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Ways of the World with Sources for the AP® Course
Third Edition©2016 Robert W. Strayer; Eric W. Nelson
ISBN:9781319129750
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Ways of the World for the AP® Course, Third Edition focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allow students to consider the evidence the way historians do. This text is available in print and digital formats. You may also purchase the "Strive for a 5" study/prep guide for two complete practice exams.
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To the Student
How to Get the Most from This Program
Working with Evidence
Historical Thinking Skills: An AP® Primer
Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History
PART ONE First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 600 b.c.e.
1. First Peoples; First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, to 4000 b.c.e.
2. First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 b.c.e.–500 b.c.e.
PART TWO Second-Wave Civilizations in World History, 600 b.c.e.–600 c.e.
3. State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.–500 c.e.
4. Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.–500 c.e.
5. Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.–500 c.e.
6. Commonalities and Variations: Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania, 500 b.c.e.–1200 c.e.
PART THREE An Age of Accelerating Connections, 600–1450
7. Commerce and Culture, 500–1500
8. China and the World: East Asian Connections, 500–1300
9. The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600–1500
10. The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division, 500–1300
11. Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200–1500
12. The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
PART FOUR The Early Modern World, 1450–1750
13. Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750
14. Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence, 1450–1750
15. Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science, 1450–1750
PART FIVE The European Moment in World History, 1750–1900
16. Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes, 1750–1914
17. Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750–1914
18. Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania, 1750–1950
19. Empires in Collision: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, 1800–1914
PART SIX The Most Recent Century, 1900–2015
20. Collapse at the Center: World War, Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power, 1914–1970s
21. Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict: The Rise and Fall of World Communism, 1917–present
22. The End of Empire: The Global South on the Global Stage, 1914–present
23. Capitalism and Culture: The Acceleration of Globalization, since 1945
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Robert W. Strayer
Robert W. Strayer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) brings wide experience in world history to the writing of Ways of the World. His teaching career began in Ethiopia where he taught high school world history for two years as part of the Peace Corps. At the university level, he taught African, Soviet, and world history for many years at the State University of New York-College at Brockport, where he received Chancellors Awards for Excellence in Teaching and for Excellence in Scholarship. In 1998 he was visiting professor of world and Soviet history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since moving to California in 2002, he has taught world history at the University of California, Santa Cruz; California State University, Monterey Bay; and Cabrillo College. He is a long-time member of the World History Association and served on its Executive Committee. He has also participated in various AP® World History gatherings, including two years as a reader. His publications include Kenya: Focus on Nationalism, The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa, The Making of the Modern World, Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?, and The Communist Experiment.
Eric W. Nelson
Eric W. Nelson (D.Phil., Oxford University) is a professor of history at Missouri State University. He is an experienced teacher who has won a number of awards, including the Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011 and the CASE and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Professor of the Year Award for Missouri in 2012. He is currently Faculty Fellow for Engaged Learning, developing new ways to integrate in-class and online teaching environments. His publications include The Legacy of Iconoclasm: Religious War and the Relic Landscape of Tours, Blois and Vendôme, and The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France.
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