Patterns of World History

Peter von Sivers is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Utah. Charles A. Desnoyers is Professor of History at La Salle University. George B. Stow was Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program in History at La Salle University.

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• WORLD PERIOD THREE. THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS CIVILIZATIONS, 600-1450 CEChapter 15. The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 CE15.1 The Legacy of Teotihuacán and the Toltecs in MesoamericaMilitarism in the Mexican BasinLate Maya States in Yucatán15.2 The Legacy of Tiwanaku and Wari in the AndesThe Expanding State of TiwanakuThe Expanding City-State of Wari15.3 American Empires: Aztec and Inca Origins and DominanceThe Aztec Empire of MesoamericaThe Inca Empire of the Andes15.4 Imperial Society and CultureImperial Capitals: Tenochtitlán and CuzcoPower and Its Cultural ExpressionsPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 1515.1 - Skeletons in a Wari royal tomb site, El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru15.2 - Ahuitzotl, Eighth King (Tlatloani) of the Aztec Empire15.3 - Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain15.4 - Pedro Cieza de León on Incan roads WORLD PERIOD FOUR. INTERACTIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE, 1450-1750Chapter 16. Western Christian Overseas Expansion and the Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle, 1450-165016.1 The Muslim-Christian Competition in the East and West, 1450-1600Iberian Christian Expansion, 1415-1498Rise of the Ottomans and Struggle with the Habsburgs for Dominance, 1300-160916.2 The Centralizing State: Origins and InteractionsState Transformation, Money, and Firearms16.3 Imperial Courts, Urban Festivities, and the ArtsThe Ottoman Empire: Palaces, Festivities, and the ArtsThe Spanish Habsburg Empire: Popular Festivities and the ArtsPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 1616.1 - Columbus reports on his first voyage, 149316.2 - Christopher Columbus, The Book of Prophecies16.3 - Thomas the Eparch and Joshua Diplovatatzes, "The Fall of Constantinople"16.4 - Evliya Çelebi, "A Procession of Artisans at Istanbul"16.5 - Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, "The Court of Suleiman the Magnificent" Chapter 17. The Renaissance, New Sciences, and Religious Wars in Europe, 1450-175017.1 Cultural Transformations: Renaissance, Baroque, and New SciencesThe Renaissance and Baroque ArtsThe New SciencesThe New Sciences and Their Social ImpactThe New Sciences: Philosophical Interpretations17.2 Centralizing States and Religious UpheavalsThe Rise of Centralized KingdomsThe ProtestantReformation, State Churches, and Independent CongregationsReligious Wars and Political RestorationPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 1717.1 - Examination of Lady Jane Grey, London17.2 - Emilie du Châtelet, Discourse on Happiness17.3 - Sebastian Castellio, Concerning Whether Heretics Should Be Persecuted17.4 - Duc de Saint-Simon, "The Daily Habits of Louis XIV at Versailles"17.5 - Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti17.6 - Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina de' Medici Chapter 18. New Patterns in New Worlds, Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-180018.1 The Colonial Americas: Europe's Warm-WeatherExtensionThe Conquest of Mexico and PeruThe Establishment of Colonial Institutions18.2 The Making of American Societies: Origins and TransformationsExploitation of Mineral and Tropical ResourcesSocial Strata, Castes, and Ethnic GroupsThe Adaptation of the Americas to European CulturePutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 1818.1 - Scandal at the Church: José de Álfaro Accuses Doña Theresa Bravo and Others of Insulting and Beating His Castiza Wife, Joséfa Cadena (Mexico, 1782)18.2 - Marina de San Miguel's Confessions before the Inquisition, Mexico City18.3 - Nahuatl Land Sale Documents, Mexico18.4 - The Jesuit Relations, French North America WORLD PERIOD FOUR. INTERACTIONS AROUND THE GLOBE, 1450-1750Chapter 19. African Kingdoms, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Origins of Black America, 1450-180019.1 African States and the Slave TradeThe End of Empires in the North and the Rise of States in the CenterPortugal's Explorations along the African Coast and Contacts with EthiopiaCoastal Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade19.2 American Plantation Slavery and Atlantic MercantilismThe Special Case of Plantation Slavery in the AmericasSlavery in British North AmericaThe Fatal Triangle: The Economic Patterns of the Atlantic Slave Trade19.3 Culture and Identity in the African DiasporaA New Society: Creolization of the Early Atlantic WorldPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 1919.1 - Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi on the scholars of Timbuktu19.2 - Letter of Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) of Kongo to the King of Portugal19.3 - Documents concerning the slave ship Sally, Rhode Island19.4 - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano19.5 - Casta