A History of World Societies, Volume 1

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor 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.
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 (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Distinguished Professor of African and twentieth-century world history at Eastern Illinois University. 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 a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews. He is a former treasurer and Executive Council member of the World History Association.

Jerry Dávila (Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann professor of Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America; Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book prize; and of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945. He has served as president of the Conference on Latin American History

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, 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.

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. 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.

A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture

Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest scholarship throughout

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Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16

Special features and a wealth of primary sources-more than in any other world history text-introduce students to historical interpretation

The Combined Volume includes all chapters. .- Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16. .- Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33..- .- Preface.- .- . The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 B.C.E..- 2. Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley, 3800-500 B.C.E..- 3. The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 C.E..- 4. China's Classical Age, to 221 B.C.E..- 5. The Greek Experience, 3500-30 B.C.E..- 6. The World of Rome, ca. 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E..- 7. East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 221 B.C.E.-800 C.E..- 8. Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, 250-850.- 9. The Islamic World, 600-1400.- 10. African Societies and Kingdoms, 1000 B.C.E.-1500 C.E..- 11. The Americas, 3200 B.C.E.-1500 C.E..- 12. Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia, 300-1400.- 13. States and Cultures in East Asia, 800-1400.- 14. Europe and Western Asia in the Middle Ages, 800-1450.- 15. Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600.- 16. The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600.-