The Heritage of World Civilizations, Volume C: Since 1700 (6th Edition),Used

Product DescriptionThis comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields. Interactive maps?one Webbased interactive map in each chapter?provides readers with opportunities to explore the relationships between time and space in shaping world history. Volume C covers the Enlightenment to the present. The Sixth edition now provides roughly the same amount of coverage for European and nonEuropean regions. Combines unusually strong and thorough coverage of the unique heritage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilizations, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions. For anyone interested in world civilization or world history.From the Back CoverThis comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields. Interactive mapsone Webbased interactive map in each chapterprovides readers with opportunities to explore the relationships between time and space in shaping world history. Volume C covers the Enlightenment to the present. The Sixth edition now provides roughly the same amount of coverage for European and nonEuropean regions. Combines unusually strong and thorough coverage of the unique heritage of Asian, African, Islamic, Western, and American civilizations, while highlighting the role of the world's great religious and philosophical traditions. For anyone interested in world civilization or world history.About the AuthorALBERT M. CRAIG is the HarvardYenching Research Professor of History at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1959. A graduate of Northwestern University, he took his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has studied at Strasbourg University and at Kyoto, Keio, and Tokyo universities in Japan. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The Heritage of Chinese Civilization ( 2001), and, with others, of East Asia, Tradition and Transformation (1989). He is the editor of Japan, A Comparative View (1973) and coeditor of Personality in Japanese History (1970). At present he is engaged in research on the thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi. For eleven years (19761987) he was the director of the HarvardYenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto and Tokyo Universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government.WILLIAM A. GRAHAM is Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard University, and Master of Currier House at Harvard University. From 19901996 he directed Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He has taught for, twentysix years at Harvard, where he received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees. He also studied in Gttingen, Tiibingen, and Lebanon. He is the author of Divine World and Prophetic World in Early Islam (1977), awarded the American Council of Learned Societies History of Religions book prize in 1978, and of Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion (1987). He has published a variety of articles in both Islamic studies and the general history of religion and is one of the editors of the Encyclopedia of the Qur'an. He serves currently on the editorial board of several journals and has held John Simon Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt research fellowships. Three Faiths, One God, coauthored with Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton, will be published in January 2003.DONALD KAGAN is Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has