Ways of the World: A Brief Global History, Volume II

Please note:
The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-12.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 12-23.
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12. THE WORLDS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
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The Shapes of Human Communities
Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America
Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois
Pastoral Peoples: Central Asia and West Africa
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: Comparing China and Europe
Ming Dynasty China
European Comparisons: State Building and Cultural Renewal
European Comparisons: Maritime Voyaging
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Islamic World
In the Islamic Heartland: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
On the Frontiers of Islam: The Songhay and Mughal Empires
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Americas
The Aztec Empire
The Inca Empire
Webs of Connection
A Preview of Coming Attractions: Looking Ahead to the Modern Era, 1500–2015
Another Voice Feature LaunchPad
Reflections: What If? Chance and Contingency in World History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Zheng He, China’s Non-Chinese Admiral
Zooming In: 1453 in Constantinople
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12. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE LaunchPad
Islam and Renaissance Europe
Visual Sources
12.1 Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II
12.2 The Venetian Ambassador Visits Damascus
12.3 Aristotle and Averroes
12.4 Saint George Baptizes the Pagans of Jerusalem
12.5 Giovanni da Modena, Muhammad in Hell

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Early Encounters; First Impressions
Source 12.1: Cadamosto in a West African Chiefdom
Source 12.2: Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India
Source 12.3: Celebrating de Gama’s arrival in Calicut
Source 12.4: Columbus in the Caribbean
Source 12.5: Columbus Engraved

PART FOUR  The Early Modern World, 1450–1750
The Big Picture: Debating the Character of an Era
An Early Modern Era?
A Late Agrarian Era?
Mapping Part Four

13. POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: EMPIRES AND ENCOUNTERS, 1450–1750
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European Empires in the Americas
The European Advantage
The Great Dying and the Little Ice Age
The Columbian Exchange
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Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas
In the Lands of the Aztecs and the Incas
Colonies of Sugar
Settler Colonies in North America
The Steppes and Siberia: The Making of a Russian Empire
Experiencing the Russian Empire
Russians and Empire
Asian Empires
Making China an Empire
Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal Empire
Muslims and Christians in the Ottoman Empire
Reflections: The Centrality of Context in World History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Doña Marina: Between Two Worlds
Zooming In: Devshirme: The “Gathering” of Christian Boys in the Ottoman Empire
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State Building in the Early Modern Era
Documents
13.1 The Memoirs of Emperor Jahangir: Jahangir, Memoirs, 1605–1627
13.2 An Outsider’s View of the Ottoman Empire: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters, 1555–1562
13.3 French State Building and Louis XIV: Louis XIV, Memoirs, 1670
13.4 An Outsider’s View of the Inca Empire: Pedro de Cieza de León, Chronicles of the Incas, ca. 1550

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The Spanish and the Aztecs: From Encounter to Conquest (1519-1521)
Source 13.1: The Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma: A Spanish View
Source 13.2: The Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma: An Aztec Account
Source 13.3: Images of Encounter
Source 13.4: Conquest and Victory: The Fall of Tenochtitlan from a Spanish Perspective
Source 13.5: Defeat: The Fall of Tenochtitlan from an Aztec Perspective
Source 13.6: The Battle of Tenochtitlan
Source 13.7: Lamentation: The Aftermath of Defeat

14. ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS: COMMERCE AND CONSEQUENCE, 1450–1750
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Europeans and Asian Commerce
A Portuguese Empire of Commerce
Spain and the Philippines
The East India Companies
Asians and Asian Commerce
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Silver and Global Commerce
The “World Hunt”: Fur in Global Commerce
Commerce in People: The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave Trade in Context
The Slave Trade in Practice
Consequences: The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa
Reflections: Economic Globalization — Then and Now
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Potosí, a Mountain of Silver
Zooming In: Ayuba Suleiman Diallo: To Slavery and Back
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Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World
Visual Sources
14.1 Tea and Porcelain in Europe
14.2 A Chocolate Party in Spain
14.3 An Ottoman Coffeehouse
14.4 Clothing and Status in Colonial Mexico

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Voices from the Slave Trade
Source 14.1: The Journey to Slavery
Source 14.2: The Business of the Slave Trade
Source 14.3: The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Kongo
Source 14.4: The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Asante
Source 14.5: Images of the Slave Trade
Source 14.6: Data: Patterns of the Slave Trade

15. CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS: RELIGION AND SCIENCE, 1450–1750
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The Globalization of Christianity
Western Christendom Fragmented: The Protestant Reformation
Christianity Outward Bound
Conversion and Adaptation in Spanish America
An Asian Comparison: China and the Jesuits
Persistence and Change in Afro-Asian Cultural Traditions
Expansion and Renewal in the Islamic World
China: New Directions in an Old Tradition
India: Bridging the Hindu/Muslim Divide
A New Way of Thinking: The Birth of Modern Science
The Question of Origins: Why Europe?
Science as Cultural Revolution
Science and Enlightenment
Looking Ahead: Science in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond
European Science beyond the West
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Reflections: Cultural Borrowing and Its Hazards
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Úrsula de Jesús, an Afro-Peruvian Slave and Christian Visionary
Zooming In: Galileo and the Telescope: Reflecting on Science and Religion
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Global Christianity in the Early Modern Era
Visual Sources
15.1 Interior of a Dutch Reformed Church
15.2 Catholic Baroque, Interior of Pilgrimage Church, Mariazell, Austria
15.3 Cultural Blending in Andean Christianity
15.4 Making Christianity Chinese
15.5 Christian Art at the Mughal Court

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Renewal and Reform in the Early Modern World
Source 15.1: Luther’s Protest
Source 15.2: Calvinism and Catholicism
Source 15.3: Progress and Enlightenment
Source 15.4: Art and Enlightenment
Source 15.5: The Wahhabi Perspective on Islam
Source 15.6: The Poetry of Kabir
Source 15.7: Religious Syncretism in Indian Art
PART FIVE The European Moment in World History, 1750–1914
The Big Picture: European Centrality and the Problem of Eurocentrism
Eurocentric Geography and History
Countering Eurocentrism
Mapping Part Five

16. ATLANTIC REVOLUTIONS, GLOBAL ECHOES, 1750–1914
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Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context
Comparing Atlantic Revolutions
The North American Revolution, 1775–1787
The French Revolution, 1789–1815
The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804
Spanish American Revolutions, 1808–1825
Echoes of Revolution
The Abolition of Slavery
Nations and Nationalism
Feminist Beginnings
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Reflections: Revolutions: Pro and Con
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: The Russian Decembrist Revolt
Zooming In: Kartini: Feminism and Nationalism in Java
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Representing the French Revolution
Visual Sources
16.1 The Patriotic Snack, Reunion of the Three Estates, August 4, 1789
16.2 A Reversal of Roles: The Three Estates of Revolutionary France
16.3 Revolution and Religion: “Patience, Monsignor, your turn will come.”
16.4 An English Response to Revolution: “Hell Broke Loose or The Murder of Louis”

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Claiming Rights
Source 16.1: The French Revolution and the “Rights of Man”
Source 16.2: Representing the Declaration
Source 16.3: Rights and National Independence
Source 16.4: Rights and Slavery: “Reason and Nature”
Source 16.5: Rights and Slavery: An African American Voice
Source 16.6: The Rights of Women: “Frenchwomen Freed”
Source 16.7: The Rights of Women: An American Feminist Voice

17. REVOLUTIONS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1750–1914
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Explaining the Industrial Revolution
Why Europe?
Why Britain?
The First Industrial Society
The British Aristocracy
The Middle Classes
The Laboring Classes
Social Protest
Europeans in Motion
Variations on a Theme: Industrialization in the United States and Russia
The United States: Industrialization without Socialism
Russia: Industrialization and Revolution
The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
After Independence in Latin America
Facing the World Economy
Becoming like Europe?
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Reflections: History and Horse Races
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Ellen Johnston, Factory Worker and Poet
Zooming In: The English Luddites and Machine Breaking
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Summative Quiz LaunchPad

17. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE LaunchPad
Voices of European Socialism
Documents
17.1 Socialism According to Marx: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
17.2 Socialism without Revolution: Eduard Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism, 1899
17.3 Socialism and Women: Clara Zetkin, The German Socialist Women’s Movement, 1909
17.4 Lenin and Russian Socialism: Lenin, What Is to Be Done?, 1902

