asia  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 10: Africa and Islam  Sub-Saharan Africa and the World Network  The Great Kingdoms  SOLVING PROBLEMS Technology and Trade  WORLD PROFILES Sundiata  HISTORY DEBATE Handles for African History  Features of African Civilization  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 11: East European Civilization: Byzantium and Russia  The Byzantine Phase  WORLD PROFILES The Emperor Justinian (527–565 C.E.)  The Early Russian Phase: Kievan Rus’  HISTORY DEBATE A Russian Civilization?  East European Political Institutions  East European Religion and Culture  East European Economy and Society  East European Civilization in Eclipse  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 12: Western Civilization: The Middle Ages  Early Patterns in Western Civilization  Medieval Political Institutions  HISTORY DEBATE Homosexuality and Religion  Medieval Religion and Culture  Economy and Society  Women and Family Life  SOLVING PROBLEMS Population Growth  Tensions in the Later Middle Ages  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 13: China’s Impact and the Spread of East Asian Civilization  Political and Cultural Developments in China  Economy and Society in China  Civilization in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan  HISTORY DEBATE  Defining Post-classical Civilizations  Culture, Society, and Economy in Japan  East Asian Self-Confidence  WORLD PROFILES  Mugai Nyodai  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 14: Centers of Civilization in the Americas  The Mayas and Aztecs  The Aztec Empire HISTORY DEBATE The Problem of Contacts  The Inca Empire Andean and Central American Societies Pacific Oceania Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 15: The Mongol Interlude and the End of the Postclassical Period  Mongol Empires   WORLD PROFILES Chabi Khan  China and the West as New World Powers  HISTORY DEBATE Causes of Global Change by 1450  The End of Transition: Postclassical to Early Modern  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments PART III RETROSPECTIVE The Postclassical Period, 500–1450 C.E.    PART IV: A NEW WORLD ECONOMY, 1450–1750  Chapter 16: The West and the World: Discovery, Colonization, and Trade  Patterns of Exploration and Trade  HISTORY DEBATE Early Modern Stereotypes  Toward a World Economy  Africa  WORLD PROFILES Olandah Equiano  Colonization in Latin America: The Birth of a New Civilization  Latin American Civilization  WORLD PROFILES Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695)  Western Civilization in North America  North and South America: Reasons for the Differences  The World Economy Revisited  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 17: Western Civilization Changes Shape in the Early Modern Centuries  Patterns of Early Modern Western History  Political Institutions and Ideas    The Ferment in Western Culture  Transformations in Economic and Social Life  SOLVING PROBLEMS Dealing with the Asian Advantage  How Early Modern Trends in the West Interrelated  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 18: The Rise of Russia  Patterns of Early Modern Russian History  WORLD PROFILES Catherine the Great (1762–1796)  HISTORY DEBATE A Russian Civilization?  Russian Political Institutions  Russian Culture  Economy and Society in Russia  The World’s First Effort at Westernization  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 19: The  Islamic Empires  The Expanding Force of the Ottoman Empire   New Issues in the Ottoman Empire The Safavid Challenge  HISTORY DEBATE Guns and Their Impact  The Mughal Empire: Invasion, Consolidation, and Decline  Western Intrusion into the Mughal Empire  The Rise and Decline of Asian Empires  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 20: East Asia: Vital Trends in Politics and Trade  China: The Resumption of the Dynasties  SOLVING PROBLEMS Trying to Manage Food Supplies  Cultural and Social Patterns: New Issues  HISTORY DEBATE Chinese and Western Economies  Japan and the Origins of Isolation  WORLD PROFILES Toyotomi Hideyoshi (r. 1536–1548)  Vitality and Tension in East Asia  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments PART IV RETROSPECTIVE A New World Economy, 1450–1750              PART V: THE WORLD’S FIRST INDUSTRIAL PERIOD, 1750–1914  Chapter 21: The First Industrial Revolution: Western Society, 1780–1914  Patterns of Industrialization  Causes of Industrialization  HISTORY DEBATE Consumerism and Industrialization  Effects of Industrialization  The Period of Revolution, 1789–1848  Effects of Revolution The Postrevolutionary Era and Nationalism, 1848–1871  “The Social Question,” 1871–1914  Western Political Institutions in the Industrial Revolution  WORLD PROFILES Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)  Western Culture in the Industrial Century  Industrial Society  HISTORY DEBATE Women in Industrial Society  Gain and Strain from Industrialization  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 22: World Economy and Western Imperialism: Africa and South Asia  The Reasons for Imperialism: Motives and Means  HISTORY DEBATE Causes of the Abolition of Slavery  Imperialism in India and Southeast Asia  SOLVING PROBLEMS Railroads  Imperialism in Africa  WORLD PROFILES John Mensah Sarbah (1865–1910)  Comparing Colonies  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 23: The Settler Societies: The West on Frontiers  The United States  HISTORY DEBATE Exceptionalism  The Newer Settler Societies  WORLD PROFILES Hongi Hika  Special Features of Settler Societies  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 24: The Development of Latin American Civilization  The Wars of Independence  WORLD PROFILES Simón Bolívar (1783–1830)  The Period of Consolidation  Late-Century Trends: Dictatorship, Immigration, and Western Intervention  WORLD PROFILES Benito Juárez (1806–1872)  Political Institutions and Values  HISTORY DEBATE Is Latin America Western?  Culture and the Arts  Economy and Society  Tension and Creativity  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 25: The Middle East and China in the Imperialist Century  The Attempt to Modernize Egypt  Decline of the Ottoman Empire  The Rise of Nationalism  China Faces Imperialism  HISTORY DEBATE China’s 19th-Century Sluggishness  The Need for Further Change  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 26: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West  Russian Conservatism: An Alternative to the West  The Beginnings of Russian Industrialization  The Foundations of Revolution in Russia  The Culture of Eastern Europe  HISTORY DEBATE The Preconditions for Revolution  The Opening of Trade in Japan  Japanese Industrialization in Response to the West  SOLVING PROBLEMS Maintaining Identity  Cultural and Economic Effects of Japanese Industrialization  Japan as an International Player  The Strain of Modernization  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments PART V RETROSPECTIVE  The End of the Long 19th Century             PART VI: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, 1914 TO PRESENT  Chapter 27: The West in the Contemporary Period  Patterns of Western History: 1914–1945  Patterns of Western History: 1945 to the Present  Western Political Institutions in the 20th Century  HISTORY DEBATE Convergence  Contemporary Western Culture  Economy and Society  WORLD PROFILES Simone de Beauvoir  A Postindustrial Age?  