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The rise of the West: a history of the human community : with a retrospective essay

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-

Year: c1991.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

"The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years"

Preface

PART I THE ERA OF MIDDLE EASTERN DOMINANCE TO 500 B.C.

I. IN THE BEGINNING

II. THE BREAKTHROUGH TO CIVILIZATION IN MESOPOTAMIA

III. THE DIFFUSION OF CIVILIZATION: FIRST PHASE

IV. THE RISE OF A COSMOPOLITAN CIVILIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1700-500 B.C.

V. THE FORMULATION OF PERIPHERAL CIVILIZATION IN INDIA, GREECE, AND CHINA, 1700-500 B.C.

PART II EURASIAN CULTURAL BALANCE 500 B.C.-1500 A.D.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

VI. THE EXPANSION OF HELLENISM, 500-146 B.C.

VII. CLOSURE OF THE EURASIAN ECUMENE, 500 B.C.-200 A.D.

VIII. BARBARIAN ONSLAUGHT AND CIVILIZED RESPONSE, 200-600 A.D.

IX. THE RESURGENCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, 600-1000 A.D.

X. STEPPE CONQUERORS AND THE EUROPEAN FAR WEST, 1000-1500 A.D.

PART III THE ERA OF WESTERN DOMINANCE, 1500 A.D. TO THE PRESENT

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

XI. THE FAR WEST'S CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD, 1500-1700 A.D.

XII. THE TOTTERING WORLD BALANCE, 1700-1850 A.D.

XIII. THE RISE OF THE WEST: COSMOPOLITANISM ON A GLOBAL SCALE, 1850-1950 A.D.

CONCLUSION

A. SCALE OF POLITICS

B. SCOPE OF POLITICS

C. DILEMMAS OF POWER

INDEX

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Title:

The rise of the West : a history of the human community : with a retrospective essay by William H. McNeill ; drawings by Béla Petheö.

Author:

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-

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The rise of the West : a history of the human community : with a retrospective essay by William H. McNeill ; drawings by Béla Petheö.
McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1991.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00734

Subject Headings:

• Civilization, Western
• Civilization -- History

Notes:

• "'The Rise of the West after twenty-five years' first appeared in the Journal of world history 1 (1990): 1-21; c1990 by University of Hawaii Press"--T.p. verso.
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