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A brief text that takes a regional and global approach to world history while highlighting society and culture

The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history in a brief, affordable text. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the comprehensive edition, as well as a selection of features and tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. Robust primary sources in print and online help students with historical thinking skills.
 
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The signature focus on social and cultural history and a readable, accessible narrative brings history to life for studentsA History of World Societies uses vibrant social history to introduce students to the global past. The time-tested regional organization with global reach acquaints students with different parts of the world and helps them understand global connections.

Rich pedagogical support keeps students focused. Section focus questions help students keep the main ideas in mind as they read and "Connections" concluding essays tie the chapter at hand to related discussions elsewhere in the book and help students take a broad look at continuity and change. A revamped chapter review includes new “Make Connections” questions that encourage students to think comparatively within and across chapters.
 
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Table of Contents

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.　
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.　
Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, quizzes for sources and features, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader　Sources for World Societies, and quizzes for each of the documents in the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Special Features

Chapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Analyzing the Evidence Columbus Describes His First Voyage

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Doña Marina? 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

Individuals in Society 　Catarina de San Juan

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Aztec and Spanish Views on Christian Conversion in New Spain

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Mixed Races 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 16　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 16-1:　World Map, 1502　
Quiz for Document 16-1 　LaunchPad

VIEWPOINTS: The Motives of Columbus and His Patrons
Document 16-2:　 Christopher Columbus,　Letter from the Third Voyage, 1493　
Quiz for Document 16-2 　LaunchPad
Document 16-3:　 　Theodore de Bry,　Columbus at Hispaniola, ca. 1590　
Quiz for Document 16-3 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 16-4:　 Bernal Diaz del Castillo,　From　The True History of the Conquest of New Spain,　
1568　
Quiz for Document 16-4 　LaunchPad
Document 16-5: The Spanish Conquest of Mexica,　From　The Florentine Codex, ca. 1577-1580　
Quiz for Document 16-5 　LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 16 　LaunchPad

　

17. The Islamic World Powers, 1300–1800

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The Turkish Ruling Houses: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire’s Use of Slaves

The Safavid Empire in Persia

The Mughal Empire in India

Cultural Flowering

The Arts

City and Palace Building

Gardens

Intellectual Advances and Religious Trends

Coffeehouses and Their Social Impact

Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule

Shifting Trade Routes and European Penetration

European Rivalry for Trade in the Indian Ocean

Merchant Networks in the Islamic Empires

From the British East India Company to the British Empire in India

Political Decline

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Ottoman Empire at Its Height, 1566

Individuals in Society Hürrem

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Mughal and French Views on Priorities for Monarchs

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Coffee Drinking

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Katib Chelebi on Tobacco 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a HistorianForced Relocation of Armenians to Persia 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 17　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: Building and Islamic Palace
Document 17-1:　 　Sultan Selim I,　From a Letter to Shah Ismail of Persia, 1514　
Quiz for Document 17-1 　LaunchPad
Document 17-2:　 　Antonio Monserrate,　From　The Commentary of Father Monserrate, ca. 1580　
Quiz for Document 17-2 　LaunchPad
Document 17-3:　 　Babur and His Architect Plan the Bagh-i-Wafa, ca. 1590　
Quiz for Document 17-3 　LaunchPad
Document 17-4:　 　Tulsi the Elder and Madhu the Younger,　Akbar Inspects the Construction of Fatehpur-Sikri, ca. 1590-1598　
Quiz for Document 17-4 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 17-5:　 　Nuruddin Salim JAHANGIR,　From　Memoirs of Jahangir, ca. 1580–1600　
Quiz for Document 17-5 LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 17 　LaunchPad

　

