Preface.- .- . The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 B.C.E..- 2. Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley, 3800–500 B.C.E..- 3. The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 C.E..- 4. China’s Classical Age, to 221 B.C.E..- 5. The Greek Experience, 3500–30 B.C.E..- 6. The World of Rome, ca. 1000 B.C.E.–400 C.E..- 7. East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 221 B.C.E.–800 C.E..- 8. Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, 250–850.- 9. The Islamic World, 600–1400.- 10. African Societies and Kingdoms, 1000 B.C.E.–1500 C.E..- 11. The Americas, 3200 B.C.E.–1500 C.E..- 12. Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia, 300–1400.- 13. States and Cultures in East Asia, 800–1400.- 14. Europe and Western Asia in the Middle Ages, 800–1450.- 15. Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350–1600.- 16. The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450–1600.-
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM
Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the
coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor
of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls:
The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is
the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World
History.________________________________________Patricia B. Ebrey
(Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of History at the
University of Washington in Seattle, specializes in China. She has
published numerous journal articles and The Cambridge Illustrated
History of China, as well as numerous monographs. In 2010 she
won the Shimada Prize for outstanding work of East Asian Art
History for Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor
Huizong.________________________________________ 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. He is a former treasurer and Executive
Council member of the World History
Association.________________________________________
Jerry Dávila (Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann
professor of Brazilian History 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 of Diploma of
Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945. He has
served as president of the Conference on Latin American
History.________________________________________
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.
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