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This comprehensive volume provides teachers and students with broad and stimulating perspectives on Asian history and its place in world and Western history. Essays by over forty leading scholars suggest many new ways of incorporating Asian history, from ancient to modern times, into core curriculum history courses. Now featuring "Suggested Resources for Maps to Be Used in Conjunction with Asia in Western and World History".
List of contents
I: Asia in Western History; Asia in Western History: Introductions; The Shape of the World: Eurasia; Brief Syllabus of Asia in Western History; Asian Influences on the West; The Beginnings of Contact and Interdependence: Western Asia and the West; Interfusion of Asian and Western Cultures: Islamic Civilization and Europe to 1500; The Mongols and the West; Asia and the West in the New World Economy—the Limited Thalassocracies: The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asia, 1498–1700; Asia and the West in the New World Order—From Trading Companies to Free Trade Imperialism: the British and Their Rivals in Asia, 1700–1850; Some Suggested Readings; Asia in Enlightenment and Early British Imperial Views; Images of the Other: Asia in Nineteenth-Century Western Thought—Hegel, Marx, and Weber; The Rise and Fall of Western Empire in Asia: 1500–1975; Asia and the West in the Twentieth-Century World Order; II: Asia in World History; Asia in World History: Introduction; Asia in World History: Essays; Primary Civilization in Asia; The Origins of Civilization in China; Some Contrasts and Comparisons of Zhou China and Ancient Greece; The Spread of Power: Empires East and West; Empire in East Asia; Systematizing the Transcendental; The Analects of Confucius, Then and Now; Religions and World Views in Asian And World History; The ERA of Asian Discovery: Trade and the Contact of Cultures; China, 300–1200; Song China, 960–1279; Japan, 550–638; India, 100 B.C.E.–1500; Separate Spheres and New Links: A New Stage in World History, 1000–1500; The Case of China, 1000–1500; The Case of Japan, 1000–1500; The Rise of an Interdependent World, 1500–1990; The Expansion of Europe, 1450–1700; Japan and the West, 1543–1640; Europe and The World in an Expanding World Economy, 1700–1850 1; China and The World, 1500–1800; China's Economy in Comparative Perspective, 1500 Onward; An Approach to Modern Indian Economic History; III: Modern Asia, 1600–1990; Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1867; Five Myths about Early Modern Japan; State and Society During The Qing Dynasty, 1644–1911; Japans Modernities, 1850s–1990s; Modern China, 1840–1990; Modern India, 1885–1990; Modern Korea, 1860–1990; IV: Themes in Asian History; South Asian History: A Cursory Review; Themes in Southeast Asian History; The Sinic World; Themes in CHinese History; China in the Context of World History; Some Misconceptions about Chinese History; Patterns of the Past: Themes in Japanese History; Themes in Korean History; Asia and Latin America in the Context of World History; Japan and America: a Tale of Two Civilizations; A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange: Asia in World History; Postscript; East Asia in the National Standards for World History; East Asia In The National Standards For World History
About the author
Ainslie T. Embree, Carol Gluck
