About the Book
Introducing world history in a truly global framework, Lockard's SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, AND TRANSITIONS, VOLUME ll: SINCE 1450: A GLOBAL HISTORY, Fourth Edition, explores the regions of the world with a strong focus on culture, social change, economic patterns, science, religion and gender issues. The author incorporates profiles of diverse individuals from throughout history as well as interesting notes about cultural artifacts in areas such as music, art and popular culture. Discussions of various historical controversies offer insight into how historians work and debate. Chapter outlines with focus questions -- some of them relating history to today's world -- section summaries, pronunciation guides and marginal key term definitions support you as you examine the interconnectedness of different people, places and periods in the global past. Also available: MindTap digital learning solution.
Table of Contents:
Part IV: SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, TRANSITIONS: CONNECTING THE EARLY MODERN WORLD, 1450'1750. 15. Global Connections and the Remaking of Europe, 1450'1750. 16. New Challenges for Africa and the Islamic World, 1450'1750. 17. Americans, Europeans, Africans, and New Societies in the Americas, 1450'1750. 18. South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia: Triumphs and Challenges, 1450'1750. Part V: SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, TRANSITIONS: GLOBAL IMBALANCES IN THE MODERN WORLD, 1750'1945. 19. Modern Transitions: Revolutions, Industries, Ideologies, Empires, 1750'1914. 20. Changing Societies in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, 1750'1914. 21. Africa, the Middle East, and Imperialism, 1750'1914. 22. South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Colonization, 1750'1914. 23. East Asia and the Russian Empire Face New Challenges, 1750'1914. 24. World Wars, European Revolutions, and Global Depression, 1914'1945. 25. Imperialism and Nationalism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1914'1945. Part VI: SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, TRANSITIONS: INTERDEPENDENCE AND CONFLICT IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, SINCE 1945. 26. The Remaking of the Global System, Since 1945. 27. East Asian Resurgence, Since 1945. 28. Rebuilding Europe and Russia, Since 1945. 29. The Americas and the Pacific Basin: New Roles in the Contemporary World, Since 1945. 30. The Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Conflicts in the Contemporary World, Since 1945. 31. South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Global Connections, Since 1945.
About the Author :
Craig A. Lockard is Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of History Emeritus in the Social Change and Development Department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where from 1975 to 2010 he taught undergraduate courses on Asian, African, comparative and world history as well as popular culture. He has taught at SUNY-Buffalo, SUNY-Stony Brook and the University of Bridgeport, and he twice served as a Fulbright-Hays Professor of History at the University of Malaya in Malaysia. After undergraduate studies at the University of Redlands in California, including study abroad experiences in Austria and Hong Kong, he earned an M.A. in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii (1967) and a Ph.D. in Comparative World and Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1973). Dr. Lockard's many published books, articles, essays and reviews cover a wide spectrum of topics, including world and comparative history; Southeast Asian history, politics and society; Asian emigration and diasporas; the Vietnam War; and folk, rock, popular and world music. Among his major books are SOUTHEAST ASIA IN WORLD HISTORY (2009); DANCE OF LIFE: POPULAR MUSIC AND POLITICS IN MODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA (1998); FROM KAMPUNG TO CITY: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF KUCHING, MALAYSIA, 1820-1970 (1987); and CHINESE SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN SARAWAK: HISTORICAL ESSAYS (2009). He served on the task force that prepared revisions to the U.S. National Standards in World History (1996) and was a grader for AP World History exams. Dr. Lockard has served on various editorial advisory boards -- including the JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, WORLD HISTORY CONNECTED and THE HISTORY TEACHER -- and as book review editor for the JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES and the WORLD HISTORY BULLETIN. One of the founders of the World History Association, he served as its first secretary and as a member of the Executive Committee. Over the years he has lived and traveled widely in Asia, Africa and Europe.
