World History Handbook

The Handbook of World History learn macrohistory, the study of human history across boundaries. World historians examine developments that go beyond single states, cultures, and regions, including movements (of peoples, cultures, commodities, diseases, and ideas), cross-cultural contact, and exchange. Table of Content 1. The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization2. Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations 2. Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations 3. Early Civilizations 4. Ancient Egypt 5. Early Chinese Dynasties 6. Early Civilizations in the Indian Subcontinent 7. Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World 8. The Roman World 9. The Byzantine Empire 10. The Rise and Spread of Islam 11. The Middle Ages in Europe 12. The Development of Russia 13. The Mongol Empire 14. Chinese Dynasties 15. African Civilizations 16. Civilizations in the Americas 17. The Renaissance 18. The Rise of Nation-States 19. The Age of Enlightenment 20. The Protestant Reformation 21. Enlightened Despots 22. The French Revolution 23. Napoleon 24. Post-Napoleonic Europe 25. The Industrial Revolution 26. Change in the Americas 27. European Imperialism in East Asia 28. The Scramble for Africa 29. World War I 30. The Interwar Period 31. World War II 32. The Cold War 33. Post-Colonial Africa 34. The Middle East after the Ottoman Empire 35. East Asia after World War II 36. South America and Latin America in the Cold War 37. The Long Decade (1989-2001) 38. The 21st Century To study the big picture, they not only explore connections, but also often engage in comparative history. World history is concerned with both pre-modern and modern eras, and our world history cluster includes faculty with specializations from the ancient world through the twentieth century. Credits : Readium Project is a true open-source project, permissively licensed under the 3-part BSD license.