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Heritage of World Civilizations, The, Combined Volume, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (May 1, 2019) © 2016

  • Albert M. Craig Harvard University
  • William A. Graham Harvard University
  • Donald M. Kagan Yale University
  • Steven Ozment Harvard University
  • Frank M. Turner Yale University

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REVEL for The Heritage of World Civilizations provides an accessible overview of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, European, and American civilizations with an emphasis on the role played by the world's great religious and philosophical traditions throughout history. Leading scholars in their respective fields, the authors empower students to view the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world through a comparative, global lens.
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• Throughout the text, the authors offer students an essential global framework for understanding history, with emphasis on the diffusion of ideas, trade, cultural exchange, and encounters. This global approach helps students see the connections and parallels among regions of the world. 
• UPDATED! The last chapter—Chapter 33, Postcolonialism and Beyond—has been updated to the present, with the inclusion of coverage of recent important events. In addition, the authors have made light revisions to the core narrative to improve accuracy and clarity.

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• A Closer Look feature in each chapter provides in-depth commentary on visual sources in world history, helping students learn how to view photos, paintings, and other illustrations as historical documents. Each feature concludes with questions that encourage students to focus on important issues raised within the feature. 
• Succinct Global Perspective sections at the beginning of each chapter enable students to view the regions and topics that are to be discussed in a wider, global framework. 
• Religions of the World essays explore five major world religions—Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam—highlighting their role in world history. These essays help students connect their study of the world's civilizations with some of the basic belief systems of the people within them.
• The inclusion of a wide array of historical documents—including selections from sacred books, poems, philosophical tracts, political manifestos, letters, and travel accounts—introduces students to the raw materials of history and provides intimate contact with peoples of the past. Questions accompanying these documents prompt students to consider important issues and help them to relate the documents to the main narrative.

A wealth of pedagogical features provides students with an effective framework for understanding the topics covered.
• NEW! Learning objectives for each major sub-section help students identify the most important material covered in each chapter. A table at the beginning of each chapter lists these learning objectives to give students an overview of key topics to come.
• NEW! Sectional numbering in all the major and minor sub-sections of each chapter further helps students navigate the text.
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• Interactive maps prompt students to explore the relationship between geography and history in a dynamic fashion.
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I. New and Updated Features
• UPDATED! The last chapter–Chapter 33, Postcolonialism and Beyond–has been updated to the present, with the inclusion of coverage of recent important events. In addition, the authors have made light revisions to the core narrative to improve accuracy and clarity. 
• Learning objectives for each major sub-section help students identify the most important material covered in each chapter. A table at the beginning of each chapter lists these learning objectives to give students an overview of key topics to come.
• Sectional numbering in all the major and minor sub-sections of each chapter further helps students navigate the text.

II. Content Updates
Chapter 16
• New chronology “Early Voyages of Exploration”• New coverage of the Diet of Augsburg during the Protestant Reformation
• New chronology “The English Reformation”• New chronology “The Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation”
• New chronology “The Wars of Religion”
Chapter 23• New chronology "Attempts at Political Liberalization in Europe
Chapter 24
• New chronology “Unions, Progressives, and Social Reform in the United States”• New chronology “The Emergence of Modern European Thought”
Chapter 29
• New Chronology “The Soviet Experiment”• New Chronology “The Fascist Experiment in Italy”
• New Chronology “German Democracy and Dictatorship”• New Chronology “The Great Depression and the New Deal in the United States”
Chapter 30
• New chronology “Global War (1939—1945)”
Chapter 31• New coverage of how Czechoslovakia was brought within the Soviet sphere of influence in 1948.
• New chronology “The American Domestic Scene since World War II”• New chronology “The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Since World War II”
• New subsection 31.9.3 “Strains over Economic and Foreign Policy” which details the 2008 global financial collapse, its effects in Greece and Portugal, and the disagreements among EU nations on how to deal with the crisis under Germany’s leadership. This new section also includes coverage of the EU’s response to conflicts in Libya and Syria as well Russia’s support of separatist movements in Crimea and eastern Ukraine among ethnic Russian minorities. 
Chapter 32 • Section 32.1 on Japan has been thoroughly updated. New coverage includes the 2012 general elections in Japan, the LDP party, and Abe Shinzo’s tenure as prime minister; the country’s national debt as of 2013; and the role of women in society and government.
• Section 32.2 on China has been updated to include trade in dollars and per capita income up to 2014, as well as coverage of China’s president as of March 2013, Xi Jinping.• Section 32.3 on Taiwan has been updated to include Taiwan’s GDP and per capita income as of 2014. 
• Section 32.4 on Korea has been updated to include South Korea’s new trade numbers with Hong Kong, China, the United States, and Japan.• Section 32.5 on Vietnam has been updated to include projected per capita income by 2015 with new details of the country’s growth. 
Chapter 33
• Section 33.3 on Postcolonial Africa has been thoroughly updated. New coverage includes ongoing divisions in Nigeria involving Boko Haram and the abduction of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April 2014; new coverage of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic and the death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013 in South Africa; and the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, with cases reported in other African nations; and China’s increasingly aggressive bids for resources in Africa.• Section 33.4 on The Islamic Heartlands has been thoroughly updated. 
• New coverage includes updates on Turkey’s complicated political landscape and emerging Islamist parties in that country.• New coverage of Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s rule in Iran, his defeat in 2013, the election of the more moderate Hassan Rouhani, ongoing negotiations between Iran and the U.S., and the tacit cooperation with Western nations to combat the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
• New coverage of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan and the recent 2014 presidential election.• New coverage on India’s May 2014 election and the victory of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• New coverage on Pakistan includes the U.S. military operation that led to the death of Osama bin Laden and the 2013 general elections.


