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Print Price: $79.99

Format:
Paperback
720 pp.
123 illustrations, 7.5" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780197608364

Copyright Year:
2023

Imprint: OUP US


World in the Making

Volume Two since 1300, Second Edition

Bonnie G. Smith, Marc Van De Mieroop, Richard von Glahn and Kris Lane

Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship, World in the Making: A Global History explores both the global and local dimensions of world history. Abundant full-color maps and images, along with other special pedagogical features that highlight the lives and voices of the world's peoples, make this synthesis accessible and memorable for students--all at an affordable low price.

Readership : Undergraduate college students.

Reviews

  • "World in the Making provides students with a solid base for learning; it also allows 'space' for professors to elaborate on topics. The text has a number of pedagogical features that help guide student learning and can be used to facilitate broader class discussions. It makes excellent use of visual evidence and material culture to illustrate and support its points."
    --Heather Wadas, Shippensburg State University

  • "I really like this textbook. I like its structure, the emphasis on people, the more recent scholarship that it's predicated on, and the topics covered. As a social historian, I like that the authors highlighted the lives of ordinary people."
    --Mary Block, Valdosta State University

  • "World in the Making is engaging, well written, well priced, and not too long. It is academic, yet accessible. There are plenty of resources just in the text itself to launch in class discussions. Students actually read it!"
    --Matthew Gantt Standard, Berry College

List of Maps
Studying with Maps
Features
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Dates and Spelling
About the Authors

PART 2 Crossroads and Cultures 500-1450 CE

CHAPTER 14 Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia 1300-1450
The Major Global Development in this Chapter: Crisis and recovery in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Afro-Eurasia.
Backstory
Fourteenth-Century Crisis and Renewal in Eurasia
The "Great Mortality": The Black Death of 1347-1350
Rebuilding Societies in Western Europe 1350-1492
Ming China and the New Order in East Asia 1368-1500
Islam's New Frontiers
Islamic Spiritual Ferment in Central Asia 1350-1500
Ottoman Expansion and the Fall of Constantinople 1354-1453
Commerce and Culture in Islamic West Africa
Advance of Islam in Maritime Southeast Asia
The Global Bazaar
Economic Prosperity and Maritime Trade in Asia 1350-1450
China's Overseas Overture: The Voyages of Zheng He 1405-1433
Commerce and Culture in the Renaissance
COUNTERPOINT Age of the Samurai in Japan 1185-1450
"The Low Overturning the High"
The New Warrior Order
Conclusion

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Bonnie G. Smith (AB Smith College, PhD University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, Rutgers University.

Marc Van De Mieroop (PhD Yale University, 1983) is Professor of History at Columbia University.

Richard von Glahn (PhD Yale University, 1983) is Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles.

Kris Lane (PhD University of Minnesota, 1996) holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Mairi Cowan
Forging the Modern World - James Carter and Richard Warren
A People's History of the World - Jeff Horn

Special Features

  • Lives and Livelihoods features reinforce the book's superior social and cultural coverage and unique global/local approach.
  • Author teams of world history textbooks typically divide the work based on geographic specialty, but the author team of World in the Making define their subject matter by time period. This organization enables them to see connections or parallel developments that make societies part of world history-as well as the distinctive features that make them unique. This approach also ensures a unified perspective to the many stories that each part tells.
  • Counterpoint sections reveal that alternative histories have always existed alongside "master narratives."
  • Reading the Past and Seeing the Past features provide direct exposure to important voices and ideas of the past through written and visual primary sources.
  • Opening vignettes draw students into the atmosphere of the period and introduce the chapter's main themes.
  • Backstory sections remind students of where they last encountered the peoples discussed in the chapter.
  • Overview Questions frame the main issues to consider while reading, while Focus Questions guide students' comprehension and promote close reading and dynamic class discussion.
New to this Edition
  • Doing History. This new feature, located in the Review section at the end of each chapter, prompts students to consider the skills that world historians employ. Tied to the content in each chapter and organized around seven key concepts, Doing History shows students the reasoning processes historians use to construct the historical past.
  • New Features. The second edition presents several new Lives and Livelihoods, Seeing the Past and Reading the Past features, including gender roles in late colonial Mexico (Chapter 21); wartime propaganda (chapter 25); and the Cultural Revolution in China (Chapter 27).
  • New Counterpoint sections. Many instructors have incorporated the Counterpoint sections into their teaching. These new ones have been added to the second edition: Njinga: An African Queen Fights Back (Chapter 17), National Unity in an Age of Migration (Chapter 24).
  • New chapter opening vignettes and new scholarship. Chapter 16 incorporates the now widely accepted term "global biological exchanges." Chapter 17 provides expanded treatment of southwestern Africa. Chapter 19 opens with a vignette about the sixteenth-century Spanish visionary Lucrecia de León. Chapter 20 begins with the story of Zheng Zhilong, whose life captures the flux of the mid-seventeenth century in East and Southeast Asia. Chapter 22 now examines the 1760 popular uprising in Jamaica known as Tacky's Revolt. The contributions of Shamil, the Muslim leader and resister to Russian imperialism, are now included in Chapters 23 and 24. Chapter 26 includes discussion of Rukmini Lakshmipathi, the first woman marcher arrested in Gandhi's "Salt March." Chapter 27 offers a revised account how colonized peoples achieved their independence after World War II and presents new coverage of the global Cold War. Chapter 28 has been thoroughly rewritten to reflect recent developments.
  • Expanded Digital Resources. Oxford Learning Link "http://www.learninglink.oup.com" www.learninglink.oup.com makes available to adopters of World in the Making, offers a wealth of teaching resources, including an enhanced eBook, a test-item file, a computerized test bank, quizzes, PowerPoint slides, videos, and primary sources.
  • Oxford Learning Link Direct (OLLD) makes the digital learning resources for World in the Making available to adopters via a one-time course integration with their LMS.
  • Adopters also have the option of delivering the learning tools for World in the Making within a cloud-based platform, Oxford Learning Cloud (OLC).