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Experiencing the Early Industrial Revolution
Source 17.1: The Experience of an English Factory Worker
Source 17.2: Urban Living Conditions
Source 17.3: Another View of Factory Life
Source 17.4: A Weaver’s Lament
Source 17.5: Protest and Song
Source 17.6: Railroads and the Middle Class
Source 17.7: Inequality

18. COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS IN ASIA, AFRICA, AND OCEANIA, 1750–1950
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Industry and Empire
A Second Wave of European Conquests
Under European Rule
Cooperation and Rebellion
Colonial Empires with a Difference
Ways of Working: Comparing Colonial Economies
Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State
Economies of Cash-Crop Agriculture: The Pull of the Market
Economies of Wage Labor: Migration for Work
Women and the Colonial Economy: Examples from Africa
Assessing Colonial Development
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Believing and Belonging: Identity and Cultural Change in the Colonial Era
Education
Religion
“Race” and “Tribe”
Reflections: Who Makes History?
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Wanjiku of Kenya
Zooming In: Vivekananda, a Hindu Monk in America
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The Scramble for Africa
Visual Sources
18.1 Prelude to the Scramble
18.2 Conquest and Competition
18.3 From the Cape to Cairo
18.4 British and French in North Africa

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Colonial India: Experience and Response
Source 18.1: Images of Colonial Rule
Source 18.2: Seeking Western Education
Source 18.3: The Indian Rebellion
Source 18.4: The Credits and Debits of British Rule in India
Source 18.5: Gandhi on Modern Civilization

19. EMPIRES IN COLLISION: EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND EAST ASIA, 1800–1914
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Reversal of Fortune: China’s Century of Crisis
The Crisis Within
Western Pressures
The Failure of Conservative Modernization
The Ottoman Empire and the West in the Nineteenth Century
 “The Sick Man of Europe”
Reform and Its Opponents
Outcomes: Comparing China and the Ottoman Empire
The Japanese Difference: The Rise of a New East Asian Power
The Tokugawa Background
American Intrusion and the Meiji Restoration
Modernization Japanese-Style
Japan and the World
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Reflections: Success and Failure in History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Lin Zexu: Confronting the Opium Trade
Zooming In: 1896: The Battle of Adowa
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Changing China
Documents
19.1 Toward a Constitutional Monarchy: Kang Youwei, An Appeal to Emperor Guangxu, 1898
19.2 Education and Examination: Anonymous, Editorial on China’s Examination System, 1898, and Emperor Guangxu, Edict on Education, 1898
19.3 Gender, Reform, and Revolution: Qiu Jin, Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen, 1904
19.4 Prescriptions for a Revolutionary China: Sun Yat-sen, The Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906

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Japan and the West in the Nineteenth Century
Source 19.1: Continuing Japanese Isolation
Source 19.2: The Debate: Expel the Barbarians
Source 19.3: The Debate: A Sumo Wrestler and a Foreigner
Source 19.4: The Debate: Eastern Ethics and Western Science
Source 19.5: Westernization
Source 19.6: A Critique of Westernization
Source 19.7: War and Empire
Source 19.8: Japan in the Early Twentieth Century

PART SIX 
The Most Recent Century, 1914–2015
The Big Picture: Since World War I: A New Period in World History?
Mapping Part Six

20. COLLAPSE AT THE CENTER: WORLD WAR, DEPRESSION, AND THE REBALANCING OF GLOBAL POWER, 1914–1970S
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The First World War: European Civilization in Crisis, 1914–1918
An Accident Waiting to Happen
Legacies of the Great War
Capitalism Unraveling: The Great Depression
Democracy Denied: Comparing Italy, Germany, and Japan
The Fascist Alternative in Europe
Hitler and the Nazis
Japanese Authoritarianism
A Second World War
The Road to War in Asia
The Road to War in Europe
The Outcomes of Global Conflict
Another Voice Future LaunchPad
The Recovery of Europe
Reflections: War and Remembrance: Learning from History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Etty Hillesum, Witness to the Holocaust
Zooming In: Hiroshima
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Ideologies of the Axis Powers
Documents
20.1 Hitler on Nazism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925–1926
20.2 The Japanese Way: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, 1937

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Experiencing World War I
Sources 20.1: Experiences on the Battlefront
Sources 20.2: On the Home Front
Sources 20.3: In the Aftermath of the Great War