paintings, Mexico Chapter 20. The Mughal Empire, Muslim Rulers and Hindu Subjects, 1400-175020.1 History and Political Life of the MughalsFrom Samarkand to HindustanThe Summer and Autumn of Empire20.2 Administration, Society, and EconomyMansabdars and BureaucracyThe Mughals and Their Early Modern EconomySociety, Family, and Gender20.3 Science, Religion, and the ArtsScience and TechnologyReligion: In Search of BalanceLiterature and ArtPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2020.1 - Babur, The Baburnama20.2 - Muhammad Dara Shikuh, The Mingling Of Two Oceans20.3 - Edicts of Aurangzeb20.4 - Mughal Emerald Box Chapter 21. Regulating the "Inner" and "Outer" Domains, China and Japan, 1500-180021.1 Late Ming and Qing China to 1750From Expansion to ExclusionThe Spring and Summer of Power: The Qing to 1750Village and Family LifeScience, Culture, and Intellectual Life21.2 The Long War and Longer Peace: Japan, 1450-1750The Struggle for UnificationThe Tokugawa Bakufu to 1750Growth and Stagnation: Economy and SocietyHothousing "Japaneseness": Culture, Science, and Intellectual LifePutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2121.1 - Matteo Ricci, China in the Sixteenth Century21.2 - Macartney's Observations on China and possibilities for British commerce (excerpts)21.3 - Emperor Qianlong's Imperial Edict to King George III21.4 - Honda Toshiaki, "Secret Plan for Managing the Country" WORLD PERIOD FIVE. THE ORIGINS OF MODERNITY, 1750-1900Chapter 22. Patterns of Nation-States and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1750-187122.1 Origins of the Nation-State, 1750-1815The American, French, and Haitian Revolutions22.2 Enlightenment Culture: Radicalism and ModerationThe Enlightenment and Its Many Expressions22.3 The Other Enlightenment: The Ideology of Ethnic Nationalism22.4 The Growth of the Nation-State, 1815-1871Restoration Monarchies, 1815-1848Nation-State Building in Anglo-America, 1783-190022.5 Romanticism and Realism: Philosophical and Artistic Expression to 1850RomanticismRealismPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2222.1 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen22.2 - Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman22.3 - Voltaire, "Torture," from the Philosophical Dictionary22.4 - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France22.5 - Thomas Paine, Rights of Man22.6 - Clemens von Metternich22.7 - Grievance List (September 1789)22.8 - Declaration of the Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo Chapter 23. Creoles and Caudillos, Latin America in the Nineteenth Century, 1790-191723.1 Independence, Constitutionalism, and Landed ElitesIndependence in the Southern Cone: State Formation in ArgentinaBrazil: From Kingdom to RepublicIndependence and State Formation in Western and Northern South AmericaIndependence and Political Development in the North: Mexico23.2 Latin American Society and Economy in the Nineteenth CenturyRebuilding Societies and EconomiesExport-Led GrowthCulture, Family, and the Status of WomenPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2323.1 - "The Education of Women" (1842) by Madame Josefina Bachellery23.2 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Travels in the United States in 184723.3 - Amulet containing passages from the Qur'an, worn by Muslim slaves who rioted in Bahia, Brazil23.4 - Photograph of a Chinese coolie, Peru Chapter 24. The Challenge of Modernity, East Asia, 1750-190024.1 China and Japan in the Age of ImperialismChina and Maritime Trade, 1750-1839The Opium Wars and the Treaty Port EraToward Revolution: Reform and Reaction to 1900In Search of Security through Empire: Japan in the Meiji Era24.2 Economy and Society in Late Qing ChinaThe Seeds of Modernity and the New Economic OrderCulture, Arts, and Science24.3 Zaibatsu and Political Parties: Economy and Society in Meiji JapanCommerce and Cartels"Civilization and Enlightenment": Science, Culture, and the ArtsPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2424.1 - Lin Zexu's letter to Queen Victoria of Great Britain24.2 - Li Gui on The Women's Pavilio24.3 - The Meiji Constitution of the Empire of Japan24.4 - Natsume Soseki, Kokoro Chapter 25. Adaptation and Resistance, The Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1683-190825.1 Decentralization and Reforms in the Ottoman EmpireOttoman Imperialism in the 1600s and 1700sThe Western Challenge and Ottoman ResponsesIran's Effort to Cope with the Western Challenge25.2 Westernization, Reforms, and Industrialization in RussiaRussia and WesternizationRussia in the Early Nineteenth CenturyThe Great ReformsRussian IndustrializationThe Abortive Russian Revolution of 1905Putting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2525.1 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters from the Levant25.2 - Imperial Edict of the Rose Garden25.3 - Tsar Alexander II's Abolition of Serfdom25.4 - Female Workers' Strike at the Gal'pern Matchbox Factory in Pinsk (1901-2) Chapter 26. Industrialization and Its Discontents, 1750-191426.1 Origins and Growth of Industrialism, 1750-1914Early Industrialism, 1750-1870The Spread of Early IndustrialismLater Industrialism, 