Beck, R: History of World Societies, Concise, Volume 2

Preface.-

16. The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600.- 17. The Islamic World Powers, 1300-1800.- 18. European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750.- 19. New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540-1790.- 20. Africa and the World, 1400-1800.- 21. Continuity and Change in East Asia, 1400-1800.- 22. Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1825.- 23. The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1760-1850.- 24. Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815-1914.- 25. Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the New Imperialism, 1800-1914.- 26. Asia and the Pacific in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914.- 27. The Americas in the Age of Liberalism, 1810-1910.- 28. World War and Revolution, 1914-1929.- 29. Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939.- 30. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945.- 31. Decolonization, Revolution, and the Cold War, 1945-1968.- 32. Liberalization, 1968-2000s.- 33. The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective.-

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.

Patricia B. Ebrey (Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, specializes in China. She has published numerous journal articles and 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. John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or