18. European Power and Expansion, 1500–1750

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations

The Protestant Reformation

The Catholic Reformation

Religious Violence

Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding

The Social Order and Peasant Life

Economic Crisis and Popular Revolts

The Thirty Years’ War

European Achievements in State-Building

Absolutist States in Western and Central Europe

Spain

The Foundations of French Absolutism

Louis XIV and Absolutism

The Wars of Louis XIV

The Economic Policy of Mercantilism

The Austrian Habsburgs

The Absolutist Palace

Constitutionalism and Empire in England and the Dutch Republic

Religious Divides and Civil War

The Puritan Protectorate

Constitutional Monarchy

The Dutch Republic

Colonial Expansion and Empire

The Dutch Trading Empire

Colonial Empires of England and France

Mercantilism and Colonial Wars

People Beyond Borders

The Russian Empire

Mongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of Moscow

Building the Russian Empire

Peter the Great and Russia’s Turn to the West

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

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Chapter 18 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Descriptions of Louis XIV of France and the Kangxi Emperor of China

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian What Was Absolutism? 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Europe After the Peace of Utrecht, 1715

Analyzing the Evidence Gonzales Coques, The Young Scholar and His Wife 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Glückel of Hameln

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Peter the Great and Foreign Experts

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 18　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: The Sources of Government Authority
Document 18-1:　 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet,　On Divine Right, ca. 1675–1680　
Quiz for Document 18-1 　LaunchPad
Document 18-2:　 　John Locke,　From　Two Treatises of Government, 1690　
Quiz for Document 18-2 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 18-3: The English Parliament,　The Bill of Rights, 1689　
Quiz for Document 18-3 　LaunchPad
Document 18-4:　 　Duc de Saint-Simon,　From　Memoirs of Louis XIV, ca. 1730–1755　
Quiz for Document 18-4 　LaunchPad
Document 18-5:　 　Catherine II of Russia, Two Decrees, 1762, 1765　
Quiz for Document 18-5 　LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 18 　LaunchPad

　

19. New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540–1790

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The Scientific Revolution

Why Europe?

Scientific Thought to 1550

Astronomy and Physics

Newton’s Synthesis

Natural History and Empire

Magic and Alchemy

Important Changes in Scientific Thinking and Practice

The Methods of Science

Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry

Science and Religion

Science and Society

The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment

The Early Enlightenment

The Influence of the Philosophes

Enlightenment Movements Acress Europe

Key Issues of Enlightenment Debate

Shifting Views of the Non-Western World

New Definitions of Race

Women and the Enlightenment

Enlightened Absolutism and Its Limits

Economic Change and the Atlantic World

Economic and Demographic Change

The Atlantic Economy

Urban Life and the Public Sphere

Culture and Community in the Atlantic World

The Atlantic Enlightenment

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

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Chapter 19 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage" 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Enlightenment Culture

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Partition of Poland, 1772–1795

Thinking Like a Historian The Enlightenment Debate on Religious Tolerance 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Malachy Postlethwayt and Olaudah Equiano on the Abolition of Slavery

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Rebecca Protten

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 19　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: Changing Ideas of Science
Document 19-1:　 Francis Bacon,　From　The Great Restoration, 1623　
Quiz for Document 19-1 　LaunchPad

Document 19-2:　 Peter the Great and Gottfried Leibniz,　On the Improvement of Arts and Sciences, ca. 1712–1718　
Quiz for Document 19-2 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 19-3:　Takyuddin and Other Astronomers at the Galata Observatory, ca. 1581　
Quiz for Document 19-3 　LaunchPad
Document 19-4:　 Voltaire,　From　Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764　
Quiz for Document 19-4 　LaunchPad
Document 19-5:　 Immanuel Kant,　What is Enlightenment?　1784　
Quiz for Document 19-5 　LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 19 　LaunchPad

　

20. Africa and the World, 1400–1800

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

The West Coast: Senegambia and Benin

The Sudan: Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland

The Lives of the People of West Africa

Trade and Industry

Cross-Cultural Encounters Along the East African Coast

Muslim and European Incursions in Ethiopia, ca. 1500–1630

The Swahili City-States and the Arrival of the Portuguese, ca. 1500–1600

The African Slave Trade

The Institution of Slavery in Africa

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Impact on African Societies

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

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Chapter 20 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past West African Societies, ca. 1500–1800

Global Viewpoints European Descriptions of Timbuktu and Jenne

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Lamu Old Town, Lamu Island, Kenya 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City-States

