The Human Perspective: Readings in World Civilization, Volume II: The Modern World Through the Twentieth Century

List of contents

General Introduction to Volume II.
Part I: Towards a Global Unity: 1500-1700.
Introduction.
Western Europe, About 1500.
West Africa, About 1550.
Huizchou, China, About 1600.
The Old Yoshiwara District, Tokyo, About 1625.
Tan-Ch''''eng, China, Winter of 1672.
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692.
England, About 1700.
The West Indies, About 1700.
Part II: Global Transformation: 1700-1800.
Introduction.
The London Dockside, 1711.
India, 1746.
India, 1748.
England, About 1750.
Western Europe, About 1750.
France, 1789.
Part III: Challenge of Progress: 1800-1900.
Introduction.
The United States, About 1840.
The Amazon River, About 1850.
West Africa, 1854.
The United States, 1866.
Philadelphia, 1876.
Paris, 1889.
South Chicago, 1893.
Japara, Java, 1899-1903.
Japan, 1900.
London, 1900.
Part IV: Questioning Authority: 1900-Present.
Introduction Turkey, 1914.
Russia, 1917.
New York, 1939 1945.
Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946.
Beijing, 1979.
Kuwait, January-February 1991.
Fulton, Missouri, 6 May 1992.
Rwanda, 1994.

Product details

• Authors: Steven K. Drummond, Lynn H. Nelson, Stephanie Nelson
• Publisher: Wadsworth Inc Fulfillment
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Human Perspective; Human Perspective
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries