/*0321317769, Brummett, Civilization Past and Present, Volume B: 11e*/The authors of the Eleventh Edition of Civilization Past and Present<197>specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European history<197>weave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students. Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative traces connections across cultures and introduces intriguing avenues of historical interpretation. The text examines all aspects of world history<197>social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

Table of Contents:
9. The European Middle Ages: 476—1348 c.e.    The Church in the Early Middle Ages.                The Merovingians and Carolingians.                Feudalism and Manorialism.   The Revival of Trade and Towns.     The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000 — 1348. The Crusades. The Development of European States: 1000 — 1348.   Document. Charlemagne: A Firsthand Look. Document. Muslim and Christian: Two Contemporary Perspectives. 10. Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220-1350. India in the Classical and Medieval Eras. China: Cultural and Political Empires. Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One.   The Emergence of Japan   in East Asia.    Document. Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India.    Document. Bo Juyi: A Song of Everlasting Sorrow.   Document. From The Pillow Book by Sei ShMnagon. Discovery Through Maps. Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi. 11. The Americas to 1492. Origins of Americans and Their Cultures. Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica. Classical Mayan Civilization. The Postclassical Era. The Amerindians of North America. Document. Father Bernabé Cobo, “Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca.” Global Issues : Location and Identity.   12. The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300–1650.    New Polities in Eurasia. The Ottoman Empire. The Safavid Empire in Persia. The Mughul Empire in South Asia. Networks of Trade and Communication. Document. Evliya çelebi, “An Ottoman Official’s Wedding Night.”   Document. The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold.   Document. The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan. Discovery Through Maps. The World Map of Piri Reis.   13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300–1650.   China: The Ming Dynasty. Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society. Japan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring States. Southeast Asia: States Within a Region. Document. A Censor Accuses a Eunuch. Document. Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM Play. Document. A Traveller’s Account of Siam. Discovery Through Maps. Chinese World Map, c. 1500 c.e. 14. European Cultural and Religious Transformations. The Renaissance and the Reformation 1300 – 1600.    Social Upheaval. The Italian Renaissance. Italian Renaissance Art. The Northern Renaissance. The Crises of the Catholic Church: 1300-1517. Luther and the German Reformation. Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation. Protestantism: from Switzerland to Holland. Reform in the Catholic Church.   Document. Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy. Document. Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr. Discovery Through Maps. The Lagoon of Venice.   15. The Development of the European State System: 1300-1650. Politics in an Age of Crisis, 1300–1500. The Religious-Political Fusion. Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs’ Quest for European Hegemony, 1556–1598. Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion. The Austrian Habsburgs’ Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years’ War. Document. The Trial of Joan of Arc. Document. Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War. Discovery Through Maps. A Pilgrim’s Map of Canterbury. Global Issues : Power and Technology.   16. Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400–1650. The Iberian Golden Age. The Portuguese and Africa. The Growth of New Spain. Iberian Systems in the New World. Beginnings of Northern European Expansion.   Document. Portuguese Encounters with Africans. Document. Disease and the Spanish Conquest. Discovery Through Maps. Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster’s Map of Africa. 17. Politics in the First Age of Capitalism, 1648–1774. Absolutism and Limited Central Power.    Capitalism and the Forces of Change. Social Crises during the Capitalist Revolution. Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism. The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism. Holland and England: Limited Central Power. Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War in the Age of Absolutism: 1650–1774. Economic Challenges. Louis XV and the Decline of European Absolutism: 1715–1774. Document. Louis XIV to His Son. Document. Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants. Discovery Through Maps. The Elegant Destruction of Poland. 18. New Ideas and Their Political Consequences: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions. Revolution in Science: The Laws of Nature. The Sciences of Society: The “Age of Reason.” The Failure of Monarchical Reform. The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789–1799. The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799–1815. Document. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Document. Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women. Discovery Through Maps. The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus.    19. Africa, 1650–1850. The Atlantic Slave Trade.   End of the Slave Trade in West Africa.   Islamic Africa.   Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa.     African State Formation in Eastern and North-Eastern Africa.   Document. A Slave’s Memoir. Document. Song of the Afflicted. Discovery Through Maps. The Myth of the Empty Land.    Global Issues : Slavery.      20. Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650–1815.    The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era. Muslim Politics in Persia. Early Modern India under the Mughals. The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War. Korea in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period. Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions. Europeans on New Pacific Frontiers. Document. Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of “Orient. ” Document. From the Casebook of Lan Dingyuan, a Country Magistrate. Document. Ihara Saikaku: “The Umbrella Oracle.*