World History, Volume 1: To 1800,
9th Edition

Part I: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF EMPIRES (PREHISTORY TO 500 CE).
1. Early Humans and the First Civilizations.
2. Ancient India.
3. China in Antiquity.
4. The Civilization of the Greeks.
5. The Roman World Empire.
Part II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION (500–1500 CE).
6. The Americas.
7. Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam.
8. Early Civilizations in Africa.
9. The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia.
10. The Flowering of Traditional China.
11. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
12. The Making of Europe.
13. The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West.
Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500–1800).
14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market.
15. Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building.
16. The Muslim Empires.
17. The East Asian World.
18. The West on the Eve of a New World Order.

• William J. Duiker

  William J. Duiker is liberal arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. A former U.S. diplomat with service in Taiwan, South Vietnam, and Washington, D.C., he received his doctorate in Far Eastern history from Georgetown University in 1968, where his dissertation dealt with the Chinese educator and reformer Cai Yuanpei. At Penn State, he has written extensively on the history of Vietnam and modern China, including the highly acclaimed COMMUNIST ROAD TO POWER IN VIETNAM (revised edition, Westview Press, 1996), which was selected for a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1982—1983 and 1996-1997. Other recent books are CHINA AND VIETNAM: THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT (Berkeley, 1987), U.S. CONTAINMENT POLICY AND THE CONFLICT IN INDOCHINA (Stanford, 1995), SACRED WAR: NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN A DIVIDED VIETNAM (McGraw-Hill, 1995), and HO CHI MINH (Hyperion, 2000), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. While his research specialization is in the field of nationalism and Asian revolutions, his intellectual interests are considerably more diverse. He has traveled widely and has taught courses on the history of communism and non-Western civilizations at Penn State, where he was awarded a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the spring of 1996. In 2002, the College of Liberal Arts honored him with an Emeritus Distinction Award.

• Jackson J. Spielvogel

  Jackson J. Spielvogel is associate professor Emeritus of history at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as “Moreana,” “Journal of General Education,” “Catholic Historical Review,” “Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte,” and “American Historical Review.” He also has contributed chapters or articles to “The Social History of Reformation,” THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A DICTIONARY HANDBOOK, “Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies,” and “Utopian Studies.” His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western civilization course, as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. His book HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY was published in 1987 (Seventh Edition, 2013). He is the author of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, first published in 1991 (Ninth Edition, 2015). Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. During the year 1988—1989, he held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award. In 1996, he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty member, and in 2000 received the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award.

• The text has been updated throughout to reflect recent scholarship. New and revised material in the first half of the book includes discussion of the Hebrew Bible, including the Documentary Hypothesis (Ch. 1); the nature of religious belief in ancient India (Ch. 2); the role the Persian threat for a growing sense of Greek cultural identity (Ch. 4); revolts against Roman rule during the Pax Romana (Ch. 5); the underlying reasons for the successful expansion of Islam in the Middle East (Ch. 7); the expansion of the maritime trade network in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea (Ch. 9); the nature of traditional society in Tang and Song dynasty China (Ch. 10); and monks as missionaries, particularly St. Patrick (Ch. 12).

• New and revised material in the second half of the text includes women and witchcraft (Ch. 15); the reasons for the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire (Ch. 16); British policies in India (Ch. 19); the intense debate over the consequences of Western Imperialism in Asia and Africa (Ch. 21); the social consequences of World War I (Ch. 23); the impact of technology (Ch. 25); new sections on migration crises; nativism and the politics of fear; and the march of women (Ch. 28); and the reasons behind the so-called Arab Spring and the collapse of organized nation-states in the contemporary Middle East (Ch. 29).

• More critical thinking questions in this edition are focused on comparison across time periods or across cultures. More end-of-chapter "Upon Reflection" questions also reflect the comparative approach.

• New subsections, identified by the “Historians Debate” label, help provide historiographical emphasis. Some of these debates include “The Shang Dynasty: China’s ‘Mother Culture’?” (Ch. 3); “What was Romanization?” (Ch. 5); “The Mongols: A Reputation Undeserved?” (Ch. 10); “What were the Effects of the Crusades? (Ch. 12); “The Qing Economy: Ready for Takeoff?” (Ch. 17); “Was There an Agricultural Revolution?” (ch. 18); “What is the Future of Africa? (Ch. 29); “What is the Future of India? (Ch. 30).

• New primary source features have been added. In the first half of the book, these include “The Code of the Assura (Ch. 1); “The Daily Life of an Upper-Class Roman” (Ch. 5); "The Legend of the Feathered Serpent" (Ch. 6); "Ibn Khaldun: Islam's Greatest Historian" (Ch. 7); "The Saintly Miss Wu" (Ch. 10); “The Genius of Michelangelo” (Ch. 13); “Frederick the Great and His Father” (ch. 18) ; The Reality of War: The Views of British Poets (Ch. 23); and “Some Prefer Nettles” (Ch. 24).

• WORLD HISTORY provides a solid narrative that students can easily read and understand. The authors artfully combine regional and global discussions, and provide a thematic framework to help students make comparisons and connections across cultures and time periods.

• Seven central themes make the narrative more cohesive while helping students make connections and comparisons across chapters. These themes are: Science and Technology; Art and Ideas; Family and Society; Politics and Government; Earth and the Environment; Religion and Philosophy; and Interaction and Exchange. Each of the book's Comparative Essays, Comparative Illustrations, Opposing Viewpoints, and primary source features are keyed to one of these themes.

• The book contains over 150 four-color maps and 400 pieces of artwork. "Spot maps" also appear in each chapter, highlighting critical details on smaller areas. Map captions and accompanying questions encourage readers to think beyond the mere appearance of each map and to make connections across chapters, regions, and time periods.

• "Film & History" features analyze popular films using a historian's perspective to show students how movies represent, and sometimes misrepresent, the past. These features shine the spotlight on films -- from iconic classics to recent blockbusters -- such as: Gladiator (2000, Ch. 5); The Lion in Winter (1968, Ch. 12); Marie Antoinette (2006, Ch. 18); The Young Victoria (2009, Ch. 19); Suffragette (2015, Ch. 20); Passage to India (1984, Ch. 21); Triumph of the Will (1934, Ch. 25); Bridge of Spies (2015, Ch. 26); The Iron Lady (2011, Ch. 28); and Gandhi (1982, Ch. 30).

• "Opposing Viewpoints" present two or more primary source documents representing differing perspectives on the same or related topics, providing students an opportunity for hands-on analysis. Accompanying critical-thinking questions can be assigned for individual or collaborative study. Topics include "Two Views of Trade and Merchants" (Ch. 12); "Practical Learning or Confucian Essence: A Debate Over Reform" (Ch. 22); "Soviet Repression in Eastern Europe: Hungary, 1956" (Ch. 26); and "Africa: Dark Continent or Radiant Land?" (Ch. 29).

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