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The Earth and Its Peoples, Brief Volume I: To 1550: A Global History, 6th 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, Brief Volume I: To 1550: A Global History 6th Edition by Richard W. Bulliet/Pamela Kyle Crossley/Daniel R. Headrick/Steven W. Hirsch/Lyman L. Johnson/David Northrup
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Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global text employs the fundamental themes of “environment and technology” and “diversity and dominance” to explore patterns of humans' interactions with their surroundings and with each other. The authors' approach shifts the focus away from political centers and power, revealing how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by our environments, and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs. Special emphasis is given to technological development and how it underlies all human activity. Available in the following split options: THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES, Brief Sixth Edition (Chapters 1-30), ISBN: 978-1-285-44551-9; Volume I: To 1550 (Chapters 1-15), ISBN: 978-1-285-44552-6; Volume II: Since 1500 (Chapters 15-30), ISBN: 978-1-285-44553-3.

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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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  • All chapters have been revised and honed, and some of the material has been re-arranged to improve the flow of topics. For instance, Part IV, “Interregional Patterns of Culture and Contact, 1200–1550,” includes expanded coverage of eastern Europe and the Ottoman empire in Chapter 13 (formerly Chapter 14). A largely new Chapter 14 bears a new title, “Southern Empires, Southern Seas,” and includes treatment of the Aztec and Inka empires that were previously covered much earlier in the book. Chapter 15 reflects new research on South Asian and Polynesian maritime cultures.
  • New topics in the “Material Culture” features (e.g. Salt; Bells, Gongs, and Drums) drive home the many ways in which objects and processes of everyday life can play a role in understanding human history on a broad scale.

Features

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  • The Sixth Edition features a comprehensive map program, designed for visual impact and clarity, that today's growing number of visual learners will appreciate.
  • “Environment and Technology” essays reinforce the central theme of the text by highlighting and comparing technological developments over time, such as ancient astronomy, camel saddles, and iron production.
  • “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 Fast Food.
  • “Diversity and Dominance” primary source features begin with an introduction that connects the topic to the Diversity and Dominance theme. 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.
  • “Issues in World History” essays focus on the broad themes that global historians study, such as climate change, famine and disease, and politics.
  • Chapter-opening focus questions are tied to major sections within each chapter.
  • A color-coded pedagogical structure makes it easy to identify and link each chapter-opening Focus Question with the major section with which it corresponds, helping students focus on core concepts as they read. Each Focus Question is then summarized and answered for students at the end of each chapter in a comprehensive Chapter Review section.

Table of Contents

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Part I: THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES, TO 500 B.C.E.
1. Nature, Humanity, and the First River-Valley Civilizations, to 1500 B.C.E.
2. The Middle East and the Mediterranean, from 2000 B.C.E.
3. New Civilizations in East Asia, Africa, and Europe, from 2200 B.C.E.
Part II: THE FORMATION OF NEW CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 1200 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.
4. Greece and Iran, 1000–30 B.C.E.
5. An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.–330 C.E.
6. India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.–1025 C.E.
7. Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 1200 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.
Part III: GROWTH AND INTERACTION OF CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 600 B.C.E.–1200 C.E.
8. Networks of Communication and Exchange, To 1100.
9. The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 600–1200.
10. Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 600–1200.
11. Inner and East Asia, 400–1200.
Part IV: INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND CONTACT, 1200–1550.
12. Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200–1500.
13. Europe East and West, 1200–1500.
14. Southern Lands and Seas, 1200-1500
15. The Maritime Revolution, to 1550.

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The Earth and Its Peoples, Brief Volume II: Since 1500: A Global History

ISBN: 9781285445533
Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global text employs the fundamental themes of “environment and technology” and “diversity and dominance” to explore patterns of humans' interactions with their surroundings and with each other. The authors' approach shifts the focus away from political centers and power, revealing how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by our environments, and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs. Special emphasis is given to technological development and how it underlies all human activity. Available in the following split options: THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES, Brief Sixth Edition (Chapters 1-30), ISBN: 978-1-285-44551-9; Volume I: To 1550 (Chapters 1-15), ISBN: 978-1-285-44552-6; Volume II: Since 1500 (Chapters 15-30), ISBN: 978-1-285-44553-3.