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Individuals in Society 　Olaudah Equiano

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Perspectives on the African Slave Trade 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 20　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 20-1:　 Olfert Dapper,　King Alvaro I of Kongo Receiving the Dutch Ambassadors,　
1668　
Quiz for Document 20-1 　LaunchPad

Document 20-2:　 Osei Bonsu,　An Asante King Questions British Motives in Ending the Slave Trade, 1820　
Quiz for Document 20-2 　LaunchPad

VIEWPOINTS: Debating the Slave Trade
Document 20-3: Anna Maria Falconbridge,　From　Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, 1794　　　
Quiz for Document 20-3 　LaunchPad

Document 20-4: Olaudah Equiano,　From　The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, 1789　
Quiz for Document 20-4 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 20-5:　　Transportation of Slaves in Africa, ca. 1800-1900　
Quiz for Document 20-5 　LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 20 　LaunchPad

　

21. Continuity and Change in East Asia, 1400–1800

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

Ming China, 1368–1644

The Rise of Zhu Yuanzhang and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty

Problems with the Imperial Institution

The Mongols and the Great Wall

The Examination Life

Everyday Life in Ming China

Ming Decline

The Manchus and Qing China, to 1800

The Rise of the Manchus

Competent and Long-Lived Emperors

Imperial Expansion

Japan’s Middle Ages, ca. 1400–1600

Muromachi Culture

Civil War

The Victors: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi

The Tokugawa Shogunate, to 1800

Tokugawa Government

Commercialization and the Growth of Towns

The Life of the People in the Edo Period

Maritime Trade, Piracy, and the Entry of Europe into the Asian Maritime Sphere

Zheng He’s Voyages

Piracy and Japan’s Overseas Adventures

Europeans Enter the Scene

Christian Missionaries

Learning from the West

The Shifting International Environment in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

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Chapter 21 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Tan Yunxian, Woman Doctor

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Chinese and European Commentators on Urban Amusements

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Qing Empire, ca. 1800

Analyzing the Evidence Interior View of a Kabuki Theater

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Attention to Dress in Edo Japan 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Keinen’s Poetic Diary of the Korea Campaign 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 21　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 21-1:　　The Viceroy of Canton Giving an Audience to Commodore Anson, 1748　
Quiz for Document 21-1 　LaunchPad

Document 21-2:　 Engelbert Kaempfer,　From History of Japan, 1727　
Quiz for Document 21-2 　LaunchPad
VIEWPOINTS: Gender in East Asia
Document 21-3:　 Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara Tōken, Common Sense Teachings for Japanese Children and Greater Learning for Women, ca. 1700　
Quiz for Document 21-3 　LaunchPad
Document 21-4:　 A Japanese Sake Brewer’s Female Antipollution Pass, ca. 1603–1868　
Quiz for Document 21-4 　LaunchPad
Document 21-5: Li Ruzhen, From Flowers in the Mirror, 1827　
Quiz for Document 21-5 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 21 　LaunchPad

　

22. Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775–1825

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

Background to Revolution

Social Change

Demands for Liberty and Equality

The Seven Years’ War

The American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789

The Origins of the Revolution

Independence from Britain

Framing the Constitution

Limitations of Liberty and Equality

Revolution in France, 1789–1799

Breakdown of the Old Order

The National Assembly

Constitutional Monarchy

The National Convention

The Directory

Napoleon’s Europe, 1799–1815

Napoleon’s Rule of France

Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe

The Grand Empire and Its End

The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804

Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue

The Outbreak of Revolt

The War of Haitian Independence

Revolutions in Latin America

The Origins of the Revolutions Against Colonial Powers

Resistance, Rebellion, and Independence

The Aftermath of Revolution in the Atlantic World

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

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Chapter 22 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian The Rights of Which Men? 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Abbé Sieyès, "What Is the Third Estate?"

