The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History

by Richard Bulliet, Pamela Crossley, Daniel Headrick, Steven Hirsch, Lyman Johnson

Overview

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 truly global world history book employs a fundamental theme — the interaction of human beings and the environment — to compare different times, places and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. A new feature called "Daily Life" in each chapter is designed to help students see connections between their everyday experiences and the customs and technologies of the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780357800546
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	10/20/2023
Series:	MindTap Course List
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	1028
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

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, 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, 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, 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.


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.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Bulliet et al. is by far the best text I have used in fifteen years of teaching world history. I like its focus, its length, and its features within the text. I like that it is a "true" world history, not simply an expanded western text, and its integrative theme of environment and technology is both appropriate and topical."

"I find the text even more readable than the first edition. Its strengths lie in the integration of its solid foundation in economic and technological change with insightful discussions of social and cultural developments that drove these changes in the West, carried them to other societies in other regions, and generated complex responses to industrial development on a worldwide scale. To my knowledge, no other text for world history gives so much weight so wisely to economic, technological, and environmental changes as significant forces in shaping the modern era."

"When I confer with colleagues outside my school, Bulliet is usually referred to as the best textbook out there. It is truly a world history text--seldom does a chapter focus on one geographic area. Rather it tries to offer a comparative study of different regions at a similar time or ones undergoing similar processes. The book is thoroughly organized and user friendly, with maps, charts, timelines, and illustrations that are appropriate to the material."

"The strength of the narrative is its readability! While making the written text reflect the complexity of themes inherent in a history course, the authors have not overwhelmed the narrative with lists and facts nor have they burdened the reader with technical jargon or 'dumbed down' the vocabulary or ideas. A commendable textbook--thematically clear, crisply written and assuming an intelligent readership."

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