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Part I. The Atlantic Background -- 1. The foundation of the Atlantic world, 1250-1600 -- Part II. Three Atlantic Worlds -- 2. The European background -- 3. The African background -- 4. The American world, 1450-1700 -- Part III. The Nature of Encounter and its Aftermath -- 5. Conquest -- 6. Colonization -- 7. Contact -- Part IV. Culture Transition and Change -- 8. Transfer and retention in language -- 9. Aesthetic change -- 10. Religious stability and change -- 11. The revolutionary moment in the Atlantic

Modeling patterns of human migration -- Earliest human migrations, to 40,000 BP -- Peopling northern and American regions, 40,000 to 15,000 BP -- Agriculture, 15,000 BP to 5000 BP -- Commerce, 3000 BCE to 500 CE -- Modes of movement, 500 CE to 1400 CE -- Spanning the Oceans, 1400 to 1700 -- Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 1900 -- Diasporas and nations in expansion, 1900 to 1980 -- Migration in global transformation, 1980 to 2050.

Isolation, Regionalism, and Exploration : The World in 1400 -- Religious Practice in the Modern World -- Imperialism and the Evolution of Empire, 1500-1800 -- The Emergence and Spread of Gunpowder Empires : Political Change, 1500-1650 -- Life in Common : Community in the Modern World -- The Exchange of Goods and Services : Trade -- Humans as Property : Slavery -- Jockeying for Position : Political Change, 1650-1775 -- Manufacturing a New World Economy, 1750-1914 -- From Scarcity to Surplus : Modern Agriculture -- Creation and Collapse : Revolutions and Political Change, 1775-1860 -- "Haves" and "Have Not's" : Power Relations and Imperialism, 1800-Present -- New Forms of Control : Decolonization and Economic Dominance, 1775-1914 -- Privation and Powerlessness in an Age of Plenty : Political Change, 1860-1945 -- "Machines as the Measure of Men"? : The Changing Basis of Industrial Power, 1914-Present -- Paying for it All : Taxation and the Making of the Modern World -- The Age of the Superpowers : Political Change, 1945-2001 -- Left in the Lurch : Decolonization, 1914-Present -- Anxieties and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century.

Presenting selected histories in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, this work discusses: political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood and enslavement; and religious beliefs and spiritual development. Famous women, including Hatshepsut, Hortensia, Aisha, Hildegard of Bingen and Sei Shonangan, are discussed as well as lesser known and anonymous women. Both primary and secondary source readings are included.

This book spans maritime history, covering major seafaring peoples and nations; famous explorers, travelers, and commanders; events, battles, and wars; key technologies, including famous ships; important processes and ongoing events, such as piracy and the slave trade

This short and well-written overview provides essential information on the history of international organizations (IOs), with particular focus on the League of Nations, the development of the United Nations, and the UN system. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, when there were very few international organizations in existence, A World Beyond Borders traces the growth of IOs through to the close of the century, when there were literally thousands at the heart of the international system. Following this chronological order, the book examines how international organizations became the major legal, moral, and cultural forces that they are today, involved in all aspects of international relations including peacekeeping, disarmament, peace resolution, human rights, diplomacy, and environmentalism. This book is the first in the Canadian Historical Association / University of Toronto Press International Themes and Issues Series, which is dedicated to publishing concise, focused overviews of topics that are of international significance in the study of history

With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification - and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history - the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime - are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany's leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, this book is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation's history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation's borders.

Volume 1 of The Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodization, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Paleolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, and concentrates on the most recent phases of hominin evolution, the rise of Homo sapiens and the very earliest human societies through to the end of the last ice age. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historical linguists and historians examine climate and tools, language, and culture, as well as offering regional perspectives from across the world