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Contrasting Visions of the Sans-Culottes 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Napoleonic Europe in 1812

Individuals in Society 　Toussaint L’Ouverture

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Declarations of Independence: The United States and Venezuela

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 22　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: Defining the Citizen
Document 22-1:　The Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789　
Quiz for Document 22-1 　LaunchPad

Document 22-2: Olympe de Gouges, From the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791　
Quiz for Document 22-2 　LaunchPad

Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 22-3: Maximilien Robespierre,　Revolutionary Speech, February 5, 1794　
Quiz for Document 22-3 　LaunchPad
Document 22-4:　 François Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture,　Letter to the French National Assembly, 1797　

Quiz for Document 22-4 　LaunchPad
Document 22-5:　The Haitian Declaration of Independence, 1804　
Quiz for Document 22-5 　LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 22 　LaunchPad

　

23. The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1760–1850

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The Industrial Revolution in Britain

Why Britain?

Technological Innovations and Early Factories

The Steam Engine Breakthrough

Steam-Powered Transportation

Industry and Population

Industrialization in Europe and the World

National and International Variations

Industrialization in Continental Europe

Agents of Industrialization

The Global Picture

New Patterns of Working and Living

Work in Early Factories

Working Families and Children

The Sexual Division of Labor

Living Standards for the Working Class

Relations Between Capital and Labor

The New Class of Factory Owners

Responses to Industrialization

The Early Labor Movement in Britain

The Impact of Slavery

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 23 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Samuel Crompton

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Rain, Steam and Speed –– the Great Western Railway

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850

Global Viewpoints Indian Cotton Manufacturers

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence The Testimony of Young Mine Workers 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Hisorian Making the Industrialized Worker 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 23　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 23-1: Thomas Robert Malthus,　From an Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798　
Quiz for Document 23-1 　LaunchPad
VIEWPOINTS: The Realities of Manufacturing
Document 23-2:　 Robert Owen,　From　Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System, 1815　

Quiz for Document 23-2 　LaunchPad
Document 23-3:　　Testimonies Before Parliamentary Committees on Working Conditions in England, 1832, 1842　
Quiz for Document 23-3 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 23-4:　An Incident During the Sikh Wars, ca. 1850　
Quiz for Document 23-4 　LaunchPad
Document 23-5:　The Treaty of Balta-Liman, August 16, 1838　
Quiz for Document 23-5 　LaunchPad
Comparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 23 　LaunchPad

　

24. Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815–1914

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

A Conservative Peace Gives Way to Radical Ideas

The Political and Social Situation After 1815

Conservatism After 1815

Liberalism and the Middle Class

The Growing Appeal of Nationalism

The Birth of Socialism

Reforms and Revolutions, 1815–1850

Social and Economic Conflict

Liberal Reform in Great Britain

Revolutions in France

The Revolutions of 1848 in Central Europe

Nation Building in Italy, Germany, and Russia

Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Unification of Italy

Bismarck and German Unification

The Modernization of Russia

Urban Life in the Age of Ideologies

Urban Development

Social Inequality and Class

The Changing Family

Science for the Masses

Cultural Shifts

Nationalism and Socialism, 1871–1914

Trends in Suffrage

The German Empire

Republican France

Great Britain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism

The Socialist Movement

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve　LaunchPad

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Chapter 24 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Europe in 1815

Analyzing the Evidence The Triumph of Democratic Republics 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints German and Italian Views on Nationalism

Quiz for Global Viewpoints 　LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Giuseppe Garibaldi

Quiz for Individuals in Society 　LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Stefan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence 　LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian The Promise of Electricity 　LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian 　LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 24　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 24-1:　 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,　From　The Communist Manifesto, 1848　
Quiz for Document 24-1 　LaunchPad

VIEWPOINTS: People Without Nations
Document 24-2: Johann Gottlieb Fichte,　Address to the German Nation, 1808　
Quiz for Document 24-2 　LaunchPad
Document 24-3:　 Max Nordau,　On Zionism, 1905　
Quiz for Document 24-3 　LaunchPad
Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 24-4:　 Eugène Delacroix,　Liberty Leading the People, 1830　
Quiz for Document 24-4 　LaunchPad
Document 24-5:　 Beatrice Webb,　From　My Apprenticeship, 1926　
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25. Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the New Imperialism, 1800–1914

