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World History II 1500 to Present
: Empires of Splendor and Might
Editor in Chief:
Eric Cunningham, Gonzaga University
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1. A Survey of the Premodern Worlds
2. Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia
3. Contact and Conquest
4. Worlds Entangled
5. Empires of Splendor and Might
6. The Birth of Modern Knowledge
7. Reordering the World
8. Non-European Appropriations of Modernity
9. Industrialism and Its After-effects
10. Nations and Empires in the Americas
11. Triumph of the Bourgeoisie
12. New Imperialism
13. Competing Visions of Modernity
14. A Divided Postwar World
15. Globalization
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Empires of Splendor and Might
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