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The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 8th Edition

Richard W. Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R. Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, David Northrup

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The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History 8th Edition by Richard W. Bulliet/Pamela Kyle Crossley/Daniel R. Headrick/Steven W. Hirsch/Lyman L. Johnson/David Northrup
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With its combination of strong scholarship and detailed pedagogy, the updated Bulliet/Crossley/Headrick/Hirsch/Johnson/Northrup's THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 8th EDITION, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people. This edition continues a feature titled "Daily Life" that is designed to resonate with the everyday experiences of today’s students. This global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of "environment and technology" and "diversity and dominance" to explore patterns of humans' interactions with their surroundings and each other. The authors' approach reveals how humanity shapes and is shaped by the environment, and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs. Technological development and how it underlies all human activity receives special emphasis.

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Richard W. Bulliet

Richard W. Bulliet, Ph.D., (Harvard University) is emeritus professor of Middle Eastern history at Columbia University. He has written scholarly works on a number of topics: the social and economic history of medieval Iran (The Patricians of Nishapur; Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran), the history of human-animal relations (The Camel and the Wheel; Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers), the process of conversion to Islam (Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period), transportation history (The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions), and the overall course of Islamic social history (Islam: The View From the Edge; The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization). He is the editor of the Columbia History of the Twentieth Century. He has published six novels and coedited The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. He was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and was named a Carnegie Corporation Scholar.

Pamela Kyle Crossley

Pamela Kyle Crossley, Ph.D., received her doctorate in modern Chinese history from Yale University. She is currently the Robert and Barbara Black Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Her books include The Wobbling Pivot: An Interpretive History of China Since 1800; What is Global History?; A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology; The Manchus; Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World; and (with Lynn Hollen Lees and John W. Servos) Global Society: The World Since 1900.

Daniel R. Headrick

Daniel R. Headrick, Ph.D., received his doctorate in history from Princeton University. Professor emeritus of history and social science at Roosevelt University in Chicago, he is the author of several books on the history of technology, imperialism and international relations, including The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century; The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism; The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics; Technology: A World History; Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present; and When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700–1850. His articles have appeared in the Journal of World History and the Journal of Modern History, and he has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Steven W. Hirsch

Steven W. Hirsch, Ph.D., has a doctorate in classics from Stanford University and is currently associate professor of classics and history at Tufts University. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy. His research and publications include The Friendship of the Barbarians: Xenophon and the Persian Empire, as well as articles and reviews in the Classical Journal, the American Journal of Philology, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He is currently working on a comparative study of ancient Mediterranean and Chinese civilizations.

Lyman L. Johnson

Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Lyman L. Johnson, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Latin American history from the University of Connecticut. A two-time senior Fulbright-Hays lecturer, he also has received fellowships from the Tinker Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. His recent books include Death, Dismemberment, and Memory; The Faces of Honor (with Sonya Lipsett-Rivera); The Problem of Order in Changing Societies; Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America (with Enrique Tandeter); and Colonial Latin America (with Mark A. Burkholder). He also has published in journals, including the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, the International Review of Social History, Social History, and Desarrollo Economico. He recently served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.

David Northrup

Professor of history at Boston College, David Northrup, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in African and European history from the University of California at Los Angeles. He earlier taught in Nigeria with the Peace Corps and at Tuskegee Institute. Research supported by the Fulbright-Hays Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council led to publications concerning pre-colonial Nigeria, the Congo (1870–1940), the Atlantic slave trade, and Asian, African and Pacific Islander indentured labor in the nineteenth century. A contributor to the Oxford History off the British Empire and to Blacks in the British Empire, his latest book is Africa's Discovery of Europe,1450–1850. In 2004 and 2005 he served as president of the World History Association.

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  • Each chapter contains a new feature called “Daily Life.” These short essays are designed to make history relatable for young people living in the twenty-first century; that is, to bridge the gap between their everyday lives and some aspect of historical experience. One will focus on how and when a familiar food and beverage becomes popular, for example, while another shows the origins of an object or technology still in use.
  • "Diversity and Dominance" boxes offer primary source excerpts in every chapter, bringing real historical voices to life. Each feature begins with an introduction that connects the topic to the Diversity and Dominance theme. Most contrast differing viewpoints on the topic. Students are invited to explore the meaning and significance of the passage or images through a series of focus questions found at the end of the excerpt. One, for example, contrasts Chinese and Japanese approaches to law and government authority, while another offers differing visions of factory life in the late eighteenth century.
  • "Environment and Technology" essays in every chapter reinforce the central theme of the text by highlighting and comparing technological developments over time, such as ancient astronomy, iron production, intelligence and technology in World War II, and global warming. Study questions have been added to each feature.
  • "Issues in World History" essays focus on the broad themes that global historians study, such as animal domestication, climate change and changing views of identity.
  • "Material Culture" boxed features show students how historians derive meaning from everyday objects and offer comparative perspectives on global topics such as Wine and Beer in the Ancient World and Roads.
  • Focus questions preface the major sections within each chapter.
  • The eighth edition features a comprehensive map program, designed for visual impact and clarity, that today's growing number of visual learners will appreciate.
  • Section Reviews summarize the key points of each major section in every chapter and are presented in an easy-to-read bullet point format. Comparative chapter conclusions synthesize the major concepts covered in each chapter.
  • Each chapter ends with broad questions that encourage students to look back at earlier chapters and think about continuities and discontinuities in history.
  • Questions have been added to the map captions to help students see connections between spatial relations and other aspects of history.

Table of Contents

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Part I: THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES, TO 500 B.C.E.
1. Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 B.C.E.
2. The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500–1500 B.C.E.
3. The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000–500 B.C.E.
4. New Civilizations Outside the West Asian Core Area, 2300 B.C.E.–350 C.E.
Part II: THE FORMATION OF NEW CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 1000 B.C.E.–400 C.E.
5. Greece and Iran, 1000–30 B.C.E.
6. An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.–330 C.E.
7. India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.–1025 C.E.
8. Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, from 1200 B.C.E.
Part III: GROWTH AND INTERACTION OF CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 300 B.C.E.–1200 C.E.
9. Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.–1100 C.E.
10. The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200–1200.
11. Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 600–1200.
12. Inner and East Asia, 400–1200.
Part IV: INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND CONTACT, 1200–1550.
13. Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200–1550.
14. Latin Europe, 1200–1500.
15. Southern Empires, Southern Seas, 1200–1500.
16. The Maritime Revolution, to 1550.
Part IV: INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND CONTACT, 1200–1550.
16. The Maritime Revolution, to 1550.
Part V: THE GLOBE ENCOMPASSED, 1500–1750.
17. Transformations in Europe, 1500–1750.
18. The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530–1770.
19. The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550–1800.
20. Between Europe and China, 1500–1750.
21. East Asia in Global Perspective, 1500–1800.
Part VI: REVOLUTIONS RESHAPE THE WORLD, 1750–1870.
22. The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760–1851.
23. Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850.
24. Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1870.
25. Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1810–1890.
Part VII: GLOBAL DIVERSITY AND DOMINANCE, 1750–1945.
26. Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, 1750–1914.
27. The New Power Balance, 1850–1900.
28. The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900–1929.
29. The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929–1949.
30. Revolutions in Living, 1900–1950.
Part VIII: PERILS AND PROMISES OF A GLOBAL COMMUNITY, 1945 TO THE PRESENT.
31. The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945–1975.
32. The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975–2000.
33. The Twenty-First Century: A Fragile World.

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