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Africa: From the Slave Trade to European Colonial Rule

Trade and Social Change

Islamic Revival and Expansion in Africa

The Scramble for Africa, 1880–1914

Southern Africa in the Nineteenth Century

Colonialism’s Impact After 1900

The New Imperialism, 1880–1914

Causes of the New Imperialism

A "Civilizing Mission"

Critics of Imperialism

African and Asian Resistance

The Islamic Heartland Under Pressure

Decline and Reform in the Ottoman Empire

Egypt: From Reform to British Occupation

The Expanding World Economy

The Rise of Global Inequality

The World Market

The Great Global Migration

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Mapping the Past The Partition of Africa

Global Viewpoints The Congo Free State

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Analyzing the Evidence A French Leader Defends Imperialism 　LaunchPad

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Analyzing the Evidence Pears’ Soap Advertisement

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Thinking Like a Historian African Views of the Scramble for Africa 　LaunchPad

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Individuals in Society Muhammad Ali

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 25　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 25-1: Sultan Abdul Mejid,　Imperial Rescript, 1856　
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VIEWPOINTS: The Colonial Encounter in Africa
Document 25-2:　 Cecil Rhodes, From　Confession of Faith, ca. 1877　
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Document 25-3:　 Ndansi Kumalo,　On the British Incursion in Zimbabwe, 1932　
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Document 25-4:　 John Mensa Sarbah,　Fanti Customary Law, 1897　
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Document 25-5: Roger Casement and David Engohahe,　Victims of Belgian Congo Atrocities, ca. 1904-1905

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26. Asia and the Pacific in the Era of Imperialism, 1800–1914

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India and the British Empire in Asia

The Evolution of British Rule

The Socioeconomic Effects of British Rule

The British and the Indian Educated Elite

Competition for Southeast Asia

The Dutch East Indies

Mainland Southeast Asia

The Philippines

China Under Pressure

The Opium War

Internal Problems

The Self-Strengthening Movement

Republican Revolution

Japan’s Rapid Transformation

The "Opening" of Japan

The Meiji Restoration

Industrialization

Japan as an Imperial Power

The Pacific Region and the Movement of People

Settler Colonies in the Pacific: Australia and New Zealand

Asian Emigration

The Countries of Asia in Comparative Perspective

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Thinking Like a Historian English-Language Education for Indians 　LaunchPad

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Mapping the Past Asia in 1914

Individuals in Society José Rizal

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Global Viewpoints Chinese and British Efforts to Reduce Infant Deaths

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Analyzing the Evidence Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Escape from Asia"

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Analyzing the Evidence Japan’s First Skyscraper 　LaunchPad

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 26　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: Reactions to Imperialism and Modernity
Document 26-1: Lin Zexu,　From a Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839　
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Document 26-2:　Two Proclamations of the Boxer Rebellion, 1898, 1900　
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Document 26-3: Mohandas Gandhi, "Indian Home Rule," 1909　
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Document 26-4: Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence,　Letter to Lieutenant-Governor J. Colvin, June 13, 1857　

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Document 26-5:　 　Sun Yatsen,　On the Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906　
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27. The Americas in the Age of Liberalism, 1810–1910

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

New Nations

Liberalism and Caudillos in Spanish America

Mexico and the United States

Liberal Reform in Mexico

Brazil: A New World Monarchy

Slavery and Abolition

Slave Societies in the Americas

Independence and Abolition

Abolition in Cuba and Brazil

Export-Led Growth and Social Unrest

Latin America Re-enters the World Economy

Liberal Consolidation in South America

The Porfiriato and Liberal Stability in Mexico

The Mexican Revolution

Immigration

Immigration to Latin America

Immigration to the United States

Immigration to Canada

A New American Empire

U.S. Intervention in Latin America

The Spanish-American War

The Panama Canal

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Global Viewpoints Perspectives on the Mexican-American War

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Analyzing the Evidence Slaves Sold South from Richmond, 1853

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Mapping the Past Abolition in the Americas

