World Civilizations The Global Experience

I. THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION. 1. The Agrarian Revolution and the Birth of Civilization. 2. The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa. 3. Asia's First Civilizations: India and China. II. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD IN WORLD HISTORY. 4. Nomadic Challenges and Civilized Responses. 5. Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China. 6. Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World. 7. Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age. 8. Rome and Its Empire. 9. The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas. 10. The Spread of Peoples and Civilizations. 11. The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition. III. THE POSTCLASSICAL ERA. 12. The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam. 13. Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia. 14. African Civilization and the Spread of Islam. 15. Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe. 16. A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe. 17. The Americas on the Eve of Invasion. 18. Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties. 19. The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. 20. The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur. 21. The West and the Changing World Balance. IV. THE WORLD SHRINKS, 1450-1750. 22. The Transformation of the West. 23. The West and the World. 24. The Rise of Russia. 25. Early Latin America. Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest to Conquest. 26. The Muslim Empires. 27. Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade. 28. Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change. V. INDUSTRIALIZATION AND WESTERN GLOBAL HEGEMONY, 1750-1914. 29 The Industrialization of the West, 1760-1914. 30. Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order. 31. The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920. 32. Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, The Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China. 33. Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West. VI. THE 20TH CENTURY IN WORLD HISTORY. 34. Seventy-Five Years of Crisis, 1914-1989. 35. The West in the 20th Century. 36. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 37. Japan and the Pacific Rim. 38. Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century. 39. Decolonization and the Decline of the European World Order. 40. Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence. 41. War and Revolution in China and Vietnam The Struggle for China. Mao's China and Beyond. 42. Toward the Future: World History Yet to Come.Stearns, Peter N. is the author of 'World Civilizations The Global Experience', published 1996 under ISBN 9780673994271 and ISBN 0673994279.