1871-191426.2 The Social and Economic Impact of Industrialism, 1750-1914Demographic ChangesIndustrial SocietyCritics of IndustrialismImproved Standards of LivingImproved Urban LivingBig Business26.3 Intellectual and Cultural Responses to IndustrialismScientific and Intellectual DevelopmentsToward Modernity in Philosophy and ReligionToward Modernity in Literature and the ArtsPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2626.1 - Charles Dickens, Hard Times26.2 - The death of William Huskisson, first casualty of a railroad accident26.3 - Young miners testify to the Ashley Commission26.4 - Karl Marx, "Wage Labour and Capital"26.5 - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species26.6 - Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story Chapter 27. The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1750-191427.1 The British Colonies of India and AustraliaThe British East India CompanyDirect British RuleBritish Settler Colonies: Australia27.2 European Imperialism in the Middle East and AfricaThe Rising Appeal of Imperialism in the WestThe Scramble for Africa27.3 Western Imperialism and Colonialism in Southeast AsiaThe Dutch in IndonesiaSpain in the PhilippinesThe French in VietnamPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2727.1 - The Indian Revolt27.2 - Ismail ibn 'Abd al-Qadir, The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi27.3 - Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"27.4 - Mark Twain, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" WORLD PERIOD SIX. FROM THREE MODERNITIES TO ONEChapter 28. World Wars and Competing Visions of Modernity, 1900-194528.1 The Great War and Its AftermathA Savage War and a Flawed PeaceAmerica First: The Beginnings of a Consumer Culture and the Great DepressionGreat Britain and France: Slow Recovery and Troubled EmpiresLatin America: Independent Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes28.2 New Variations on Modernity: The Soviet Union and CommunismThe Communist Party and Regime in the Soviet UnionThe Collectivization of Agriculture and Industrialization28.3 New Variations on Modernity: Supremacist Nationalism in Italy, Germany, and JapanFrom Fascism in Italy to Nazism in the Third ReichJapan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and China's Struggle for UnityPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2828.1 - ANZAC troops at Gallipoli28.2 - Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth28.3 - Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, "Foundations and Doctrine of Fascism"28.4 - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf28.5 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, undelivered address planned for Jefferson Day28.6 - Hiroshima Diary Chapter 29. Reconstruction, Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945-196229.1 Superpower Confrontation: Capitalist Democracy and CommunismThe Cold War Era, 1945-1962Society and Culture in Postwar North America, Europe, and Japan29.2 Populism and Industrialization in Latin AmericaSlow Social ChangePopulist-Guided Democracy29.3 The End of Colonialism and the Rise of New Nations"China Has Stood Up"Decolonization, Israel, and Arab Nationalism in the Middle EastDecolonization and Cold War in AsiaDecolonization and Cold War in AfricaPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2929.1 - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights29.2 - Winston Churchill, "The Iron Curtain Speech"29.3 - Letters on the Cuban Missile Crisis between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev29.4 - Ho Chi Minh, "The Path Which Led Me to Leninism"29.5 - Indira Gandhi, "What Educated Women Can Do"29.6 - Kwame Nkrumah Chapter 30. The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963-199130.1 The Climax of the Cold WarThe Soviet Superpower in Slow Decline30.2 Transforming the WestCivil Rights Movements30.3 From "Underdeveloped" to "Developing" World, 1963-1991China: Cultural Revolution to Four ModernizationsVietnam and Cambodia: War and Communist RuleThe Middle EastAfrica: From Independence to DevelopmentLatin America: Proxy WarsPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 3030.1 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World30.2 - Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream"30.3 - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex30.4 - Coverage of the Tiananmen Square Protests30.5 - Salvador Allende, "Last Words to the Nation"30.6 - Nelson Mandela's inauguration speech Chapter 31. A Fragile Capitalist-Democratic World Order, 1991-202431.1 Capitalist Democracy: The Dominant Pattern of ModernityA Decade of Global Expansion: The United States and the World in the 1990sTwo Communist Holdouts: China and VietnamPluralist Democracy under Strain31.2 The Environmental Limits of ModernityPutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 3131.1 - Osama bin Laden, "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places"31.2 - Vladimir Putin, Address to the Duma concerning the annexation of Crimea31.3 - Remarks by President Obama in Address to European Youth, March 26, 201431.4 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Paris