Thinking Like a Historian The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, from Above and Below 　LaunchPad

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Individuals in Society Henry Meiggs, Promoter and Speculator

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Analyzing the Evidence Reyita Castillo Bueno on Slavery and Freedom in Cuba 　LaunchPad

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 27　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 27-1: Simón Bolívar,　Jamaica Letter, 1815　
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Document 27-2:　 Alexis de Tocqueville,　From　Democracy in America, 1840　
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VIEWPOINTS: Female Abolitionists Make the Case Against Slavery
Document 27-3:　 Angelina Grimke,　Letters to Catherine Beecher, 1838　
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Document 27-4:　 Harriet Beecher Stowe,　Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852　
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Document 27-5:　　Advertisement for Rail Travel to Canada, 1885　
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28. World War and Revolution, 1914–1929

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The First World War, 1914–1918

Origins and Causes of the Great War

The Outbreak of War

Stalemate and Slaughter

The War Becomes Global

The Home Front

Mobilizing for Total War

The Social Impact of War

Growing Political Tensions

The Russian Revolution

The Fall of Imperial Russia

The Provisional Government

Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution

Dictatorship and Civil War

The War’s Consequences

The End of the War

The Paris Peace Treaties

American Rejection of the Versailles Treaty

The Search for Peace and Political Stability, 1919–1929

Germany and the Western Powers

Hope in Foreign Affairs

Hope in Democratic Government

The Age of Anxiety

Uncertainty in Philosophy and Religion

The New Physics

Freudian Psychology

Twentieth-Century Literature

Modern Architecture, Art, and Music

Movies and Radio

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Connections

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Global Viewpoints British and Canadian Poetry of the Great War

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Analyzing the Evidence The Experience of War

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Individuals in Society Vera Brittain

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Analyzing the Evidence "Never Forget!" 　LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Russian Views of War and Revolution 　LaunchPad

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Mapping the Past Territorial Changes in Europe After World War I

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 28　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: Competing Perspectives on the Treaty of Versailles
Document 28-1:　　Correspondence of Evelyn and Fred Albright, 1917　
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Document 28-2:　 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,　All Power to the Soviets!,　1917　
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Document 28-3:　　Les Trois Grands Ouvriers Du Monde Nouveau, February 1, 1919　
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Document 28-4:　 German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference,　On the Conditions of Peace,　
1919　
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Document 28-5:　 Konoe Fumimaro,　Against a Pacifism Centered on England and America, 1918　
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Viewpoints Comparative Questions

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29. Nationalism in Asia, 1914–1939

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The First World War’s Impact on Nationalist Trends

Asian Reaction to the War in Europe

The Mandates System

Nationalism’s Appeal

Nationalist Movements in the Middle East

The Arab Revolt

The Turkish Revolution

Modernization Efforts in Persia and Afghanistan

Gradual Independence in the Arab States

Arab-Jewish Tensions in Palestine

Toward Self-Rule in India

British Promises and Repression

The Roots of Militant Nonviolence

Gandhi’s Resistance Campaign in India

Nationalist Struggles in East and Southeast Asia

The Rise of Nationalist China

China’s Intellectual Revolution

From Liberalism to Ultranationalism in Japan

Japan Against China

Striving for Independence in Southeast Asia

Chapter Summary

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Mapping the Past The Partition of the Ottoman Empire, 1914–1923

Analyzing the Evidence Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus 　LaunchPad

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Global Viewpoints Gandhi and Mao on Revolutionary Means

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Thinking Like a Historian Interpreting the May Fourth Movement 　LaunchPad

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Analyzing the Evidence The Fate of a Chinese Patriot 　　

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Individuals in Society Ning Lao, a Chinese Working Woman

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 29　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 29-1:　 Mary L. Graffam,　An Account of Turkish Violence Against Armenians, 1915　
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Document 29-2:　 Arthur Dames Balfour,　Debating the Balfour Declaration, 1917　
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Document 29-3:　 Sarojini Naidu,　The Agony and Shame of the Punjab, 1920　
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VIEWPOINTS: Prescriptions for National Improvement in China and Siam
Document 29-4:　 Jiang Jieshi,　The New Life Movement, 1934　
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Document 29-5:　 King Vajiravudh,　On the Siamese Nation,　1914, 1917, 1920　
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Comparative Questions

