Table of contents : About the Author Brief Contents Detailed Contents List of Documents List of Maps Features Preface Acknowledgments Themes for Understanding World History A Note to Students about Languages and the Dating of Time World History to 1500 Part III: The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500–1800) 14 New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market 15 Europe Transformed: Reform and State-Building 16 The Muslim Empires 17 The East Asian World 18 The West on the Eve of a New World Order Part IV: Modern Patterns of World History (1800–1945) 19 The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century 20 The Americas and Society and Culture in the West 21 The High Tide of Imperialism 22 Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge 23 The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution 24 Nationalism,Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939 25 The Crisis Deepens: World War II Part V: Toward a Global Civilization? The World Since 1945 26 East and West in the Grip of the Cold War 27 Brave New World: Communism on Trial 28 Europe and theWestern Hemisphere Since 1945 29 Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East 30 Toward the Pacific Century? Epilogue: A Global Civilization Glossary List of Documents Index