World History through Case Studies

Introduction
Part 1 - Prehistory to 600 BCE
1. Urge Overkill: Kennewick Man and the Settling of the Americas
2. Horsing Around: The Domestication of Mammals
3. #AncientEgyptMatters: The Black Athena Debate
Part 2 - The Age of Empires, 600 BCE - 600 CE
4. Stretching the Past: A History of Yoga
5. Whose Key to China? Confucius in History
6. Making Waves: The Bantu Migrations across Central Africa
7. Bread and Circuses: Sport and Society in Imperial Rome
8. Empress Wu Zetian: Gender in the Tang Dynasty
Part 3 - Cross-Cultural Interactions, 600 - 1450 CE
8. Veiled Meanings: Islam and Gender
9. Going Berserk: The Vikings and Violence
10. Cosmopolitan Culture: Life along the Swahili Coast
11. Empire on the Move: The Mongol Empire
12. This Island Earth: Environmental Change on Easter Island
Part 4 - The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1450 - 1750 CE
13. Supreme Sacrifice: Assessing Aztec Religion
14. Orunmila Saves: Polytheism and World Religions
15. Heavy Metals: Silver and the World Economy
16. Commodities from the East: Opium, Tea and Indigo
17. "We'll Always Have Paris": The Origins of Modernity
Part 5 - Accelerating Global Integration, 1750 - 1900
18. Germ Warfare: Disease and the Age of Revolutions
19. Tokyo Drift: Japan and the Industrial Revolution
20. Light and Shade: Studying Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies
Part 6 - The Modern World, 1900 - Present
21. Open Wounds: The Horrors of the Second World War
22. Global Goals: Soccer and Globalization
Conclusion
Index

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world history; survey; globalization; prehistory; empire; modern world; industrialization; Aztec; Mongol; Tsang; Bantu; religion; economy; environment; germ warfare; colonialism; WWII; historiography; history theory and methods