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30. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The Great Depression, 1929–1939

The Economic Crisis

Mass Unemployment

The New Deal in the United States

The European Response to the Depression

Worldwide Effects

Authoritarian States

Conservative Authoritarianism

Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships

Stalin’s Soviet Union

From Lenin to Stalin

The Five-Year Plans

Life and Culture in Soviet Society

Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges

Mussolini and Fascism in Italy

The Seizure of Power

The Regime in Action

Hitler and Nazism in Germany

The Roots of Nazism

Hitler’s Road to Power

The Nazi State and Society

Hitler’s Popularity

Aggression and Appeasement, 1933–1939

The Second World War, 1939–1945

Hitler’s Empire in Europe, 1939–1942

The Holocaust

Japan’s Asian Empire

The Grand Alliance

The War in Europe, 1942–1945

The War in the Pacific, 1942–1945

Chapter Summary

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Analyzing the Evidence British Conservative Party Poster 　LaunchPad

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Global Viewpoints Socialism and the Working Class

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Thinking Like a Historian Peasant Resistance to Stalin’s Collectivization Plan 　LaunchPad

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Individuals in Society Primo Levi

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Analyzing the Evidence Ultranationalist Pamphlet for Japanese Students

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Mapping the Past World War II in the Pacific

　

Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 30　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 30-1:　　Field Office of the Works Progress Administration, ca. 1935　
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Document 30-2:　　The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation, 1935　
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Document 30-3:　　Letters to　Izvestiya:　On the Issue of Abortion, 1936　
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VIEWPOINTS: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Document 30-4:　 Harry S. Truman,　White House Press Release on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945　
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Document 30-5:　 Toshiko Saeki,　Interview with a Survivor of Hiroshima, 1986　
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31. Decolonization, Revolution, and the Cold War, 1945–1968

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The World Remade

The Cold War

The United Nations

The Politics of Liberation

Dependency and Development Theories

Interpreting the Postcolonial Experience

Nationalism in South Asia and the Middle East

Independence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Arab Socialism in the Middle East

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Revolution and Resurgence in East and Southeast Asia

The Communist Victory in China

Conflict in Korea

Japan’s American Reconstruction

The Vietnam War

Decolonization in Africa

The Growth of African Nationalism

Ghana Shows the Way

French-Speaking Regions

Populist and Revolutionary Pathways in Latin America

Economic Nationalism in Mexico

Populism in Argentina and Brazil

Communist Revolution in Cuba

The Limits of Postwar Prosperity

The Soviet Union Struggles to Move Beyond Stalin

Postwar Challenges in Western Europe and the United States

The World in 1968

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Global Viewpoints U.S. and Latin American Views on Development

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Analyzing the Evidence Poster Art in Communist China

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Thinking Like a Historian Global Perspectives on the Vietnam War 　LaunchPad

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Mapping the Past Decolonization in Africa, 1947 to the Present

Analyzing the Evidence C. L. R. James on Pan-African Liberation 　LaunchPad

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Individuals in Society Eva Perón

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 31　
Introduction to the Documents

VIEWPOINTS: Decolonization and Dependence
Document 31-1:　 U.N.　General Assembly, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960　
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Document 31-2: Pablo Neruda,　From　Canto General, 1950　
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Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 31-3: Harry S. Truman,　The Truman Doctrine, 1947　
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Document 31-4:　 Nikita Khrushchev,　On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, 1956　
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Document 31-5:　　Erich Honecker and Fidel Castro, 1974　
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32. Liberalization, 1968–2000s

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Oil Shocks and Liberalization

The OPEC Oil Embargo

Mexico Under the PRI

Nigeria, Africa’s Giant

War and Revolution in the Middle East

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Egypt: Arab World Leader

Revolution and War in Iran and Iraq

Latin America: Dictatorship, Debt, and Democratization

Civil Wars in Central America

Boom and Bust in Chile

The Dirty War in Argentina

Development and Dictatorship in Brazil

Resistance to White Rule in Southern Africa

Portuguese Decolonization and Rhodesia

South Africa Under Apartheid

Political Change in Africa Since 1990

Growth and Development in Asia

Japan’s Economic Miracle and the Emergence of the "Asian Tigers"

China’s Economic Resurgence

Development Versus Democracy in India and Pakistan

The End of the Cold War

The Limits of Reform in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Recasting Russia Without Communism

Integration and Reform in Europe

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Mapping the Past Abrahamic Religions in the Middle East and Surrounding Regions

Thinking Like a Historian The Struggle for Freedom in South Africa 　LaunchPad

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Analyzing the Evidence A Member of China’s Red Guards on Democratic Reform

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Analyzing the Evidence Tiananmen Square 　LaunchPad

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Global Viewpoints Dissidents in Burma and China

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Individuals in Society Václav Havel

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 32　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 32-1:　　Museo de la Memoria, Cordoba, Argentina, ca. 2000　
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VIEWPOINTS: Race and Power in South Africa
Document 32-2:　 National Party of South Africa,　The National Party’s Colour Policy, 1948　
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Document 32-3:　 Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court, 1964　
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Document 32-4:　 Deng Xiaoping,　Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, 1984　
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Document 32-5:　 Male Japanese Citizens, "Íkigai," 2003　
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33. The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY　LaunchPad

The End of History?

Complexity and Violence in a Multipolar World

An Expanding Atomic Age

Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan

Global Circulation and Exchange

Migration

Urbanization

Multinational Corporations

Social Movements

Environmentalism

Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Rights

Women’s Right to Equality

Children: The Right to Childhood

Science and Technology: Changes and Challenges

Intensified Agriculture and the Green Revolution

The Medical Revolution

A Digital Revolution

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Individuals in Society Sieng, a Mnong Refugee in an American High School

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Mapping the Past The Global Distribution of Wealth, ca. 2010

Analyzing the Evidence A Brazilian Band on Globalization 　LaunchPad

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Analyzing the Evidence Protest Against Genetically Modified Foods

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Global Viewpoints Women Activists in Chiapas, Mexico

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Thinking Like a Historian The Relationships Between Mosquitos, People, and Epidemics 　LaunchPad

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Documents from　Sources for World Societies, Chapter 33　
Introduction to the Documents

Document 33-1: John Yoo,　Memoranda Regarding U.S. Military Interrogations, 2002, 2003　
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VIEWPOINTS: Immigration and Assimilation in Postwar Germany
Document 33-2: Giacomo Maturi,　The Integration of the Southern Labor Force and its Specific Adaptation Problems, 1961
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Document 33-3:　Heidelberg Manifesto, 1982　
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Viewpoints Comparative Questions

Document 33-4: Betty Friedan, Statement of Purpose of the National Organization of Women, 1966　
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Document 33-5: Jonas Bendiksen, "New Settlement": A Slum in Caracas, Venezuela, ca. 2000　
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About the Authors

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Distinguished Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Concise History of the World. From 2017 to 2019 she served as the president of the World History Association.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Patricia B. Ebrey​ (Ph.D., Columbia University) is professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle. Editor of the Journal of Chinese History, she is the author or editor of some twenty books, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, as well as more specialized books on Song dynasty China. In 2014 she was awarded the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction and in 2020 the Association for Asian Studies Award for Outstanding Contributions to Asian Studies.

Roger B. Beck

Roger B. Beck (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Distinguished Professor of African and twentieth-century world history at Eastern Illinois University. His publications include The History of South Africa; a translation of P. J. van der Merwe’s The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657–1842; and more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews. In 2018 he received the Pioneer in World History award from the World History Association, its highest honor.

Jerry Davila

Jerry Dávila ​(Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair of Brazilian History and directs the Global Institute at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America; Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book Prize; and Diploma of  Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945. He has served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.

Clare Haru Crowston

John P. McKay

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.

Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently professor of history and department chair. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women’s History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a p

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