21. REVOLUTION, SOCIALISM, AND GLOBAL CONFLICT: THE RISE AND FALL OF WORLD COMMUNISM, 1917–PRESENT
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Global Communism
Revolutions as a Path to Communism
Russia: Revolution in a Single Year
China: A Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle
Building Socialism
Communist Feminism
Socialism in the Countryside
Communism and Industrial Development
The Search for Enemies
East versus West: A Global Divide and a Cold War
Military Conflict and the Cold War
Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry
The Cold War and the Superpowers
Paths to the End of Communism
China: Abandoning Communism and Maintaining the Party
The Soviet Union: The Collapse of Communism and Country
Another Voice Future LaunchPad
Reflections: To Judge or Not to Judge
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Anna Dubova, A Russian Peasant Girl and Urban Woman
Zooming In: The Cuban Revolution
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Poster Art in Mao’s China
Visual Sources
21.1 Smashing the Old Society
21.2 Building the New Society: The People’s Commune
21.3 Women, Nature, and Industrialization
21.4 The Cult of Mao

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Experiencing Stalinism
Source 21.1: Stalin on Stalinism
Source 21.2: Collectivization: A Stalinist Vision
Source 21.3: Living through Collectivization
Source 21.4: Industrialization and Religion: A Stalinist Vision
Source 21.5: Living through Stalinist Industrialization: Personal Accounts of Soviet Industrialization, 1930s
Source 21.6: Living through the Stalinist Terror

22. THE END OF EMPIRE: THE GLOBAL SOUTH ON THE GLOBAL STAGE, 1914–PRESENT
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Toward Freedom: Struggles for Independence
The End of Empire in World History
Explaining African and Asian Independence
Comparing Freedom Struggles
The Case of India: Ending British Rule
The Case of South Africa: Ending Apartheid
Experiments with Freedom
Experiments in Political Order: Party, Army, and the Fate of Democracy
Experiments in Economic Development: Changing Priorities, Varying Outcomes
Experiments with Culture: The Role of Islam in Turkey and Iran
Another Voice Future LaunchPad
Reflections: History in the Middle of the Stream
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Muslim Pacifist
Zooming In: Mozambique: Civil War and Reconciliation
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Contending for Islam
Documents
22.1 A Secular State for an Islamic Society: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Speech to the General Congress of the Republican Party, 1927
22.2 Toward an Islamic Society: The Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the Light, 1936
22.3 Progressive Islam: Kabir Helminski, Islam and Human Values, 2009
22.4 Islam and Women’s Dress: Emaan, Hijab: The Beauty of Muslim Women, 2010, and Saira Khan, Why I, as a British Muslim Woman, Want the Burkha Banned from Our Streets, 2009

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Articulating Independence
Source 22.1: Declaring Vietnam’s Independence
Source 22.2: Vietnam’s Independence: 50 Years Later
Source 22.3: India’s “Tryst with Destiny”
Source 22.4: Another View of India’s Struggle for Independence
Source 22.5: One Africa
Source 22.6: South African “Independence”
Source 22.7: Independence as Threat

23. CAPITALISM AND CULTURE: THE ACCELERATION OF GLOBALIZATION, SINCE 1945
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The Transformation of the World Economy
Reglobalization
Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Globalization and an American Empire
The Globalization of Liberation: Focus on Feminism
Feminism in the West
Feminism in the Global South
International Feminism
Religion and Global Modernity
Fundamentalism on a Global Scale
Creating Islamic Societies: Resistance and Renewal in the World of Islam
Religious Alternatives to Fundamentalism
Experiencing the Anthropocene Era: Environment and Environmentalism
The Global Environment Transformed
Green and Global
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Reflections: Pondering the Past: Limitations and Possibilities
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Barbie and Her Competitors in the Muslim World
Zooming In: Rachel Carson, Pioneer of Environmentalism
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Faces of Globalization
Visual Sources
23.1 Globalization and Work
23.2 Globalization and Consumerism
23.3 Globalization and Protest
23.4 Globalization and Social Media
23.5 Globalization and Culture
23.6 Globalization: One World or Many?

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The Future as History
Source 23.1: Looking Ahead from 1900
Source 23.2: Imagining the Future of Technology
Source 23.3: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Source 23.4: Throwing Off Europe
Source 23.5: Predicting 2100
Source 23.6: “What’s Possible?”

Notes
Acknowledgements
Index