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Brief Contents

Part 1: Human Origins and Early Civilizations, to 500 B.C.E.

  1. The Birth of Civilization
  2. Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion

Part 2: Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.

  1. Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
  2. West Asia, Inner Asia, and South Asia to 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
  3. Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.
  4. Republican and Imperial Rome
  5. China’s First Empire, 221 B.C.E. - 589 C.E.

Part 3: Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilizations, 500 C.E. to 1500 C.E.

  1. Imperial China, 589—1368
  2. Early Japanese History
  3. The Formation of Islamic Civilization, 622—1000
  4. The Byzantine Empire and Western Europe to 1000
  5. The Islamic World, 1000-1500
  6. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
  7. Africa, ca. 1000—1700
  8. Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance

Part 4: The World in Transition, 1500—1850

  1. Europe, 1500—1650: Expansion, Reformation, and Religious Wars
  2. Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy 18. East Asia in the Late Traditional Era
  3. State Building and Society in Early Modern Europe
  4. The Last Great Islamic Empires, 1500—1800

Part 5: Enlightenment and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1700—1850

  1. The Age of European Enlightenment
  2. Revolutions in the Transatlantic World
  3. Political Consolidation in Nineteenth Century Europe and North America

Part 6: Into the Modern World, 1815—1949

  1. Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society, 1815—1914
  2. Latin America from Independence to the 1940s
  3. India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa, 1800—1945
  4. Modern East Asia

Part 7: Global Conflict and Change, 1900—Present

  1. Imperialism and World War I
  2. Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal
  3. World War II
  4. The West since World War II
  5. East Asia: The Recent Decades
  6. Postcolonialism and Beyond: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
Albert M. Craig is the Harvard-Yenching Research Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1959. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has studied at Strasbourg University and at Kyoto, Keio, and Tokyo universities in Japan. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The Heritage of Japanese Civilization (2011), and, with others, of East Asia, Tradition and Transformation (1989). He is the editor of Japan, A Comparative View (1973) and co-editor of Personality in Japanese History (1970), Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (2009). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto and Tokyo universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government.
William A. Graham is Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and O’Brian Professor of Divinity and Dean in the Faculty of Divinity at Harvard University, where he has taught for thirty-four years. He has directed the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and chaired the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and the Core Curriculum Committee on Foreign Cultures. He received his BA in Comparative Literature from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an A.M. and Ph.D. in History of Religion from Harvard, and studied also in Göttingen, Tübingen, Lebanon, and London. He is former chair of the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion (U.S. and Canada). In 2000 he received the quinquennial Award for Excellence in Research in Islamic History and Culture from the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. He has held John Simon Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt research fellowships and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his publications are Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion (1987); Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam (1977–ACLS History of Religions Prize, 1978); and Three Faiths, One God (co-authored, 2003).
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958—1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought, The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969); The Archidamian War (1974); The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981); The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); a biography of Pericles, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991); On the Origins of War (1995); and The Peloponnesian War (2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of While America Sleeps (2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor of Great Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004.
Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books. The Age of Reform, 1250—1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club: Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe (1986), Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany (1990), Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution (1992), The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town (1996), and Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001), A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2004), and “Why We Study Western Civ,” The Public Interest 158 (2005).
Frank M. Turner is John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974), The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He edited The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996), Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). Between 1996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

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