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 28: Russia and Eastern Europe The Russian Revolution  HISTORY DEBATE Women and the Russian Revolution  Patterns of Soviet History After 1923  Soviet Political Institutions  Soviet Culture  Economy and Society  SOLVING PROBLEMS Updating the Treatment of Children  The Explosion of the 1980s  Dismantling the Soviet Empire  Renewed Turmoil After 1991  Tradition and Change in Eastern Europe  Russia and the West in Comparative Analysis  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 29: East Asia in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries  A Clash of Cultures: Revolution and War  HISTORY DEBATE Japan and Westernization  Return to Stability in Japan  Upheaval and Ongoing Revolution in China  East Asia Toward the End of the Century  Japan, Incorporated  WORLD PROFILES Sun Zhongshan (1867–1925)  The Pacific Rim  China Under Communism  East Asia and the World  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 30: India and Southeast Asia  The Rise of Nationalism  Gandhi’s Nonviolent Strategies  WORLD PROFILES  Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Nationalism in Southeast Asia  Decolonization After the War  Southeast Asia After Independence  India and Pakistan  HISTORY DEBATE Women’s Conditions in India  India and China  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 31: Middle Eastern Civilization in the 20th Century  Replacing the Ottoman Empire  Assertions of Arab Nationalism  The New Role of the State  SOLVING PROBLEMS Reviving Religion in Contemporary History  The Rise of Fundamentalism  HISTORY DEBATE Terrorism  Middle Eastern Culture and Society  New Tensions in the Early 2000s  A Troubled Region  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 32: Latin America in the 20th Century  Latin America in 20th-Century World History  The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920s  Effects of the Depression, 1930s–1950s  Revolution and Response, 1950s–1990s  Latin American Culture  SOLVING PROBLEMS Adapting Consumer Values  Economy and Society  HISTORY DEBATE Latin America and the Third World  Toward a Greater World Role?  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 33: Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonies to New Nations  Emerging Nationalism, 1918 - 1950  The Transformation to Independence  The Challenges of New Nationhood  African Politics  African Cultures  HISTORY DEBATE The Question of Identity  Economy and Society  Defining the New Africa  Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 34: Themes in Contemporary World History: Into the 21st Century After the Cold War  HISTORY DEBATE 20th and 21st Centuries—Change or Continuity  Global Industrialization Globalization Global Warming and a Planet in Peril The Spread of Democracy Nationalism and Religious Currents Projecting from Trends Paths to the Present  Key Terms Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments PART VI RETROSPECTIVE The Contemporary World    Credits  Index 

About the Author :
Peter N. Stearns is Provost and University Professor at George Mason University. He has taught previously at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon; he was educated at Harvard University. He has published widely in modern social history, including the history of emotions, and in world history. Representative works in world history include World History: A Survey, The Industrial Revolution in World History, Gender in World History, Consumerism in World History>, Human Rights in World History, and Growing Up: The History of Childhood in Global Context. His publications in social history include Old Age in Preindustrial Society, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern American Childrearing, American Cool: Developing the Twentieth-Century Emotional Style, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in Western Society, American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety, Revolutions in Sorrow: A History of American Experiences and Policies Toward Death in Global Context, From Alienation to Addiction: Modern American Work in Global Historical Perspective, Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities: Challenges and Opportunities, andSatisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society. While under Dr. Stearns’s leadership, George Mason University was awarded the 2006 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education. He has also edited encyclopedias of world and social history, and since 1967, he has served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Social History. In most of his research and writing, Dr. Stearns pursues three main goals. First, as a social historian, he is eager to explore aspects of the human experience that are not generally thought of in historical terms, and with attention to ordinary people as well as elites. Second, he seeks to use an understanding of historical change and continuity to explore patterns of behavior and social issues. Finally, he is concerned with connecting new historical research with wider audiences, including of course classrooms. Dr. Stearns is also eager to promote comparative analysis and the assessment of modern global forces—for their own sake and as they illuminate the American experience and impact.

Review :
“This is a high quality, affordable text that has very strong instructor resources.”           -Kristopher Treat, Arizona State University   “I…really appreciate the instructor's manual and the way the book highlights themes and key questions. These additional aids facilitate covering a lot of material quickly but coherently.”           -Kathleen Parrow, Black Hills State University   “Its brevity allows me to expect students will read everything, while it is still a good text despite being so brief.”           -Matthew Stanard, Berry College   “The brief version works well for a one-semester course…Stearns does not get bogged down in the details; he presents a broad overview of critical points and cultural traits.”           -Terry Reynolds, Michigan Technological University