A history of world societies v. 3 1775 to the present

This volume introduces students to the global past (from 1775 to the present)through social history, and provides insights into the stories and voices of the people who lived it. Thoroughly revised, the ninth edition now contains more global comparisons, documents, features and activities to aid and reinforcestudents' learning. JOHN P. MCKAY Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA. 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' and 'Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe'. BENNETT D. HILL late of the University of Illinois, USA, published 'English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century', 'Church and State in the Middle Ages', and numerous articles and reviews, and was one of the contributing editors to 'The Encyclopedia of World History'. A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he was also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA. JOHN BUCKLER taught History at the University of Illinois, USA. His published books include 'Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C.', 'Philip II and the Sacred War', and 'Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C. ' With Hans Beck, he most recently published 'Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century'. PATRICA B. EBREY Professorof History at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, 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 Distinguished Professor of African and Twentieth-Century World History at Eastern Illinois University, USA. 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 seventy-five articles, book chapters, and reviews.He is a former treasurer and Executive Council member of the World History Association. CLARE HARU CROWSTON teaches at the University of Illinois, USA, where she is currently Associate Professor of History. She is the author of '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 past president of the Society for French Historical Studies. MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, USA, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of History. She is the co-editor 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. INDICE: Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1815The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1760-1850Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815b 1914Africa, Southwest Asia, and the New Imperialism, 1800b 1914Asia in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914Nation Building in the Americas and Australia, ca. 1770-1914War and Revolution, 1914-1929Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939The Great Depressionand World War II, 1929-1945Global Recovery and Division Between Superpowers, 1945 to the PresentIndependence, Progress, and Conflict in Asia and the MiddleEast, 1945 to the PresentThe Global South: Latin America and Africa, 1945 to the PresentA New Era in World History

• ISBN: 978-0-230-39439-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 504
• Fecha Publicación: 30/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés