World History

From the contents:
Part I: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF EMPIRES (PREHISTORY TO 500 C.E.)
1. The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and North Africa
2. Ancient India
3. China in Antiquity
4. The Civilization of the Greeks
5. The First World Civilization: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road
Part II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION (500-1500 C.E.)
6. The Americas
7. Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
8. Early Civilizations in Africa
9. The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia
10. The Flowering of Traditional China
11. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
12. The Making of Europe
13. Crisis and Recovery: The Byzantine Empire and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500-1800)
14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
15. Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
16. The Muslim Empires
17. The East Asian World
18. The West on the Eve of a New World Order
Part IV: MODERN PATTERNS OF WORLD HISTORY (1800-1945)
19. The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism, 1800-1870
20. The Emergence of Mass Society in the Western World
21. The High Tide of Imperialism
22. Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
23. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
24. Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939
25. The Crisis Deepens: World War II
Part V: TOWARD A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION? THE WORLD SINCE 1945
26. East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
27. Brave New World: Communism on Trial
28. Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
29. Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
30. Toward the Pacific Century
Epilogue.